1996 German Grand Prix

Circuit: HockenheimringHockenheim, Germany
Winner: Damon HillWilliams
Pole: Damon Hill
Fastest lap: Damon Hill
Entries: 2013 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Damon Hill	Williams	FW18	1	45	Finished	10	fastest lap
2	Jean Alesi	Benetton	B196	5	45	Finished	6
3	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	FW18	6	45	Finished	4
4	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	F310	3	45	Finished	3
5	David Coulthard	McLaren	—	7	45	Finished	2
6	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	196	9	45	Finished	1
7	Olivier Panis	Ligier	JS43	12	45	Finished	0
8	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	C15	13	44	Finished	0
9	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	20	15	44	Finished	0
10	Martin Brundle	Jordan	196	10	44	Finished	0
11	Ricardo Rosset	Footwork	FA17	19	44	Finished	0
12	Pedro Lamy	Minardi	M195B	18	43	Finished	0
13	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	B196	2	42	Engine	0
DNF	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	F310	8	34	Gearbox	0
DNF	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	C15	14	25	Vibrations	0
DNF	Pedro Diniz	Ligier	JS43	11	19	Engine	0
DNF	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	20	16	19	Spun off	0
DNF	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	—	4	13	Gearbox	0
DNF	Jos Verstappen	Footwork	FA17	17	0	Collision	0
DNQ	Giovanni Lavaggi	Minardi	M195B	—	—	DNQ	0

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

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	1	1	45
Jean Alesi	5	2	45
Jacques Villeneuve	6	3	45
Michael Schumacher	3	4	45
David Coulthard	7	5	45
Rubens Barrichello	9	6	45
Olivier Panis	12	7	45
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	13	8	44
Mika Salo	15	9	44
Martin Brundle	10	10	44
Ricardo Rosset	19	11	44
Pedro Lamy	18	12	43
Gerhard Berger	2	13	42
Eddie Irvine	8	DNF	34
Johnny Herbert	14	DNF	25
Pedro Diniz	11	DNF	19
Ukyo Katayama	16	DNF	19
Mika Hakkinen	4	DNF	13
Jos Verstappen	17	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Damon Hill	Williams	5	1:43.912	—	—
2	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	4	1:44.299	+0.387	+0.387
3	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:44.477	+0.565	+0.178
4	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	7	1:44.644	+0.732	+0.167
5	Jean Alesi	Benetton	3	1:44.670	+0.758	+0.026
6	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	6	1:44.842	+0.930	+0.172
7	David Coulthard	McLaren	8	1:44.951	+1.039	+0.109
8	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	2	1:45.389	+1.477	+0.438
9	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	11	1:45.452	+1.540	+0.063
10	Martin Brundle	Jordan	12	1:45.876	+1.964	+0.424
11	Pedro Diniz	Ligier	10	1:46.575	+2.663	+0.699
12	Olivier Panis	Ligier	9	1:46.746	+2.834	+0.171
13	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	15	1:46.899	+2.987	+0.153
14	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	14	1:47.711	+3.799	+0.812
15	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	19	1:48.139	+4.227	+0.428
16	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	18	1:48.381	+4.469	+0.242
17	Jos Verstappen	Footwork	17	1:48.512	+4.600	+0.131
18	Pedro Lamy	Minardi	20	1:49.461	+5.549	+0.949
19	Ricardo Rosset	Footwork	16	1:49.551	+5.639	+0.090
20	Giovanni Lavaggi	Minardi	21	1:51.357	+7.445	+1.806

