2016 British Grand Prix

2016 British Grand Prix
Race 10 of 21 in the 2016 Formula One World Championship ← Previous race Next race →
Layout of the Silverstone Circuit
Race details
Date	10 July 2016
Official name	2016 Formula 1 British Grand Prix[1][2][3]
Location	Silverstone Circuit Silverstone, United Kingdom
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	5.891 km (3.661 miles)
Distance	52 laps, 306.198 km (190.263 miles)
Weather	Wet at start, dry later
Attendance	350,000 (weekend)[4] 122,000 (race day)
Pole position
Driver	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Time	1:29.287
Fastest lap
Driver	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes
Time	1:35.548 on lap 44
Podium
First	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Second	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer
Third	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes
Lap leaders

The 2016 British Grand Prix (formally known as the 2016 Formula 1 British Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 10 July 2016 at the Silverstone Circuit in Silverstone, United Kingdom. This race was the seventy-first running of the British Grand Prix, the first having been held in 1926, and was the tenth round of the 2016 FIA Formula One World Championship and the fiftieth time that the race was held at the Silverstone Circuit since the Formula One series inception in 1950.

Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg entered the round with an eleven-point lead over teammate Lewis Hamilton in the Drivers' Championship. Mercedes held a 103-points advantage over Ferrari in the Constructors' Championship. During Saturday's qualifying session, Hamilton achieved the 55th pole position of his career to start from the front of the grid, ahead of Rosberg and Max Verstappen.

The race began behind the safety car due to rain shortly before the start. Hamilton was able to convert his pole position into a third straight victory at the British Grand Prix, leading home Rosberg and Verstappen in changing conditions. Rosberg came under investigation by the race stewards after he received detailed instructions by his team how to work around a gearbox problem in the closing laps of the race, a practice forbidden under Formula One regulations. He was later handed a ten-second time penalty, demoting him to third place. The result saw Rosberg's championship lead reduced to just a single point over Hamilton.