1995 Australian Grand Prix

1995 Australian Grand Prix
Race 17 of 17 in the 1995 Formula One World Championship
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Race details
Date 12 November 1995
Official name LX EDS Australian Grand Prix[1]
Location Adelaide Street Circuit, Adelaide, Australia
Course Temporary street circuit
Course length 3.780 km (2.362 miles)
Distance 81 laps, 306.180[2] km (191.362 miles)
Weather Sunny[2]
Attendance 520,000[3]
Pole position
Driver
Williams-Renault
Time 1:15.505
Fastest lap
Driver United Kingdom Damon Hill Williams-Renault
Time 1:17.943 on lap 16
Podium
First
Williams-Renault
Second
Ligier-Mugen-Honda
Third
Footwork-Hart
Lap leaders

The 1995 Australian Grand Prix (officially the LX EDS Australian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 12 November 1995 at the Adelaide Street Circuit, Adelaide. The race, contested over 81 laps, was the seventeenth and final race of the 1995 Formula One season,[1] and the eleventh and last Australian Grand Prix to be held at Adelaide before the event moved to Melbourne the following year. This would also prove to be the last Grand Prix for Mark Blundell, Bertrand Gachot, Roberto Moreno, Taki Inoue, and Karl Wendlinger. This was also the last race for Pacific as they folded at the end of the season.

In a race of attrition, all the front-running cars retired except for the pole-sitting Williams-Renault of Damon Hill. Hill won by two clear laps, only the second time this had been achieved in Formula One history. Ligier-Mugen-Honda driver Olivier Panis was second, with Gianni Morbidelli achieving his best-ever F1 result with third in a Footwork-Hart.[4] Of the 23 drivers who started, only eight finished, the lowest number in the 1995 season. As of 2023, this is the last time the race winner lapped every other competitor. This was also the last race that used the traffic light system with coloured lights (red and green) at the start (system used since the 1975 British Grand Prix).[5]

The Grand Prix had a record attendance of 520,000 during the weekend, with 210,000 on race day, a Formula One record until 2000, when 250,000 people attended that year's United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis.[6]

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  2. ^ a b "EDS Australian Grand Prix – 1995". The Formula One DataBase. Archived from the original on 3 July 2008. Retrieved 10 March 2008.
  3. ^ "Features – Globetrotter – Thank you Adelaide". Grandprix.com. 12 November 1995. Archived from the original on 30 January 2013. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference formula1.com-officialresult was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Statistics Grands Prix - Gap - The most • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
  6. ^ "Grand Prix Results: Australian GP, 1995". GrandPrix.com. Archived from the original on 20 February 2008. Retrieved 2 March 2008.