| Race details | ||
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| Race 5 of 16 in the 1993 Formula One season | ||
| Date | May 9, 1993 | |
| Location | Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain | |
| Course | Permanent racing facility 4.627 km (2.875 mi) |
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| Distance | 65 laps, 300.755 km (186.875 mi) | |
| Pole position | ||
| Driver | Alain Prost | Williams-Renault |
| Time | 1:17.809 | |
| Fastest lap | ||
| Driver | Michael Schumacher | Benetton-Ford |
| Time | 1:20.989 on lap 61 | |
| Podium | ||
| First | Alain Prost | Williams-Renault |
| Second | Ayrton Senna | McLaren-Ford |
| Third | Michael Schumacher | Benetton-Ford |
The 1993 Spanish Grand Prix was a Formula One race held on May 9, 1993 at the Circuit de Catalunya. It was the fifth round of the 1993 Formula One season.
As usual, the Williamses took 1-2 in qualifying in Spain, with Prost ahead of Hill, Senna, Schumacher, Patrese and Wendlinger. At the start, Hill got ahead of Prost with no changes behind. Hill was leading Prost, Senna, Schumacher, Patrese and Wendlinger.
Hill and Prost pulled away from the rest with Prost taking the lead on lap 11. It was soon time for the stops but the stops changed nothing except that the gap between Prost and Hill had increased and that the one between Senna and Schumacher had decreased. Later in the race Prost's car began to handle oddly and Hill closed up on him, but after getting to within 2 seconds of Prost, Hill's engine failed on lap 41. With the battle now for second place, Schumacher was closing in on Senna, but this challenge was ended, when Schumacher went off the track at the final corner, after having go off line to pass Alessandro Zanardi's Lotus which was travelling on the racing line at reduced speed with a smoking engine, despite the fact he had just passed the entrance to the pits. Prost won from Senna, Schumacher, Patrese, Andretti and Berger.
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