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1993 Italian Grand Prix

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1993 Italian Grand Prix
Race 13 of 16 in the 1993 Formula One World Championship
Race details
Date 12 September 1993
Official name Pioneer 64º Gran Premio d'Italia
Location Autodromo Nazionale di Monza
Monza, Lombardy, Italy
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 5.800 km (3.604 miles)
Distance 53 laps, 307.400 km (191.01 miles)
Weather Hot and sunny
Pole position
Driver Williams-Renault
Time 1:21.179
Fastest lap
Driver United Kingdom Damon Hill Williams-Renault
Time 1:23.575 on lap 45
Podium
First Williams-Renault
Second Ferrari
Third McLaren-Ford
Lap leaders

The 1993 Italian Grand Prix (formally the Pioneer 64º Gran Premio d'Italia[1]) was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 12 September 1993. It was the thirteenth race of the 1993 Formula One World Championship.

The 53-lap race was won by British driver Damon Hill, driving a Williams-Renault, after he started from second position. Frenchman Jean Alesi finished second in a Ferrari, while American Michael Andretti finished third in a McLaren-Ford, in his final F1 race before returning to IndyCar. Hill's teammate, Frenchman Alain Prost, took pole position and led until suffering an engine failure with five laps to go, allowing Hill to take his third consecutive victory.

Report

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The Williams cars dominated qualifying, locking out the front row of the grid with Alain Prost on pole and Damon Hill alongside him. Jean Alesi took third in his Ferrari; he was joined on the second row by Ayrton Senna in the McLaren. Michael Schumacher in the Benetton and Gerhard Berger in the second Ferrari made up the third row. Further down the grid, Pedro Lamy was making his Grand Prix debut for the cash-strapped Lotus outfit, taking the place of the injured Alessandro Zanardi, while the Jordan team, needing a replacement for Thierry Boutsen following the Belgian's retirement from F1, had decided to evaluate Japanese Formula 3000 driver Marco Apicella, after their test driver Emanuele Naspetti had turned down the opportunity to race.[citation needed]

At the start, Alesi got ahead of a sluggish Hill and Senna tried to do the same, but there was contact between Hill and Senna, resulting in both drivers dropping back, with Senna ending up in 9th and Hill in 10th. Further back, two separate incidents saw five cars eliminated at the first chicane. In the first incident, the Footworks of Derek Warwick and Aguri Suzuki collided and took each other out. In the second incident, Sauber driver JJ Lehto, who had to start from the back of the grid, took himself and the Jordans of Rubens Barrichello and Apicella out of the race. Apicella's debut, which would also turn out to be his only Grand Prix start, had lasted no more than 800 metres, unofficially making him the driver with one of the shortest careers in Formula One.[citation needed] Prost led Alesi, Schumacher, Berger, Johnny Herbert and Martin Brundle into lap 2. On lap 4 Schumacher passed Alesi to take second position.

On lap 8, Senna collided with Brundle's Ligier, putting them both out. Prost's championship ambitions received a major boost with Senna's retirement. Johnny Herbert spun off and hit the tyre barriers at Parabolica as he retired from 5th position since Berger pitted for tyres on lap 15, putting Berger back in 5th position but soon retired from 5th position with suspension problems 1 lap later. Hill in the meantime had moved up to fourth place and passed Alesi for third on lap 10, as Blundell in the remaining Ligier like Herbert had clipped the barrier at Parabolica and retired with a left-rear puncture and damaging his left-rear suspension on lap 21 whilst battling Wendlinger for 7th. Before Hill moved up to second on lap 22 when Schumacher's engine failed. At this point, Prost led by nearly 20 seconds, but by lap 48 Hill had reduced this lead to two seconds. Then, on lap 49, five from the end, the Renault engine in Prost's car blew. Hill took his third consecutive win by 40 seconds from Alesi, with Michael Andretti third (achieving his only podium) and Karl Wendlinger, Riccardo Patrese (scoring his final points in F1) and Érik Comas completing the top six.

The Minardis of Pierluigi Martini and Christian Fittipaldi had approached the chequered flag with Fittipaldi closely following Martini. Fittipaldi's left front wheel made contact with his teammate's right rear wheel, and the contact launched Fittipaldi's car into the air. The car completed a back flip before landing back on its wheels and skidded across the line. Neither driver was hurt and both finished the race without losing a position.

This was the Williams team's seventh consecutive victory. Prior to the race weekend, Andretti and McLaren mutually agreed to part ways and that this would be his final race with the team. He would be replaced by the team's test driver, Mika Häkkinen. His final Formula One race returned his best result of the season with his third-place finish. By winning in Italy, Hill became the first Formula One driver to take their first three wins at consecutive Grands Prix, a feat only repeated by Mika Häkkinen, though only Hill won all three races in the same year.

As of 2024, Andretti's podium finish remains the last for an American driver in Formula One.

