1993 Japanese Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race 15 of 16 in the 1993 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | 24 October 1993 | ||
| Official name | XIX Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix | ||
| Location | Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka, Japan | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 5.864 km (3.644 mi) | ||
| Distance | 53 laps, 310.792 km (193.117 mi) | ||
| Weather | Dry/wet, warm, cloudy | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Williams-Renault | ||
| Time | 1:37.154 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Alain Prost
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Williams-Renault | |
| Time | 1:41.176 on lap 53 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | McLaren-Ford | ||
| Second | Williams-Renault | ||
| Third | McLaren-Ford | ||
The 1993 Japanese Grand Prix (formally the XIX Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held at Suzuka on 24 October 1993. It was the fifteenth and penultimate round of the 1993 Formula One season. The 53-lap race was won by McLaren driver Ayrton Senna after he started from second position. Alain Prost finished second for the Williams team and Senna's teammate Mika Häkkinen came in third.
Eddie Irvine made his debut for Jordan, finishing 6th (thereby scoring his first points) and then being punched by Ayrton Senna for unlapping himself during the race. The race also saw Mika Häkkinen score his first career podium, Rubens Barrichello score his first points and Toshio Suzuki and Jean-Marc Gounon make their Formula One debuts.
Only 24 cars turned up for the event, following BMS Scuderia Italia's withdrawal from Formula One.
Prost took pole (the last of his career) ahead of Senna, Häkkinen, Schumacher, Berger and Hill.
At the start, Senna got ahead of Prost while Berger took Schumacher. Eddie Irvine, the fifth occupant of the second Jordan this year, then got by both Schumacher and Hill. Hill briefly passed Schumacher in the esses but Schumacher retook the position. The order was: Senna, Prost, Häkkinen, Berger, Irvine and Schumacher. Schumacher would pass Irvine on lap 2 with Hill getting ahead two laps later.
Schumacher and Hill then closed in on Berger. At the end of lap 9, the three came out of the final chicane nose to tail and Hill passed Schumacher on the start/finish straight to take 5th place away. On lap 11, Hill got a run on Berger coming out of the 130R and Berger took the inside line going into the chicane. Hill tried to pass on the outside but was not able to complete the move. Schumacher, having stayed to the inside, couldn't stop fast enough as Hill turned in behind Berger and hit Hill's right rear wheel, damaging his left front suspension and putting himself out. Hill was able to keep going and inherited 4th on the next lap when Berger came in for tyres.
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