2016 Mexican Grand Prix
The 2016 Mexican Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Gran Premio de México 2016) was the Formula One motor race run on 30 October 2016 at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City, the eighteenth Mexican Grand Prix, and the sixteenth time that the race had been run as a World Championship event since the inaugural season in 1950.
| 2016 Mexican Grand Prix | |||
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| Race 19 of 21 in the 2016 Formula One World Championship | |||
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| Race details[1] | |||
| Date | 30 October 2016 | ||
| Official name | Formula 1 Gran Premio de México 2016 | ||
| Location | Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 4.304 km (2.674 mi) | ||
| Distance | 71 laps, 305.354 km (189.738 mi) | ||
| Weather | Sunny | ||
| Attendance | 339,967 (Weekend)[2] 135,026 (Race Day)[3] | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Mercedes | ||
| Time | 1:18.704 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
.svg.png){kind=small} | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | |
| Time | 1:21.134 on lap 53 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Mercedes | ||
| Second | Mercedes | ||
| Third | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | ||
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Lap leaders
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Defending race winner Nico Rosberg entered the round with a twenty-six-point lead over teammate Lewis Hamilton in the World Drivers' Championship; they were the only two drivers who could win the title at the start of the race, and both remained in contention after it. Their team, Mercedes, held a lead of two hundred and thirty-six points over Red Bull Racing in the World Constructors' Championship before the race; Red Bull were fifty-three points ahead of Scuderia Ferrari.
Report
Both Max Verstappen and Sebastian Vettel were stripped of third place podium finishes when penalised post-race. Verstappen crossed the finish line in third, followed 0.99 seconds later by Vettel, himself followed 3.55 seconds later by Verstappen's teammate Daniel Ricciardo. Before the trophy presentation, Verstappen was penalised five seconds for cutting a race corner and unfairly maintaining his narrow lead over Vettel on lap 68. While Vettel attended the podium ceremony as the revised third-place finisher, he was soon given a ten-second penalty for driving dangerously on lap 69, for moving under braking to block Ricciardo as he attempted a pass, under new rules introduced at the United States Grand Prix the previous week. This meant that Ricciardo was promoted to third which also sealed third place in the championship for him, while Verstappen was relegated from third to fourth and Vettel was moved from fourth to third to fifth once the stewards had reviewed all incidents.
Classification
Qualifying
| Pos. | Car no. |
Driver | Constructor | Qualifying times | Final grid | ||
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| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | |||||
| 1 | 44 |  |
Mercedes | 1:19.447 | 1:19.137 | 1:18.704 | 1 |
| 2 | 6 |  |
Mercedes | 1:19.996 | 1:19.761 | 1:18.958 | 2 |
| 3 | 33 |  |
Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | 1:19.874 | 1:18.972 | 1:19.054 | 3 |
| 4 | 3 | |
Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | 1:19.713 | 1:19.553 | 1:19.133 | 4 |
| 5 | 27 | |
Force India-Mercedes | 1:20.599 | 1:19.769 | 1:19.330 | 5 |
| 6 | 7 |  |
Ferrari | 1:19.554 | 1:19.936 | 1:19.376 | 6 |
| 7 | 5 | |
Ferrari | 1:19.865 | 1:19.385 | 1:19.381 | 7 |
| 8 | 77 | |
Williams-Mercedes | 1:20.338 | 1:19.958 | 1:19.551 | 8 |
| 9 | 19 |  |
Williams-Mercedes | 1:20.423 | 1:20.151 | 1:20.032 | 9 |
| 10 | 55 |  |
Toro Rosso-Ferrari | 1:20.457 | 1:20.169 | 1:20.378 | 10 |
| 11 | 14 | |
McLaren-Honda | 1:20.552 | 1:20.282 | 11 | |
| 12 | 11 |  |
Force India-Mercedes | 1:20.308 | 1:20.287 | 12 | |
| 13 | 22 | |
McLaren-Honda | 1:21.333 | 1:20.673 | 13 | |
| 14 | 20 |  |
Renault | 1:21.254 | 1:21.131 | 14 | |
| 15 | 9 |  |
Sauber-Ferrari | 1:21.062 | 1:21.536 | 15 | |
| 16 | 94 | |
MRT-Mercedes | 1:21.363 | 1:21.785 | 16 | |
| 17 | 21 | |
Haas-Ferrari | 1:21.401 | 17 | ||
| 18 | 26 |  |
Toro Rosso-Ferrari | 1:21.454 | 18 | ||
| 19 | 12 | |
Sauber-Ferrari | 1:21.692 | 19 | ||
| 20 | 31 |  |
MRT-Mercedes | 1:21.881 | 20 | ||
| 21 | 8 | |
Haas-Ferrari | 1:21.916 | 21 | ||
| 107% time: 1:25.008 | |||||||
| — | 30 | |
Renault | No time | 221 | ||
| Source:[4] | |||||||
- Notes
- ^1 – Jolyon Palmer did not set a lap time in qualifying. His participation in the race was permitted at the discretion of the stewards.
Race
- Notes
- ^1 – Max Verstappen, Carlos Sainz Jr. and Daniil Kvyat received five-second penalties after the race.
- ^2 – Romain Grosjean required to start from the pit lane due to car being modified whilst under Parc Ferme conditions.
- ^3 – Sebastian Vettel received a ten-second and two licence points penalty after the race.
Championship standings after the race
- Bold text indicates who still had a theoretical chance of becoming World Champion.
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for the sets of standings.
References
- "Mexico". formula1.com. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- "2016 Mexico Grand Prix Attendance". Formula1.com. Formula One Administration. 30 October 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- "2016 Mexico Grand Prix Attendance". Formula1.com. Formula One Administration. 30 October 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- "Formula 1 Gran Premio de México 2016 – Qualifying". Formula1.com. Formula One World Championship Limited. 29 October 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
- "Formula 1 Gran Premio de México 2016 – Race Result". Formula1.com. Formula One World Championship Limited. 30 October 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
- "Mexico 2016 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
External links
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| Previous race: 2016 United States Grand Prix |
FIA Formula One World Championship 2016 season |
Next race: 2016 Brazilian Grand Prix |
| Previous race: 2015 Mexican Grand Prix |
Mexican Grand Prix | Next race: 2017 Mexican Grand Prix |
| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by 2015 Mexican Grand Prix |
Formula One Promotional Trophy for Race Promoter 2016 |
Succeeded by 2017 Mexican Grand Prix |