The
1995 Brazilian Grand Prix (formally the
XXIV Grande Prêmio do Brasil) was a Formula One motor race held on March 26, 1995 at
the Autódromo José Carlos Pace
, São
Paulo
, Brazil
. It
was the first round of the
1995 Formula One season. The race,
contested over 71 laps, was won by
Michael Schumacher for the
Benetton team after starting from second
position.
David Coulthard finished
second in a
Williams, with
Gerhard Berger third in a
Ferrari car.
Damon
Hill, who started the race from
pole
position, spun out of the race on lap 30 with an apparent
gearbox problem, which was
in fact found to be a
suspension
failure after further analysis.
Several hours after the conclusion of the race, Schumacher and
Coulthard were from the race result as the fuel samples
"fingerprint" taken from their cars after the race did not match
the specified sample. Berger was declared the winner as a result,
but the decision to exclude them was overturned at an appeal
hearing on April 14. Schumacher and Coulthard were reinstated in
first and second places respectively, however the two teams did not
receive the respective
Constructors'
points. The Ferrari team were unhappy with the decision made at
the appeal hearing; Berger called the sport "a joke" based on its
"poor decision making".
Report
Background
The race was the first round of the
1995 Formula One season after a
four month break since the last race of the
1994 season in
Australia.
Over the course of the
winter months, the Autódromo José Carlos Pace race track was resurfaced in an attempt to
reduce its bumpiness. The drivers were unhappy with the
resurfacing work, though, as the track instead became more bumpy
than in the
previous year.
Williams driver
David Coulthard described the track as
"bumpy as hell, quite unbelievable". He was also concerned about
his stamina over the course of the 71-lap race, as he had suffered
from a bout of
tonsillitis in the run-up
to the event which had disrupted his physical training. Local
Jordan driver
Rubens Barrichello was even more vocal in
his criticism of the track's condition, declaring that the circuit
organisers were "a bunch of idiots. The track is three times
bumpier than before. It is not by applying layer upon layer of
tarmac that they will improve matters."
Heinz-Harald Frentzen claimed that the
bumping was so bad that he was close to passing out; the
Sauber car handled badly over the bumps throughout
the weekend.
The race also marked the first Brazilian Grand Prix to be held
since the death of three-time champion
Ayrton Senna the previous year in a racing
accident at the
1994 San
Marino Grand Prix. As such, various tributes were paid to him
throughout the weekend, including a parade lap on the back of a
truck with the drivers all waving Brazilian flags; a display from
the
Brazilian Air Force which
resulted in a large "S" trail in the sky; and the renaming of a
local highway to
Rodovia Ayrton Senna. The São
Paulo city authorities had planned to rename the circuit after
Senna, but the family of
Carlos
Pace, the existing dedicatee, objected. Barrichello also
sported a special helmet design as a personal tribute to his
compatriot. As a result of Senna's death, the event was lower-key
than in recent years: fewer spectators turned out to watch practice
and
qualifying, but
the race itself was watched by a capacity crowd.
The threat of a drivers' boycott over the terms of their 1995
Fédération
Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA)
Super Licences, which allowed the FIA to
demand promotional appearances and forbade the drivers from
criticising the championship, was defused by the governing body
prior to the race, ensuring full driver participation in the
championship. Although the Super License issue was resolved with
14 teams and 28 drivers on the official 1995 entry list,
the
Larrousse team with drivers
Éric Bernard and
Christophe Bouchut did not make an
appearance at the circuit for any of the on-track sessions. This
was due to the team running short of money: in the period prior to
the event, with French government aid not forthcoming and a 1995
chassis not yet built, team owner
Gérard Larrousse elected to miss the
first two rounds of the season in the hope of competing from the
San Marino Grand Prix
onwards.
The construction of some of the cars was only just completed prior
to the beginning of the season; the
Footwork FA16 and
Simtek S951 chassis arrived at the event with
virtually no testing, having been completed shortly beforehand. Of
the initial 1995 drivers,
Pedro Diniz
was the only "complete" , having not been officially entered in any
other
Formula One race
meetings, while
Andrea
Montermini started his first race after failing to qualify for
the
1994 Spanish Grand Prix
due to injury.
Mika Salo and
Domenico Schiattarella had competed
in two races, with
Taki Inoue competing
in one race the previous season.
