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1993 Italian Grand Prix
Race 13 of 16 in the 1993 Formula One World Championship
Race details
Date	12 September 1993
Official name	Pioneer 64º Gran Premio d'Italia
Location	Autodromo Nazionale di Monza Monza, Lombardy, Italy
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	5.800 km (3.604 miles)
Distance	53 laps, 307.400 km (191.01 miles)
Weather	Hot and sunny
Pole position
Driver	Alain Prost	Williams-Renault
Time	1:21.179
Fastest lap
Driver	Damon Hill	Williams-Renault
Time	1:23.575 on lap 45
Podium
First	Damon Hill	Williams-Renault
Second	Jean Alesi	Ferrari
Third	Michael Andretti	McLaren-Ford
Lap leaders

The 1993 Italian Grand Prix (formally the Pioneer 64º Gran Premio d'Italia) was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 12 September 1993. It was the thirteenth race of the 1993 Formula One World Championship.

The 53-lap race was won by British driver Damon Hill, driving a Williams-Renault, after he started from second position. Frenchman Jean Alesi finished second in a Ferrari, while American Michael Andretti finished third in a McLaren-Ford, in his final F1 race before returning to IndyCar. Hill's teammate, Frenchman Alain Prost, took pole position and led until suffering an engine failure with five laps to go, allowing Hill to take his third consecutive victory.

Report

The Williams cars dominated qualifying, locking out the front row of the grid with Alain Prost on pole and Damon Hill alongside him. Jean Alesi took third in his Ferrari; he was joined on the second row by Ayrton Senna in the McLaren. Michael Schumacher in the Benetton and Gerhard Berger in the second Ferrari made up the third row. Further down the grid, Pedro Lamy was making his Grand Prix debut for the cash-strapped Lotus outfit, taking the place of the injured Alessandro Zanardi, while the Jordan team, needing a replacement for Thierry Boutsen following the Belgian's retirement from F1, had decided to evaluate Japanese Formula 3000 driver Marco Apicella, after their test driver Emanuele Naspetti had turned down the opportunity to race.

At the start, Alesi got ahead of a sluggish Hill and Senna tried to do the same, but there was contact between Hill and Senna, resulting in both drivers dropping back, with Senna ending up in 9th and Hill in 10th. Further back, two separate incidents saw five cars eliminated at the first chicane. In the first incident, the Footworks of Derek Warwick and Aguri Suzuki collided and took each other out. In the second incident, Sauber driver JJ Lehto, who had to start from the back of the grid, took himself and the Jordans of Rubens Barrichello and Apicella out of the race. Apicella's debut, which would also turn out to be his only Grand Prix start, had lasted no more than 800 metres, unofficially making him the driver with one of the shortest careers in Formula One. Prost led Alesi, Schumacher, Berger, Johnny Herbert and Martin Brundle into lap 2. On lap 4 Schumacher passed Alesi to take second position.

On lap 8, Senna collided with Brundle's Ligier, putting them both out. Prost's championship ambitions received a major boost with Senna's retirement. Johnny Herbert spun off and hit the tyre barriers at Parabolica as he retired from 5th position since Berger pitted for tyres on lap 15, putting Berger back in 5th position but soon retired from 5th position with suspension problems 1 lap later. Hill in the meantime had moved up to fourth place and passed Alesi for third on lap 10, as Blundell in the remaining Ligier like Herbert had clipped the barrier at Parabolica and retired with a left-rear puncture and damaging his left-rear suspension on lap 21 whilst battling Wendlinger for 7th. Before Hill moved up to second on lap 22 when Schumacher's engine failed. At this point, Prost led by nearly 20 seconds, but by lap 48 Hill had reduced this lead to two seconds. Then, on lap 49, five from the end, the Renault engine in Prost's car blew. Hill took his third consecutive win by 40 seconds from Alesi, with Michael Andretti third (achieving his only podium) and Karl Wendlinger, Riccardo Patrese (scoring his final points in F1) and Érik Comas completing the top six.

The Minardis of Pierluigi Martini and Christian Fittipaldi had approached the chequered flag with Fittipaldi closely following Martini. Fittipaldi's left front wheel made contact with his teammate's right rear wheel, and the contact launched Fittipaldi's car into the air. The car completed a back flip before landing back on its wheels and skidded across the line. Neither driver was hurt and both finished the race without losing a position.

This was the Williams team's seventh consecutive victory. Prior to the race weekend, Andretti and McLaren mutually agreed to part ways and that this would be his final race with the team. He would be replaced by the team's test driver, Mika Häkkinen. His final Formula One race returned his best result of the season with his third-place finish. By winning in Italy, Hill became the first Formula One driver to take their first three wins at consecutive Grands Prix, a feat only repeated by Mika Häkkinen, though only Hill won all three races in the same year.

As of 2024, Andretti's podium finish remains the last for an American driver in Formula One.

