Pacific Grand Prix

F1 race
Name = Pacific Grand Prix

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Circuit = TI Circuit
Circuit_

Laps = 83
Circuit_length_km = 3.703
Circuit_length_mi =
Race_length_km = 307.349
Race_length_mi =
Most_wins_driver = flagicon|Germany Michael Schumacher (2)
Most_wins_constructor = flagicon|UK Benetton (2)
Current_year = 1995
Winner = flagicon|Germany Michael Schumacher
Winning_team = flagicon|UK Benetton-Renault
Winning_time = 1:48:49.972
Pole_driver = flagicon|UK David Coulthard
Pole_team = flagicon|UK Williams-Renault
Pole_time = 1:14.013
Fastest_lap_driver = flagicon|Germany Michael Schumacher
Fastest_lap_team = flagicon|UK Benetton-Renault
Fastest_l

The Pacific Grand Prix was a round of the Formula One World Championship twice in the mid-1990s. Both races were held at the Tanaka International Aida circuit, a slow, twisty 2.3-mile track deep in the countryside in Aida (near Kobe), Japan. Following the 1995 Kobe earthquake, the Pacific Grand Prix was moved from early in the calendar to the end.

The inaugural race in 1994 saw Michael Schumacher take an easy victory after Ayrton Senna was involved in a first corner accident with Mika Häkkinen and Nicola Larini. The more recent Pacific Grand Prix in 1995 was a more eventful affair, with some close racing throughout the field. The race culminated in a tactical victory for Michael Schumacher, securing his second World Championship, and making him the youngest double World Champion at the time. Fernando Alonso surpassed Schumacher's record by winning his second World Championship in 2006.

This race made Japan one of only six countries (the others being Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Italy and the USA) to ever host more than one Formula One event in the same year. It was discontinued primarily due to the TI Circuit's location in a remote area of Japan.

With the announcement that the Japanese Grand Prix will switch from the Suzuka Circuit to the Fuji Speedway from 2007, there had been media speculation that Suzuka may retain a race under a resurrection of the Pacific Grand Prix title. [cite web | title = Fuji signs deal for 2007 | publisher = grandprix.com | date = 2006-03-14 | url = http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns16383.html | accessdate = 2007-09-18] However, it was later announced that the Japanese Grand Prix will alternate between Fuji and Suzuka from 2009 onward. [cite web | title = Japanese Grand Prix to alternate between Fuji and Suzuka | publisher = formula1.com | date = 2007-09-08 | url = http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2007/9/6729.html | accessdate = 2007-09-09]

Winners of the Pacific Grand Prix

References