At the completion of the scheduled pit stops by lap 44, the running order was Schumacher and Hill in close attendance, then a gap back to a similar battle between Herbert and Coulthard, then Alesi, Blundell, Barrichello, Panis, Frentzen—whom Panis had just passed for the third time—Martini, Badoer, Salo, Boullion, Gachot and Moreno, the last of whom retired four laps later with a lack of hydraulic pressure in his Forti's pneumatic engine valves.
Hill je svoj drugi postanek opravil v enainštiridesetem krogu, ko je imel sedemindvajset sekund prednosti pred Schumacherjem, ob vrnitvni na stezo sta bila vzporedno, toda Schumacher ga je zaradi višje hitrosti uspel prehiteti pred serijo ovinkom Maggotts, Becketts in Chapel.