Classification

Qualifying

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Q1	Q2	Gap
1	2	Alain Prost	Williams-Renault	1:22.163	1:21.179
2	0	Damon Hill	Williams-Renault	1:22.283	1:21.491	+0.318
3	27	Jean Alesi	Ferrari	1:22.625	1:21.986	+0.807
4	8	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Ford	1:23.310	1:22.633	+1.454
5	5	Michael Schumacher	Benetton-Ford	1:23.888	1:22.910	+1.731
6	28	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	1:23.750	1:23.150	+1.971
7	12	Johnny Herbert	Lotus-Ford	1:25.463	1:23.769	+2.590
8	10	Aguri Suzuki	Footwork-Mugen-Honda	1:26.127	1:23.856	+2.677
9	7	Michael Andretti	McLaren-Ford	1:25.348	1:23.899	+2.720
10	6	Riccardo Patrese	Benetton-Ford	1:26.082	1:23.918	+2.739
11	9	Derek Warwick	Footwork-Mugen-Honda	1:24.673	1:24.048	+2.869
12	25	Martin Brundle	Ligier-Renault	1:24.608	1:24.137	+2.958
13	30	JJ Lehto	Sauber	1:24.298	1:24.419	+3.119
14	26	Mark Blundell	Ligier-Renault	1:25.238	1:24.344	+3.165
15	29	Karl Wendlinger	Sauber	1:25.016	1:24.473	+3.294
16	19	Philippe Alliot	Larrousse-Lamborghini	1:25.529	1:24.807	+3.628
17	3	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell-Yamaha	1:26.300	1:24.886	+3.707
18	4	Andrea de Cesaris	Tyrrell-Yamaha	1:25.482	1:24.916	+3.737
19	14	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan-Hart	1:26.664	1:25.144	+3.965
20	20	Érik Comas	Larrousse-Lamborghini	1:26.323	1:25.257	+4.078
21	21	Michele Alboreto	Lola-Ferrari	1:26.287	1:25.368	+4.189
22	24	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi-Ford	1:25.903	1:25.478	+4.299
23	15	Marco Apicella	Jordan-Hart	1:51.300	1:25.672	+4.493
24	23	Christian Fittipaldi	Minardi-Ford	1:26.135	1:25.699	+4.520
25	22	Luca Badoer	Lola-Ferrari	1:26.049	1:25.957	+4.778
26	11	Pedro Lamy	Lotus-Ford	1:26.380	1:26.324	+5.145
Source:

Race

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	0	Damon Hill	Williams-Renault	53	1:17:07.509	2	10
2	27	Jean Alesi	Ferrari	53	+ 40.012	3	6
3	7	Michael Andretti	McLaren-Ford	52	+ 1 lap	9	4
4	29	Karl Wendlinger	Sauber	52	+ 1 lap	15	3
5	6	Riccardo Patrese	Benetton-Ford	52	+ 1 lap	10	2
6	20	Érik Comas	Larrousse-Lamborghini	52	+ 1 lap	20	1
7	24	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi-Ford	51	+ 2 laps	22
8	23	Christian Fittipaldi	Minardi-Ford	51	+ 2 laps	24
9	19	Philippe Alliot	Larrousse-Lamborghini	51	+ 2 laps	16
10	22	Luca Badoer	Lola-Ferrari	51	+ 2 laps	25
11	11	Pedro Lamy	Lotus-Ford	49	Electrical	26
12	2	Alain Prost	Williams-Renault	48	Engine	1
13	4	Andrea de Cesaris	Tyrrell-Yamaha	47	Oil pressure	18
14	3	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell-Yamaha	47	+ 6 laps	17
Ret	21	Michele Alboreto	Lola-Ferrari	23	Suspension	21
Ret	5	Michael Schumacher	Benetton-Ford	21	Engine	5
Ret	26	Mark Blundell	Ligier-Renault	20	Accident damage	14
Ret	28	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	15	Suspension	6
Ret	12	Johnny Herbert	Lotus-Ford	14	Spun off	7
Ret	25	Martin Brundle	Ligier-Renault	8	Collision	12
Ret	8	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Ford	8	Collision	4
Ret	10	Aguri Suzuki	Footwork-Mugen-Honda	0	Collision	8
Ret	9	Derek Warwick	Footwork-Mugen-Honda	0	Collision	11
Ret	30	JJ Lehto	Sauber	0	Collision	13
Ret	14	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan-Hart	0	Collision	19
Ret	15	Marco Apicella	Jordan-Hart	0	Collision	23
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Championship standings after the race

• Bold text indicates the World Champions.

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Alain Prost 81 2 Damon Hill 58 3 Ayrton Senna 53 4 Michael Schumacher 42 5 Riccardo Patrese 20 Source:

Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 Williams-Renault 139 2 Benetton-Ford 62 3 McLaren-Ford 60 4 Ligier-Renault 21 5 Ferrari 20 Source:

• Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

1. "Motor Racing Programme Covers: 1993". The Programme Covers Project. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
2. Roebuck, Nigel; Saward, Joe (16 September 1993). "Italian GP: Hill in hot pursuit". Autosport. 132 (11): 24–37. Retrieved 3 October 2023 – via Internet Archive.
3. "1993 Italian Grand Prix". formula1.com. Archived from the original on 2 December 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
4. ^ "Italy 1993 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 18 March 2019.

• Henry, Alan (1993). AUTOCOURSE 1993–94. Hazleton Publishing. ISBN 1-874557-15-2.

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