Race · Round 1 of 16 · 10 March 1996

1996 Australian Grand Prix

Damon Hill won for Williams from 2nd on the grid at Albert Park. 8 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship podium for Jacques Villeneuve.

Circuit: Albert ParkMelbourne, Australia
Winner: Damon HillWilliams
Pole: Jacques Villeneuve
Fastest lap: Jacques Villeneuve
Entries: 2211 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Damon Hill	Williams	FW18	2	58	Finished	10
2	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	FW18	1	58	Finished	6	fastest lap
3	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	F310	3	58	Finished	4
4	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	B196	7	58	Finished	3
5	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	—	5	58	Finished	2
6	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	20	10	57	Finished	1
7	Olivier Panis	Ligier	JS43	11	57	Finished	0
8	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	C15	9	57	Finished	0
9	Ricardo Rosset	Footwork	FA17	18	56	Finished	0
10	Pedro Diniz	Ligier	JS43	20	56	Finished	0
11	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	20	15	55	Finished	0
DNF	Pedro Lamy	Minardi	M195B	17	42	Safety belt	0
DNF	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	F310	4	32	Brakes	0
DNF	Giancarlo Fisichella	Minardi	M195B	16	32	Clutch	0
DNF	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	196	8	29	Engine	0
DNF	David Coulthard	McLaren	—	13	24	Throttle	0
DNF	Jos Verstappen	Footwork	FA17	12	15	Engine	0
DNF	Jean Alesi	Benetton	B196	6	9	Collision	0
DNF	Martin Brundle	Jordan	196	19	1	Collision	0
DNS	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	C15	14	—	Collision	0
DNQ	Luca Badoer	Forti	—	—	—	DNQ	0
DNQ	Andrea Montermini	Forti	—	—	—	DNQ	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout melbourne-1 · 5.303 km · 16 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Damon Hill	2	1	58
Jacques Villeneuve	1	2	58
Eddie Irvine	3	3	58
Gerhard Berger	7	4	58
Mika Hakkinen	5	5	58
Mika Salo	10	6	57
Olivier Panis	11	7	57
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	9	8	57
Ricardo Rosset	18	9	56
Pedro Diniz	20	10	56
Ukyo Katayama	15	11	55
Pedro Lamy	17	DNF	42
Michael Schumacher	4	DNF	32
Giancarlo Fisichella	16	DNF	32
Rubens Barrichello	8	DNF	29
David Coulthard	13	DNF	24
Jos Verstappen	12	DNF	15
Jean Alesi	6	DNF	9
Martin Brundle	19	DNF	1

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	6	1:32.371	—	—
2	Damon Hill	Williams	5	1:32.509	+0.138	+0.138
3	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	2	1:32.889	+0.518	+0.380
4	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:33.125	+0.754	+0.236
5	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	7	1:34.054	+1.683	+0.929
6	Jean Alesi	Benetton	3	1:34.257	+1.886	+0.203
7	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	4	1:34.344	+1.973	+0.087
8	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	11	1:34.474	+2.103	+0.130
9	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	15	1:34.494	+2.123	+0.020
10	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	19	1:34.832	+2.461	+0.338
11	Olivier Panis	Ligier	9	1:35.330	+2.959	+0.498
12	Jos Verstappen	Footwork	17	1:35.338	+2.967	+0.008
13	David Coulthard	McLaren	8	1:35.351	+2.980	+0.013
14	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	14	1:35.453	+3.082	+0.102
15	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	18	1:35.715	+3.344	+0.262
16	Giancarlo Fisichella	Minardi	21	1:35.898	+3.527	+0.183
17	Pedro Lamy	Minardi	20	1:36.109	+3.738	+0.211
18	Ricardo Rosset	Footwork	16	1:36.198	+3.827	+0.089
19	Martin Brundle	Jordan	12	1:36.286	+3.915	+0.088
20	Pedro Diniz	Ligier	10	1:36.298	+3.927	+0.012
21	Luca Badoer	Forti	22	1:39.202	+6.831	+2.904
22	Andrea Montermini	Forti	23	1:42.087	+9.716	+2.885

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

Pit stops

Bars run in finishing order, ticked on each lap a driver stopped. An unticked bar may hide a stop: F1DB’s record has gaps. A cross is a driver not classified. Only the lap is recorded: not a stop’s length, tyres or gain.

