With Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna and Nigel Mansell all desperately trying to sign for Williams, Patrese's position looked to be under threat and he signed for Benetton before the end of the year.

Patrese's gearbox dropped oil onto the track which took off Niki Lauda and nearly took off Teo Fabi and race leader Michele Alboreto ; Alboreto's off handed the lead to Alain Prost.

On lap 34 Senna pitted for tyres, followed 3 laps later by Prost whilst Riccardo Patrese's brakes failed.

Patrese's second gave him third place in the championship, while Prost took the lead.

Schumacher subsequently came out of retirement and became the second driver to surpass Patrese's former record.

Patrese's runner-up placing was his second in a row.

Piquet and Mika Häkkinen ( making his F1 debut ) barely managed to avoid him as they passed, but before Patrese could get out of the car, Moreno, in the second Benetton, went straight across the bow of the Williams, removing the nose of Patrese's car and the right front wheel of the Benetton.

Riccardo Patrese had originally qualified second, but after Saturday qualifying his car was found to not have a reverse gear as per the safety regulations and Patrese's Saturday times were wiped out, he had to start a disappointing seventeenth on the grid.

Behind them, Brundle passed Schumacher for third and this became second when Patrese's gearbox failed on lap 44.

During the race, Grouillard was hit by Riccardo Patrese's Williams at the second corner and was eventually retired after a second collision with the Swiss driver Gregor Foitek.

Patrese's retirement left Reutemann with a three second lead over teammate Jones, who immediately began closing the gap by half a second per lap.

On lap 51, there were some dramatic moments when, at the Mirabeau turn, Philippe Alliot in the Lola had a violent collision with Riccardo Patrese's Williams.

Patrese's Williams then began to develop a problem with a holed radiator, which slowed him and bunched up the leading group.

Thus, at the halfway stage of the season, Mansell led the championship with 66 points compared to Patrese's 34.

Thus, at the halfway stage of the season, Mansell was comfortably leading the championship with 66 points compared to Patrese's 34.

( After Saturday qualifying, Patrese's car was found to not comply with safety regulations and Patrese's Saturday times were wiped out, thus starting 17th ).

Three times world champion Ayrton Senna's first F1 win in 1985, Nigel Mansell's notorious black flag incident and subsequent collision with Senna in 1989, Jacques Villeneuve's overtaking Michael Schumacher around the outside of the final turn in 1996, and Riccardo Patrese's being launched airborne in a near-backward flip after colliding with Gerhard Berger on the main straight in 1992.

Eventually, Patrese's holed radiator became so bad that both Senna and Mansell were able to pass him in the space of a few corners.

Mansell quickly passed Häkkinen but before Patrese, who was right behind could take sixth, Patrese's engine blew.

On lap 36, Mansell slowed down and let Patrese through before again speeding up and hanging on Patrese's tail.

Mansell was over two seconds off Patrese's time of an impressive 1: 19. 7, whilst Berger constantly complained of gear shift troubles-even asking the team to change the gearbox pre-race, which they didn't.

It was Patrese's best result since finishing third in the 1984 Italian Grand Prix.

It was Patrese's third Grand Prix victory, his first since 1983 and his first for Williams.

Patrese's engine failed and Boutsen was disqualified ( but he got his 4th position back in an appeal ), so the third place was taken by the Benetton Ford of Alessandro Nannini.

Berger deservedly won the 1992 Canadian Grand Prix having overtaken Riccardo Patrese's Williams and attacking teammate Senna before the Brazilian retired.

Patrese's record of 257 Grand Prix entries stood for 15 years, surviving the Schumacher era when Michael Schumacher retired on 250 race entries.

Hunt believed that it was Patrese's muscling past that caused the McLaren and Lotus to touch, but Patrese argues that he was already well ahead of the pair before the accident took place.

The was Barrichello's 257th Grand Prix, breaking Patrese's record of 256 Grand Prix starts and becoming the most experienced driver in F1 history.

Patrese's single point was also the first ever World Championship point scored by a Judd powered car.

However, officials later reviewed the incident again and Patrese was fined $ 10, 000 for his actions, although most in the Formula One paddock argued that Patrese's fine was not enough, and that he should also pay the Tyrrell team to fix the damages on the Tyrrell 017 and the general feeling was that Patrese, Grand Prix racing's most experienced driver of the day, should have faced a harsher penalty.

The race was Riccardo Patrese's 208th Grand Prix start in what was the 500th World Championship GP held.

It was Patrese's last win in Formula One and last points of the season for the Williams team.

Then, on lap 8, Pierluigi Martini spun off into the wall and his front wing, which separated from his car, was hit by Patrese and got stuck in Patrese's undertray.

Patrese's tyres were too badly damaged and he was forced to pit.

This gave him the opportunity of making the five race starts he required to break Riccardo Patrese's record for the driver that has started the most Grands Prix, a record that had stood for 14 years.

A brake duct on Patrese's car quickly caught fire, and though the disabled cars seemed to be out of the way, the sight of two cars stopped on the track, one in flames, prompted the Clerk of the Course to call for the red flag.

Rubens Barrichello finally overhauled Patrese's total, recording his 258th Grand Prix entry at the 2008 Turkish Grand Prix.

Just as Stohr began to improve, he was involved in a bizarre startline accident at the 1981 Belgian Grand Prix, in which he ran into the back of Patrese's stalled car, injuring Dave Luckett, an Arrows mechanic.

But after he got onto the track, the lighting sequence to start the race had already begun, and the start went ahead despite the presence of Luckett and Patrese's gesticulations.

In the confusion and likely unable to see Patrese's stalled car, the other Arrows driver, Siegfried Stohr, ploughed into the back of his team-mate's car, hitting Luckett.

As of 2010, Patrese's record of 98 races between victories still stands.