Race · Round 8 of 17 · 16 July 1995

1995 British Grand Prix

Johnny Herbert won for Benetton from 5th on the grid at Silverstone Circuit. 12 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for Johnny Herbert.

Dry, with cloud · High of 21 °C, 2 mm of rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

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Circuit: Silverstone CircuitSilverstone, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
Winner: Johnny HerbertBenetton
Pole: Damon Hill
Fastest lap: Damon Hill
Entries: 2412 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Johnny Herbert	Benetton	B195	5	61	Finished	10
2	Jean Alesi	Ferrari	412T2	6	61	Finished	6
3	David Coulthard	Williams	—	3	61	Finished	4
4	Olivier Panis	Ligier	JS41	13	61	Finished	3
5	Mark Blundell	McLaren	—	10	61	Finished	2
6	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	C14	12	60	Finished	1
7	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi	M195	15	60	Finished	0
8	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	19	23	60	Finished	0
9	Jean-Christophe Boullion	Sauber	C14	16	60	Finished	0
10	Luca Badoer	Minardi	M195	18	60	Finished	0
11	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	195	9	59	Collision	0
12	Bertrand Gachot	Pacific	PR02	21	58	Finished	0
DNF	Roberto Moreno	Forti	FG01	22	48	Engine	0
DNF	Damon Hill	Williams	—	1	45	Collision	0	fastest lap
DNF	Michael Schumacher	Benetton	B195	2	45	Collision	0
DNF	Max Papis	Footwork	FA16	17	28	Spun off	0
DNF	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	19	14	22	Out of fuel	0
DNF	Andrea Montermini	Pacific	PR02	24	21	Spun off	0
DNF	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	—	8	20	Electrical	0
DNF	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	412T2	4	20	Wheel	0
DNF	Martin Brundle	Ligier	JS41	11	16	Spun off	0
DNF	Taki Inoue	Footwork	FA16	19	16	Spun off	0
DNF	Pedro Diniz	Forti	FG01	20	13	Gearbox	0
DNF	Eddie Irvine	Jordan	195	7	2	Electrical	0

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

F1DB layout silverstone-5 · 5.057 km · 17 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
Johnny Herbert	5	1	61
Jean Alesi	6	2	61
David Coulthard	3	3	61
Olivier Panis	13	4	61
Mark Blundell	10	5	61
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	12	6	60
Pierluigi Martini	15	7	60
Mika Salo	23	8	60
Jean-Christophe Boullion	16	9	60
Luca Badoer	18	10	60
Rubens Barrichello	9	11	59
Bertrand Gachot	21	12	58
Roberto Moreno	22	DNF	48
Damon Hill	1	DNF	45
Michael Schumacher	2	DNF	45
Max Papis	17	DNF	28
Ukyo Katayama	14	DNF	22
Andrea Montermini	24	DNF	21
Mika Hakkinen	8	DNF	20
Gerhard Berger	4	DNF	20
Martin Brundle	11	DNF	16
Taki Inoue	19	DNF	16
Pedro Diniz	20	DNF	13
Eddie Irvine	7	DNF	2