At the front of the field,
Michael
Schumacher and
Damon Hill in the
Benetton and Williams cars
respectively were the favourites to battle for the
Drivers'
Championship, with Schumacher anticipating a "struggle" for the
championship.
Bernard Dudot,
Renault
Sport's
Chief Engineer, said that he believed Benetton was
less well-prepared than Williams, as the former team had changed
its engine supplier to Renault, whereas Williams had been in
partnership with the company since . Hill arrived at the
event with the psychological advantage of having set the fastest
time at the final pre-season testing session at the Autódromo do
Estoril
, 0.35 seconds faster than Schumacher's best around
the circuit. The Williams team had also completed 2,500
miles of testing with its
FW17
chassis, significantly more than Benetton; the team had encountered
some reliability problems with its own
B195 chassis.
Heading into the new season, attention also focused on the McLaren
team and its driver
Nigel Mansell. He
was initially announced as the partner of
Mika Häkkinen; however, a week before the
first race, McLaren announced that Mansell would not compete in the
first two races of the new season, as he could not fit into the
MP4/10 car. Mansell's arrival at
McLaren was due to demand from the team's sponsors, including
Marlboro, who wanted to enjoy
the publicity associated with the World Champion's return even if
it meant him performing worse than team-mate Häkkinen. His place at
McLaren for the first two races was taken by the team's
test driver,
Mark
Blundell, as McLaren worked to build a wider
monocoque to accommodate Mansell. McLaren were
also concerned about the standard refuelling equipment provided for
1995 by suppliers
Intertechnique,
having suffered a major leak in a test of the new rig outside of
its factory. Intertechnique had redesigned the fuel equipment,
which was used by all of the teams, in the wake of a
pit lane fire suffered by driver
Jos Verstappen during the previous year's
German Grand Prix. The new
fuel rigs, in addition to being half the size of the 1994, also
featured longer nozzles, and were designed to lock onto the car
before any fuel could begin to flow. Intertechnique traced the
problem to a faulty valve within the equipment, which caused of
fuel to leak, and modified the parts accordingly. Intertechnique
and the FIA advised the teams to refuel the cars slowly and
carefully during pitstops to avoid any further leaks, a situation
that was considered unsatisfactory by many of the team principals
and mechanics. Controversy surrounded the new
Ligier JS41 car, with rival team owners
comparing it to the Benetton B195 car because of their similar
design, the only apparent difference being the engine in each car.
The Ligier team was being run in 1995 by
Tom Walkinshaw, who had been Benetton's
Engineering Director the previous season. Commenting on the design
similarities, Walkinshaw said:
One of the rule revisions stated that the minimum weight limit of
applied to both car and driver together. Prior to the first session
of the season, all of the drivers were weighed to establish a
reference weight to be used on occasions when the two were weighed
separately, or if the driver was unavailable to be weighed. As
such, a small competitive advantage could be established if the
driver attempted to register a weight as heavy as possible, so
their actual weight when driving the car would be lower. Williams
Technical Director
Patrick Head
estimated that a weight penalty of could cost 14 seconds over
the course of 70 laps of the circuit. In the drivers'
weigh-in, Schumacher weighed in at , compared to at the beginning
of the 1994 season. Sauber driver
Karl
Wendlinger gained the most weight compared to 1994, gaining .
Wendlinger's team-mate Frentzen and
Tyrrell driver
Ukyo
Katayama added the least amount of weight, gaining . When
Schumacher was weighed after the race, his weight had decreased to
, although this weight when combined with that of his car still
left it above the limit, at . Schumacher explained the weight gain
as a consequence of a fitness regime over the winter that had
converted excess fat to muscle, and also admitted to eating and
drinking heavily, in addition to refraining from using the toilet,
prior to the weigh-in.
Practice and qualifying
Two practice sessions were held before the race; the first was held
on Friday morning, with the second held on Saturday morning. Both
were held in damp conditions due to overnight rain with the track
drying towards the conclusion of the respective sessions. Both
sessions lasted 1 hour and 45 minutes. Qualifying was
split into two one-hour sessions; the first was held on Friday
afternoon with the second held on Saturday afternoon. The fastest
time from either of the two qualifying sessions counted towards
their final
grid position.
