Race · Round 11 of 17 · 27 August 1995

1995 Belgian Grand Prix

Michael Schumacher won for Benetton from 16th on the grid at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. 10 of the starters were not classified.

Wet · High of 16 °C, 3.5 mm of rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Circuit de Spa-FrancorchampsStavelot, Belgium
Winner: Michael SchumacherBenetton
Pole: Gerhard Berger
Fastest lap: David Coulthard
Entries: 2414 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Michael Schumacher	Benetton	B195	16	44	Finished	10
2	Damon Hill	Williams	—	8	44	Finished	6
3	Martin Brundle	Ligier	JS41	13	44	Finished	4
4	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	C14	10	44	Finished	3
5	Mark Blundell	McLaren	—	6	44	Finished	2
6	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	195	12	44	Finished	1
7	Johnny Herbert	Benetton	B195	4	44	Finished	0
8	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	19	11	44	Finished	0
9	Olivier Panis	Ligier	JS41	9	44	Finished	0
10	Pedro Lamy	Minardi	M195	17	44	Finished	0
11	Jean-Christophe Boullion	Sauber	C14	14	43	Finished	0
12	Taki Inoue	Footwork	FA16	18	43	Finished	0
13	Pedro Diniz	Forti	FG01	24	42	Finished	0
14	Roberto Moreno	Forti	FG01	22	42	Finished	0
DNF	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	19	15	28	Spun off	0
DNF	Giovanni Lavaggi	Pacific	PR02	23	27	Gearbox	0
DNF	Luca Badoer	Minardi	M195	19	23	Accident	0
DNF	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	412T2	1	22	Electrical	0
DNF	Eddie Irvine	Jordan	195	7	21	Fire	0
DNF	Max Papis	Footwork	FA16	20	20	Spun off	0
DNF	Andrea Montermini	Pacific	PR02	21	18	Out of fuel	0
DNF	David Coulthard	Williams	—	5	13	Gearbox	0	fastest lap
DNF	Jean Alesi	Ferrari	412T2	2	4	Suspension	0
DNF	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	—	3	1	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 spa-francorchamps-2 · 6.94 km · 19 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
Michael Schumacher	16	1	44
Damon Hill	8	2	44
Martin Brundle	13	3	44
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	10	4	44
Mark Blundell	6	5	44
Rubens Barrichello	12	6	44
Johnny Herbert	4	7	44
Mika Salo	11	8	44
Olivier Panis	9	9	44
Pedro Lamy	17	10	44
Jean-Christophe Boullion	14	11	43
Taki Inoue	18	12	43
Pedro Diniz	24	13	42
Roberto Moreno	22	14	42
Ukyo Katayama	15	DNF	28
Giovanni Lavaggi	23	DNF	27
Luca Badoer	19	DNF	23
Gerhard Berger	1	DNF	22
Eddie Irvine	7	DNF	21
Max Papis	20	DNF	20
Andrea Montermini	21	DNF	18
David Coulthard	5	DNF	13
Jean Alesi	2	DNF	4
Mika Hakkinen	3	DNF	1

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	28	1:54.392	—	0 m	—
2	Jean Alesi	Ferrari	27	1:54.631	+0.239	15 m	+0.239
3	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	8	1:55.435	+1.043	64 m	+0.804
4	Johnny Herbert	Benetton	2	1:56.085	+1.693	104 m	+0.650
5	David Coulthard	Williams	6	1:56.254	+1.862	114 m	+0.169
6	Mark Blundell	McLaren	7	1:56.622	+2.230	137 m	+0.368
7	Eddie Irvine	Jordan	15	1:57.001	+2.609	160 m	+0.379
8	Damon Hill	Williams	5	1:57.768	+3.376	207 m	+0.767
9	Olivier Panis	Ligier	26	1:58.021	+3.629	222 m	+0.253
10	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	30	1:58.148	+3.756	230 m	+0.127
11	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	4	1:58.224	+3.832	235 m	+0.076
12	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	14	1:58.293	+3.901	239 m	+0.069
13	Martin Brundle	Ligier	25	1:58.314	+3.922	240 m	+0.021
14	Jean-Christophe Boullion	Sauber	29	1:58.356	+3.964	243 m	+0.042
15	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	3	1:58.551	+4.159	255 m	+0.195
16	Michael Schumacher	Benetton	1	1:59.079	+4.687	287 m	+0.528
17	Pedro Lamy	Minardi	23	1:59.256	+4.864	298 m	+0.177
18	Taki Inoue	Footwork	10	2:00.990	+6.598	404 m	+1.734
19	Luca Badoer	Minardi	24	2:01.013	+6.621	405 m	+0.023
20	Max Papis	Footwork	9	2:01.685	+7.293	447 m	+0.672
21	Andrea Montermini	Pacific	17	2:02.405	+8.013	491 m	+0.720
22	Roberto Moreno	Forti	22	2:03.817	+9.425	577 m	+1.412
23	Giovanni Lavaggi	Pacific	16	2:06.407	+12.015	736 m	+2.590
24	Pedro Diniz	Forti	21	2:09.537	+15.145	927 m	+3.130

