F1/Seasons/1996/Round 15
1996 · Round 15 of 16

Portuguese Grand Prix

September 22, 1996 · Autódromo do Estoril · Estoril · Portugal
Villeneuve
WINNER
Jacques Villeneuve · Williams · from grid 2
FASTEST LAP
Lap timing starts in 2004. This race has none.
+5
MOST PLACES GAINED
Olivier Panis · grid 15 to P10
16 of 20
CLASSIFIED
4 retired

01/Classification

20 cars
Finishing order
PosDriverConstructorGrid+/-LapsTime / statusPtsFastest lap
1Jacques VilleneuveWilliams2+1701:40:22.91510
2Damon HillWilliams1-170+19.9666
3Michael SchumacherFerrari4+170+53.7654
4Jean AlesiBenetton3-170+55.1093
5Eddie IrvineFerrari6+170+1:27.3892
6Gerhard BergerBenetton5-170+1:33.1411
7Heinz-Harald FrentzenSauber11+469+1 Lap0
8Johnny HerbertSauber12+469+1 Lap0
9Martin BrundleJordan10+169+1 Lap0
10Olivier PanisLigier15+569+1 Lap0
11Mika SaloTyrrell13+269+1 Lap0
12Ukyo KatayamaTyrrell14+268+2 Laps0
13David CoulthardMcLaren8-568+2 Laps0
14Ricardo RossetFootwork17+367+3 Laps0
15Giovanni LavaggiMinardi20+565+5 Laps0
16Pedro LamyMinardi19+365+5 Laps0
RMika HäkkinenMcLaren752Collision0
RJos VerstappenFootwork1647Engine0
RPedro DinizLigier1846Collision0
RRubens BarrichelloJordan941Spun off0

Ordered on the source’s position column and printed from position_text. Those two disagree on purpose: position is a sort key that is never null, and position_text is what happened to the car. 4 of 20 cars here were not classified (4 retired). Across the archive that is 9,612 of 26,048 result rows, so a page that printed the sort key would tell more than a third of every field it finished.


02/Grid to finish

16 of 20 cars
Grid minus finishing position
PLACES GAINED
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
Olivier PanisLigier1510+5
Giovanni LavaggiMinardi2015+5
Heinz-Harald FrentzenSauber117+4
Johnny HerbertSauber128+4
Ricardo RossetFootwork1714+3
PLACES LOST
DriverConstructorGridFin+/-
David CoulthardMcLaren813-5
Damon HillWilliams12-1
Jean AlesiBenetton34-1
Gerhard BergerBenetton56-1

Movement is grid minus finishing position, and it is computed for 16 of the 20 cars entered. It is left blank for the other 4: a car that was not classified has no finishing position to subtract from, and no car here carries grid 0, the value the source uses for a pit lane start or for no recorded grid slot. Scoring a grid of 0 as a gain of every place on the grid is the arithmetic this rule exists to stop; 266 of 26,048 rows across the archive are grid 0, and 40 of those were classified.


03/The 1996 season

16 rounds
MAR 10 to OCT 13
RdDateGrand PrixCircuitWinnerConstructorCars
1MAR 10Australian Grand PrixAlbert Park Grand Prix CircuitDamon HillWilliams20
2MAR 31Brazilian Grand PrixAutódromo José Carlos PaceDamon HillWilliams22
3APR 7Argentine Grand PrixAutódromo Juan y Oscar GálvezDamon HillWilliams22
4APR 28European Grand PrixNürburgringJacques VilleneuveWilliams20
5MAY 5San Marino Grand PrixAutodromo Enzo e Dino FerrariDamon HillWilliams21
6MAY 19Monaco Grand PrixCircuit de MonacoOlivier PanisLigier22
7JUN 2Spanish Grand PrixCircuit de Barcelona-CatalunyaMichael SchumacherFerrari20
8JUN 16Canadian Grand PrixCircuit Gilles VilleneuveDamon HillWilliams22
9JUN 30French Grand PrixCircuit de Nevers Magny-CoursDamon HillWilliams22
10JUL 14British Grand PrixSilverstone CircuitJacques VilleneuveWilliams20
11JUL 28German Grand PrixHockenheimringDamon HillWilliams19
12AUG 11Hungarian Grand PrixHungaroringJacques VilleneuveWilliams20
13AUG 25Belgian Grand PrixCircuit de Spa-FrancorchampsMichael SchumacherFerrari19
14SEP 8Italian Grand PrixAutodromo Nazionale di MonzaMichael SchumacherFerrari20
15SEP 22Portuguese Grand PrixAutódromo do EstorilJacques VilleneuveWilliams20
16OCT 13Japanese Grand PrixSuzuka CircuitDamon HillWilliams19

Every figure here is one race, read from f1_results and f1_races. The finishing order is the source’s position column; the printed position is position_text, which is a letter on 9,612 of 26,048 rows across the archive (R retired 9,089, W withdrew 364, D disqualified 159). Grid 0 is a pit lane start and prints as PIT, not as a place ahead of pole; 266 of 26,048 rows are grid 0. Time is a total for the winner and a gap to the car ahead for everyone else, and it is present on 8,508 of 26,048 rows only, so most of the archive shows the status instead; where both exist and the status is not “Finished” the status is printed beside the time, because 8,335 of 16,436 classified rows finished lapped or otherwise not cleanly. The fastest lap column is empty before 2004: the source carries lap timing on 8,977 of 26,048 rows and a ranked fastest lap in 447 of 1,161 races, and speed on 8,238 of those, none after 2024. Points are printed as the source stores them and are never rounded to a whole number: 38 of 26,048 rows are fractional (0.5, 1.33, 3.14), which is half points for a shortened race and a split score for a shared car, and every one of them is real. Three races (1951 French, 1956 Argentine, 1957 British) print two cars as first, because two drivers shared one car and the record books credit both; in those three the source hangs the race points on other rows, which is why 5 of 1,164 winning rows across the archive print zero points. Constructors carry no logo in any f1_* table, so none is drawn and none is invented. The 1996 season is complete at 16 rounds.