1996 Italian Grand Prix

1996 Italian Grand Prix
1996 Italian Grand Prix
Race 14 of 16 in the 1996 Formula One World Championship
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Race details
Date	8 September 1996
Official name	Pioneer 67º Gran Premio d'Italia
Location	Autodromo Nazionale di Monza ; Monza, Lombardy, Italy
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	5.770 km (3.585 miles)
Distance	53 laps, 305.810 km (190.022 miles)
Weather	Dry
Pole position
Driver	Damon Hill ;
Time	1:24.204
Fastest lap
Driver	Michael Schumacher
Time	1:26.110 on lap 50
Podium
First	Michael Schumacher ;
Second	Jean Alesi ;
Third	Mika Häkkinen ;
	Lap leaders ;

Last updated December 30, 2023

The 1996 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 8 September 1996 at Monza. It was the fourteenth race of the 1996 Formula One World Championship.

The 53-lap race was won by Michael Schumacher, driving a Ferrari, after he started from third position. It was Schumacher's third victory of the season and the Ferrari team's first victory at Monza since 1988. Jean Alesi finished second in a Benetton-Renault, with Mika Häkkinen third in a McLaren-Mercedes. Drivers' Championship leader Damon Hill took pole position in his Williams-Renault and led until he made an error and spun off on lap 6, while his teammate and rival, Jacques Villeneuve, could only manage seventh.

Pre-race

To stop cars kerb-hopping at chicanes due to ongoing track modifications at the time of the race, tyre barriers were erected at each chicane. However this caused much controversy during the race, particularly in the opening laps, when two tyres ran free across the track in the path of other drivers. Damon Hill had a comfortable lead but would retire after colliding with the tyres.

Race

Jean Alesi made an excellent start from sixth to lead polesitter Damon Hill into the first corner, but ran wide and struck a tyre stack between the two Lesmos on the opening lap and lost the lead to Hill. Alesi was fortunate to escape with his own car undamaged, but his error caused a tyre to fall on the track and break the front wing of Mika Häkkinen's McLaren. Häkkinen was forced to pit for a new nose-cone, dropping him to seventeenth on the track.

Jacques Villeneuve sent a tyre spinning into David Coulthard's car at the Ascari chicane on the opening lap in a similar incident while trying to pass Michael Schumacher. Villeneuve was able to continue, although the collision with the tyre stack bent his suspension, which slowed his car and forced him to pit for a new set of tyres, a new nose-cone and a new steering wheel, dropping him to sixteenth place and putting him a lap behind. Coulthard was less fortunate, and immediately spun off with a broken suspension pushrod. Villeneuve apologised to Coulthard after the race. Whilst Gerhard Berger in the second Benetton had eventually pulled off before Parabolica when his gearbox failed on lap 5.

Hill was leading by four seconds on lap six when he hit the tyre barriers at the first chicane and retired with broken suspension. Eddie Irvine ran in third place for most of the first half of the race before having a similar accident. In all, eight cars made contact with the tyre barriers after running wide on the track, of which five (Hill, Heinz-Harald Frentzen, Olivier Panis, Ricardo Rosset and Irvine) retired.

Michael Schumacher also hit a tyre stack in the closing stages but continued without damage to his car and won the race. This was his first ever Italian Grand Prix victory after years of misfortunes including the collision with Hill the previous year, as well as his team's first win at Monza since 1988. Alesi, who re-took the lead following Hill's exit, finished second after losing out to Schumacher in the pit stops, and Häkkinen eventually recovered to third place thanks in part to Irvine's retirement. The Jordan-Peugeots of Martin Brundle and Rubens Barrichello finished in fourth and fifth positions respectively after a race-long battle for fourth place, Brundle overtaking at the Parabolica corner after Barrichello accidentally turned his engine off while trying to investigate a clutch problem, and had to get a push-start from the marshalls to continue. Pedro Diniz finished sixth ahead of Villeneuve, who only managed seventh place after Johnny Herbert's engine cut out on the final lap.