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	45	2	20, 34
Jean Alesi	2	45	1	22
Jacques Villeneuve	3	45	1	22
Michael Schumacher	4	45	1	22
David Coulthard	5	45	2	16, 32
Rubens Barrichello	6	45	1	21
Olivier Panis	7	45	2	4, 23
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	8	44	2	16, 31
Mika Salo	9	44	1	23
Martin Brundle	10	44	1	22
Ricardo Rosset	11	44	1	22
Pedro Lamy	12	43	2	13, 29
Gerhard Berger	13	42	1	23
Eddie Irvine	DNF	34	2	14, 30
Johnny Herbert	DNF	25	1	16
Pedro Diniz	DNF	19	0	None recorded
Ukyo Katayama	DNF	19	0	None recorded
Mika Hakkinen	DNF	13	1	13
Jos Verstappen	DNF	0	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
Damon Hill · Jean Alesi	1 · 5	1 · 2	20 · 22	Damon Hill	Kept their order
Damon Hill · Gerhard Berger	1 · 2	1 · 13	20 · 23	Damon Hill	Kept their order
Jean Alesi · Jacques Villeneuve	5 · 6	2 · 3	22 · 22	Same lap	Kept their order
Michael Schumacher · Jacques Villeneuve	3 · 6	4 · 3	22 · 22	Same lap	Swapped places
Jacques Villeneuve · David Coulthard	6 · 7	3 · 5	22 · 16	David Coulthard	Kept their order
Gerhard Berger · Michael Schumacher	2 · 3	13 · 4	23 · 22	Michael Schumacher	Swapped places
Michael Schumacher · David Coulthard	3 · 7	4 · 5	22 · 16	David Coulthard	Kept their order
David Coulthard · Rubens Barrichello	7 · 9	5 · 6	16 · 21	David Coulthard	Kept their order
Rubens Barrichello · Olivier Panis	9 · 12	6 · 7	21 · 4	Olivier Panis	Kept their order
Rubens Barrichello · Martin Brundle	9 · 10	6 · 10	21 · 22	Rubens Barrichello	Kept their order
Olivier Panis · Heinz-Harald Frentzen	12 · 13	7 · 8	4 · 16	Olivier Panis	Kept their order
Heinz-Harald Frentzen · Mika Salo	13 · 15	8 · 9	16 · 23	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Kept their order
Martin Brundle · Mika Salo	10 · 15	10 · 9	22 · 23	Martin Brundle	Swapped places
Martin Brundle · Ricardo Rosset	10 · 19	10 · 11	22 · 22	Same lap	Kept their order
Pedro Lamy · Ricardo Rosset	18 · 19	12 · 11	13 · 22	Pedro Lamy	Swapped places
Gerhard Berger · Pedro Lamy	2 · 18	13 · 12	23 · 13	Pedro Lamy	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	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	4	1:46.145	—	—	20
2	David Coulthard	McLaren	8	1:46.184	+0.039	+0.039	23
3	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	2	1:46.198	+0.053	+0.014	30
4	Jean Alesi	Benetton	3	1:46.294	+0.149	+0.096	22
5	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	7	1:46.384	+0.239	+0.090	23
6	Martin Brundle	Jordan	12	1:46.487	+0.342	+0.103	28
7	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:46.959	+0.814	+0.472	20
8	Damon Hill	Williams	5	1:46.998	+0.853	+0.039	27
9	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	11	1:47.110	+0.965	+0.112	25
10	Pedro Diniz	Ligier	10	1:47.534	+1.389	+0.424	29
11	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	6	1:47.586	+1.441	+0.052	30
12	Olivier Panis	Ligier	9	1:47.668	+1.523	+0.082	17
13	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	15	1:48.157	+2.012	+0.489	26
14	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	14	1:49.220	+3.075	+1.063	30
15	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	19	1:49.243	+3.098	+0.023	24
16	Jos Verstappen	Footwork	17	1:49.629	+3.484	+0.386	27
17	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	18	1:49.843	+3.698	+0.214	30
18	Pedro Lamy	Minardi	20	1:50.815	+4.670	+0.972	30
19	Ricardo Rosset	Footwork	16	1:50.872	+4.727	+0.057	30
20	Giovanni Lavaggi	Minardi	21	1:54.685	+8.540	+3.813	13

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	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	7	1:44.134	—	—	17
2	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:44.201	+0.067	+0.067	20
3	Damon Hill	Williams	5	1:44.513	+0.379	+0.312	26
4	Jean Alesi	Benetton	3	1:44.538	+0.404	+0.025	16
5	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	2	1:44.916	+0.782	+0.378	24
6	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	4	1:44.917	+0.783	+0.001	28
7	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	11	1:45.283	+1.149	+0.366	19
8	Martin Brundle	Jordan	12	1:45.617	+1.483	+0.334	24
9	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	6	1:45.959	+1.825	+0.342	9
10	Olivier Panis	Ligier	9	1:46.522	+2.388	+0.563	20
11	David Coulthard	McLaren	8	1:46.533	+2.399	+0.011	24
12	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	15	1:47.396	+3.262	+0.863	25
13	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	19	1:47.509	+3.375	+0.113	16
14	Pedro Diniz	Ligier	10	1:47.770	+3.636	+0.261	25
15	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	14	1:47.948	+3.814	+0.178	20
16	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	18	1:47.959	+3.825	+0.011	20
17	Pedro Lamy	Minardi	20	1:49.298	+5.164	+1.339	23
18	Ricardo Rosset	Footwork	16	1:49.933	+5.799	+0.635	20
19	Jos Verstappen	Footwork	17	1:50.901	+6.767	+0.968	5
20	Giovanni Lavaggi	Minardi	21	1:52.768	+8.634	+1.867	16

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	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	7	1:45.904	—	—	12
2	David Coulthard	McLaren	8	1:46.031	+0.127	+0.127	10
3	Damon Hill	Williams	5	1:46.720	+0.816	+0.689	13
4	Jean Alesi	Benetton	3	1:46.919	+1.015	+0.199	12
5	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	4	1:47.246	+1.342	+0.327	11
6	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:47.412	+1.508	+0.166	12
7	Martin Brundle	Jordan	12	1:47.431	+1.527	+0.019	13
8	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	2	1:47.499	+1.595	+0.068	10
9	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	6	1:47.514	+1.610	+0.015	11
10	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	11	1:47.728	+1.824	+0.214	11
11	Olivier Panis	Ligier	9	1:47.819	+1.915	+0.091	10
12	Pedro Diniz	Ligier	10	1:48.463	+2.559	+0.644	11
13	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	18	1:49.168	+3.264	+0.705	11
14	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	15	1:49.270	+3.366	+0.102	13
15	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	14	1:49.445	+3.541	+0.175	15
16	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	19	1:49.483	+3.579	+0.038	12
17	Jos Verstappen	Footwork	17	1:50.388	+4.484	+0.905	4
18	Ricardo Rosset	Footwork	16	1:50.745	+4.841	+0.357	12
19	Pedro Lamy	Minardi	20	1:51.625	+5.721	+0.880	13

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

Photographs from this race

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The cars in this race

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

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

Where this comes from

Round: 11 of 1996
Grand Prix: German Grand Prix
Dates: 28 Jul 1996
Layout raced: Forest circuit, third chicane · 6.823 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.