1994 German Grand Prix

1994 German Grand Prix
Race 9 of 16 in the 1994 Formula One World Championship
Race details
Date 31 July 1994
Official name LVI Grosser Mobil 1 Preis von Deutschland
Location Hockenheimring
Hockenheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 6.823 km (4.264 miles)
Distance 45 laps, 307.035 km (191.896 miles)
Weather Sunny
Pole position
Driver Ferrari
Time 1:43.582
Fastest lap
Driver United Kingdom David Coulthard Williams-Renault
Time 1:46.211 on lap 11
Podium
First Ferrari
Second Ligier-Renault
Third Ligier-Renault
Lap leaders
The starting grid
Gerhard Berger and the two Ligiers
Michael Schumacher started fourth but retired from the race.

The 1994 German Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 31 July 1994 at the Hockenheimring, Hockenheim. It was the ninth race of the 1994 Formula One World Championship.

The 45-lap race was won from pole position by Austrian driver Gerhard Berger, driving a Ferrari. Berger achieved the first victory for the Ferrari team since the 1990 Spanish Grand Prix, some 59 races previously. In a race of high attrition, including eleven retirements on the opening lap, only eight cars finished, with French drivers Olivier Panis and Éric Bernard second and third respectively in their Ligier-Renaults.