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

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Pit stops

Bars run in finishing order, ticked at each stop. An unticked bar may hide a stop: F1DB’s record has gaps. A cross is a driver not classified. 1 driver stopped on their final lap. Ticks and strip mark the lap, not cause, tyres or gain; the table gives times.

Pit stops
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap	Pit-lane time (s)
Michael Schumacher	1	44	2	18, 30	35.2, 36.1
Damon Hill	2	44	5	15, 21, 26, 30, 33	36.1, 35.2, 38.7, 40.5, 42.8
Martin Brundle	3	44	1	22	43.6
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	4	44	2	20, 21	41.3, 59.0
Mark Blundell	5	44	4	16, 21, 27, 28	36.9, 39.6, 19.9, 34.7
Rubens Barrichello	6	44	3	13, 18, 29	39.1, 43.0, 43.0
Johnny Herbert	7	44	3	14, 21, 27	34.5, 48.1, 39.2
Mika Salo	8	44	2	14, 29	39.5, 52.2
Olivier Panis	9	44	3	21, 26, 29	44.7, 35.4, 51.5
Pedro Lamy	10	44	1	22	44.1
Jean-Christophe Boullion	11	43	3	21, 25, 27	76.9, 34.5, 38.5
Taki Inoue	12	43	1	20	67.3
Pedro Diniz	13	42	1	20	51.0
Roberto Moreno	14	42	2	18, 20	50.0, 44.4
Ukyo Katayama	DNF	28	1	16	39.0
Giovanni Lavaggi	DNF	27	3	18, 19, 27	45.3, 41.9, 62.6
Luca Badoer	DNF	23	1	21	42.3
Gerhard Berger	DNF	22	2	15, 20	37.4, 253.1
Eddie Irvine	DNF	21	1	15	38.1
Max Papis	DNF	20	0	None recorded	—
Andrea Montermini	DNF	18	0	None recorded	—
David Coulthard	DNF	13	0	None recorded	—
Jean Alesi	DNF	4	1	5	55.0
Mika Hakkinen	DNF	1	0	None recorded	—

A pit-lane time is all of a stop’s time in the pit lane, any wait or repair there included.

