1995 Australian Grand Prix

581st Formula 1 Championship Grand Prix September 2020 January 2012 F1 Australia Australian LX EDS Australian Grand Prix Adelaide (long route).svg 12 November 1995 17 17 Adelaide Street Circuit, Adelaide, Australia Temporary street circuit 2.362 3.780 81 191.362 306.180http://www.f1db.com/f1/page/EDS_Australian_Grand_Prix_1995 EDS Australian Grand Prix – 1995 The Formula One DataBase 10 March 2008 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080703171103/http://www.f1db.com/f1/page/EDS_Australian_Grand_Prix_1995 3 July 2008 Sunny 520,000http://www.grandprix.com/gt/gt00063.html Features – Globetrotter – Thank you Adelaide 12 November 1995 Grandprix.com dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130130212442/http://www.grandprix.com/gt/gt00063.html 30 January 2013 22 April 2013 Damon Hill Williams-Renault 1:15.505 United Kingdom Damon Hill Williams-Renault 1:17.943 16 United Kingdom Damon Hill Williams-Renault United Kingdom Olivier Panis Ligier-Mugen-Honda France Gianni Morbidelli Footwork-Hart Italy AUS 1996 Australian Grand Prix 1995 Japanese Grand Prix The 1995 Australian Grand Prix (officially the LX EDS Australian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 12 November 1995 at the Adelaide Street Circuit, Adelaide. The race, contested over 81 laps, was the seventeenth and final race of the 1995 Formula One season,http://www.chicanef1.com/racetit.pl?gp=Australian%20GP&year=1995 1995 Australian GP – LX EDS Australian Grand Prix ChicaneF1.com 10 March 2008 9 December 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20071209210732/http://www.chicanef1.com/racetit.pl?year=1995&gp=Australian%20GP dead and the eleventh and last Australian Grand Prix to be held at Adelaide before the event moved to Melbourne the following year. This would also prove to be the last Grand Prix for Mark Blundell, Bertrand Gachot, Roberto Moreno, Taki Inoue, and Karl Wendlinger. This was also the last race for Pacific as they folded at the end of the season. In a race of attrition, all the front-running cars retired except for the pole-sitting Williams-Renault of Damon Hill. Hill won by two clear laps, only the second time this had been achieved in Formula One history. Ligier-Mugen-Honda driver Olivier Panis was second, with Gianni Morbidelli achieving his best-ever F1 result with third in a Footwork-Hart. Of the 23 drivers who started, only eight finished, the lowest number in the 1995 season. 2026, this is the last time the race winner lapped every other competitor. This was also the last race that used the traffic light system with coloured lights (red and green) at the start (system used since the 1975 British Grand Prix).Statistics Grands Prix - Gap - The most • STATS F1 https://www.statsf1.com/en/statistiques/gp/ecart/leplus.aspx 2020-08-29 www.statsf1.com The Grand Prix had a record attendance of 520,000 during the weekend, with 210,000 on race day, a Formula One record until 2000, when 250,000 people attended that year's United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis.http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr581.html Grand Prix Results: Australian GP, 1995 GrandPrix.com 2 March 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080220093202/http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr581.html 20 February 2008 live This race would mark the last until the 1997 Australian Grand Prix that 24 cars would be entered into a Grand Prix race weekend. However only 22 of the 24 entrants started, as Luca Badoer had mechanical problems with his Minardi, and Mika Häkkinen withdrew having sustained serious injuries following a crash during the first qualifying session. Report Pre-race Heading into the final round of the 1995 Formula One season, both the Drivers' Championship and Constructors' Championship were already settled, with Michael Schumacher having claimed the Drivers' Championship two rounds earlier at the Pacific Grand Prix.http://www.gpracing.net192.com/races/reports/579.cfm Schumacher – simply the best – again Grand Prix Racing 2 March 2008 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20071114132353/http://www.gpracing.net192.com/races/reports/579.cfm 14 November 2007 It was Schumacher's last race with the Benetton team, before his move to Ferrari for the 1996 season.http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/history/1995/ 1995 – Glimpses of greatness F1Fanatic 2 March 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080222170938/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/history/1995/ 22 February 2008 live Benetton had claimed the Constructors' Championship at the previous event, the Japanese Grand Prix, with Williams too many points behind to be able to catch them.http://www.gpracing.net192.com/races/reports/580.cfm Constructors' title goes to Benetton – care of Mr Schumacher Grand Prix Racing 2 March 2008 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070814001859/http://www.gpracing.net192.com/races/reports/580.cfm 14 