In the first practice session, Hill was fastest with a time of
1:21.664, two thousands of a second ahead of team-mate
Coulthard. Schumacher was third, with the
Ferrari cars of
Jean
Alesi and
Gerhard Berger, who had
been the leading two for most session, close behind. Blundell in
the McLaren was sixth, with team-mate Häkkinen finishing the
session in 14th position, the Finnish driver complaining of
steering problems with the car. The two
Ferrari drivers used different pedal layouts in the
412T2 chassis: Berger's car was equipped with
two pedals and a hand-operated clutch, whereas Alesi preferred the
traditional three-pedal system.
Hill set a provisional
pole position
time of 1:20.081 during the first qualifying session, ahead of
Berger, Coulthard, Alesi, Häkkinen and Schumacher. The session was
disrupted after Schumacher crashed heavily into the tyre barrier at
turn eight, a corner normally taken at a speed of . As a
precaution, Benetton opted to keep Schumacher's team-mate,
Johnny Herbert, in the garage while the team
found out what was wrong with the car. This meant that Herbert did
not set a time in the session, while Schumacher completed only two
of his twelve alloted laps. Speaking of the incident, Schumacher
said that "there was a little movement in the steering wheel at the
previous corner and at the next it went completely. I spun the car
backwards into the tyre barrier and the safety structure behind my
head did a good job of protecting me. For sure I am not very happy
about this, but I believe that the team will spend a lot of time
investigating the situation for tomorrow and they will find the
problem." The problem was determined to be a steering failure,
specifically a joint in the car's
steering column. Replacement steering
components were sourced from São Paulo by Benetton engineer
Tim Wright, and the team did
not encounter any problems over the remainder of the weekend.
The second practice session was held in wet but drying weather
conditions. During the session, Schumacher went off the track at
the exit of turn five, damaging his car's front wing in the
process. However, he still set the fastest time of the session
(1:23.607) after a change to his car's
ride
height proved beneficial to its performance. The top six was
completed by Berger, Hill, Häkkinen, Alesi, and
Olivier Panis' Ligier.
Schumacher also set the fastest time in the second qualifying
session with a lap of 1:20.382, but it was not good enough to beat
Hill's fastest time overall set in the first session. Hill made a
set-up change that he turned out not to be happy with, but
maintained his pole position, his first since the
1994 British Grand Prix. The
Williams and Benetton formation continued on the second row, as
Coulthard was third, with Herbert qualifying fourth after a late
flying lap,
equalling his best-ever qualifying position, achieved at the
1994 Italian Grand Prix for
the Lotus team. However, a hole was punched in the bottom of
Herbert's monocoque chassis during the session as a result of
damage, leading to a night of repairs in order for his to be able
to take the start in his designated race car. The work required to
repair both Benetton cars caused Schumacher's race engineer,
Pat Symonds, to describe the weekend as
"one of the hardest [...] I can remember for many years". It also
meant that three British drivers started in the top four, leading
Hill to joke that "the English [sic] have got Michael surrounded".
Behind the leading four, the two Ferrari cars were fifth and sixth,
Berger qualifying in front of Alesi. Both were optimistic on their
race prospects, despite the fact that the former suffered an engine
failure during the session. The two McLaren cars of Häkkinen and
Blundell were seventh and ninth, the two split by
Eddie Irvine in a Jordan car. Irvine set his
time despite spinning off during the session; his team-mate
Barrichello suffered the season's first engine failure during a
timed session on Friday and then
gearbox problems on Saturday,
before also spinning off during that day's qualifying session,
restricting his to a disappointing 16th position on the grid
at his home race. Katayama and Salo proved evenly-matched for
Tyrrell, qualifying in 11th and 12th respectively, behind Panis.
The
Minardi drivers were also close, with
Pierluigi Martini and
Luca Badoer taking 17th and 18th positions
on the grid respectively, separated from the Tyrrells by
Gianni Morbidelli (
Footwork), Frentzen,
Aguri Suzuki (Ligier) and Barrichello.
Wendlinger took 19th position, the Sauber cars handling
particularly badly on the bumpy track, ahead of
Bertrand Gachot and Montermini (both
Pacific drivers), who sandwiched
Inoue in the second Footwork. At the back of the grid, the two
Forti and
Simtek cars
covered positions 23 to 26. Schiattarella, in a Simtek,
was last out of the four positions, having caused one of the two
red flag in qualifying, crashing
on the exit of turn three at the beginning of the second
qualifying session. The Simtek team's testing time was limited on
Friday as the mandatory onboard
fire
extinguishers for its cars failed to arrive in time; a similar
problem with the late arrival of parts affecting Martini's Minardi.