Classification

Qualifying

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Time	Diff.
1	5	Damon Hill	Williams-Renault	1:24.204
2	6	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams-Renault	1:24.521	+0.317
3	1	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1:24.781	+0.577
4	7	Mika Häkkinen	McLaren-Mercedes	1:24.939	+0.735
5	8	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	1:24.976	+0.772
6	3	Jean Alesi	Benetton-Renault	1:25.201	+0.997
7	2	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	1:25.226	+1.022
8	4	Gerhard Berger	Benetton-Renault	1:25.470	+1.266
9	12	Martin Brundle	Jordan-Peugeot	1:26.037	+1.833
10	11	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan-Peugeot	1:26.194	+1.990
11	9	Olivier Panis	Ligier-Mugen-Honda	1:26.206	+2.002
12	14	Johnny Herbert	Sauber-Ford	1:26.345	+2.141
13	15	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber-Ford	1:26.505	+2.301
14	10	Pedro Diniz	Ligier-Mugen-Honda	1:26.726	+2.522
15	17	Jos Verstappen	Footwork-Hart	1:27.270	+3.066
16	18	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell-Yamaha	1:28.234	+4.030
17	19	Mika Salo	Tyrrell-Yamaha	1:28.472	+4.268
18	20	Pedro Lamy	Minardi-Ford	1:28.933	+4.729
19	16	Ricardo Rosset	Footwork-Hart	1:29.181	+4.977
20	21	Giovanni Lavaggi	Minardi-Ford	1:29.833	+5.629
107% time: 1:30.098
Sources:^[2]^[3]

Race

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	53	1:17:43.632	3	10
2	3	Jean Alesi	Benetton-Renault	53	+ 18.265	6	6
3	7	Mika Häkkinen	McLaren-Mercedes	53	+ 1:06.635	4	4
4	12	Martin Brundle	Jordan-Peugeot	53	+ 1:25.217	9	3
5	11	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan-Peugeot	53	+ 1:25.475	10	2
6	10	Pedro Diniz	Ligier-Mugen-Honda	52	+ 1 Lap	14	1
7	6	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams-Renault	52	+ 1 Lap	2
8	17	Jos Verstappen	Footwork-Hart	52	+ 1 Lap	15
9	14	Johnny Herbert	Sauber-Ford	51	Engine	12
10	18	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell-Yamaha	51	+ 2 Laps	16
Ret	16	Ricardo Rosset	Footwork-Hart	36	Spun Off	19
Ret	2	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	23	Spun Off	7
Ret	20	Pedro Lamy	Minardi-Ford	12	Engine	18
Ret	19	Mika Salo	Tyrrell-Yamaha	9	Engine	17
Ret	15	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber-Ford	7	Spun Off	13
Ret	5	Damon Hill	Williams-Renault	5	Spun Off	1
Ret	21	Giovanni Lavaggi	Minardi-Ford	5	Engine	20
Ret	4	Gerhard Berger	Benetton-Renault	4	Gearbox	8
Ret	9	Olivier Panis	Ligier-Mugen-Honda	2	Spun Off	11
Ret	8	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes	1	Spun Off	5
Source:^[4]

Championship standings after the race

Bold text indicates the World Champions.

Drivers' Championship standings

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Damon Hill	81
2	Jacques Villeneuve	68
3	Michael Schumacher	49
4	Jean Alesi	44
5	Mika Häkkinen	27
Source: ^[5]

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos	Constructor	Points
1	Williams-Renault	149
2	Benetton-Renault	61
3	Ferrari	58
4	McLaren-Mercedes	45
5	Jordan-Peugeot	20
Source: ^[5]

Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

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↑ "Italy 1996 – Qualifications". StatsF1. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
↑ "1996 Italian Grand Prix Classification Qualifying". Motorsport Stats. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
↑ "1996 Italian Grand Prix". formula1.com. Archived from the original on 1 November 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
1 2 "Italy 1996 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 18 March 2019.

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[1] "Motor Racing Programme Covers: 1996". The Programme Covers Project. Retrieved 11 November 2017.

[2] "Italy 1996 – Qualifications". StatsF1. Retrieved 29 December 2023.

[3] "1996 Italian Grand Prix Classification Qualifying". Motorsport Stats. Retrieved 29 December 2023.

[formula1.com-4] "1996 Italian Grand Prix". formula1.com. Archived from the original on 1 November 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2015.

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1996 Italian Grand Prix

Contents

Pre-race

Race

Classification

Qualifying

Race

Championship standings after the race

Related Research Articles

References