1992 Australian Grand Prix

1992 Australian Grand Prix
1992 Australian Grand Prix
Race 16 of 16 in the 1992 Formula One World Championship
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Race details
Date	8 November 1992
Official name	LVII Australian Grand Prix
Location	Adelaide Street Circuit; Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Course	Temporary street circuit
Course length	3.780 km (2.362 miles)
Distance	81 laps, 306.180 km (191.322 miles)
Weather	Cloudy
Pole position
Driver	Nigel Mansell;
Time	1:13.732
Fastest lap
Driver	Michael Schumacher
Time	1:16.078 on lap 68
Podium
First	Gerhard Berger;
Second	Michael Schumacher;
Third	Martin Brundle;
	Lap leaders ;

The 1992 Australian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Adelaide on 8 November 1992. It was the sixteenth and final race of the 1992 Formula One World Championship.

The 81-lap race was won by Austrian driver Gerhard Berger, driving a McLaren-Honda. Berger won by 0.7 seconds from German Michael Schumacher in a Benetton-Ford, with Schumacher's British teammate Martin Brundle third. Nigel Mansell, in what was intended to be his final Formula One race before his move to IndyCars for 1993, took pole position in his Williams-Renault and led until Brazilian Ayrton Senna, in the other McLaren-Honda, collided with him while attempting to overtake him, eliminating them both.

Brundle (who spent 1993 with Ligier), Berger (who returned to Ferrari) and Riccardo Patrese (who joined Benetton) were among the many drivers for whom this was the final race with their current teams, while for Jan Lammers, Stefano Modena, Maurício Gugelmin and Olivier Grouillard it was the last Grand Prix of their careers.

This was McLaren's final race using Honda engines until 2015. The company ceased their full factory involvement in the sport following this race, although the Mugen arm of the company continued. They returned in 2000 as engine supplier to BAR.

This Grand Prix also proved to be the last for the March team.