The times in the second session were generally quicker, with only
Hill, Badoer and Wendlinger setting their quickest lap times during
the first session.
Race
The conditions for the race were dry, with a capacity crowd of some
40,000 fans turning out to watch the race. The drivers took to the
track on Sunday morning for a 30-minute warm-up session. Both
Williams cars maintained their good performance from qualifying;
Coulthard was fastest with team-mate Hill in second. Schumacher
completed the top three positions. Herbert and Katayama both
suffered from gearbox problems with their race cars, and elected to
start the race with their teams' spare cars. The Simtek team did
not take part in the session, as both drivers waited for stronger
suspension components flown out from the United Kingdom to be
fitted to the cars for the race. Minutes before the race started, a
press release from the FIA was given to
all the media and team personnel, notifying them that the
Elf fuel sample "fingerprints" taken from the
Benetton car of Schumacher and the Williams car of Coulthard were
illegal, as they did not match the sample provided by the fuel
company before the start of the season for reference purposes. Both
teams were fined
$30,000 and
raced under
appeal, as the standard penalty
for the offence was disqualification from the event. Neither
Schumacher nor Coulthard were informed of the situation, as the
teams did not want to unsettle their drivers before the race start.
Hill and Herbert's races were not affected by the judgement,
despite using the same type of fuel. Samples from Ferrari's
Agip and McLaren's
Mobil
fuel were also tested; both were in accordance with the
regulations. Though 26 cars qualified for the race, only 25
took the start: Martini retired on the
parade
lap, his Minardi car suffering a gearbox problem.
Hill, from pole position on the grid, had a bad start with
Schumacher overtaking him into turn one. Panis, who started
from tenth position in a Ligier, spun at the first corner
after a nudge from Katayama, hitting the wall in the process and
retiring from the race. Herbert, racing the spare Benetton chassis,
dropped three places by the end of lap one, dropping behind
Häkkinen and the two Ferrari cars. Blundell also made a poor start,
dropping to fourteenth position after his gearbox changed from
first to third gear as he accelerated away from the grid. At the
end of the first lap, the race order was Schumacher leading Hill,
from Coulthard, Häkkinen, Berger, Alesi, Herbert, Irvine, Katayama
and Salo, with the two Tyrrells switching places on the next lap.
At the start of lap three, Hill attempted to overtake
Schumacher heading into turn five, but Schumacher closed the
door on Hill. Hill lost the advantage for a moment, with team-mate
Coulthard drawing alongside, but unable to get past with Hill on
the
inside line into
turn six. Henceforth, Schumacher and Hill began to gradually
pull away from Coulthard, who realised that he could not match the
pace of the leaders and settled into his own rhythm, albeit one
that was still comfortably faster than the cars behind him. By
lap five, Herbert had dropped down to tenth position,
unhappy with the handling of the spare car and having been
overtaken by Irvine, Salo and Katayama. On lap ten, Schumacher
lapped last-placed Diniz for the first time; the presence of slower
cars a constant factor for the front-runners thereafter. On the
same lap Frentzen retired from 12th position with electrical
failure. He was joined by Schiattarella two laps later after his
Simtek car developed a steering problem. Irvine made a
pit stop earlier than expected on lap fifteen,
retiring from the race with a gearbox actuator problem. On the same
lap, Katayama spun at the fourth corner,
stalled his car in the process and retired
from the race. The two retirements meant Herbert moved back up to
eighth position. Alesi was the first of the leading drivers to make
a scheduled pit stop on lap 17, rejoining the track in
eleventh place. Barrichello, Irvine's team-mate, retired a lap
later, driving into the pit lane slowly with a gearbox problem. On
the same lap, Verstappen retired his Simtek car with a clutch
problem.
The Benetton and Williams teams were employing different pit stop
strategies – the Benetton team were planning a three stop
strategy whereas the Williams team were only planning for
two stops. Schumacher pitted on lap 18, but was
momentarily baulked by the slowing Jordan car of Barrichello as he
was entering the pitlane. Schumacher exited the stop behind Berger,
but overtook the Austrian driver at the beginning of the next lap.
