Race 15 of 16 in the 1996 Formula One World Championship
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Race details
Date
22 September 1996
Official name
XXV Grande Prémio de Portugal
Location
Autódromo do Estoril in Estoril, Portugal
Course
Permanent racing facility
Course length
4.360 km (2.725 miles)
Distance
71 laps, 309.560 km (193.475 miles)
Weather
Mostly sunny with ambient temperatures reaching 25 °C during the day.
Pole position
Driver
Damon Hill
Williams-Renault
Time
1:20.330
Fastest lap
Driver
Jacques Villeneuve
Williams-Renault
Time
1:22.873 on lap 37
Podium
First
Jacques Villeneuve
Williams-Renault
Second
Damon Hill
Williams-Renault
Third
Michael Schumacher
Ferrari
Lap leaders
Motor car race
The podium ceremony.
The 1996 Portuguese Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 22 September 1996 at Autódromo do Estoril in Estoril, Portugal. It was the 15th and penultimate race of the 1996 Formula One season.
Williams' Jacques Villeneuve won the race from team-mate Damon Hill and Ferrari's Michael Schumacher, having overtaken the latter on the outside of the final corner while the two were lapping the slow-moving back-marking Minardi of Giovanni Lavaggi (who at the time was described by BBC TV commentator Jonathan Palmer as "desperately slow" and "there because of his money"). This victory, Villeneuve's fourth of the season, ensured that the Drivers' Championship battle between him and Hill went to the final round in Japan three weeks later.
Benetton's Jean Alesi finished fourth, just behind Schumacher, while Eddie Irvine in the second Ferrari and Gerhard Berger in the second Benetton survived a last-lap collision to take fifth and sixth respectively.[1]
The Portuguese Grand Prix would not be held again until 2020 but this race was held at a new venue at the Algarve International Circuit as opposed to Estoril.[2]
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