Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Diniz ya fara kakar wasa ta hanyar gamawa a waje da maki a cikin tsere biyu na farko - na goma a Ostiraliya da na takwas a Brazil. A gasar Argentine Grand Prix
, motarsa ta tashi da wuta bayan tsayawa a cikin rami saboda bawul din mai ya buɗe; Jaridar Burtaniya The Sun ta buga sanannen hoto tare da taken "Diniz a cikin Oven". Bayan ya kasa gamawa a Monaco, tseren da abokin aikinsa Panis ya ci nasara, Diniz ya zira kwallaye na farko a aikinsa tare da kammala na shida a Catalunya. An yi ritaya shida a jere kafin ya ci gaba da zama na shida a Monza. Bayan mummunar kakar wasa tare da Forti a 1995 ba a yi tsammanin komai daga gare shi ba a shekarar 1996, don haka akwai wani abin mamaki lokacin da ya yi nasarar fitar da Panis mafi kyau a Hockenheim kuma ya tabbatar da kansa a matsayin direba mai iya cin kwallo.