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Damon Hill	Williams	5	1:28.124	—	0 m	—
2	Michael Schumacher	Benetton	1	1:28.397	+0.273	16 m	+0.273
3	David Coulthard	Williams	6	1:28.947	+0.823	47 m	+0.550
4	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	28	1:29.657	+1.533	88 m	+0.710
5	Johnny Herbert	Benetton	2	1:29.867	+1.743	100 m	+0.210
6	Jean Alesi	Ferrari	27	1:29.874	+1.750	100 m	+0.007
7	Eddie Irvine	Jordan	15	1:30.083	+1.959	112 m	+0.209
8	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	8	1:30.140	+2.016	116 m	+0.057
9	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	14	1:30.354	+2.230	128 m	+0.214
10	Mark Blundell	McLaren	7	1:30.453	+2.329	134 m	+0.099
11	Martin Brundle	Ligier	25	1:30.946	+2.822	162 m	+0.493
12	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	30	1:31.602	+3.478	200 m	+0.656
13	Olivier Panis	Ligier	26	1:31.842	+3.718	213 m	+0.240
14	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	3	1:32.087	+3.963	227 m	+0.245
15	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi	23	1:32.259	+4.135	237 m	+0.172
16	Jean-Christophe Boullion	Sauber	29	1:33.166	+5.042	289 m	+0.907
17	Max Papis	Footwork	9	1:34.154	+6.030	346 m	+0.988
18	Luca Badoer	Minardi	24	1:34.556	+6.432	369 m	+0.402
19	Taki Inoue	Footwork	10	1:35.323	+7.199	413 m	+0.767
20	Pedro Diniz	Forti	21	1:36.023	+7.899	453 m	+0.700
21	Bertrand Gachot	Pacific	16	1:36.076	+7.952	456 m	+0.053
22	Roberto Moreno	Forti	22	1:36.651	+8.527	489 m	+0.575
23	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	4	1:48.639	+20.515	1,177 m	+11.988
24	Andrea Montermini	Pacific	17	1:52.398	+24.274	1,393 m	+3.759

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. 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)
Johnny Herbert	1	61	2	21, 40	39.9, 40.4
Jean Alesi	2	61	2	18, 39	42.1, 42.1
David Coulthard	3	61	3	15, 43, 51	41.0, 40.8, 38.9
Olivier Panis	4	61	3	12, 22, 42	39.5, 41.3, 43.8
Mark Blundell	5	61	2	22, 41	40.2, 38.9
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	6	60	1	29	43.2
Pierluigi Martini	7	60	1	30	45.5
Mika Salo	8	60	2	19, 38	40.9, 52.1
Jean-Christophe Boullion	9	60	2	20, 40	45.2, 43.8
Luca Badoer	10	60	1	32	46.0
Rubens Barrichello	11	59	3	15, 21, 40	40.2, 49.9, 52.4
Bertrand Gachot	12	58	2	21, 40	44.2, 67.1
Roberto Moreno	DNF	48	2	10, 27	73.2, 47.3
Damon Hill	DNF	45	2	22, 41	40.3, 40.6
Michael Schumacher	DNF	45	1	31	43.2
Max Papis	DNF	28	1	28	46.6
Ukyo Katayama	DNF	22	0	None recorded	—
Andrea Montermini	DNF	21	1	17	42.2
Mika Hakkinen	DNF	20	0	None recorded	—
Gerhard Berger	DNF	20	1	20	42.9
Martin Brundle	DNF	16	0	None recorded	—
Taki Inoue	DNF	16	0	None recorded	—
Pedro Diniz	DNF	13	2	6, 10	197.1, 263.1
Eddie Irvine	DNF	2	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
Johnny Herbert · Jean Alesi	5 · 6	1 · 2	21 · 18	Jean Alesi	Kept their order
David Coulthard · Jean Alesi	3 · 6	3 · 2	15 · 18	David Coulthard	Swapped places
David Coulthard · Olivier Panis	3 · 13	3 · 4	15 · 12	Olivier Panis	Kept their order
Mark Blundell · Olivier Panis	10 · 13	5 · 4	22 · 12	Olivier Panis	Swapped places
Heinz-Harald Frentzen · Olivier Panis	12 · 13	6 · 4	29 · 12	Olivier Panis	Swapped places
Rubens Barrichello · Mark Blundell	9 · 10	11 · 5	15 · 22	Rubens Barrichello	Swapped places
Mark Blundell · Heinz-Harald Frentzen	10 · 12	5 · 6	22 · 29	Mark Blundell	Kept their order
Heinz-Harald Frentzen · Pierluigi Martini	12 · 15	6 · 7	29 · 30	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Kept their order
Pierluigi Martini · Mika Salo	15 · 23	7 · 8	30 · 19	Mika Salo	Kept their order
Pierluigi Martini · Jean-Christophe Boullion	15 · 16	7 · 9	30 · 20	Jean-Christophe Boullion	Kept their order
Jean-Christophe Boullion · Mika Salo	16 · 23	9 · 8	20 · 19	Mika Salo	Swapped places
Jean-Christophe Boullion · Luca Badoer	16 · 18	9 · 10	20 · 32	Jean-Christophe Boullion	Kept their order
Rubens Barrichello · Luca Badoer	9 · 18	11 · 10	15 · 32	Rubens Barrichello	Swapped places
Rubens Barrichello · Bertrand Gachot	9 · 21	11 · 12	15 · 21	Rubens Barrichello	Kept their order