Pit stops
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap
Damon Hill	1	58	1	32
Jacques Villeneuve	2	58	1	30
Eddie Irvine	3	58	2	22, 42
Gerhard Berger	4	58	2	24, 41
Mika Hakkinen	5	58	1	30
Mika Salo	6	57	2	16, 35
Olivier Panis	7	57	2	19, 31
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	8	57	2	20, 39
Ricardo Rosset	9	56	1	28
Pedro Diniz	10	56	2	20, 32
Ukyo Katayama	11	55	1	27
Pedro Lamy	DNF	42	3	9, 30, 37
Michael Schumacher	DNF	32	2	20, 32
Giancarlo Fisichella	DNF	32	1	18
Rubens Barrichello	DNF	29	1	25
David Coulthard	DNF	24	0	None recorded
Jos Verstappen	DNF	15	1	14
Jean Alesi	DNF	9	0	None recorded
Martin Brundle	DNF	1	0	None recorded

Who stopped first, between neighbours

Who stopped first, between neighbours
Drivers, in grid order	Grid	Result	First recorded stop, lap	Stopped first	Grid to flag
Jacques Villeneuve · Damon Hill	1 · 2	2 · 1	30 · 32	Jacques Villeneuve	Swapped places
Damon Hill · Eddie Irvine	2 · 3	1 · 3	32 · 22	Eddie Irvine	Kept their order
Jacques Villeneuve · Eddie Irvine	1 · 3	2 · 3	30 · 22	Eddie Irvine	Kept their order
Eddie Irvine · Gerhard Berger	3 · 7	3 · 4	22 · 24	Eddie Irvine	Kept their order
Mika Hakkinen · Gerhard Berger	5 · 7	5 · 4	30 · 24	Gerhard Berger	Swapped places
Mika Hakkinen · Mika Salo	5 · 10	5 · 6	30 · 16	Mika Salo	Kept their order
Heinz-Harald Frentzen · Mika Salo	9 · 10	8 · 6	20 · 16	Mika Salo	Swapped places
Mika Salo · Olivier Panis	10 · 11	6 · 7	16 · 19	Mika Salo	Kept their order
Heinz-Harald Frentzen · Olivier Panis	9 · 11	8 · 7	20 · 19	Olivier Panis	Swapped places
Heinz-Harald Frentzen · Ricardo Rosset	9 · 18	8 · 9	20 · 28	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Kept their order
Ricardo Rosset · Pedro Diniz	18 · 20	9 · 10	28 · 20	Pedro Diniz	Kept their order
Ukyo Katayama · Pedro Diniz	15 · 20	11 · 10	27 · 20	Pedro Diniz	Swapped places

Pairs of classified drivers who started or finished next to each other, each with a stop recorded; the two names in a row are in grid order. Both are read from the stops F1DB records, which has gaps. It is the order things happened in and no more: with no stop duration and no lap times, the record cannot say whether stopping first won or lost a place.

Practice sessions Practice 1 · Practice 2 · Warm-up

Practice 1

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	Interval	Laps
1	Damon Hill	Williams	5	1:32.159	—	—	30
2	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	6	1:32.396	+0.237	+0.237	28
3	Jean Alesi	Benetton	3	1:32.475	+0.316	+0.079	27
4	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:33.007	+0.848	+0.532	30
5	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	11	1:33.480	+1.321	+0.473	30
6	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	4	1:33.528	+1.369	+0.048	26
7	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	2	1:33.592	+1.433	+0.064	28
8	Jos Verstappen	Footwork	17	1:33.640	+1.481	+0.048	27
9	David Coulthard	McLaren	8	1:33.846	+1.687	+0.206	30
10	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	7	1:33.935	+1.776	+0.089	25
11	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	19	1:33.992	+1.833	+0.057	30
12	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	15	1:34.068	+1.909	+0.076	26
13	Martin Brundle	Jordan	12	1:34.077	+1.918	+0.009	30
14	Olivier Panis	Ligier	9	1:34.156	+1.997	+0.079	29
15	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	14	1:34.664	+2.505	+0.508	29
16	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	18	1:34.857	+2.698	+0.193	26
17	Ricardo Rosset	Footwork	16	1:35.011	+2.852	+0.154	28
18	Pedro Diniz	Ligier	10	1:35.121	+2.962	+0.110	29
19	Pedro Lamy	Minardi	20	1:35.145	+2.986	+0.024	29
20	Giancarlo Fisichella	Minardi	21	1:35.477	+3.318	+0.332	22
21	Luca Badoer	Forti	22	1:39.141	+6.982	+3.664	12
22	Andrea Montermini	Forti	23	1:43.506	+11.347	+4.365	6

