page_title: 1993 British Grand Prix
section_title: Report
hierarchical_section_title: 1993 British Grand Prix / Report
caption_attribution_description: The end of the day for Damon Hill, retiring while in the lead at the 1993 British Grand Prix
context_page_description: The 1993 British Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Silverstone on 11 July 1993. It was the ninth race of the 1993 Formula One World Championship.
  The 59-lap race was won from pole position by Alain Prost, driving a Williams-Renault. It was Prost's sixth victory of the season and the 50th of his Formula One career. Michael Schumacher finished second in a Benetton-Ford, with teammate Riccardo Patrese third. This was the 2nd race of the season to be held in the United Kingdom after the 1993 European Grand Prix which had been held back in April of that year at Donington Park. It would be another 27 years before Britain would have two races on the calendar in a single season when Silverstone hosted both the British Grand Prix and the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix.
context_section_description: With Nigel Mansell now racing Indycars in America, British racing fans had taken Damon Hill to their hearts. Williams took 1–2 in qualifying with Prost on pole ahead of Hill, Schumacher, Ayrton Senna, Patrese and Martin Brundle.
  At the start, Hill took the lead from Prost, who was also passed by Senna, meanwhile Michael Andretti in the other McLaren spun off at Copse on the first lap, while Hill pulled away at the front, Senna held up both Prost and Schumacher. Prost finally passed Senna on lap 7 but Hill was already five seconds up the road. On lap 13, Schumacher passed Senna for third and pulled away as the order settled down.
  Gradually Prost closed up on Hill, narrowing the gap to three seconds after the mid-race pit stops. Then, Luca Badoer crashed, bringing out the Safety Car and reducing the gap between Hill and Prost to nothing. The Safety Car came in on lap 40, before Hill's engine blew two laps later. Brundle's gearbox failed on lap 54 when he was fourth. Finally, on the last lap, Senna's car ran out of fuel. Prost took his 50th Grand Prix win ahead of Schumacher, Patrese, Johnny Herbert, Senna (who was classified fifth) and Derek Warwick.
  Complimenting the Lotus team on Herbert's fourth-place finish, Murray Walker closed his broadcast with the words "Lotus are back!". As it turned out, the team only scored points once more.
caption: Damon Hill was leading when his engine blew on lap 42.
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