Damon Hill and Michael Schumacher enjoyed one of the most testing rivalries of the 1990s in Formula 1.
Michael Schumacher’s infamous crash into Damon Hill at the 1994 Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide denied the British driver his first drivers’ championship.
That turned out to be the peak of Hill’s F1 career, and after stints with Arrows and Jordan, he retired at the end of the 1999 season.
Schumacher, on the other hand, was only just getting started and won five more championships after Hill’s retirement before walking away from Ferrari at the end of the 2006 campaign.
However, four years later, while racing for Mercedes, Hill and Schumacher once again clashed at F1’s most iconic race in Monaco.
Hill was telling the story on The Undercut of how he was asked to help steward a race in Monaco in 2010 and had spotted a potential loophole in the regulations.
Under a safety car finish, there was a short section of track between the safety car line and the finish line, and Schumacher and Mercedes had spotted this. The seven-time world champion managed to overtake Fernando Alonso before taking the chequered flag.
Hill explained: “They were called up to the stewards, and there’s me and Michael Schumacher.