Background
Philippe Alliot replaced Olivier Beretta at Larrousse. It would prove to be Alliot's last appearance in a Formula One World Championship race. Zanardi was replaced at the Lotus team for this race by Philippe Adams. Alliot had raced for McLaren at the previous race in Hungary as Mika Häkkinen was suspended. Häkkinen returned to the McLaren seat for this race.
In the light of the death of Ayrton Senna earlier in the season, a tyre chicane was installed at Eau Rouge to slow the cars. Heinz-Harald Frentzen spun there while attempting to pass Rubens Barrichello early in the race, Barrichello's Jordan struggling to keep track position amongst clearly faster cars coming through having started on pole position.
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