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	Interval	Laps
1	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	6	1:31.206	—	—	24
2	Damon Hill	Williams	5	1:31.319	+0.113	+0.113	29
3	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	11	1:32.459	+1.253	+1.140	20
4	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:32.506	+1.300	+0.047	24
5	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	2	1:32.981	+1.775	+0.475	18
6	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	4	1:33.037	+1.831	+0.056	21
7	Jos Verstappen	Footwork	17	1:33.342	+2.136	+0.305	19
8	Olivier Panis	Ligier	9	1:33.648	+2.442	+0.306	27
9	David Coulthard	McLaren	8	1:33.777	+2.571	+0.129	28
10	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	19	1:33.840	+2.634	+0.063	25
11	Martin Brundle	Jordan	12	1:34.005	+2.799	+0.165	13
12	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	15	1:34.120	+2.914	+0.115	21
13	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	7	1:34.266	+3.060	+0.146	24
14	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	14	1:34.383	+3.177	+0.117	23
15	Pedro Diniz	Ligier	10	1:34.926	+3.720	+0.543	29
16	Ricardo Rosset	Footwork	16	1:35.157	+3.951	+0.231	23
17	Jean Alesi	Benetton	3	1:35.666	+4.460	+0.509	12
18	Giancarlo Fisichella	Minardi	21	1:35.740	+4.534	+0.074	22
19	Pedro Lamy	Minardi	20	1:35.844	+4.638	+0.104	15
20	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	18	1:37.193	+5.987	+1.349	13
21	Luca Badoer	Forti	22	1:38.869	+7.663	+1.676	18
22	Andrea Montermini	Forti	23	1:41.333	+10.127	+2.464	17

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

Warm-up

Warm-up
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	Interval	Laps
1	Damon Hill	Williams	5	1:33.363	—	—	12
2	Jean Alesi	Benetton	3	1:33.410	+0.047	+0.047	13
3	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	4	1:34.167	+0.804	+0.757	10
4	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:34.176	+0.813	+0.009	12
5	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	15	1:34.177	+0.814	+0.001	12
6	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	2	1:34.251	+0.888	+0.074	11
7	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	19	1:34.338	+0.975	+0.087	14
8	Jos Verstappen	Footwork	17	1:34.381	+1.018	+0.043	15
9	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	6	1:34.431	+1.068	+0.050	8
10	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	14	1:34.653	+1.290	+0.222	15
11	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	11	1:34.664	+1.301	+0.011	8
12	Martin Brundle	Jordan	12	1:35.116	+1.753	+0.452	16
13	Olivier Panis	Ligier	9	1:35.322	+1.959	+0.206	12
14	David Coulthard	McLaren	8	1:35.774	+2.411	+0.452	11
15	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	7	1:35.853	+2.490	+0.079	14
16	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	18	1:35.914	+2.551	+0.061	14
17	Giancarlo Fisichella	Minardi	21	1:36.487	+3.124	+0.573	14
18	Pedro Diniz	Ligier	10	1:36.966	+3.603	+0.479	12
19	Ricardo Rosset	Footwork	16	1:37.001	+3.638	+0.035	11
20	Pedro Lamy	Minardi	20	1:37.783	+4.420	+0.782	12

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

Benetton B196
Jean Alesi - Imola 1996 (5) · Restu20 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

3 more photographs

Minardi M195
Pierluigi Martini 1995 Britain · Fox 1 from Beta Quadrant, England · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked

Where this comes from

Round: 1 of 1996
Grand Prix: Australian Grand Prix
Dates: 10 Mar 1996
Layout raced: Original layout · 5.303 km · 16 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Williams
Entrant: Williams-Renault
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.