Race · Round 2 of 16 · 31 March 1996

1996 Brazilian Grand Prix

Damon Hill won for Williams from pole at Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace (Interlagos). 10 of the starters were not classified.

Circuit: Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace (Interlagos)Sao Paulo, Brazil
Winner: Damon HillWilliams
Pole: Damon Hill
Fastest lap: Damon Hill
Entries: 2212 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Damon Hill	Williams	FW18	1	71	Finished	10	fastest lap
2	Jean Alesi	Benetton	B196	5	71	Finished	6
3	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	F310	4	70	Finished	4
4	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	—	7	70	Finished	3
5	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	20	11	70	Finished	2
6	Olivier Panis	Ligier	JS43	15	70	Finished	1
7	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	F310	10	70	Finished	0
8	Pedro Diniz	Ligier	JS43	22	69	Finished	0
9	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	20	16	69	Finished	0
10	Pedro Lamy	Minardi	M195B	18	68	Finished	0
11	Luca Badoer	Forti	—	19	67	Finished	0
12	Martin Brundle	Jordan	196	6	64	Spun off	0
DNF	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	196	2	59	Spun off	0
DNF	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	C15	9	36	Engine	0
DNF	David Coulthard	McLaren	—	14	29	Spun off	0
DNF	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	C15	PL	28	Engine	0
DNF	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	FW18	3	26	Spun off	0
DNF	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	B196	8	26	Hydraulics	0
DNF	Andrea Montermini	Forti	—	20	26	Spun off	0
DNF	Ricardo Rosset	Footwork	FA17	17	24	Spun off	0
DNF	Jos Verstappen	Footwork	FA17	13	19	Engine	0
DNF	Tarso Marques	Minardi	M195B	21	0	Spun off	0

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

F1DB layout interlagos-2 · 4.309 km · 15 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	1	1	71
Jean Alesi	5	2	71
Michael Schumacher	4	3	70
Mika Hakkinen	7	4	70
Mika Salo	11	5	70
Olivier Panis	15	6	70
Eddie Irvine	10	7	70
Pedro Diniz	22	8	69
Ukyo Katayama	16	9	69
Pedro Lamy	18	10	68
Luca Badoer	19	11	67
Martin Brundle	6	12	64
Rubens Barrichello	2	DNF	59
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	9	DNF	36
David Coulthard	14	DNF	29
Johnny Herbert	PL	DNF	28
Jacques Villeneuve	3	DNF	26
Gerhard Berger	8	DNF	26
Andrea Montermini	20	DNF	26
Ricardo Rosset	17	DNF	24
Jos Verstappen	13	DNF	19
Tarso Marques	21	DNF	0

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Damon Hill	Williams	5	1:18.111	—	—
2	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	11	1:19.092	+0.981	+0.981
3	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	6	1:19.254	+1.143	+0.162
4	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:19.474	+1.363	+0.220
5	Jean Alesi	Benetton	3	1:19.484	+1.373	+0.010
6	Martin Brundle	Jordan	12	1:19.519	+1.408	+0.035
7	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	7	1:19.607	+1.496	+0.088
8	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	4	1:19.762	+1.651	+0.155
9	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	15	1:19.799	+1.688	+0.037
10	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	2	1:19.951	+1.840	+0.152
11	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	19	1:20.000	+1.889	+0.049
12	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	14	1:20.144	+2.033	+0.144
13	Jos Verstappen	Footwork	17	1:20.157	+2.046	+0.013
14	David Coulthard	McLaren	8	1:20.167	+2.056	+0.010
15	Olivier Panis	Ligier	9	1:20.426	+2.315	+0.259
16	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	18	1:20.427	+2.316	+0.001
17	Ricardo Rosset	Footwork	16	1:20.440	+2.329	+0.013
18	Pedro Lamy	Minardi	20	1:21.491	+3.380	+1.051
19	Luca Badoer	Forti	22	1:23.174	+5.063	+1.683
20	Andrea Montermini	Forti	23	1:23.454	+5.343	+0.280
21	Tarso Marques	Minardi	21	—	—	—
22	Pedro Diniz	Ligier	10	—	—	—

