1995 Belgian Grand Prix

March 2019 F1 Belgium Belgian LIII Grand Prix de Belgique Spa 1995-2003.png 27 August 1995 11 17 Circuit de Spa-FrancorchampsFrancorchamps, Wallonia, Belgium1995 Belgian GP https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/database/races/1995-belgian-grand-prix/ Motor Sport 30 May 2022 Permanent racing facility 4.330https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/database/races/1995-belgian-grand-prix/ 1995 Belgian Grand Prix | Motorsport Database 6.968 44 191.785 306.856 Cloudy, then heavy rain Gerhard Berger Ferrari 1:54.392 Austria David Coulthard Williams-Renault 1:53.412 11 United Kingdom Michael Schumacher Benetton-Renault Germany Damon Hill Williams-Renault United Kingdom Martin Brundle Ligier Mugen-Honda United Kingdom BEL 1995 Italian Grand Prix 1995 Hungarian Grand Prix The 1995 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 27 August 1995 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, near the village of Francorchamps, Wallonia. It was the eleventh race of the 1995 Formula One World Championship. The 44-lap race was won by Michael Schumacher, driving a Benetton-Renault. Despite qualifying only 16th, Schumacher took his sixth victory of the season after an intense battle with Damon Hill in the Williams-Renault. Hill settled for second, with Martin Brundle third in a Ligier-Mugen-Honda, which would be his last podium finish.https://www.statsf1.com/en/martin-brundle/podium.aspx Martin Brundle - Podiums Stats F1 29 September 2021 Race report The race was attended by in excess of 100,000 people.Murray Walker, Jonathan Palmer 1995 Grand Prix Television Production BBC London, England 00:51-01:04 Schumacher and Hill both qualified further down the grid than usual in a wet-dry qualifying session, but fought back during the race. Both Jean Alesi and Johnny Herbert briefly led the race, but Alesi broke down and Herbert struggled for pace once the track was dry. Polesitter Gerhard Berger struggled before dropping out. David Coulthard pulled away at the front for Williams before suffering a gearbox problem, leaving Hill to lead the race. When Hill made his first pit stop for fresh slick tyres, Schumacher took over at the head of the field. It then started to rain and while Hill went back to the pits for wet weather tyres, Schumacher stayed out on his dry weather slicks. The Williams driver rapidly caught up with the German, but despite lapping six seconds a lap slower, Schumacher was able to keep Hill behind him until he went off the wet track and Hill passed him. Almost immediately the changing track conditions began to favour slicks once more and Schumacher re-passed Hill who pitted again, this time for slicks. The rain intensified again and the field levelled out when the safety car appeared. Both drivers pitted for wets and returned to the track with Schumacher narrowly ahead of Hill. This appeared to set the two title rivals up for a battle for the lead going into the last ten laps, but Hill then had to pit again to serve a ten-second stop-go penalty for pit lane speeding, a penalty he served with six laps to go, and which put him down to third. Hill recovered to pass Martin Brundle on the Kemmel straight on the final lap to regain second place. Schumacher's performance did not impress Hill after his defensive moves forced Hill to either back off or go off the track. Schumacher claimed that he had only blocked Hill at the low-speed corners, but video evidence suggested that Schumacher had blocked Hill on some of the high speed corners, such as the Radillion and Blanchimont. Hill later commented that "We (he and Schumacher) had some pretty hairy moments and I am not satisfied with being driven into; I don't think that was acceptable. That is all well and good but if it was meant on purpose I would be very upset, F1 cars are not go-karts. I think there are some things which are acceptable and some things which are not." Schumacher defended himself by agreeing that touching wheels in high-speed corners is "not acceptable" but added that at the speed he and Hill were doing, he thought it was acceptable. Schumacher was given a one-race suspended ban for driving aggressively in order to stop Hill from passing.http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns00260.html Schumacher in trouble again GrandPrix.com 28 August 1995 15 December 2006 Classification Qualifying Pos No Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Gap 1 28 Austria Gerhard Berger Ferrari 2:14.744 1:54.392 — 2 27 France Jean Alesi Ferrari 2:15.077 1:54.631 +0.239 3 8 