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 · Michael Schumacher	8 · 16	2 · 1	15 · 18	Damon Hill	Swapped places
Michael Schumacher · Pedro Lamy	16 · 17	1 · 10	18 · 22	Michael Schumacher	Kept their order
Damon Hill · Martin Brundle	8 · 13	2 · 3	15 · 22	Damon Hill	Kept their order
Damon Hill · Olivier Panis	8 · 9	2 · 9	15 · 21	Damon Hill	Kept their order
Heinz-Harald Frentzen · Martin Brundle	10 · 13	4 · 3	20 · 22	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Swapped places
Rubens Barrichello · Martin Brundle	12 · 13	6 · 3	13 · 22	Rubens Barrichello	Swapped places
Martin Brundle · Jean-Christophe Boullion	13 · 14	3 · 11	22 · 21	Jean-Christophe Boullion	Kept their order
Mark Blundell · Heinz-Harald Frentzen	6 · 10	5 · 4	16 · 20	Mark Blundell	Swapped places
Olivier Panis · Heinz-Harald Frentzen	9 · 10	9 · 4	21 · 20	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Swapped places
Heinz-Harald Frentzen · Mika Salo	10 · 11	4 · 8	20 · 14	Mika Salo	Kept their order
Mark Blundell · Rubens Barrichello	6 · 12	5 · 6	16 · 13	Rubens Barrichello	Kept their order
Johnny Herbert · Rubens Barrichello	4 · 12	7 · 6	14 · 13	Rubens Barrichello	Swapped places
Mika Salo · Rubens Barrichello	11 · 12	8 · 6	14 · 13	Rubens Barrichello	Swapped places
Johnny Herbert · Mika Salo	4 · 11	7 · 8	14 · 14	Same lap	Kept their order
Olivier Panis · Mika Salo	9 · 11	9 · 8	21 · 14	Mika Salo	Swapped places
Olivier Panis · Pedro Lamy	9 · 17	9 · 10	21 · 22	Olivier Panis	Kept their order
Jean-Christophe Boullion · Pedro Lamy	14 · 17	11 · 10	21 · 22	Jean-Christophe Boullion	Swapped places
Pedro Lamy · Taki Inoue	17 · 18	10 · 12	22 · 20	Taki Inoue	Kept their order
Jean-Christophe Boullion · Taki Inoue	14 · 18	11 · 12	21 · 20	Taki Inoue	Kept their order
Taki Inoue · Pedro Diniz	18 · 24	12 · 13	20 · 20	Same lap	Kept their order
Roberto Moreno · Pedro Diniz	22 · 24	14 · 13	18 · 20	Roberto Moreno	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 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	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Jean Alesi	Ferrari	27	2:15.990	—	0 m	—	17
2	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	30	2:16.002	+0.012	1 m	+0.012	17
3	David Coulthard	Williams	6	2:16.940	+0.950	49 m	+0.938	12
4	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	8	2:17.091	+1.101	57 m	+0.151	16
5	Olivier Panis	Ligier	26	2:17.304	+1.314	68 m	+0.213	17
6	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	14	2:17.398	+1.408	73 m	+0.094	14
7	Eddie Irvine	Jordan	15	2:17.739	+1.749	90 m	+0.341	17
8	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	28	2:17.976	+1.986	102 m	+0.237	12
9	Michael Schumacher	Benetton	1	2:18.055	+2.065	106 m	+0.079	12
10	Damon Hill	Williams	5	2:18.302	+2.312	119 m	+0.247	14
11	Martin Brundle	Ligier	25	2:18.885	+2.895	149 m	+0.583	17
12	Jean-Christophe Boullion	Sauber	29	2:19.142	+3.152	162 m	+0.257	15
13	Luca Badoer	Minardi	24	2:19.194	+3.204	165 m	+0.052	18
14	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	3	2:19.240	+3.250	167 m	+0.046	18
15	Mark Blundell	McLaren	7	2:19.419	+3.429	177 m	+0.179	10
16	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	4	2:20.025	+4.035	208 m	+0.606	20
17	Pedro Lamy	Minardi	23	2:20.428	+4.438	229 m	+0.403	20
18	Johnny Herbert	Benetton	2	2:20.829	+4.839	249 m	+0.401	8
19	Max Papis	Footwork	9	2:23.753	+7.763	400 m	+2.924	10
20	Roberto Moreno	Forti	22	2:27.951	+11.961	616 m	+4.198	17
21	Pedro Diniz	Forti	21	2:28.125	+12.135	625 m	+0.174	13
22	Taki Inoue	Footwork	10	2:35.815	+19.825	1,021 m	+7.690	13
23	Giovanni Lavaggi	Pacific	16	2:58.874	+42.884	2,209 m	+23.059	2
24	Andrea Montermini	Pacific	17	50:23.716	+48:07.726	148,729 m	+47:24.842	1

