- 1993 European Grand Prix
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1993 European Grand PrixRace details Race 3 of 16 in the 1993 Formula One season 
Date April 11, 1993 Official name XXXVIII Sega European Grand Prix Location Donington Park, Leicestershire, UK Course Permanent racing facility
4.023 km (2.500 mi)Distance 76 laps, 305.748 km (190.000 mi) Weather Rain with dry spells Pole position Driver 
Alain ProstWilliams-Renault Time 1:10.458 Fastest lap Driver 
Ayrton SennaMcLaren-Ford Time 1:18.029 on lap 57 Podium First Ayrton SennaMcLaren-Ford Second Damon HillWilliams-Renault Third Alain ProstWilliams-Renault The 1993 European Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Donington Park on April 11, 1993. It was the third round of the 1993 Formula One season. The race was notable for the dominance of Ayrton Senna.
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The Williams were 1-2 in qualifying with Prost on pole ahead of Hill, Schumacher, Senna, Wendlinger and Andretti. At the start, it was damp and Schumacher blocked Senna and both lost time and Wendlinger took third. Having dropped to fifth, Senna quickly passed Schumacher at the third corner. He then went after Wendlinger, passing him through the Craner Curves with Schumacher and Andretti trying to follow through. Schumacher went through but Andretti hit Wendlinger and both were out. Senna went after Hill now and took second at McLean's Corner. Now Prost was the target and the lead was taken at the penultimate corner - the Melbourne Hairpin. Going into the second lap, Senna led Prost, Hill, Barrichello (who had started 12th), Schumacher and Lehto.
The track began to dry and everyone pitted for dry tyres. Lehto was fifth, having started from the pit lane, but he retired with handling problems on lap 14. Berger took the place but he too retired with suspension problems six laps later. It rained again and the leaders now pitted for wets. Schumacher stayed out and was leading but spun off on lap 23 because he was on the wrong tyres. The track began to dry and everyone pitted once again with Senna having a problem and losing 20 seconds. Prost now led Senna, Hill, Rubens Barrichello, Derek Warwick and Herbert.
It began to rain and the two Williams stopped for wets while Senna stayed out. It was the correct decision because it began to dry again. The Williams stopped yet again for dries. Prost stalled in the pits in his stop and when he rejoined, he was a lap behind and down in fourth. Barrichello was now second but it rained and then stopped again. He went to the pits twice and by now Hill was in second, albeit a lap down. Barrichello, third, had trouble with his fuel pressure and retired, giving the place to Prost. Senna set the fastest lap on lap 57, on a lap when he drove into the pitlane but aborted the pit stop, showing that there actually was a shortcut through the pitlane. This is due to the grand prix configuration of Donington, which has the pit entry before the final hairpin corner onto the start/finish straight. This is possibly the only fastest lap in modern F1 history set by driving through the pitlane.
Senna won from Hill and Prost, having made four pit stops in the wet-dry conditions compared to Prost's seven, which is a record that stands as of 2011.[citation needed] Johnny Herbert finished fourth for Lotus by stopping only once while all the other finishing drivers stopped in the pits several times. Patrese and Barbazza took the last two points scoring places. By the end, Senna had lapped the entire field except for one car and finished over a minute ahead of second place Damon Hill.
Classification
Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 8 Ayrton SennaMcLaren-Ford 76 1:50:46.570 4 10 2 0 Damon HillWilliams-Renault 76 +1:23.199 2 6 3 2 Alain ProstWilliams-Renault 75 +1 Lap 1 4 4 12 Johnny HerbertLotus-Ford 75 +1 Lap 11 3 5 6 
Riccardo PatreseBenetton-Ford 74 +2 Laps 10 2 6 24 Fabrizio BarbazzaMinardi-Ford 74 +2 Laps 20 1 7 23 Christian FittipaldiMinardi-Ford 73 +3 Laps 16 8 11 Alessandro ZanardiLotus-Ford 72 +4 Laps 13 9 20 Érik ComasLarrousse-Lamborghini 72 +4 Laps 17 10 14 Rubens BarrichelloJordan-Hart 70 Fuel system 12 11 21 Michele AlboretoLola-Ferrari 70 +6 Laps 24 Ret 9 Derek WarwickFootwork-Mugen-Honda 66 Gearbox 14 Ret 15 
Thierry BoutsenJordan-Hart 61 Throttle 19 Ret 4 Andrea de CesarisTyrrell-Yamaha 55 Gearbox 25 Ret 27 Jean AlesiFerrari 36 Gearbox 9 Ret 10 
Aguri SuzukiFootwork-Mugen-Honda 29 Gearbox 23 Ret 19 Philippe AlliotLarrousse-Lamborghini 27 Collision 15 Ret 5 
Michael SchumacherBenetton-Ford 22 Spun off 3 Ret 26 Mark BlundellLigier-Renault 20 Spun off 21 Ret 28 
Gerhard BergerFerrari 19 Suspension 8 Ret 30 
Jyrki JärvilehtoSauber 13 Handling 7 Ret 3 Ukyo KatayamaTyrrell-Yamaha 11 Clutch 18 Ret 25 Martin BrundleLigier-Renault 7 Spun off 22 Ret 29 Karl WendlingerSauber 0 Collision 5 Ret 7 
Michael AndrettiMcLaren-Ford 0 Collision 6 DNQ 22 Luca BadoerLola-Ferrari Standings after the race
- Drivers' Championship standings
Pos Driver Points 1 Ayrton Senna26 2 Alain Prost14 3 Damon Hill12 4 Mark Blundell6 5 Johnny Herbert6 - Constructors' Championship standings
Pos Constructor Points 1 McLaren-Ford26 2 Williams-Renault26 3 Lotus-Ford7 4 Benetton-Ford6 5 Ligier-Renault6 - Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
References
- "The Official Formula 1 website". http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1993/86/. Retrieved 2007-09-01.
- Henry, Alan (1993). AUTOCOURSE 1993-94. Hazleton Publishing. ISBN 1-874557-15-2.
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