Near the turn of the millennium, Formula 1 cars were evolving into what the top-flight single-seater recipe is understood as today: Wide, bewinged, with aero appendages sprouting hither and yon.
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Video: Damon Hill back in his 1996 Championship‑winning Williams at FOS 2014
The stage was already well set in 1996 with that quintessential F1 silhouette already firmly established, but still maintaining an element of old-school elegance. At the forefront of the spectator experience that so many miss today, however, was that glorious naturally aspirated V10 yowl. Watch, in the video above, as 1996 World Champion Damon Hill is reunited with the glorious machine with which he won the title – the sonorous and resplendent Williams FW18.