 This race was Jordan's first double retirement of the season, and Damon Hill dropped a further place in the world championship, to 11th as he was overtaken by race winner Johnny Herbert.Frentzen was still only 12 points off Mika Häkkinen, the championship leader, so going into the penultimate round, the inaugural Malaysian Grand Prix, there was still a theoretical chance of him becoming world champion.Hill out qualified his teammate for a change, he was 9th while Frentzen was an uncharacteristically lowly 14th.