| 1993 Italian Grand Prix | |||
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| Race 13 of 16 in the1993 Formula One World Championship | |||
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| 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 | Williams-Renault | ||
| Time | 1:21.179 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |  Damon Hill | Williams-Renault | |
| Time | 1:23.575 on lap 45 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Williams-Renault | ||
| Second | Ferrari | ||
| Third | McLaren-Ford | ||
Lap leaders | |||
The1993 Italian Grand Prix (formally thePioneer 64º Gran Premio d'Italia[1]) was aFormula One motor race held atMonza on 12 September 1993. It was the thirteenth race of the1993 Formula One World Championship.
The 53-lap race was won by British driverDamon Hill, driving aWilliams-Renault, after he started from second position. FrenchmanJean Alesi finished second in aFerrari, while AmericanMichael Andretti finished third in aMcLaren-Ford, in his final F1 race before returning toIndyCar. Hill's teammate, FrenchmanAlain Prost, tookpole position and led until suffering an engine failure with five laps to go, allowing Hill to take his third consecutive victory.
TheWilliams cars dominated qualifying, locking out the front row of the grid withAlain Prost on pole andDamon Hill alongside him.Jean Alesi took third in hisFerrari; he was joined on the second row byAyrton Senna in theMcLaren.Michael Schumacher in theBenetton andGerhard 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-strappedLotus outfit, taking the place of the injuredAlessandro Zanardi, while theJordan team, needing a replacement forThierry Boutsen following the Belgian's retirement from F1, had decided to evaluateJapanese Formula 3000 driverMarco Apicella, after their test driverEmanuele Naspetti had turned down the opportunity to race.[citation needed]
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, theFootworks ofDerek Warwick andAguri Suzuki collided and took each other out. In the second incident,Sauber driverJJ Lehto, who had to start from the back of the grid, took himself and the Jordans ofRubens 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 theshortest careers in Formula One.[citation needed] Prost led Alesi, Schumacher, Berger,Johnny Herbert andMartin Brundle into lap 2. On lap 4 Schumacher passed Alesi to take second position.
On lap 8, Senna collided with Brundle'sLigier, 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, theRenault engine in Prost's car blew. Hill took his third consecutive win by 40 seconds from Alesi, withMichael Andretti third (achieving his only podium) andKarl Wendlinger,Riccardo Patrese (scoring his final points in F1) andÉrik Comas completing the top six.
TheMinardis ofPierluigi Martini andChristian 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 2025, Andretti's podium finish remains the last for an American driver in Formula One.
| 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 |
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