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	71	1	40
Jean Alesi	2	71	1	42
Michael Schumacher	3	70	2	24, 40
Mika Hakkinen	4	70	2	30, 43
Mika Salo	5	70	2	36, 43
Olivier Panis	6	70	2	26, 42
Eddie Irvine	7	70	2	35, 43
Pedro Diniz	8	69	2	38, 43
Ukyo Katayama	9	69	3	32, 42, 45
Pedro Lamy	10	68	2	33, 46
Luca Badoer	11	67	2	10, 39
Martin Brundle	12	64	2	30, 44
Rubens Barrichello	DNF	59	2	34, 43
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	DNF	36	1	26
David Coulthard	DNF	29	1	22
Johnny Herbert	DNF	28	1	27
Jacques Villeneuve	DNF	26	0	None recorded
Gerhard Berger	DNF	26	0	None recorded
Andrea Montermini	DNF	26	0	None recorded
Ricardo Rosset	DNF	24	0	None recorded
Jos Verstappen	DNF	19	0	None recorded
Tarso Marques	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	40 · 42	Damon Hill	Kept their order
Michael Schumacher · Jean Alesi	4 · 5	3 · 2	24 · 42	Michael Schumacher	Swapped places
Jean Alesi · Martin Brundle	5 · 6	2 · 12	42 · 30	Martin Brundle	Kept their order
Michael Schumacher · Mika Hakkinen	4 · 7	3 · 4	24 · 30	Michael Schumacher	Kept their order
Martin Brundle · Mika Hakkinen	6 · 7	12 · 4	30 · 30	Same lap	Swapped places
Mika Hakkinen · Mika Salo	7 · 11	4 · 5	30 · 36	Mika Hakkinen	Kept their order
Eddie Irvine · Mika Salo	10 · 11	7 · 5	35 · 36	Eddie Irvine	Swapped places
Mika Salo · Olivier Panis	11 · 15	5 · 6	36 · 26	Olivier Panis	Kept their order
Eddie Irvine · Olivier Panis	10 · 15	7 · 6	35 · 26	Olivier Panis	Swapped places
Olivier Panis · Ukyo Katayama	15 · 16	6 · 9	26 · 32	Olivier Panis	Kept their order
Eddie Irvine · Pedro Diniz	10 · 22	7 · 8	35 · 38	Eddie Irvine	Kept their order
Ukyo Katayama · Pedro Diniz	16 · 22	9 · 8	32 · 38	Ukyo Katayama	Swapped places
Ukyo Katayama · Pedro Lamy	16 · 18	9 · 10	32 · 33	Ukyo Katayama	Kept their order
Pedro Lamy · Luca Badoer	18 · 19	10 · 11	33 · 10	Luca Badoer	Kept their order
Martin Brundle · Luca Badoer	6 · 19	12 · 11	30 · 10	Luca Badoer	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	Jean Alesi	Benetton	3	1:19.240	—	—	29
2	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	4	1:19.879	+0.639	+0.639	30
3	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	7	1:20.696	+1.456	+0.817	28
4	David Coulthard	McLaren	8	1:20.852	+1.612	+0.156	28
5	Damon Hill	Williams	5	1:20.938	+1.698	+0.086	28
6	Olivier Panis	Ligier	9	1:21.006	+1.766	+0.068	28
7	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:21.165	+1.925	+0.159	23
8	Jos Verstappen	Footwork	17	1:21.199	+1.959	+0.034	22
9	Martin Brundle	Jordan	12	1:21.311	+2.071	+0.112	23
10	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	11	1:21.625	+2.385	+0.314	19
11	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	14	1:21.701	+2.461	+0.076	26
12	Ricardo Rosset	Footwork	16	1:21.706	+2.466	+0.005	24
13	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	15	1:21.932	+2.692	+0.226	13
14	Pedro Diniz	Ligier	10	1:22.005	+2.765	+0.073	30
15	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	6	1:22.040	+2.800	+0.035	29
16	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	19	1:22.144	+2.904	+0.104	22
17	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	18	1:22.162	+2.922	+0.018	30
18	Tarso Marques	Minardi	21	1:22.447	+3.207	+0.285	23
19	Pedro Lamy	Minardi	20	1:22.964	+3.724	+0.517	30
20	Andrea Montermini	Forti	23	1:25.601	+6.361	+2.637	19
21	Luca Badoer	Forti	22	1:26.331	+7.091	+0.730	17

