Champions come and go

The 1993 Canadian Grand Prix was held at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montréal on 13 June 1993. The 69-lap race was won from pole position, his seventh in a row, by Alain Prost driving a Williams FW15-Renault, with Michael Schumacher second in a Benetton-Ford, and Prost’s teammate Damon Hill third.

Picture above: Two immense champions, Schumacher and Prost, share the podium in Canada. Alain Prost won his fourth race of the F1 season and first ever in Canada, as this Grand Prix was one of the few races that eluded him.

The French driver will be crowned for the 4th time at the end of the season and retire from racing, while Schumacher will have to wait another year, and Adelaide 1994, before becoming world champion, for the first time.

This is the last race that 1976 Formula One world champion James Hunt commentated for the BBC. Sadly, he died of an heart-attack barely 48 hours after the race. He was 46.