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 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Races > 1994 Results > Hungarian GP
The unhappy 1994 season continued with the inquiry into the Hockenheim pitlane fire revealing that Benetton was using a refuelling system which had been tampered with by the team.
The credibility of the Benetton team was gone after the fl flag scandal at Silverstone and the allegations of illegal software which gave their drivers an advantage over the others.
Brundle was classified fourth while the battle for fifth place was exciting with Blundell, Panis and Eric Bernard (Ligier) all crossing the line together.
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Sunday's race will be the 15th Hungarian Grand Prix in the modern era, but the first Magyar Nagy Dij was actually held in 1936 at a park circuit in Budapest.
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Hungarian Grand Prix pole leaves German one short of F1 mark
At the British Grand Prix three weeks ago, he started second and jumped to first on the opening curve, going on to beat points leader Fernando Alonso.
Since then, he sat out the U.S. Grand Prix, was twice penalized 10 spots on the starting grid for engine changes and dropped out of the German Grand Prix while leading.
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 Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix 2007 - Results 1994 - Overview
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 USATODAY.com - Schumacher wins pole for Hungarian Grand Prix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Michael Schumacher is 77 laps away from his fourth Formula One championship and the way he has been driving, winning the Hungarian Grand Prix and the title appears to be a formality.
Halfway into the final lap, it was clear that Coulthard would not beat him and Schumacher smiled, exchanged high-fives with his mechanics, winked and raised his thumb.
Jarno Trulli of Italy was fifth in 1:15.394 in a Jordan, ahead of former two-time champion Mika Hakkinen of Finland, sixth in 1:15.411.
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1994: Driving for the Benetton-Ford, Michael Schumacher won his first world title after an incident-filled season, clinching the title in the final race in Australia.
In the Belgian Grand Prix, he was disqualified from first place and banned for two further races due to an illegal plank on his car.
He was then disqualified again for ignoring a fl flag at the British Grand Prix, and arrived in Adelaide just a point ahead of rival Damon Hill driving for Williams-Renault.
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Not too high for someone who has won two Formula One World Championships and has won 40 Grand Prix races and is usually among the favourites in any race he drives in.
That turned out to be his last victory before he won again in the final race of the season, the Japanese Grand Prix, which secured his second consecutive world title.
Before that at the Austrian Grand Prix he was run into by Ricardo Zonta's Bar-Honda, again barely 10 seconds after the start.
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He started the season driving a BAR after falling out with Arrows, but when Michael Schumacher was injured after a rare mechanical failure of his Ferrari, the Scuderia offered the Finn a chance to prove himself in a race-winning package for 6 races.
At Hockenheim, he comfortably led the German Grand Prix before moving over to allow his teammate, Eddie Irvine, a title contender, to take the maximum points score.
Things improved slightly with the opportunity to test drive for Bennetton in 1994 in support of Schumacher's championship that season, but he was unable to secure a full time drive.
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BUDAPEST, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Hungarian Grand Prix officials signed a new contract with Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone on Monday, securing the future of the race until 2006.
McLaren said on Monday that Panis, winner of the rain-hit 1996 Monaco Grand Prix, would start work at the Jerez circuit in Spain on Thursday.
The 30-year-old, winner of the world championship in 1994 and 1995, said Ferrari's goal in 2000 would be to win both crowns after having to be content with the constructors' title this year.
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As Britain’s youngest Grand Prix driver, Button travels at more than 200 mph mastering racing circuits around the world, so he knows the value of control.
Funny how watching a grand prix entirely from onboard cameras and without commentators serves to make it seem all the more dramatic.
After Renault’s poor form since the US Grand Prix and Alonso’s disastrous build-up to the race, this was quite a turn up for the books — but Alonso looked as though he was going to win.
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 All time records - F1Technical.net
Peter Gethin won the Grand Prix of 1971 with an average speed of 242,616 km/h.
The Grand Prix of France in 1979 was won by Jean-Pierre Jabouille in his Renault.
The Grand Prix of Great Brittain 1973 was stopped after the first lap because of a serial accident.
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Jacques Villeneuve won the Brazilian Grand Prix after the race was restarted.
As the Jordan Team celebrated their 100th Grand Prix, Ralf Schumacher gave his team-mates an added bonus by coming third.
The winner was Mika Hakkinen of Finland, gaining his first grand prix victory.
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David Coulthard claimed at this year's Hungarian Grand Prix that the Minardi drivers seemed to block him more than Michael Schumacher when he was lapping them.
Controversy surrounded Michael Schumacher's involvement in the deciding race of the championship in both 1994 and 1997, when he deliberately collided with rivals.
In 1994, he came off best, when both his car and that of his rival Damon Hill were damaged in the incident, and Schumacher won the title.
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Last race: Justin Wilson bounced back from a disappointing finish in last year’s Edmonton Grand Prix to pull away at the end for his first victory of the season.
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After the events of Sept. 11 and Alex Zanardi's terrible accident, Schumacher drove on autopilot in the Italian Grand Prix and finished an uncompetitive fourth.
Two weeks after the Italian Grand Prix Schumacher showed up in Indianapolis, where he promptly put his Ferrari on the pole and led the way at the start of the race.
Practically every year since 1994 Schumacher has arrived for the Japanese Grand Prix still involved in the battle for the championship.
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He has just one win, at the tainted U.S. Grand Prix after seven teams pulled out because of safety concerns over Michelin tires.
Since then, he sat out the U.S. Grand Prix, was twice penalized 10 spots on the starting grid for engine changes and dropped out of the German GP while leading.
Like Michael Schumacher, he is looking to improve on his showing at the German GP last week, when both Ferraris struggled with tires.
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 Hungarian Grand Prix 1994
Just before the start of last Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix, a couple of south American journalists gave me a Brazilian World Cup shirt signed by the team's captain.
Maybe I'm to blame for that but I think as a team, we need to work on this aspect and not let it happen again.
After all, this is only my second season of F1 racing and I've done fewer Grands Prix than Schumacher.
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Yannick Dalmas in his AGS during the French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard, 1990.
Britain's Derek Warwick in his Arrows, during the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa in 1989.
He was born in March 1960 and died on May 1st, 1994 after a crash during the San Marino GP at Imola.
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 Automotive history: books in Hungarian
Covers the Hungarian Grand prix between 1986 and 1997.
Forma 1 nagyenciklopédia: képes útmutató a Grand Prix-autóversenyek világához ([Kaposvár]: Holló, 1999).
Sections on the history of Grand Prix racing, the teams, the great drivers, the great races, the famous circuits, etc.
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