1996 Formula One World Championship 1996 Formula One World Championship The 1996 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 50th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. The championship commenced on 10 March 1996 and ended on 13 October after sixteen races. Two World Championship titles were awarded, one for Drivers and one for Constructors. Damon Hill won the Drivers' Championship two years after being beaten by a point by Michael Schumacher, making him the first son of a World Champion (his father Graham having won the title in 1962 and 1968) to have won the title himself. Hill, who had finished runner-up for the
An (surname) An (surname) The surname An () literally means "peace" or "tranquility". It also serves as an abbreviation of "Anxi" (安息), meaning "Arsacid" in Chinese and can be romanized as "On". Visitors to China who came from Arsacid-held territories often took the name "An". In 2008, it was the 110th most common surname in the People's Republic of China, shared by over 1.7 million citizens. The surname is most common in Northern China. During the Song Dynasty, another An (俺) was a Jewish Chinese surname. During the Qin and Han Dynasty, the most common origin of the surname An was as