old school

Gerhard Berger won at Monza for Ferrari, in the only race of the year not won by McLaren-Honda. Michele Alboreto finished second, right behind him.

First F1 victory for Ayrton Senna. He demonstrated his proficiency in wet conditions by finishing the race at least one lap ahead of every car, except second-place finisher Michele Alboreto.

Gerhard Berger took a spectacular pole position on Saturday, and consolidated it with an emphatic victory. It was his and Benetton's last ever victory, with Berger retiring at the end of 1997.

This was Schumacher's last win for Benetton.

James Hunt crossed the finish line in first position but the Ferrari, Tyrrell and Copersucar teams protested the result to the stewards, because of a crash at first corner. In September, two months after the event, a decision was reached & Hunt was disqualified, giving Niki Lauda the race win.

At the wet 1996 Monaco GP, which holds the record for the fewest number of cars (3) to be running at the end of a Grand Prix race, Olivier Panis scored his sole F1 career victory, earning the last ever F1 victory for the Ligier team. It's the most recent race won by a French driver, in a French car.

Despite Senna stalled on the grid & had dropped to 14th place, he immediately made a charge through the field and managed to force his way through as leader Prost was trying to deal with a malfunctioning gearbox & a tricky wet/dry surface. With victory in the race, Senna clinched his first F1 title.