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Damon Hill says he hopes the 2021 season won’t be decided with a crash, like it was in 1994 when Michael Schumacher turned into him in the final race of the season.
The title race between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen has gone down to the final two races of the season.
Considering the duo already had a few clashes that ended in a collision this season, Damon Hill says he hopes the title won’t be decided in such a way.
“I think it is sad for F1 [if the title is decided with a crash],” said the 1996 champion.
“I just feel like we’ve got an obligation to be sporting, I think. It would be great if there was a way of getting it resolved, not amicably, but certainly to a satisfaction of…
“I want to come away with a feeling that this has been a great championship, closely fought by two worthy opponents and the best man in the best team won.
“You don’t want that kind of thing hanging over the championship at the end.”
Damon has first-hand experience with this scenario, as Michael Schumacher crashed into him in the last race of the 1994 championship and took them both out. Michael had a one point advantage at the time, so this won him his first championship.
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Hill says the FIA needs to set clear boundaries to prevent it from happening this year.
“Let’s say Max is in the lead and it comes to a wheel-to-wheel thing. I would say that for a driver to resist the temptation to be an aggressive defender is extremely high and it’s very difficult to resist that.
“I think the point is how can the sport take steps to prevent an unhappy ending to this, you know? We’ve had enough of these championships decided controversially.
“And I think that for all the good work that the sport does it’s slightly undone when we have an unsatisfactory resolution.
“Maybe some sort of clear indication before we go into this that they may decide to impose a points penalty if we have a clash that is deemed to be unfair.
“And that may be the only way of preventing something like that happening,” Hill concluded.
