1995 Argentine Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 2 of 17 in the 1995 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | 9 April 1995 | ||
| Official name | XVIII Gran Premio Marlboro de la Republica Argentina | ||
| Location | Autódromo Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 4.259 km (2.661 mi) | ||
| Distance | 72 laps, 306.648 km (191.655 mi) | ||
| Weather | Cloudy | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Williams-Renault | ||
| Time | 1:53.241 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Michael Schumacher
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Benetton-Renault | |
| Time | 1:30.522 on lap 55 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Williams-Renault | ||
| Second | Ferrari | ||
| Third | Benetton-Renault | ||
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The 1995 Argentine Grand Prix (formally the XVIII Gran Premio Marlboro de la Republica Argentina) was a Formula One motor race held on 9 April 1995 at the Autódromo Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was the second round of the 1995 Formula One season and was the first Formula One race to take place in Argentina since 1981. The 72-lap race was won by Damon Hill for the Williams team after starting from second position. Jean Alesi finished second in a Ferrari, with Michael Schumacher third in a Benetton car. David Coulthard, who started the race from pole position, spun out of the race on lap 16 with an electrical problem.
The race marked the return to the Formula One calendar for the Argentine country after being off the calendar since 1981. The race was removed from the calendar originally due to the retirement of Carlos Reutemann and Argentina's invasion of the Falkland Islands. It was reinstated following President Carlos Menem's rise into power in 1989. To celebrate its return to the calendar, Reutemann drove a demonstration lap aboard the 1994 Ferrari 412 T1 car around the wet Autódromo Oscar Alfredo Gálvez circuit on the Thursday afternoon before the race.
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