Damon Hill has opened up on his departu🐷re from Sk🎉y Sports’ Formula 1 coverage.

The 1996 F1 champion was a television pundit for the official broadcaster in the UK for 13 ye💃ars.

But he has left his role ahead of the 2025 seaso♎n.

Hill was scrutinised 🌜for his criticism of Max Verstappen’s aggressive driving, as ꦅthe Red Bull driver battled McLaren’s Lando Norris last year.

Hill has since claimed 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖💟结果历史:Verstappen would “cry like a baby” if he was o🍰n the receiving end of similar tact💫ics.

But he believes his critical words about Verstappen, and Red Bull’s reaction to it, had nothing to do with his Sky S🦩ports exit.

“I would like to think not. I hope not,” Hill told The Telegra🅺ph.

“I think I felt like the end was coming anyway, because I was kind of pushed back all last year. I was doing the less attractive ♉races.

“And they’ve got younger, fresher names. They’ve got Jenson [Button], theꦰy’ve got Nico [Rosberg].

“And that’s fair enough. I completely get it. They’re closer to the front line than I am.🎶”

He laughed: “And it’s TV. There’s got 💎to be 💖a bit of eye-candy factor to it.”

Hill insists Sky Sports are “brilliant at what the𝔍y do”, and he called Martin Brundle ♌“an absolute genius”.

What’s next for Damon Hill?

“I need 🅺to work,” the forꦡmer F1 driver, now 64, insisted.

But he doesn’t know where.

“I don’♊t know. I’ve got some offers,” he revealed.

“So I💖’m doing Network 10 [the Australian TV chann🐼el] at the season opener in Melbourne.

“ But I don’t really want to traipse around the world just sꦯ🅺tanding around in the paddock. It’s got to be something that uses your bonce, you know?

“I can’t just stand there and wait for a question to be asked. It does𒁏n’t d༒o it for me.

“I always felt like I had a kindꦉ of ill-fittinꩲg suit on when I was with Sky.

“I didn’t feel I got to a place where I could express🃏 everything I wanted to, like I’m doing in this interview now, because there isn’t the time.

“I♚ mean, they’re brilliant at it. But there are much better people than me at it. I only did it as a temporary job and I ended up doing it for 12-13, years!”

Damon Hill opens door to F1 teams

Hill would want to work in a role wit♕h a Formula 1 team.

“I would love that,” he said.

“I’m a natural competitor and I’d love to be involved a𝐆gain in trying to help someone or something be competitive.

“That’s what I understand really.”

Hill♏ represented Brabham, Williams, Arrows and Jordan during his F1 ca🌃reer.

His glory days wer🌺e at Williams when h෴e won the drivers’ championship in 1996.

Williams seem to be on an upwards curve this year, having paired ex-Ferrari grand prix winner 💛Carlos Sainz with the highly-rated Alex Albon.