Classification

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Qualifying

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Pos No Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Gap
1 2 France Alain Prost Williams-Renault 1:22.163 1:21.179
2 0 United Kingdom Damon Hill Williams-Renault 1:22.283 1:21.491 +0.318
3 27 France Jean Alesi Ferrari 1:22.625 1:21.986 +0.807
4 8 Brazil Ayrton Senna McLaren-Ford 1:23.310 1:22.633 +1.454
5 5 Germany Michael Schumacher Benetton-Ford 1:23.888 1:22.910 +1.731
6 28 Austria Gerhard Berger Ferrari 1:23.750 1:23.150 +1.971
7 12 United Kingdom Johnny Herbert Lotus-Ford 1:25.463 1:23.769 +2.590
8 10 Japan Aguri Suzuki Footwork-Mugen-Honda 1:26.127 1:23.856 +2.677
9 7 United States Michael Andretti McLaren-Ford 1:25.348 1:23.899 +2.720
10 6 Italy Riccardo Patrese Benetton-Ford 1:26.082 1:23.918 +2.739
11 9 United Kingdom Derek Warwick Footwork-Mugen-Honda 1:24.673 1:24.048 +2.869
12 25 United Kingdom Martin Brundle Ligier-Renault 1:24.608 1:24.137 +2.958
13 30 Finland JJ Lehto Sauber 1:24.298 1:24.419 +3.119
14 26 United Kingdom Mark Blundell Ligier-Renault 1:25.238 1:24.344 +3.165
15 29 Austria Karl Wendlinger Sauber 1:25.016 1:24.473 +3.294
16 19 France Philippe Alliot Larrousse-Lamborghini 1:25.529 1:24.807 +3.628
17 3 Japan Ukyo Katayama Tyrrell-Yamaha 1:26.300 1:24.886 +3.707
18 4 Italy Andrea de Cesaris Tyrrell-Yamaha 1:25.482 1:24.916 +3.737
19 14 Brazil Rubens Barrichello Jordan-Hart 1:26.664 1:25.144 +3.965
20 20 France Érik Comas Larrousse-Lamborghini 1:26.323 1:25.257 +4.078
21 21 Italy Michele Alboreto Lola-Ferrari 1:26.287 1:25.368 +4.189
22 24 Italy Pierluigi Martini Minardi-Ford 1:25.903 1:25.478 +4.299
23 15 Italy Marco Apicella Jordan-Hart 1:51.300 1:25.672 +4.493
24 23 Brazil Christian Fittipaldi Minardi-Ford 1:26.135 1:25.699 +4.520
25 22 Italy Luca Badoer Lola-Ferrari 1:26.049 1:25.957 +4.778
26 11 Portugal Pedro Lamy Lotus-Ford 1:26.380 1:26.324 +5.145
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Race

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Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 0 United Kingdom Damon Hill Williams-Renault 53 1:17:07.509 2 10
2 27 France Jean Alesi Ferrari 53 + 40.012 3 6
3 7 United States Michael Andretti McLaren-Ford 52 + 1 lap 9 4
4 29 Austria Karl Wendlinger Sauber 52 + 1 lap 15 3
5 6 Italy Riccardo Patrese Benetton-Ford 52 + 1 lap 10 2
6 20 France Érik Comas Larrousse-Lamborghini 52 + 1 lap 20 1
7 24 Italy Pierluigi Martini Minardi-Ford 51 + 2 laps 22  
8 23 Brazil Christian Fittipaldi Minardi-Ford 51 + 2 laps 24  
9 19 France Philippe Alliot Larrousse-Lamborghini 51 + 2 laps 16  
10 22 Italy Luca Badoer Lola-Ferrari 51 + 2 laps 25  
11 11 Portugal Pedro Lamy Lotus-Ford 49 Electrical 26  
12 2 France Alain Prost Williams-Renault 48 Engine 1  
13 4 Italy Andrea de Cesaris Tyrrell-Yamaha 47 Oil pressure 18  
14 3 Japan Ukyo Katayama Tyrrell-Yamaha 47 + 6 laps 17  
Ret 21 Italy Michele Alboreto Lola-Ferrari 23 Suspension 21  
Ret 5 Germany Michael Schumacher Benetton-Ford 21 Engine 5  
Ret 26 United Kingdom Mark Blundell Ligier-Renault 20 Accident damage 14  
Ret 28 Austria Gerhard Berger Ferrari 15 Suspension 6  
Ret 12 United Kingdom Johnny Herbert Lotus-Ford 14 Spun off 7  
Ret 25 United Kingdom Martin Brundle Ligier-Renault 8 Collision 12  
Ret 8 Brazil Ayrton Senna McLaren-Ford 8 Collision 4  
Ret 10 Japan Aguri Suzuki Footwork-Mugen-Honda 0 Collision 8  
Ret 9 United Kingdom Derek Warwick Footwork-Mugen-Honda 0 Collision 11  
Ret 30 Finland JJ Lehto Sauber 0 Collision 13  
Ret 14 Brazil Rubens Barrichello Jordan-Hart 0 Collision 19  
Ret 15 Italy Marco Apicella Jordan-Hart 0 Collision 23  
Source:[3]

Championship standings after the race

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  • Bold text indicates the World Champions.
  • Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

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  1. ^ "Motor Racing Programme Covers: 1993". The Programme Covers Project. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  2. ^ Roebuck, Nigel; Saward, Joe (16 September 1993). "Italian GP: Hill in hot pursuit". Autosport. 132 (11): 24–37. Retrieved 3 October 2023 – via Internet Archive.
  3. ^ "1993 Italian Grand Prix". formula1.com. Archived from the original on 2 December 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  4. ^ a b "Italy 1993 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 18 March 2019.


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