Williams won 12 races out of 16, and the world title went to Damon Hill.
In 1996 Michael Schumacher moved to Ferrari, while Williams had the fastest car: Damon Hill won eight races, and his team-mate Jacques Villeneuve, who had arrived from the American CART series, won four, having started from pole in his very first race.
Hill clinched the title by winning the final race, in Japan — the first son of a champion ever to win the title himself. In a wet Monaco only three cars made it to the finish, and Olivier Panis won for Ligier; Schumacher took his first three wins for Ferrari.
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