Portuguese Grand Prix

Date
Sun 22nd September 1996 (UTC)
Sun 22nd September 1996 (Local)

Timestamp
1996-09-22T00:00:00

Time

00:00:00 UTC (00:00:00 Local)

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League
Formula 1

Season
1996

Round
15

Status

Location
Circuito Estoril

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Description

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 . 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.

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.

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Result List

01	Jacques Villeneuve	1:40:22.915
02	Damon Hill	+0:19.966
03	Michael Schumacher	+0:53.765
04	Jean Alesi	+0:55.109
05	Eddie Irvine	87.389
06	Gerhard Berger	93.141
07	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	+1 Lap
08	Johnny Herbert	+1 Lap
09	Martin Brundle	+1 Lap
10	Olivier Panis	+1 Lap
11	Mika Salo	+1 Lap
12	Ukyo Katayama	+2 Laps
13	David Coulthard	+2 Laps
14	Ricardo Rosset	+3 Laps
15	Giovanni Lavaggi	+5 Laps
16	Pedro Lamy	+5 Laps
17	Mika Häkkinen	DNF
18	Jos Verstappen	DNF
19	Pedro Diniz	DNF
20	Rubens Barrichello	DNF