August 2007 It was announced beforehand that it would be the last Formula One event to be held at the Adelaide Street Circuit, with the Australian Grand Prix moving to Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit in Melbourne from the 1996 season.http://www.grandprix.com/gt/gt00063.html Globetrotter: Thank you Adelaide Joe Saward GrandPrix.com 12 November 1995 25 March 2008 30 January 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130130212442/http://www.grandprix.com/gt/gt00063.html dead In the Friday afternoon qualifying session, Mika Häkkinen in his McLaren car suffered a puncture in his left rear tyre heading towards Brewery Bend. This caused him to lose control, become airborne and crash heavily into a tyre barrier at 120 mph. The impact caused his helmet to strike the steering wheel, fracturing his skull. Within seconds he was attended by two doctors who were stationed at the corner, who found Häkkinen unresponsive and with a blocked airway. Häkkinen later said that he was aware of what had happened immediately after the impact, but subsequently lost consciousness. Unable to establish an airway, the doctors performed an emergency tracheotomy before taking him to the nearby Royal Adelaide Hospital. Häkkinen would recover in time to race the following season.Taylor Simon Lunch with...Mika Hakkinen http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/september-2010/80/lunch-mika-hakkinen Motor Sport London September 2010 80–86 The Williams cars dominated qualifying, with Damon Hill in pole position and David Coulthard alongside him. Schumacher was third in his Benetton, with the Ferrari drivers fourth and fifth, Gerhard Berger ahead of Jean Alesi. Heinz-Harald Frentzen rounded out the top six in his Sauber. Race The race took place in the afternoon from 14:00 ACDT (UTC+10:30). Hill lost the lead to Coulthard at the start. Schumacher also lost ground at the start, with Berger moving into third and Alesi moving into fourth. Schumacher made his way back up to third, overtaking Alesi on lap one, before overtaking Berger a few laps later. Coulthard kept the lead until the first round of pitstops. However, he came into the pitlane too fast, locking his front tyres and running into the pitwall. He was forced to retire from the race. A few laps later, Forti's Roberto Moreno had spun and caused terminal damage to his suspension in the same place where Coulthard had crashed earlier. After the first round of pitstops, Schumacher and Alesi collided, with both retiring. Schumacher's Benetton team-mate, Johnny Herbert took second place briefly before coming in for his first stop later than many of the other drivers, while surviving a potential accident in which he missed the pit entry and rejoined the track. Berger was promoted to second, but his Ferrari encountered an engine problem, forcing him to retire. This promoted Frentzen to second, but he too retired due to a gearbox problem. With many of the front-runners out, Hill led at the front, even with a 22-second botched pit stop, with Herbert second. Jordan driver Eddie Irvine rounded out the top three, before retiring after losing all of his pneumatic pressure. Herbert was still second, and looked set as a result to claim third place in the Drivers' Championship.http://www.gpracing.net192.com/races/reports/581.cfm Hill takes a consolation win Grand Prix Racing 25 March 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20030520234935/http://www.gpracing.net192.com/races/reports/581.cfm 20 May 2003 However, he was forced out of the race as his Benetton suffered a driveshaft failure. Olivier Panis was now second in his Ligier a lap behind Hill, with Footwork driver Gianni Morbidelli third, two laps down. With a few laps remaining, Panis' Ligier was suffering an oil leak, and Hill lapped him for a second time on his way to victory. Panis remained second, with Morbidelli third for his only career podium, and the first podium for the Footwork/Arrows team in six years. Behind the top three, Mark Blundell was fourth in the sole McLaren, with Mika Salo fifth in the Tyrrell. Pedro Lamy had a mid-race spin, but recovered to take sixth in his Minardi – his only Formula One point, and Minardi's last until the 1999 European Grand Prix. Only eight cars finished the race, with Pedro Diniz seventh place being Forti's best Formula One finish. The eighth place for Pacific also equalled their best result since the 1995 German Grand Prix. The race was televised by Channel 9 in Australia and by the BBC in the UK. The race marked the end of Pacific Racing, as the team went back to International Formula 3000 for 1996. In a last gasp effort, Pacific tried to have their test driver Oliver Gavin in the seat, but he was not granted an FIA Super License and shareholder Bertrand Gachot raced instead. It was only the second time in Formula One history that the winner won by two laps– the first time was at the 1969 Spanish Grand Prix when Jackie Stewart won. Hill, who had been criticised for his performances in all of the