All 1995 Driver & Team Changes
The driver lineups of the 1995 season were not as stable as they were in recent years in Formula 1. Numerous changes took place during the year, which are all reflected in the 1996 PS1 game - with one exception, although that is not technically a driver swap but simply one driver not starting a Grand Prix.
San Marino Grand Prix
Monaco Grand Prix
Hungarian Grand Prix
San Marino Grand Prix
- Nigel Mansell replaces Mark Blundell at McLaren
- Martin Brundle temporarily replaces Aguri Suzuki at Ligier, as the two drivers would share the cockpit throughout the season
Monaco Grand Prix
- Mark Blundell is back in the McLaren, replacing Nigel Mansell
- Jean-Christophe Bouillon steps in for Karl Wendlinger at Sauber. The Austrian had suffered a terrible crash at the 1994 Monaco GP that put him in a coma, after which he never got back up to speed and the enormous promise he had showed before.
- Simtek had gone bankrupt after the previous round, meaning the team and its drivers Domenico Schiattarella and Jos Verstappen would not appear for the remainder of the season.
- Massimiliano Papis took over from Gianni Morbidelli at Footwork due to sponsorship reasons.
- Giovanni Lavaggi took Bertrand Gachot's seat at Pacific to make his F1 debut at 35 years of age, which made him the oldest driver on the grid at the time.
- Aguri Suzuki was back for Ligier in place of Martin Brundle.
Hungarian Grand Prix
- Aguri Suzuki was out of the Ligier again, giving his seat up to Martin Brundle.
- Pedro Lamy replaced Pierluigi Martini at Minardi. The Portuguese had signed on for the second half of the season after his 1994 Silverstone testing crash had taken him over a year to recover from.
- Giovanni Lavaggi vacated his Pacific seat for Jean-Denis Delétraz after retiring from all four races he had started.
- After Ukyo Katayama rolled his Tyrrell at the start of the Portuguese Grand Prix, he had to sit out the Nürburgring round due to light injuries. Gabriele Tarquini filled in for the Japanese driver.
- Ukyo Katayama was back for Tyrrell after recovering from his crash at Estoril.
- Jan Magnussen replaced Mika Häkkinen at McLaren, who was sidelined because of an appendicitis operation.
- Gianni Morbidelli was back for Footwork, taking over from Massimiliano Papis.
- Bertrand Gachot was back in the Pacific in place of Jean-Denis Delétraz due to payments to the team had not been made by the latter.
- Aguri Suzuki once again swapped places with Martin Brundle at Ligier to drive both in Aida and Suzuka in his native Japan.
- A recovered Mika Häkkinen took back his McLaren seat from Jan Magnussen.
- Karl Wendlinger was given another chance at Sauber, replacing Jean-Christophe Bouillon.
- The final driver swap of the revolving Ligier door saw Martin Brundle close out the season in place of Aguri Suzuki.
- Mika Häkkinen did not start the race despite being entered in the GP after his life-threatening crash in qualifying. In the game, the Finn is on the grid despite this.