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	Michael Schumacher	Benetton	1	1:29.238	—	0 m	—	16
2	Damon Hill	Williams	5	1:29.272	+0.034	2 m	+0.034	21
3	Jean Alesi	Ferrari	27	1:29.661	+0.423	24 m	+0.389	22
4	David Coulthard	Williams	6	1:29.756	+0.518	29 m	+0.095	19
5	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	28	1:30.467	+1.229	70 m	+0.711	17
6	Johnny Herbert	Benetton	2	1:30.567	+1.329	75 m	+0.100	20
7	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	8	1:30.848	+1.610	91 m	+0.281	20
8	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	14	1:31.194	+1.956	111 m	+0.346	21
9	Mark Blundell	McLaren	7	1:31.214	+1.976	112 m	+0.020	22
10	Eddie Irvine	Jordan	15	1:31.419	+2.181	124 m	+0.205	18
11	Martin Brundle	Ligier	25	1:31.866	+2.628	149 m	+0.447	21
12	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	3	1:32.236	+2.998	170 m	+0.370	23
13	Olivier Panis	Ligier	26	1:32.364	+3.126	177 m	+0.128	18
14	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	30	1:32.729	+3.491	198 m	+0.365	21
15	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	4	1:32.969	+3.731	211 m	+0.240	22
16	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi	23	1:33.016	+3.778	214 m	+0.047	19
17	Luca Badoer	Minardi	24	1:34.124	+4.886	277 m	+1.108	20
18	Jean-Christophe Boullion	Sauber	29	1:34.351	+5.113	290 m	+0.227	20
19	Max Papis	Footwork	9	1:34.973	+5.735	325 m	+0.622	23
20	Andrea Montermini	Pacific	17	1:36.519	+7.281	413 m	+1.546	7
21	Bertrand Gachot	Pacific	16	1:36.948	+7.710	437 m	+0.429	7
22	Roberto Moreno	Forti	22	1:37.001	+7.763	440 m	+0.053	22
23	Taki Inoue	Footwork	10	1:37.194	+7.956	451 m	+0.193	15
24	Pedro Diniz	Forti	21	1:37.580	+8.342	473 m	+0.386	21

