1994 Pacific Grand Prix

Ayrton Senna was overtaken by Schumacher before the first corner and was then hit from behind by Mika Häkkinen and spun off the track. Nicola Larini also went off the track and crashed into Senna, causing race-ending damage to both cars. Mark Blundell also spun on the same corner after a collision at the apex of the first corner, stalling his car in the middle of the track. On lap 3 Damon Hill spun off trying to overtake Hakkinen, but rejoined and climbed back to second place before stopping with transmission failure on lap 49. As Jos Verstappen in the second Benetton retired after he spun off just as soon as he came out of the pits on lap 55 as he was 3 laps behind teammate Schumacher. Martin Brundle meanwhile was looking secure in 3rd place after Barrichello pitted before he retired shortly after with his engine overheating on lap 68. Alboreto and Wendlinger to whom were just behind the top 6 had collided and both went off into the gravel trap forcing both drivers to retire whilst the Minardi was trying to get past the Sauber at the time. Michael Schumacher won comfortably from Gerhard Berger and Rubens Barrichello. Roland Ratzenberger's 11th place would be the Austrian's only finish before his death during qualifying for the following Grand Prix at Imola.

During the weekend, Ferrari test driver Nicola Larini (who had replaced the injured Jean Alesi for the early part of the season), leaked to the Italian media that he had used traction control (one of the banned for 1994 electronic driver aids) during the practice session for the race. Ferrari and Larini later denied the claims to the worldwide press.^[6] The "leak" by Larini further raised suspicions about teams using illegal aids to help them in races. Further, after the first corner collision that put him out of the race, instead of going back to the Williams pit area, Ayrton Senna opted to sit on the wall on the outside of the turn and watch the cars for a number of laps to see if he could hear any noises that suggested traction control was being used illegally in the other cars.^[7] Senna returned to the Williams pit area after about 10 laps had been completed, suspicious that the Benetton B194 was illegal.^[8]

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	5	Michael Schumacher	Benetton-Ford	83	1:46:01.693	2	10
2	28	Gerhard Berger	Ferrari	83	+ 1:15.300	5	6
3	14	Rubens Barrichello	Jordan-Hart	82	+ 1 lap	8	4
4	9	Christian Fittipaldi	Footwork-Ford	82	+ 1 lap	9	3
5	30	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Sauber-Mercedes	82	+ 1 lap	11	2
6	20	Érik Comas	Larrousse-Ford	80	+ 3 laps	16	1
7	12	Johnny Herbert	Lotus-Mugen-Honda	80	+ 3 laps	23
8	11	Pedro Lamy	Lotus-Mugen-Honda	79	+ 4 laps	24
9	26	Olivier Panis	Ligier-Renault	78	+ 5 laps	22
10	25	Éric Bernard	Ligier-Renault	78	+ 5 laps	18
11	32	Roland Ratzenberger	Simtek-Ford	78	+ 5 laps	26
Ret	10	Gianni Morbidelli	Footwork-Ford	69	Engine/Spun off	13
Ret	29	Karl Wendlinger	Sauber-Mercedes	69	Collision damage	19
Ret	24	Michele Alboreto	Minardi-Ford	69	Collision	15
Ret	8	Martin Brundle	McLaren-Peugeot	67	Overheating	6
Ret	23	Pierluigi Martini	Minardi-Ford	63	Spun off	17
Ret	6	Jos Verstappen	Benetton-Ford	54	Spun off	10
Ret	0	Damon Hill	Williams-Renault	49	Transmission	3
Ret	15	Aguri Suzuki	Jordan-Hart	44	Steering	20
Ret	3	Ukyo Katayama	Tyrrell-Yamaha	42	Engine	14
Ret	7	Mika Häkkinen	McLaren-Peugeot	19	Gearbox	4
Ret	19	Olivier Beretta	Larrousse-Ford	14	Electrical	21
Ret	31	David Brabham	Simtek-Ford	2	Electrical	25
Ret	2	Ayrton Senna	Williams-Renault	0	Collision	1
Ret	27	Nicola Larini	Ferrari	0	Collision	7
Ret	4	Mark Blundell	Tyrrell-Yamaha	0	Collision	12
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