Watching the Wheels: My Autobiography Audiobook (Free)

2016 marks the twentieth wedding anniversary of Damon Hill’s coronation as Formula One World Champion. For the very first time ever he tells the story of his journey through the final golden period of the sport when he took over the greats including Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher and surfaced victorious as Globe Champ in 1996, stepping out of the shadow of his legendary dad Graham Hill.

Away from the grid, Viewing the Tires: The Autobiography can be an astonishingly candid account of what it was prefer to about Watching the Tires: My Autobiography grow up as the boy of one of the country’s most well-known racing drivers. In addition, it tells the unflinching tale of dealing with the grief and chaos that implemented his father’s tragically early death in an aeroplanes accident in 1975, when Damon was 15 years old.

Formula One motorists have always been alert to their mortality, and the rush that comes with the threat of racing was while intoxicating for Hill as it had been for his father’s generation, until he came face-to-face with catastrophe when his team-mate, Ayrton Senna, was killed in 1994. The swirling emotions that Hill was faced with in light from the death of Senna was a determining instant for his era of drivers and for the very first time ever Hill discussions candidly about the influence that Senna had on his life, even while he viewed his own boy step into engine race.

Courageously honest, and hugely rewarding, Viewing the Wheels is a return to the last golden era of F1 racing, whose image still burns ferociously for those who love the sport for what it reveals about human skill in the face or near certain death.