three previous races, was praised by commentator Murray Walker for this performance, with Walker saying that, with Schumacher and Coulthard's imminent moves to Ferrari and McLaren respectively, Hill would be a strong favourite to win the title in 1996 if he could continue to perform in the way he had done so in this particular race. This would also be the last race for a V12 engine. Only Ferrari used this configuration, but would switch to a more fuel-efficient V10 engine for 1996. Classification Qualifying Pos No Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Gap 1 5 GBR Damon Hill Williams-Renault 1:15.505 1:15.988 – 2 6 GBR David Coulthard Williams-Renault 1:15.628 1:15.792 +0.123 3 1 GER Michael Schumacher Benetton-Renault 1:16.039 1:15.839 +0.334 4 28 AUT Gerhard Berger Ferrari 1:15.932 1:16.994 +0.427 5 27 FRA Jean Alesi Ferrari 1:52.653 1:16.305 +0.800 6 30 GER Heinz-Harald Frentzen Sauber-Ford 1:16.837 1:16.647 +1.142 7 14 BRA Rubens Barrichello Jordan-Peugeot 1:16.725 1:16.971 +1.220 8 2 GBR Johnny Herbert Benetton-Renault 1:17.289 1:16.950 +1.445 9 15 GBR Eddie Irvine Jordan-Peugeot 1:17.197 1:17.116 +1.611 10 7 GBR Mark Blundell McLaren-Mercedes 1:17.348 1:17.721 +1.843 11 25 GBR Martin Brundle Ligier-Mugen-Honda 1:17.788 1:17.624 +2.119 12 26 FRA Olivier Panis Ligier-Mugen-Honda 1:18.033 1:18.065 +2.528 13 9 ITA Gianni Morbidelli Footwork-Hart 1:18.814 1:18.391 +2.886 14 4 FIN Mika Salo Tyrrell-Yamaha 1:18.604 1:19.083 +3.099 15 24 ITA Luca Badoer Minardi-Ford 1:19.285 1:18.810 +3.305 16 3 JPN 1947 Ukyo Katayama Tyrrell-Yamaha 1:18.828 1:19.114 +3.323 17 23 POR Pedro Lamy Minardi-Ford 1:18.875 1:19.114 +3.370 18 29 AUT Karl Wendlinger Sauber-Ford 1:19.561 no time +4.056 19 10 JPN 1947 Taki Inoue Footwork-Hart 1:19.764 1:19.677 +4.172 20 22 BRA Roberto Moreno Forti-Ford 1:21.419 1:20.657 +5.152 21 21 BRA Pedro Diniz Forti-Ford 1:22.154 1:20.878 +5.373 22 17 ITA Andrea Montermini Pacific-Ford 1:21.659 1:21.870 +6.154 23 16 FRA Bertrand Gachot Pacific-Ford 1:22.881 1:21.998 +6.493 24 8 FIN Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes 1:37.998 +22.483 Sources:EDS Australian Grand Prix – Qualifying 1 https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/1995/races/637/australia/qualifying-1.html Formula1.com 29 December 2023EDS Australian Grand Prix – Qualifying 2 https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/1995/races/637/australia/qualifying-2.html Formula1.com 29 December 20231995 Australian Grand Prix Classification Qualifying https://www.motorsportstats.com/results/fia-formula-one-world-championship/1995/australian-grand-prix/classification/qualifying Motorsport Stats 29 December 2023 Race Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 5 GBR Damon Hill Williams-Renault 81 1:49:15.946 1 10 2 26 FRA Olivier Panis Ligier-Mugen-Honda 79 +2 Laps 12 6 3 9 ITA Gianni Morbidelli Footwork-Hart 79 +2 Laps 13 4 4 7 GBR Mark Blundell McLaren-Mercedes 79 +2 Laps 10 3 5 4 FIN Mika Salo Tyrrell-Yamaha 78 +3 Laps 14 2 6 23 POR Pedro Lamy Minardi-Ford 78 +3 Laps 17 1 7 21 BRA Pedro Diniz Forti-Ford 77 +4 Laps 21   8 16 FRA Bertrand Gachot Pacific-Ford 76 +5 Laps 23   Ret Retired 3 JPN 1947 Ukyo Katayama Tyrrell-Yamaha 70 Engine 16   Ret Retired 2 GBR Johnny Herbert Benetton-Renault 69 Driveshaft 8   Ret Retired 15 GBR Eddie Irvine Jordan-Peugeot 62 Engine 9   Ret Retired 30 GER Heinz-Harald Frentzen Sauber-Ford 39 Gearbox 6   Ret Retired 28 AUT Gerhard Berger Ferrari 34 Engine 4   Ret Retired 25 GBR Martin Brundle Ligier-Mugen-Honda 29 Spun off 11   Ret Retired 1 GER Michael Schumacher Benetton-Renault 25 Collision damage 3   Ret Retired 27 FRA Jean Alesi Ferrari 23 Collision damage 5   Ret Retired 22 BRA Roberto Moreno Forti-Ford 21 Spun off 20   Ret Retired 14 BRA Rubens Barrichello Jordan-Peugeot 20 Spun off 7   Ret Retired 6 GBR David Coulthard Williams-Renault 19 Accident 2   Ret Retired 10 JPN 1947 Taki Inoue Footwork-Hart 15 Spun off 19   Ret Retired 29 AUT Karl Wendlinger Sauber-Ford 8 Physical 18   Ret Retired 17 Italy Andrea Montermini Pacific-Ford 2 Gearbox 22   DNS Did not start 24 ITA Luca Badoer Minardi-Ford 0 Electrical 15   DNS Did not start 8 FIN Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes – Accident during Friday Qualifying 24  Source:https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/1995/races/637/australia/race-result.html 1995 Australian Grand Prix formula1.com 15 January 2018 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Germany Michael Schumacher 102 2 UK Damon Hill 69 3 UK David Coulthard 49 4 UK Johnny Herbert 45 5 France Jean Alesi 42Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1995/australie/championnat.aspx Australia 1995 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 6 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 UK Benetton-Renault 137 2 UK Williams-Renault 112 3 Italy Ferrari 73 4 UK McLaren-Mercedes 30 5 France Ligier-Mugen-Honda 24Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. 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