Hill, who had remained close behind Schumacher before the German
pitted, made his own stop on lap 21, exiting the pitlane in
front of Schumacher. Coulthard took the lead of the race for one
lap, before pitting and dropping behind the two leaders and the
yet-to-stop Häkkinen and Berger. Häkkinen and Berger were the final
drivers of the leading teams to pit, however, the McLaren mechanics
had trouble getting the fuel hose off the Finn's car when he
stopped on lap 23, losing him ten seconds. Several other
teams experienced problems with attaching and detaching the
refuelling nozzles, and occasional small sprays of fuel were
observed, reinforcing the problem experienced by McLaren with the
equipment before the race meeting. Berger, adopting a strategy of
pitting late, was the only driver not to have stopped by
lap 24 and thus was third, with Hill, Schumacher, Coulthard,
Alesi and Salo the other drivers in the top six places. Salo's stop
had been faultless, gaining him significant time on those drivers
who had been running in front of him. By this stage Gachot had
retired his Pacific car after it got stuck in fifth gear. Berger
made his stop on lap 27, but had problems leaving the pits after a
communication problem between him and his mechanics nearly led to
him leaving the pit lane with a loose
wheel
nut on the front right-hand wheel. The
pit "lollipop",
signalling the driver when to leave, was raised and lowered again
in quick succession, preventing Berger from leaving until the wheel
nut was sufficiently tightened. The miscommunication cost Berger
13 seconds, dropping him back to seventh position. Alesi
fell behind Salo and Häkkinen after the first set of
pit stops, Salo overtaking him on lap 25, with Häkkinen
moving past three laps later as Alesi was held up behind the
lapped Montermini.
Once in front of Schumacher, Hill was able to gradually extend his
lead to 3.4 seconds by lap 30 despite carrying a heavier
fuel load for one fewer planned pit stop. However, he lost second
gear during the course of that lap, and then spun off at
turn two on lap 31, retiring from the race with a
suspected gearbox seizure. On the same lap, Herbert also retired
from the race after suffering damage in a collision with Suzuki,
who himself had to make an unscheduled pit stop to replace his
car's damaged nosecone. Schumacher thus assumed the lead as a
result of Hill's retirement, leading by 11.5 seconds from
Coulthard. Salo was third in the remaining Tyrrell,
39.4 seconds behind Coulthard. Häkkinen and the two Ferrari
cars completed the top six positions. On-screen rundown of
leading positions. Schumacher made his second pit stop on
lap 37, exiting in second position behind Coulthard. Salo and
Häkkinen, both performing much better than had been expected prior
to the race, battled over third position until lap 39,
when Salo, suffering from cramp and driving with one hand, spun at
the final bend. He pitted soon after for fresh tyres, dropping down
to eighth position. Häkkinen, having moved up to third, made
his second stop on lap 43, exiting behind the two Ferrari
cars, Berger moving in front of Alesi as the latter made his stop
on the following lap, rejoining in seventh. Coulthard pitted from
the lead on lap 47, the gap between him and Schumacher not big
enough to allow him to maintain the lead. Schumacher set the
fastest lap of the race, 1:30.921, extending his lead to such an
extent that when he made his own final stop on lap 52, he
maintained the lead. After his final stop, Schumacher gradually
opened his leading margin 11 seconds, winning the race after
71 laps in a time of 1:48:49.972s, with Coulthard finishing second
in his Williams. The Ferraris of Berger – who made his final stop
on lap 49 without losing a place – and Alesi were third and
fifth respectively, but off the pace as Schumacher lapped them both
in the closing stages. Häkkinen, despite losing part of his rear
wing after his car was struck by a bird, split them both to take
fourth position. In the closing stages, Morbidelli and Blundell
both overtook Salo, only for the Footwork driver to retire on
lap 62 with a blocked fuel line. Blundell, who had earlier
changed his steering wheel and was driving without the use of third
gear, thus took the final point in sixth place, ahead of Salo,
Suzuki, Montermini – who completed the race distance despite
struggling with a broken floor on his chassis, taking the Pacific
team's first race finish – and Diniz. The race saw a high attrition
rate; only ten out of the 25 starters finished the race. Of the
other late retirents, Wendlinger suffered a broken battery cable on
lap 41,
Roberto Moreno and
Badoer retired on lap 47 due to a spin and gearbox problem
respectively, and Inoue's car caught fire on lap 48. The
Japanese driver was in any case due to receive the
black flag for receiving an
illegal push-start from the marshals following a spin on the
circuit.
