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- Second place at the Canadian Grand Prix and Silverstone with Alesi!
- The last Formula 1 car driven by Gerhard Berger in a Grand Prix
- Exceptional track record with Jean Alesi – Three podium finishes
- In a rare state of preservation


Across 16 seasons, from its official debut as a Formula 1 constructor in 1986 to its final season in 2001 following a buyout from Renault, Benetton Formula scored 27 grand prix wins.

The Renault V10-powered Benetton B197 was the Italian fashion brand’s last F1 race winner, scored in the summer of 1997.
 
Driven by Gerhard Berger and Jean Alesi, the B197 scored seven further podium finishes, two pole positions and two fastest laps as Benetton finished third in the 1997 F1 constructors’ world championship.

Fittingly, Berger’s victory at Hockenheim in the German GP came to represent a neat bookend for Benetton, following 11 years on from the same driver achieving the team’s first F1 win at the Mexican GP in 1...