Damon Hill won the 1996 Formula One season. He won a total of 8 races that season and finished with 97 points. His nearest rival was Jack Villeneuve who won 4 races that season and finished with 78 points. Michael schumacher finished third with 59 points.
Mika Hakkinen driving for McLaren Mercedes won his first formula one drivers title in the year 1998. He had a total of 100 points with 8 race wins. Michael Schumacher came in 2nd place with 86 points and 6 wins. McLaren Mercedes beat Ferrari for the constructors championship.
The 1996 F1 Drivers world championship was won by Damon Hill driving for the Williams Team. His teammate Jacques Villeneuve finished 2nd. Defending world champion Michael Schumacher finished 3rd with Ferrari.
Damon Hill of the UK, a driver for the Williams team, won the 1996 Formula One Championship, with 97 points.
Mike Hawthorn was the first British National to win a F1 Championship in 1958.
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The last British driver to win the Formula 1 drivers championship was Jenson Button in 2009. Lewis Hamilton won in 2008. The last British winner before that was Damon Hill in 1996. See http://www.formula1.com/teams_and_drivers/hall_of_fame/ for the complete history.
The first Formula 1 World Championship was held in 1950and it consisted of seven races ( British, Monaco, Indianapolis 500, Swiss, Belgian, French and Italian).
The 2008 Formula One season was the 59th FIA Formula One World Championship season. It began on 16 March and ended on 2 November with eighteen Grand Prix races. Lewis Hamilton won the driver's title while Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro won the constructors' title. In winning the title, Hamilton became the youngest driver ever to win the title and the first black driver to do so. He was also the first British champion since Damon Hill in 1996.
Alberto Ascari won the 1952 Formula One World Championship, the first of two, driving for Enzo Ferrari's Ferrari chassis with 36 points.The following season he picked up a second championship!
The first Formula 1 car to be supplied by Alfa Romeo was at the 1950 British GP. Where they won almost every race with same driver.
Formula 1 came about when the world racing championship decided to make an official series in 1950. The first championship consisted of 7 races, the championship won by Nino Farina.hahahahahahaha
The first champion was Red Byron back in 1949.
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Giuseppe 'Nino' Farina won the inaugural Formula One Grand Prix on May 13th, 1950 at Silverstone (British Grand Prix).He went on to win the World Championship that year.
The first season for the FIA formula one world Driving Championship was 1950
The first Formula 1 race was in 1947, but the first World Championship season was in 1950.