1995 Argentinian Grand Prix  |
| Date:7-9 Apr 1995, Weather Warm and Overcast |
From this race…
Irvine, Eddie
Irvine clipped the left rear tyre of Hakkinen’s MP4/10 at the restart of the Grand Prix. The endplate of Irvine’s front wing slashed the McLaren’s tyre open and the Finn was flung into the gravel trap and retirement. Irvine pitted for a new nose box before he retired on lap seven with an engine failure. Hakkinen was livid; “I had a good fight with Schumacher in turn one at the first start. It was good professional racing; we were close but did not touch each other. I accelerated out of the corner in third place then the red flag came out. The second start was very similar, I was heading for third position again into the first corner when I felt Irvine touch my rear tyre. It exploded immediately and I was off.” Irvine did not agree, claiming that Hakkinen had tried to squeeze him out. Eyewitness reports (thanks Gustavo) suggest that Irvine had been the more innocent party in the incident, a victim of Hakkinen’s manoeuvrings.
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Top 5 drivers before
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Top 5 drivers current
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Hill, Damon (Williams)
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1 pts
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Hill span over the kerbs in the wet Friday morning free practice, damaging the under tray of his Williams. He was so angry he punched the steering wheel hurting his thumb. He was later seen with a bag of frozen prawns wrapped around the swollen appendage.
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Footwork
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1 pts
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Inoue span his Footwork in free practice. The car was stuck in gear and the marshals were unable to move it. Footwork were fined $20,000 for not fitting its cars with a device that allowed its wheels to be de-coupled from the transmission to allow the car to be moved unassisted by the marshals.
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Inoue, Taki (Footwork)
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1 pts
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Inoue was not allowed out in Saturday qualifying by his team. He has crashed his Footwork as he entered the pit-lane in Saturday morning practice and the team was beginning to run low on spare parts.
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Montermini, Andrea (Pacific)
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1 pts
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A massive off track excursion in the very wet conditions of Saturday qualifying resulted in sever damage to his Pacific’s under tray as well as a damaged nose box.
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Alesi, Jean (Ferrari)
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5 pts
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Alesi triggered a multiple pile up at the start that saw the race red flagged. Alesi was quoted as saying, “The track was slippery and I just lost it on the tight line.” Mika Salo who was behind the Ferrari had to brake hard in avoidance, only to be rammed from behind by Badoer’s Minardi. In the mêlée Panis’s Ligier collected the second Minardi of Martini who was knocked into Herbert‘s Benetton. With Alesi’s car stranded on the racing line, leaking oil and radiator fluid onto the track the race had to be red flagged.
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Herbert, Johnny (Benetton)
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5 pts
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After being collected by Martini’s Minardi in the start line chaos Herbert rammed Barrichello’s Jordan from behind a couple of corners later, deranging the Benetton’s steering. Barrichello was forced to take the spare Jordan at the re-start (due to the accident that Alesi had triggered a few corners earlier.) This did not help Barrichello as the car was set-up for his team-mate Irvine. Jordan took too long to adjust the car to fit the smaller Brazilian and Ruben had to start from the pit-lane.
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Irvine, Eddie (Jordan)
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1 pts
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Irvine clipped the left rear tyre of Hakkinen’s MP4/10 at the restart of the Grand Prix. The endplate of Irvine’s front wing slashed the McLaren’s tyre open and the Finn was flung into the gravel trap and retirement. Irvine pitted for a new nose box before he retired on lap seven with an engine failure. Hakkinen was livid; “I had a good fight with Schumacher in turn one at the first start. It was good professional racing; we were close but did not touch each other. I accelerated out of the corner in third place then the red flag came out. The second start was very similar, I was heading for third position again into the first corner when I felt Irvine touch my rear tyre. It exploded immediately and I was off.” Irvine did not agree, claiming that Hakkinen had tried to squeeze him out. Eyewitness reports (thanks Gustavo) suggest that Irvine had been the more innocent party in the incident, a victim of Hakkinen’s manoeuvrings.
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Suzuki, Aguri (Ligier)
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1 pts
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Suzuki took Mika Salo out of the race with twenty-four laps left to run. Salo was trying to lap Suzuki. Salo lost fifth place and was fit to be tied. “I was on the radio telling them that they should get some blue flags out or he was going to take me off.” Suzuki would retire a lap later due to the damage that his Ligier sustained in the incident.
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