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	Damon Hill	Williams	5	1:17.959	—	—	25
2	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	6	1:18.221	+0.262	+0.262	27
3	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	11	1:18.480	+0.521	+0.259	20
4	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:18.764	+0.805	+0.284	8
5	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	7	1:18.908	+0.949	+0.144	26
6	Martin Brundle	Jordan	12	1:19.085	+1.126	+0.177	28
7	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	2	1:19.366	+1.407	+0.281	26
8	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	15	1:19.551	+1.592	+0.185	26
9	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	18	1:19.577	+1.618	+0.026	23
10	David Coulthard	McLaren	8	1:19.618	+1.659	+0.041	29
11	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	19	1:19.752	+1.793	+0.134	28
12	Jean Alesi	Benetton	3	1:19.943	+1.984	+0.191	12
13	Olivier Panis	Ligier	9	1:19.970	+2.011	+0.027	28
14	Jos Verstappen	Footwork	17	1:20.073	+2.114	+0.103	18
15	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	14	1:20.395	+2.436	+0.322	29
16	Pedro Diniz	Ligier	10	1:20.846	+2.887	+0.451	30
17	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	4	1:20.949	+2.990	+0.103	2
18	Ricardo Rosset	Footwork	16	1:21.018	+3.059	+0.069	7
19	Tarso Marques	Minardi	21	1:21.644	+3.685	+0.626	24
20	Pedro Lamy	Minardi	20	1:21.853	+3.894	+0.209	24
21	Luca Badoer	Forti	22	1:22.872	+4.913	+1.019	26
22	Andrea Montermini	Forti	23	1:23.283	+5.324	+0.411	26

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	Martin Brundle	Jordan	12	1:20.258	—	—	11
2	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	6	1:20.284	+0.026	+0.026	11
3	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	7	1:20.292	+0.034	+0.008	13
4	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	11	1:20.296	+0.038	+0.004	14
5	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1	1:20.310	+0.052	+0.014	16
6	Jean Alesi	Benetton	3	1:20.523	+0.265	+0.213	15
7	Damon Hill	Williams	5	1:20.567	+0.309	+0.044	10
8	Jos Verstappen	Footwork	17	1:20.688	+0.430	+0.121	17
9	Olivier Panis	Ligier	9	1:20.760	+0.502	+0.072	11
10	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	19	1:20.933	+0.675	+0.173	13
11	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	2	1:21.115	+0.857	+0.182	10
12	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	14	1:21.138	+0.880	+0.023	16
13	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	15	1:21.169	+0.911	+0.031	14
14	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	4	1:21.351	+1.093	+0.182	13
15	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	18	1:21.447	+1.189	+0.096	12
16	Pedro Lamy	Minardi	20	1:21.765	+1.507	+0.318	14
17	Pedro Diniz	Ligier	10	1:21.879	+1.621	+0.114	14
18	Tarso Marques	Minardi	21	1:22.654	+2.396	+0.775	14
19	Ricardo Rosset	Footwork	16	1:22.975	+2.717	+0.321	10
20	Luca Badoer	Forti	22	1:25.216	+4.958	+2.241	5
21	Andrea Montermini	Forti	23	2:46.494	+1:26.236	+1:21.278	1
22	David Coulthard	McLaren	8	4:08.567	+2:48.309	+1:22.073	2

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

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

Where this comes from

Round: 2 of 1996
Grand Prix: Brazilian Grand Prix
Dates: 31 Mar 1996
Layout raced: Revised · 4.292 km · 15 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.