Finland Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes 2:15.848 1:55.435 +1.043 4 2 UK Johnny Herbert Benetton-Renault — 1:56.085 +1.693 5 6 UK David Coulthard Williams-Renault 2:15.232 1:56.254 +1.862 6 7 UK Mark Blundell McLaren-Mercedes 2:18.136 1:56.622 +2.230 7 15 UK Eddie Irvine Jordan-Peugeot 2:16.540 1:57.001 +2.609 8 5 UK Damon Hill Williams-Renault 2:15.143 1:57.768 +3.376 9 26 France Olivier Panis Ligier-Mugen-Honda 2:17.579 1:58.021 +3.629 10 30 Germany Heinz-Harald Frentzen Sauber-Ford 2:15.533 1:58.148 +3.756 11 4 Finland Mika Salo Tyrrell-Yamaha 2:18.104 1:58.224 +3.832 12 14 Brazil Rubens Barrichello Jordan-Peugeot 2:17.144 1:58.293 +3.901 13 25 UK Martin Brundle Ligier-Mugen-Honda 2:17.207 1:58.314 +3.922 14 29 France Jean-Christophe Boullion Sauber-Ford 2:17.406 1:58.356 +3.964 15 3 Japan 1947 Ukyo Katayama Tyrrell-Yamaha 2:18.194 1:58.551 +4.159 16 1 Germany Michael Schumacher Benetton-Renault 2:14.962 1:59.079 +4.687 17 23 Portugal Pedro Lamy Minardi-Ford 2:18.547 1:59.256 +4.864 18 10 Japan 1947 Taki Inoue Footwork-Hart 2:23.311 2:00.990 +6.598 19 24 Italy Luca Badoer Minardi-Ford 2:17.335 2:01.013 +6.621 20 9 Italy Massimiliano Papis Footwork-Hart 2:19.300 2:01.685 +7.293 21 17 Italy Andrea Montermini Pacific-Ford 2:25.291 2:02.405 +8.013 22 22 Brazil Roberto Moreno Forti-Ford 2:23.417 2:03.817 +9.425 23 16 Italy Giovanni Lavaggi Pacific-Ford 2:26.311 2:06.407 +12.015 24 21 Brazil Pedro Diniz Forti-Ford 2:25.699 2:09.537 +15.145 Sources:Belgian Grand Prix – Qualifying 1 https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/1995/races/631/belgium/qualifying-1.html Formula1.com 29 December 2023Belgian Grand Prix – Qualifying 2 https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/1995/races/631/belgium/qualifying-2.html Formula1.com 29 December 20231995 Belgian Grand Prix Classification Qualifying https://www.motorsportstats.com/results/fia-formula-one-world-championship/1995/belgian-grand-prix/classification/qualifying Motorsport Stats 29 December 2023 Race Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 1 Germany Michael Schumacher Benetton-Renault 44 1:36:47.875 16 10 2 5 UK Damon Hill Williams-Renault 44 + 19.493 8 6 3 25 UK Martin Brundle Ligier-Mugen-Honda 44 + 24.998 13 4 4 30 Germany Heinz-Harald Frentzen Sauber-Ford 44 + 26.972 10 3 5 7 UK Mark Blundell McLaren-Mercedes 44 + 33.772 6 2 6 14 Brazil Rubens Barrichello Jordan-Peugeot 44 + 39.674 12 1 7 2 UK Johnny Herbert Benetton-Renault 44 + 54.043 4   8 4 Finland Mika Salo Tyrrell-Yamaha 44 + 54.548 11   9 26 France Olivier Panis Ligier-Mugen-Honda 44 + 1:06.170 9   10 23 Portugal Pedro Lamy Minardi-Ford 44 + 1:19.789 17   11 29 France Jean-Christophe Boullion Sauber-Ford 43 + 1 lap 14   12 10 Japan 1947 Taki Inoue Footwork-Hart 43 + 1 lap 18   13 21 Brazil Pedro Diniz Forti-Ford 42 + 2 laps 24   14 22 Brazil Roberto Moreno Forti-Ford 42 + 2 laps 22   Ret Retired 3 Japan 1947 Ukyo Katayama Tyrrell-Yamaha 28 Spun off 15   Ret Retired 16 Italy Giovanni Lavaggi Pacific-Ford 27 Gearbox 23   Ret Retired 24 Italy Luca Badoer Minardi-Ford 23 Accident 19   Ret Retired 28 Austria Gerhard Berger Ferrari 22 Electrical 1   Ret Retired 15 UK Eddie Irvine Jordan-Peugeot 21 Fire 7   Ret Retired 9 Italy Massimiliano Papis Footwork-Hart 20 Spun off 20   Ret Retired 17 Italy Andrea Montermini Pacific-Ford 18 Out of fuel 21   Ret Retired 6 UK David Coulthard Williams-Renault 13 Gearbox 5   Ret Retired 27 France Jean Alesi Ferrari 4 Suspension 2   Ret Retired 8 Finland Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes 1 Spun off 3  Source:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1995/125/ 1995 Belgian Grand Prix formula1.com https://web.archive.org/web/20141102012859/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1995/125/ 2 November 2014 24 December 2015 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Germany Michael Schumacher 66 2 UK Damon Hill 51 3 France Jean Alesi 32 4 UK David Coulthard 29 5 UK Johnny Herbert 28Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1995/belgique/championnat.aspx Belgium 1995 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 13 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 UK Benetton-Renault 84 2 UK Williams-Renault 74 3 Italy Ferrari 57 4 France Ligier-Mugen-Honda 16 5 Ireland Jordan-Peugeot 14Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. References 2 Belgian Grand Prix 1995 1995 Hungarian Grand Prix 1995 Italian Grand Prix 1994 Belgian Grand Prix 1996 Belgian Grand Prix Belgian Grand Prix Belgian Grand Prix Category:Belgian Grand Prix Belgian Grand Prix