1993 Australian Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 16 of 16 in the 1993 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | 7 November 1993 | ||
| Official name | LVIII Australian Grand Prix | ||
| Location |
Adelaide Street Circuit Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
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| Course | Temporary street circuit | ||
| Course length | 3.780 km (2.362 mi) | ||
| Distance | 79 laps, 298.620 km (186.598 mi) | ||
| Scheduled Distance | 81 laps, 306.180 km (191.322 mi) | ||
| Weather | Sunny | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | McLaren-Ford | ||
| Time | 1:13.371 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Damon Hill
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Williams-Renault | |
| Time | 1:15.381 on lap 64 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | McLaren-Ford | ||
| Second | Williams-Renault | ||
| Third | Williams-Renault | ||
The 1993 Australian Grand Prix (formally the LVIII Australian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held at Adelaide on 7 November 1993. It was the final round of the 1993 Formula One season. The 79-lap race was won by McLaren driver Ayrton Senna after he started from pole position. Alain Prost finished second for the Williams team with his teammate Damon Hill third.
Ayrton Senna finished his six-year spell with McLaren (before joining Williams for 1994) by taking his only pole position of the season (the only pole of the season not won by Williams drivers), and his fifth victory of the year. It was the last race that Senna won. This was the last race for cars with active suspension, which were banned from the 1994 season. Having taken his actively suspended Lotus 99T-Honda to victory in the 1987 Monaco Grand Prix, Senna was the first and the last driver to win a race driving an active suspension car.
It was the last race for four-time World Champion Alain Prost. Senna was so overcome with emotion, knowing his great rival was retiring, that he embraced Prost on top of the rostrum. (Prost's contract with Williams initially included a clause forbidding Senna from joining the team as his team-mate). Riccardo Patrese and Derek Warwick also retired from Formula One after this event, the former having competed in 256 Grands Prix (a record that stood for fifteen years until being beaten by Rubens Barrichello), and the latter signing off on a return year after two seasons' absence from the sport.
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