Post-race
Moments after his spin, Hill gave an interview with the
BBC, revealing that his spin was due to
a gearbox problem; the Williams car losing second gear. Hill also
said that he was "very, very disappointed" with the result, and
that "we could have beaten him [Schumacher] today". After further
post-race analysis from the Williams team, it was found out that
the problem was actually a broken left-rear
suspension pushrod.
During the podium ceremony, Schumacher, Coulthard and Berger did
not spray the traditional
champagne
as a mark of respect to Senna. Schumacher felt lucky to win the
race, conceding that "Damon was a little bit quicker than me...he
ended up going off and that's racing, but I don't think I could
have caught him." He also believed that his good start was
fortunate, as it was the first one he had made in the new Benetton
car; the team had not done any practice starts previously due to
being short of time. He also specified his evasion of Barrichello's
slowing car in the pit-lane entry while making his first stop as a
crucial moment of the race. Coulthard admitted that he had been
affected by his tonsillitis: "I wasn't able to match Michael and
Damon's pace so I settled for running my own race." Berger,
meanwhile, was frustrated to finish a lap down on Schumacher,
saying that "He was faster everywhere: down the straights, going in
and out of the corners. What can you do in these conditions? Okay,
the car's roadholding is not bad. We must work very hard now. But
at least I finished, that's something."
After the Grand Prix, Schumacher's Benetton and Coulthard's
Williams cars were from the race classification as a result of the
illegal fuel sample "fingerprints", with Berger being made the new
victor. Further samples of both cars' fuel were taken after the
race; these also did not match the specified sample. Patrick Head
was surprised by this outcome as he believed that "there was no
question of disqualification until the fuel samples had been
returned to Europe for further analysis. Elf also supplied
different specifications of its fuel to the Ligier, Sauber, Simtek,
Pacific and Forti teams, which ran with different engines, at the
event; none of these samples caused any problems. After an appeal
was made by the two teams, the drivers were reinstated into the
race classification at the hearing on April 13; however, the teams
did not receive
Constructors'
points. The two teams were fined a further $200,000 during the
hearing. It was generally agreed that the illegal fuel did not
offer a performance advantage or break any of the regulations
relating to chemical composition, only that it did not precisely
match the sample that had previously been lodged with the FIA.
Niki Lauda, the Ferrari advisor, was not
happy with the decision made at the appeal:
Berger also commented on the situation, saying he "no longer
understands anything in Formula One" and that it is a "joke". In
the lead-up to the San Marino Grand Prix, Schumacher was quoted
saying that Berger should "concentrate on racing instead of
thinking how he can criticise me. I have never understood how
someone can celebrate a victory like that [Brazil] one lap down and
winning after someone else has been disqualified." Berger responded
to Schumacher's comments by saying:
Max Mosley, the president of the FIA,
also responded to Schumacher's comments saying that his comments
"reflect poorly on the sport and show a lack of adult attitude".
Mosley also commented on the weight issue surrounding Schumacher
saying that "it is a pity that it became a matter for public
discussion, whether he drank a huge amount of water, didn't go to
the loo or had a heavy helmet. It is just a pity he didn't take
care that it didn't happen". Elf was also unhappy with the way in
which the episode had been handled, the company's Commercial
Director
Michel Bonnet declaring that
"We believe the FIA acted in a high-handed manner in disqualifying
our two cars so quickly. It should have declared the results
provisional and waited for the results of further analysis. Acting
the way it did, the FIA has affected the image of large industrial
companies, of top F1 teams and of famous drivers. The fact that we
have been treated as cheats by a red team - probably red with
embarassment at having finished one lap behind our cars - and by
Gerhard Berger is a serious slur against us." Elf also threatened
to take the matter to a tribunal if the cars were not reinstated.
The incident was seen as unfortunate for the sport, which was
trying to make a fresh start after
several
controversies the previous year. From the San Marino Grand Prix
onwards, an FIA mobile fuel laboratory accompanied the teams to
each event to permit more detailed testing at the track.
Classification
Qualifying
Race
Standings after the race
- Drivers' Championship standings
- Constructors' Championship standings
- Note: Only the top five positions are
included for the Drivers' standings. Only top two
included for the Constructors' standings as only two teams had
scored points. Benetton and Williams did not receive
Constructors' points at this race.
References
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