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Damon Hill, OBE , Driver

Damon Hill OBE was the Formula One World Champion of 1996 and the winner of 22 Grand Prixs during a Formula One career that saw him make 122 race starts.

He is the son of the late double Formula One world champion, Graham Hill, and is the only son of a world champion to win the title. He took the first of his 22 victories at the 1993 Hungarian Grand Prix for the Williams team and won the British Grand Prix, a race his father had never won in his long and successful career. In 1996 Damon took eight victories and eventually the world championship. He retired from the sport at the end of the 1999 season and in 2006 became president of the British Racing Drivers’ Club succeeding Jackie Stewart. Damon is married to Georgie and they have four children, Oliver, Joshua, Tabitha and Rosie. Oliver was born with Down’s Syndrome and since 1993 Damon has been Patron of the Down’s Syndrome Association attending several fundraising events a year and promoting awareness and better understanding of Down’s Syndrome.

"Having been born into a motor sport family, I have been coming to Northamptonshire for all of my 48 years! Some of my greatest times have been spent here, and without Northamptonshire’s benevolence it's questionable whether Silverstone would have been able to host any of the British Grand Prix of the last 60 years. So thank you, Northamptonshire!"