Damon Hill has opened up on his departure from Sky Sports activities’ Method 1 protection.
The 1996 F1 champion was a tv pundit for the official broadcaster within the UK for 13 years.
However he has left his function forward of the 2025 season.
Hill was scrutinised for his criticism of Max Verstappen’s aggressive driving, because the Purple Bull driver battled McLaren’s Lando Norris final yr.
Hill has since claimed Verstappen would “cry like a child” if he was on the receiving finish of comparable ways.
However he believes his vital phrases about Verstappen, and Purple Bull’s response to it, had nothing to do along with his Sky Sports activities exit.
“I want to assume not. I hope not,” Hill advised The Telegraph.
“I believe I felt like the tip was coming anyway, as a result of I used to be form of pushed again all final yr. I used to be doing the much less enticing races.
“They usually’ve obtained youthful, brisker names. They’ve obtained Jenson [Button], they’ve obtained Nico [Rosberg].
“And that’s honest sufficient. I fully get it. They’re nearer to the entrance line than I’m.”
He laughed: “And it’s TV. There’s obtained to be a little bit of eye-candy issue to it.”
Hill insists Sky Sports activities are “sensible at what they do”, and he known as Martin Brundle “an absolute genius”.
What’s subsequent for Damon Hill?
“I must work,” the previous F1 driver, now 64, insisted.
However he doesn’t know the place.
“I don’t know. I’ve obtained some affords,” he revealed.
“So I’m doing Community 10 [the Australian TV channel] on the season opener in Melbourne.
“ However I don’t actually wish to traipse all over the world simply standing round within the paddock. It’s obtained to be one thing that makes use of your bonce, you already know?
“I can’t simply stand there and watch for a query to be requested. It doesn’t do it for me.
“I at all times felt like I had a form of ill-fitting go well with on after I was with Sky.
“I didn’t really feel I obtained to a spot the place I might categorical all the things I wished to, like I’m doing on this interview now, as a result of there isn’t the time.
“I imply, they’re sensible at it. However there are significantly better individuals than me at it. I solely did it as a short lived job and I ended up doing it for 12-13, years!”
Damon Hill opens door to F1 groups
Hill would wish to work in a task with a Method 1 workforce.
“I’d love that,” he mentioned.
“I’m a pure competitor and I’d like to be concerned once more in attempting to assist somebody or one thing be aggressive.
“That’s what I perceive actually.”
Hill represented Brabham, Williams, Arrows and Jordan throughout his F1 profession.
His glory days had been at Williams when he received the drivers’ championship in 1996.
Williams appear to be on an upwards curve this yr, having paired ex-Ferrari grand prix winner Carlos Sainz with the highly-rated Alex Albon.
