1995 Australian Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 17 of 17 in the 1995 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | 12 November 1995 | ||
| Official name | LX EDS Australian Grand Prix | ||
| Location | Adelaide Street Circuit, Adelaide, Australia | ||
| Course | Temporary street circuit | ||
| Course length | 3.780 km (2.362 mi) | ||
| Distance | 81 laps, 306.180 km (191.362 mi) | ||
| Weather | Sunny | ||
| Attendance | 210,000 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Williams-Renault | ||
| Time | 1:15.505 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Damon Hill
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Williams-Renault | |
| Time | 1:17.943 on lap 51 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Williams-Renault | ||
| Second | Ligier-Mugen-Honda | ||
| Third | Footwork-Hart | ||
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The 1995 Australian Grand Prix (formally the LX EDS Australian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 12 November 1995 at the Adelaide Street Circuit, Adelaide. The race, contested over 81 laps, was the seventeenth and final race of the 1995 Formula One season, and the eleventh and last Australian Grand Prix to be held at Adelaide before the event moved to Melbourne the following year.
In a race of attrition, all the front-running cars retired except for the pole-sitting Williams-Renault of Damon Hill. Hill won by two clear laps from the Ligier-Mugen-Honda of Olivier Panis, with Gianni Morbidelli achieving his best-ever F1 result with third in a Footwork-Hart. Of the 23 drivers who started, only eight finished, the lowest number in the 1995 season.
The race had an attendance of 210,000 – an F1 record until 2000, when 250,000 people attended that year's United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis.
Heading into the final round of the 1995 Formula One season, both the Drivers' Championship and Constructors' Championship were already settled, with Michael Schumacher having claimed the Drivers' Championship two rounds earlier in the Pacific round. It was Schumacher's last race with the Benetton team, having already announced that he was going to Ferrari for the 1996 season. Benetton claimed the Constructors' Championship at the penultimate round of the championship – the Japanese Grand Prix, with Williams too many points behind to be able to catch them. It was announced beforehand that it would be the last Formula One event to be held at the Adelaide Street Circuit, with the Australian Grand Prix moving to Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit in Melbourne from the 1996 season.
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