1995 Formula One World Championship

Defending world champion Michael Schumacher (pictured in 1994) won a second consecutive title with Benetton in his last year with the team.
Damon Hill finished as runner-up 33 points behind with Williams.
Hill's teammate, David Coulthard, finished the season ranked third, scoring his 1st win.
Nigel Mansell retired from Formula One after 15 seasons.

The 1995 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 49th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 1995 Formula One World Championship for Drivers and the 1995 Formula One World Championship for Constructors, which were contested concurrently over a seventeen-race series that commenced on 26 March and ended on 12 November.

Michael Schumacher won his second consecutive Drivers' Championship, and Benetton won the Constructors' Championship, the first and only Constructors' title for the Benetton team. Schumacher won nine races en route to the championship, equalling the record set by Nigel Mansell in 1992. He also continued his rivalry with Williams-Renault driver Damon Hill, including collisions at the British and Italian Grands Prix.

Both those races were won by Schumacher's teammate Johnny Herbert, taking his first two F1 victories. Hill's Williams teammate, David Coulthard, claimed his first victory in Portugal, while Ferrari's Jean Alesi achieved his only F1 victory in Canada. Just like Honda in 1988, Renault engines won all but one race in this season.

1995 was also the last season in which the numbering system introduced in 1974 was used. From 1996 car numbers would generally allocated based on the Constructors' Championship order of the previous season.


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