On this day, there were two significant events and I was watching Daimon Hill clinching the Drivers' World Championship but the Queen was in Durham opening their new Riverside Ground.
Racing driver Damon Hill wins the Japanese Grand Prix thus, clinching the Drivers' World Championship.
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Behind the wheel, in clinching the championship, Damon Hill won eight races and secured nine pole positions while beating his talented teammate, Jacques Villeneuve, the reigning Indycar champion. This made Hill the first son of a Formula 1 champion to claim the championship himself.
The Queen opens Durham's new Riverside Ground in Chester-le- Street, the first new purpose-built first-class county cricket ground in the UK for over 100 years. - meeting the players with Don Robson
At Redgrave, I was offering a retail job to Mrs Major