1994 European Grand Prix

1994 European Grand Prix
1994 European Grand Prix
Race 14 of 16 in the 1994 Formula One World Championship
Race details
Date	16 October 1994
Official name	XXXIX Gran Premio de Europa
Location	Circuito Permanente de Jerez ; Jerez, Spain
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	4.428 km (2.767 miles)
Distance	69 laps, 305.532 km (190.957 miles)
Weather	Sunny
Pole position
Driver	Michael Schumacher ;
Time	1:22.762
Fastest lap
Driver	Michael Schumacher
Time	1:25.040 on lap 17
Podium
First	Michael Schumacher ;
Second	Damon Hill ;
Third	Mika Häkkinen ;
	Lap leaders ;

Last updated March 12, 2024

The 1994 European Grand Prix (formally the XXXIX Gran Premio de Europa) was a Formula One motor race held on 16 October 1994 at the Circuito Permanente de Jerez, Jerez, Spain. It was the fourteenth race of the 1994 Formula One World Championship.

The 69-lap race was won from pole position by Michael Schumacher, driving a Benetton-Ford. Schumacher, returning from a two-race ban, took his eighth victory of the season by 24.6 seconds from Drivers' Championship rival Damon Hill in the Williams-Renault, with Mika Häkkinen third in a McLaren-Peugeot.

The win put Schumacher five points ahead of Hill with two races remaining, while Benetton regained the lead of the Constructors' Championship from Williams.

Background

The 1994 European Grand Prix was originally intended to take place on 17 April 1994 at Donington Park in the United Kingdom as the second round of the season but the Donington event was later cancelled and replaced by the Pacific Grand Prix at the TI Aida Circuit in Japan. The Argentine Grand Prix had been due to return to the Formula One calendar on this October date, but ongoing modernisation of the Buenos Aires circuit meant that this was postponed until early in the 1995 season.^[1] A race at Jerez, the first since 1990, was organised in its place, and the European Grand Prix moniker was used as with the race at Donington Park in 1993 with the Spanish Grand Prix moniker having already used for the race held at the Circuit de Catalunya earlier that year .

Michael Schumacher returned to the Benetton team following his ban from the Italian and Portuguese Grands Prix, while Nigel Mansell returned to Williams, the 1994 CART season having ended the previous week. Elsewhere, Flavio Briatore bought Johnny Herbert's contract from Lotus's administrators and transferred him to Ligier, trading places with Éric Bernard, while rookies Hideki Noda and Domenico Schiattarella joined the Larrousse and Simtek teams respectively, replacing Yannick Dalmas and Jean-Marc Gounon.

Qualifying

Qualifying report

Schumacher took pole from Drivers' Championship rival Damon Hill by 0.13 seconds, with Mansell third but sixth tenths of a second behind Hill. Heinz-Harald Frentzen took fourth in the Sauber, followed by Rubens Barrichello in the Jordan and Gerhard Berger in the Ferrari. Herbert was seventh in the Ligier, with Gianni Morbidelli in the Footwork, Mika Häkkinen in the McLaren and Eddie Irvine in the second Jordan completing the top ten. Debutants Noda and Schiattarella were 24th and 26th respectively, with the two Pacifics of Bertrand Gachot and Paul Belmondo once again failing to qualify.

Qualifying classification

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Q1 Time	Q2 Time	Gap
1	5	Michael Schumacher	Benetton-Ford	1:24.207	1:22.762
2	0	Damon Hill	Williams-Renault	1:24.137	1:22.892	+0.130
3	2	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Renault	1:24.971	1:23.392	+0.630
4	30	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber-Mercedes	1:24.184	1:23.431	+0.669
5	14	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan-Hart	1:24.700	1:23.455	+0.693
6	28	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	1:25.079	1:23.677	+0.915
7	25	Johnny Herbert	Ligier-Renault	1:26.241	1:24.040	+1.278
8	10	Gianni Morbidelli	Footwork-Ford	1:26.048	1:24.079	+1.317
9	7	Mika Häkkinen	McLaren-Peugeot	1:25.275	1:24.122	+1.360
10	15	Eddie Irvine	Jordan-Hart	1:24.794	1:24.157	+1.395
11	26	Olivier Panis	Ligier-Renault	1:25.384	1:24.432	+1.670
12	6	Jos Verstappen	Benetton-Ford	1:35.441	1:24.643	+1.881
13	3	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell-Yamaha	1:26.304	1:24.738	+1.976
14	4	Mark Blundell	Tyrrell-Yamaha	1:25.995	1:24.770	+2.008
15	8	Martin Brundle	McLaren-Peugeot	1:25.942	1:25.110	+2.348
16	27	Jean Alesi	Ferrari	1:25.182	1:44.801	+2.420
17	23	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi-Ford	1:25.812	1:25.294	+2.532
18	29	Andrea de Cesaris	Sauber-Mercedes	1:25.407	1:25.411	+2.645
19	9	Christian Fittipaldi	Footwork-Ford	1:26.094	1:25.427	+2.665
20	24	Michele Alboreto	Minardi-Ford	1:26.744	1:25.511	+2.749
21	12	Alessandro Zanardi	Lotus-Mugen-Honda	1:26.973	1:25.557	+2.795
22	11	Éric Bernard	Lotus-Mugen-Honda	1:28.047	1:25.595	+2.833
23	20	Érik Comas	Larrousse-Ford	1:28.042	1:26.272	+3.510
24	19	Hideki Noda	Larrousse-Ford	1:29.041	1:27.168	+4.406
25	31	David Brabham	Simtek-Ford	1:28.388	1:27.201	+4.439
26	32	Domenico Schiattarella	Simtek-Ford	1:30.069	1:27.976	+5.214
DNQ	34	Bertrand Gachot	Pacific-Ilmor	1:30.099	1:29.488	+6.726
DNQ	33	Paul Belmondo	Pacific-Ilmor	1:31.162	1:30.234	+7.472
Sources:^[2]^[3]^[4]

