The 1996 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 50th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. The championship commenced on 10 March and ended on 13 October after sixteen races. Two World Champions
Damon Hill won his only Formula One World Championship in his last year with Williams. He became the first son of a Formula One Drivers' Champion to win the title.
Hill's teammate Jacques Villeneuve (pictured in 2010) finished as runner-up in his debut season with four wins.
Then two-time and defending World Champion Michael Schumacher (pictured in 2003) finished third in his first year with Scuderia Ferrari, taking three wins for the team.
Williams-Renault won the World Constructors' Championship with the Williams FW18.
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is a British former racing driver and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One from 1992 to 1999. Hill won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1996 with Williams,
1996 Formula One World Championship
…commenced on 10 March and ended on 13 October after sixteen races. Two World Championship titles were awarded, one for Drivers and one for Constructors. Damon Hill won the Drivers' Championship two years after being beaten by a point by Michael Schumacher, making him the first son of a World Champion (his father…
Hill at Federation Square in 2026
Hill's FW16 (1994) and FW15C (1993); he is one of only two drivers to have carried the number "0" in the history of the F1 World Championship, and the only one to have carried it twice.
Damon Hill driving for the Williams Formula One team in Montreal in 1995