1995 Australian Grand Prix
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, 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.
| 1995 Australian Grand Prix | |||||
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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 | ||||
| Location | Adelaide Street Circuit, Adelaide, Australia | ||||
| Course | Temporary street circuit | ||||
| Course length | 3.780 km (2.362 miles) | ||||
| Distance | 81 laps, 306.180 km (191.362 miles) | ||||
| Weather | Sunny | ||||
| Attendance | 520,000 | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver | Williams-Renault | ||||
| Time | 1:15.505 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver | Damon Hill | Williams-Renault | |||
| Time | 1:17.943 on lap 16 | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First | Williams-Renault | ||||
| Second | Ligier-Mugen-Honda | ||||
| Third | Footwork-Hart | ||||
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Lap leaders | |||||
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. 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).
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.