Competitors

Team Engine Tyres # Driver 1 # Driver 2
Arrows - Yamaha Bridgestone 1 Damon Hill 2 Pedro-Paulo Diniz
Williams - Renault GoodYear 3 Jacques Villeneuve 4 Heinz-Harald Frentzen
Ferrari - Ferrari GoodYear 5 Michael Schumacher 6 Eddie Irvine
Benetton - Renault GoodYear 7 Jean Alesi 8 Gerhard Berger
McLaren - Mercedes GoodYear 9 Mika Hakkinen 10 David Coulthard
Jordan - Peugeot GoodYear 11 Ralf Schumacher 12 Giancarlo Fisichella
Prost - Mugen-Honda Bridgestone 14 Olivier Panis 15 Shinji Nakano
Sauber - Petronas GoodYear 16 Johnny Herbert 17 Nicola Larini
Tyrrell - Ford GoodYear 18 Jos Verstappen 19 Mika Salo
Minardi - Hart Bridgestone 20 Ukyo Katayama 21 Jarno Trulli
Stewart - Ford Bridgestone 22 Jan Magnussen 23 Rubens Barrichello
Lola - Ford Bridgestone 24 Vincenzo Sospiri 25 Ricardo Rosset

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Damon Hill with TWR ArrowsFormer world champion Alain Prost has bought Formula One team Ligier after agreeing a contract with Peugeot to use its engines from 1998. The new team will be called after Prost. The deal was struck after Eddie Jordan, whose team have a contract with Peugeot, gave his agreement. The team will bear the name Prost-Mugen Honda for the 1997 season until the Peugeot agreement begins at in 1998.

Contracts in Formula 1 could end at any time.

Some impressive show was deliverd by Gerhard Berger (Benetton) and Jacques Villeneuve (Williams). They both broke the Estoril lap record in two days. It's possible that the GoodYear tyres are changed dramatic to hold on their first position in motorracing. There were some rumours about Michelin and Pirelli. Michelin will probably enter Formula One next season with the French team of Alain Prost. And if we may believe, Pirelli with Ferrari.

1997 FIA Formula One World Championship

In accordance with Article 68* of the 1997 FIA Formula One Championship Sporting Regulations (which came into force on 1st January 1997), the teams entered in the Championship have designated their respective testing circuits as follows:

TEAM TEST CIRCUIT
MildSeven Benetton Renault Silverstone
Scuderia Ferrari-Marlboro Monza
Minardi Team Monza
Stewart Grand Prix Nevers Magny Cours
Danka Arrows Yamaha Silverstone
Benson & Hedges Total Jordan Peugeot Silverstone
Stewart Ford Silverstone
Rothmans Williams Renault Catalunya (Barcelona)
West McLaren Mercedes Silverstone
Tyrrell Silverstone
MasterCard Lola Formula One Team Silverstone
Red Bull-Sauber-Petronas Monza

Paris, 16 December 1996

* Article 68: With the expection of private testing, which may be arranged by the FIA on the day preceding practice at an Event being held on a circuit for the first time, no testing is permitted:

a) on any circuit outside Europe except general testing organised by the Commercial Rights Holder;

b) on any circuit during the seven days preceding race day at each Event except for a shakedown test not exceeding 50km which must be supervised by the relevant ASN;

c) on any circuit between the last Event of the Championship and 1 December

d) on any circuit which has hosted, or will host, an Event during the Championship year unless an entrant has designated it as the circuit on which it wishes to test during the following year no later than seven days after the acceptance of its entry;

e) at sites which are not currently approved for Formula 1.