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	Michael Schumacher	Benetton	1	1:31.390	—	0 m	—	19
2	Jean Alesi	Ferrari	27	1:31.908	+0.518	29 m	+0.518	22
3	David Coulthard	Williams	6	1:32.763	+1.373	76 m	+0.855	15
4	Johnny Herbert	Benetton	2	1:33.062	+1.672	93 m	+0.299	17
5	Olivier Panis	Ligier	26	1:33.637	+2.247	124 m	+0.575	21
6	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	30	1:34.169	+2.779	154 m	+0.532	19
7	Mark Blundell	McLaren	7	1:34.321	+2.931	162 m	+0.152	16
8	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	14	1:34.353	+2.963	164 m	+0.032	4
9	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi	23	1:35.795	+4.405	244 m	+1.442	9
10	Max Papis	Footwork	9	1:36.638	+5.248	290 m	+0.843	6
11	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	8	1:38.251	+6.861	380 m	+1.613	4
12	Luca Badoer	Minardi	24	1:38.898	+7.508	415 m	+0.647	12
13	Pedro Diniz	Forti	21	1:38.959	+7.569	419 m	+0.061	18
14	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	3	1:39.164	+7.774	430 m	+0.205	19
15	Jean-Christophe Boullion	Sauber	29	1:39.500	+8.110	449 m	+0.336	14
16	Andrea Montermini	Pacific	17	1:39.975	+8.585	475 m	+0.475	6
17	Bertrand Gachot	Pacific	16	1:43.946	+12.556	695 m	+3.971	7
18	Eddie Irvine	Jordan	15	1:46.416	+15.026	831 m	+2.470	5
19	Martin Brundle	Ligier	25	1:47.087	+15.697	869 m	+0.671	15
20	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	4	1:47.271	+15.881	879 m	+0.184	9
21	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	28	1:49.320	+17.930	992 m	+2.049	6
22	Damon Hill	Williams	5	1:49.581	+18.191	1,007 m	+0.261	2
23	Roberto Moreno	Forti	22	1:53.474	+22.084	1,222 m	+3.893	9
24	Taki Inoue	Footwork	10	1:54.364	+22.974	1,271 m	+0.890	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	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	8	1:29.685	—	0 m	—	12
2	Damon Hill	Williams	5	1:29.800	+0.115	6 m	+0.115	12
3	David Coulthard	Williams	6	1:29.901	+0.216	12 m	+0.101	12
4	Jean Alesi	Ferrari	27	1:30.002	+0.317	18 m	+0.101	11
5	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	28	1:30.577	+0.892	50 m	+0.575	14
6	Michael Schumacher	Benetton	1	1:30.665	+0.980	55 m	+0.088	13
7	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan	14	1:30.848	+1.163	66 m	+0.183	10
8	Martin Brundle	Ligier	25	1:30.905	+1.220	69 m	+0.057	10
9	Eddie Irvine	Jordan	15	1:31.174	+1.489	84 m	+0.269	12
10	Mark Blundell	McLaren	7	1:31.193	+1.508	85 m	+0.019	13
11	Olivier Panis	Ligier	26	1:31.446	+1.761	99 m	+0.253	14
12	Johnny Herbert	Benetton	2	1:31.843	+2.158	122 m	+0.397	11
13	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	4	1:32.685	+3.000	169 m	+0.842	9
14	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi	23	1:33.228	+3.543	200 m	+0.543	10
15	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber	30	1:33.320	+3.635	205 m	+0.092	10
16	Jean-Christophe Boullion	Sauber	29	1:33.471	+3.786	213 m	+0.151	14
17	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell	3	1:33.535	+3.850	217 m	+0.064	11
18	Luca Badoer	Minardi	24	1:34.033	+4.348	245 m	+0.498	12
19	Max Papis	Footwork	9	1:34.605	+4.920	277 m	+0.572	15
20	Andrea Montermini	Pacific	17	1:34.951	+5.266	297 m	+0.346	6
21	Bertrand Gachot	Pacific	16	1:35.838	+6.153	347 m	+0.887	11
22	Taki Inoue	Footwork	10	1:35.872	+6.187	349 m	+0.034	12
23	Roberto Moreno	Forti	22	1:37.242	+7.557	426 m	+1.370	10
24	Pedro Diniz	Forti	21	1:37.763	+8.078	455 m	+0.521	10

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.

Photographs from this race

Filed on Wikimedia Commons under this race's own category, each shown with the photographer and licence its terms require. The filing is the Commons editors' and has not been checked here.

6 more photographs

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The cars in this race

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

Sauber C14
Jean-Christophe Boullion 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.

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

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

Where this comes from

Round: 8 of 1995
Grand Prix: British Grand Prix
Dates: 16 Jul 1995
Layout raced: Bridge circuit, Abbey chicane · 5.057 km
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.