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

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	David Coulthard	Williams	6	1:52.474	—	0 m	—	20
2	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	8	1:52.876	+0.402	25 m	+0.402	17
3	Michael Schumacher	Benetton	1	1:53.319	+0.845	53 m	+0.443	19
4	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	28	1:53.343	+0.869	54 m	+0.024	16
5	Damon Hill	Williams	5	1:53.392	+0.918	57 m	+0.049	20
6	Mark Blundell	McLaren	7	1:54.118	+1.644	102 m	+0.726	20
7	Eddie Irvine	Jordan	15	1:54.283	+1.809	113 m	+0.165	21
8	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	4	1:55.182	+2.708	169 m	+0.899	23
9	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	14	1:55.269	+2.795	174 m	+0.087	20
10	Johnny Herbert	Benetton	2	1:55.786	+3.312	206 m	+0.517	19
11	Martin Brundle	Ligier	25	1:55.887	+3.413	213 m	+0.101	22
12	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	3	1:56.062	+3.588	223 m	+0.175	17
13	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	30	1:56.309	+3.835	239 m	+0.247	17
14	Jean Alesi	Ferrari	27	1:56.959	+4.485	279 m	+0.650	3
15	Jean-Christophe Boullion	Sauber	29	1:57.015	+4.541	283 m	+0.056	16
16	Luca Badoer	Minardi	24	1:57.077	+4.603	287 m	+0.062	21
17	Pedro Lamy	Minardi	23	1:57.669	+5.195	324 m	+0.592	23
18	Max Papis	Footwork	9	1:57.814	+5.340	333 m	+0.145	12
19	Taki Inoue	Footwork	10	1:59.206	+6.732	419 m	+1.392	20
20	Andrea Montermini	Pacific	17	2:00.045	+7.571	471 m	+0.839	7
21	Pedro Diniz	Forti	21	2:01.630	+9.156	570 m	+1.585	20
22	Roberto Moreno	Forti	22	2:02.311	+9.837	613 m	+0.681	18
23	Olivier Panis	Ligier	26	2:02.665	+10.191	635 m	+0.354	3
24	Giovanni Lavaggi	Pacific	16	6:42.744	+4:50.270	18,076 m	+4:40.079	5

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

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Warm-up

Warm-up
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Jean Alesi	Ferrari	27	2:16.229	—	0 m	—	10
2	Damon Hill	Williams	5	2:16.339	+0.110	6 m	+0.110	11
3	Michael Schumacher	Benetton	1	2:16.710	+0.481	25 m	+0.371	9
4	David Coulthard	Williams	6	2:17.081	+0.852	44 m	+0.371	7
5	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	8	2:17.412	+1.183	61 m	+0.331	11
6	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	14	2:18.326	+2.097	108 m	+0.914	10
7	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	28	2:18.865	+2.636	136 m	+0.539	8
8	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	30	2:19.076	+2.847	146 m	+0.211	8
9	Eddie Irvine	Jordan	15	2:19.334	+3.105	160 m	+0.258	9
10	Jean-Christophe Boullion	Sauber	29	2:19.742	+3.513	181 m	+0.408	8
11	Martin Brundle	Ligier	25	2:19.780	+3.551	183 m	+0.038	8
12	Johnny Herbert	Benetton	2	2:20.573	+4.344	223 m	+0.793	8
13	Mark Blundell	McLaren	7	2:21.000	+4.771	245 m	+0.427	9
14	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	4	2:21.768	+5.539	285 m	+0.768	8
15	Olivier Panis	Ligier	26	2:21.800	+5.571	286 m	+0.032	10
16	Luca Badoer	Minardi	24	2:21.810	+5.581	287 m	+0.010	9
17	Pedro Lamy	Minardi	23	2:22.305	+6.076	312 m	+0.495	11
18	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	3	2:22.771	+6.542	336 m	+0.466	8
19	Max Papis	Footwork	9	2:24.032	+7.803	401 m	+1.261	7
20	Taki Inoue	Footwork	10	2:26.584	+10.355	532 m	+2.552	7
21	Roberto Moreno	Forti	22	2:27.954	+11.725	603 m	+1.370	8
22	Pedro Diniz	Forti	21	2:29.752	+13.523	695 m	+1.798	7
23	Andrea Montermini	Pacific	17	2:30.314	+14.085	724 m	+0.562	3
24	Giovanni Lavaggi	Pacific	16	4:47.658	+2:31.429	7,785 m	+2:17.344	4

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

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

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.

Sauber C14
Jean-Christophe Boullion 1995 Britain · Fox 1 from Beta Quadrant, England · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked

Jordan 195
Rubens Barrichello 1995 Britain · Fox 1 from Beta Quadrant, England · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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.

4 more photographs

Footwork FA16
Taki Inoue 1995 Britain · Fox 1 from Beta Quadrant, England · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked

Forti FG01
Roberto Moreno Forti 1995 Britain (crop) · Dave from Leeds, England · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked

Ferrari 412 T2
Jean Alesi 1995 Britain · Fox 1 from Beta Quadrant, England · CC BY-SA 2.0 · unchecked

Where this comes from

Round: 11 of 1995
Grand Prix: Belgian Grand Prix
Dates: 27 Aug 1995
Layout raced: Modern circuit · 7.004 km · 19 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Benetton
Entrant: Benetton-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.