Why Benetton had a point to prove with the B195
It might not have been quite the fastest car of 1995 – but it had Michael Schumacher at the wheel and a field of rivals seemingly determined to make life difficult for themselves…
Rarely does a championship-winning Formula 1 team begin a new season with a major point to prove, but the middle years of the 1990s were a highly unusual time. The 1994 season was one that all involved would have preferred to forget, what with that hateful weekend at Imola and the long tail of its consequences.
And for the team that had collected the drivers’ championship but not the constructors’ title, victory came with the aftertaste of ashes. Allegations of cheating hung over Benetton like a poisonous miasma, as did the way Michael Schumacher secured the trophy: by barging Damon Hill off the track in an obvious professional foul.
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