Race

Race report

At the start, Hill got ahead of Schumacher, while Mansell fell to sixth behind Frentzen, Barrichello and Berger. Mansell re-passed Berger on lap 2 and Barrichello on lap 6, before the Jordan driver got by again on lap 12. Noda's debut ended with a gearbox failure after ten laps; as he slowed, he was hit by Mansell, who subsequently pitted for a new nosecone and dropped out of contention.^[5]

Schumacher overtook Hill during the first round of pit stops; both were well clear of Frentzen - who was running a one-stop strategy - with Häkkinen up to fourth and Irvine fifth. Hill briefly went ahead again during the second stops, after which Schumacher retained a comfortable lead for the rest of the race. Frentzen's strategy backfired as he fell to seventh, behind Berger and Barrichello. Irvine moved ahead of Häkkinen and into third, only to be re-passed by the McLaren driver as a result of a quicker second stop. In the closing stages, Barrichello developed a left rear puncture, putting Frentzen back in the top six, just ahead of Ukyo Katayama's Tyrrell.

In a race of high reliability, nineteen cars were still running at the end, the last being Schiattarella (albeit five laps down), while Mansell was the last driver to retire, spinning off on lap 48. Schumacher's eventual margin of victory over Hill was 24.6 seconds, with another 45 seconds back to Häkkinen and a further nine back to Irvine, the last driver on the lead lap. Berger and Frentzen completed the top six, Frentzen holding off Katayama for the final point by 0.2 seconds.^[6] With two races remaining, Schumacher led Hill in the Drivers' Championship by five points, while Benetton moved back into the lead of the Constructors' Championship by two points from Williams.

In the second Sauber, Andrea de Cesaris made his 208th and final Grand Prix start, at the time second only to Riccardo Patrese. Karl Wendlinger was due to return to the Swiss team at the next race in Japan, following his crash at Monaco earlier in the season.

Race classification

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	5	Michael Schumacher	Benetton-Ford	69	1:40:26.689	1	10
2	0	Damon Hill	Williams-Renault	69	+ 24.689	2	6
3	7	Mika Häkkinen	McLaren-Peugeot	69	+ 1:09.648	9	4
4	15	Eddie Irvine	Jordan-Hart	69	+ 1:18.446	10	3
5	28	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	68	+ 1 Lap	6	2
6	30	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber-Mercedes	68	+ 1 Lap	4	1
7	3	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell-Yamaha	68	+ 1 Lap	13
8	25	Johnny Herbert	Ligier-Renault	68	+ 1 Lap	7
9	26	Olivier Panis	Ligier-Renault	68	+ 1 Lap	11
10	27	Jean Alesi	Ferrari	68	+ 1 Lap	16
11	10	Gianni Morbidelli	Footwork-Ford	68	+ 1 Lap	8
12	14	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan-Hart	68	+ 1 Lap	5
13	4	Mark Blundell	Tyrrell-Yamaha	68	+ 1 Lap	14
14	24	Michele Alboreto	Minardi-Ford	67	+ 2 Laps	20
15	23	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi-Ford	67	+ 2 Laps	17
16	12	Alessandro Zanardi	Lotus-Mugen-Honda	67	+ 2 Laps	21
17	9	Christian Fittipaldi	Footwork-Ford	66	+ 3 Laps	19
18	11	Éric Bernard	Lotus-Mugen-Honda	66	+ 3 Laps	22
19	32	Domenico Schiattarella	Simtek-Ford	64	+ 5 Laps	26
Ret	2	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Renault	47	Spun off	3
Ret	31	David Brabham	Simtek-Ford	42	Engine	25
Ret	29	Andrea de Cesaris	Sauber-Mercedes	37	Throttle	18
Ret	20	Érik Comas	Larrousse-Ford	37	Alternator	23
Ret	6	Jos Verstappen	Benetton-Ford	15	Spun off	12
Ret	19	Hideki Noda	Larrousse-Ford	10	Gearbox	24
Ret	8	Martin Brundle	McLaren-Peugeot	8	Engine	15
Source:^[7]

Championship standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Michael Schumacher	86
2	Damon Hill	81
3	Gerhard Berger	35
4	Mika Häkkinen	26
5	Jean Alesi	19
Source: ^[8]

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos	Constructor	Points
1	Benetton-Ford	97
2	Williams-Renault	95
3	Ferrari	60
4	McLaren-Peugeot	38
5	Jordan-Hart	23
Source: ^[8]

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↑ "Grand Prix of Europe – Qualifying 2". Formula1.com. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
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[1] "June 1994 Motorsport Information". Team DAN. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2007.

[2] "Grand Prix of Europe – Qualifying 1". Formula1.com. Retrieved 29 December 2023.

[3] "Grand Prix of Europe – Qualifying 2". Formula1.com. Retrieved 29 December 2023.

[4] "1994 European GP – Qualifying". ChicaneF1. Retrieved 29 December 2023.

[5] "Hideki Noda - Biography". F1 Rejects. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012. Retrieved 7 January 2019.

[6] "European Grand Prix: Schumacher moves closer". Motor Sport . November 1994. p. 18. Retrieved 7 January 2019.

[7] "1994 European Grand Prix - Race Result". Formula1.com. Retrieved 15 February 2020.

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