Benetton Formula - Drivers

Drivers

Benetton drivers include:

• Gerhard Berger - scored the team's first and last wins, at the 1986 Mexican Grand Prix and 1997 German Grand Prix. He also scored the team's first podium finish at the 1986 San Marino Grand Prix. Berger also ended his Formula One career with Benetton in 1997.
• Teo Fabi - scored the team's first pole position at the 1986 Austrian Grand Prix. He scored the team's first back to back pole positions when he scored pole at the very next race at Monza. Fabi ended his Formula One career with Benetton in 1987.
• Giancarlo Fisichella - scored the team's last pole position at the 1998 Austrian Grand Prix and last podium finish at the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix.
• Alessandro Nannini - scored his only F1 race win at the 1989 Japanese Grand Prix after Ayrton Senna's McLaren was disqualified. It was the teams second ever win and the first since 1986. Nannini unfortunately ended his Formula One career with Benetton in 1990 after he lost his right forearm in a helicopter accident one week after the 1990 Spanish Grand Prix where he finished third.
• Nelson Piquet - first (ex-)Formula One World Champion to drive for the team and scored the team's first 1–2 finish at the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix with Roberto Moreno. Followed up to win the next race in Australia which was also the 500th World Championship Grand Prix held since 1950. Had his last F1 race win while driving for Benetton in the 1991 Canadian Grand Prix. Piquet ended his Formula One career with Benetton in 1991
• Michael Schumacher - started with Benetton at the 1991 Italian Grand Prix and would win Drivers' World Championship titles in the 1994 and 1995 seasons for the team as well as helping the team win its first Constructors Championship in 1995 before moving to Ferrari in 1996.
• Jos Verstappen - perhaps most famous after his Benetton burst into flames during a pit stop at the 1994 German Grand Prix. The resulting fire (causing minor burns to Verstappen's face) led to advances in pit stop safety.