1996 Monaco Grand Prix

1996 Monaco Grand Prix
Race 6 of 16 in the 1996 Formula One World Championship ← Previous race Next race →
Race details
Date	19 May 1996
Official name	LIV Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco
Location	Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo
Course	Street circuit
Course length	3.328 km (2.068 miles)
Distance	75 laps, 249.600 km (155.094 miles)
Scheduled distance	78 laps, 259.584 km (161.298 miles)
Weather	Overcast, mild, wet at first, drying later, light rain at finish
Pole position
Driver	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
Time	1:20.356
Fastest lap
Driver	Jean Alesi	Benetton-Renault
Time	1:25.205 on lap 59
Podium
First	Olivier Panis	Ligier-Mugen-Honda
Second	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes
Third	Johnny Herbert	Sauber-Ford
Lap leaders

The 1996 Monaco Grand Prix (formally the LIV Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco) was a Formula One motor race held at Monaco on 19 May 1996. It was the sixth race of the 1996 Formula One season. The race was run in very wet weather, and set a record for the fewest cars to be running at the end of a Grand Prix race, with the three podium finishers being the only cars left.

Olivier Panis scored his first and only win of his Formula One career, earning the last Formula One victory for the Ligier team, and the first ever for engine manufacturer Mugen-Honda, after switching to slick tyres in a well-timed pitstop. Second place went to David Coulthard in a McLaren-Mercedes. Johnny Herbert was the last finisher in a Sauber, scoring his only points of the season.

This was the last win by a French Formula One driver until Pierre Gasly won the 2020 Italian Grand Prix and also the last Grand Prix win by a French-licensed Formula One constructor until Renault won the 2003 Hungarian Grand Prix.