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2016 Spanish Grand Prix

2016 Spanish Grand Prix
Race 5 of 21 in the 2016 Formula One World Championship
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A track map of the Circuit de Barcelona–Catalunya. The track has 16 corners, which range in sharpness from hairpins to gentle, sweeping turns. There are two long straights that link the corners together. The pit lane splits off from the track on the inside of Turn 16, and rejoins the track after the start–finish straight.
Layout of the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
Race details
Date 15 May 2016
Official name Formula 1 Gran Premio de España Pirelli 2016[1][2][3]
Location Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
Montmeló, Spain
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 4.655 km (2.892 miles)
Distance 66 laps, 307.104 km (190.826 miles)
Weather Partly cloudy
20–22 °C (68–72 °F) air temperature
39–41 °C (102–106 °F) track temperature
2 m/s (6.6 ft/s) wind from the north[4]
Attendance 165,025 (Weekend)[5]
Pole position
Driver
Mercedes
Time 1:22.000
Fastest lap
Driver Russia Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso-Ferrari
Time 1:26.948 on lap 53
Podium
First
Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer
Second
Ferrari
Third
Ferrari
Lap leaders

The 2016 Spanish Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Gran Premio de España Pirelli 2016) was a Formula One motor race held on 15 May 2016 at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmeló, Spain. The race was the fifth round of the 2016 FIA Formula One World Championship, and marked the forty-sixth running of the Spanish Grand Prix as a round of the Formula One World Championship. It was the twenty-sixth time that the race has been held at the circuit.

Nico Rosberg was the defending race winner and entered the round with a forty-three-point lead over teammate Lewis Hamilton in the Drivers' Championship. Their team, Mercedes, held an eighty-one point lead over Ferrari in the Constructors' Championship. Hamilton took pole position during qualifying, ahead of teammate Rosberg and Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo.

Max Verstappen won the race upon his début for his new team Red Bull, having swapped his Toro Rosso seat with Daniil Kvyat ahead of the event. At the age of 18 years and 228 days, Verstappen became the youngest ever winner, the youngest driver to score a podium finish and the youngest ever to lead a lap of a Formula One race, breaking the previous records held by Sebastian Vettel. In the process he also became the first Dutchman to win a Grand Prix and the first Grand Prix winner born in the 1990s. Both Mercedes drivers retired from the race following a collision with each other on the first lap, thus marking the only race of the 2016 season without a Mercedes driver on the podium, the first Mercedes double retirement since the 2011 Australian Grand Prix and the first time the team had not scored a point since the 2012 United States Grand Prix.

  1. ^ "2016 Formula 1 Gran Premio de España". Formula1.com. Formula One Administration. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  2. ^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "2016 Formula 1 World Championship Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  3. ^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "Catalunya - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  4. ^ "GP Spanien in Barcelona / Rennen". Motorsport-total.com (in German). 15 May 2016. Archived from the original on 15 May 2016. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  5. ^ "F1 attendance figures hit four million in 2017". Formula1.com. Retrieved 27 November 2018.

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