2016 Italian Grand Prix

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2016 Italian Grand Prix
Race 14 of 21 in the 2016 Formula One World Championship
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Layout of the Monza circuit
Layout of the Monza circuit
Race details[1]
Date 4 September 2016
Official name Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d'Italia 2016[2][3]
Location Autodromo Nazionale di Monza
Monza, Italy
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 5.793 km (3.600 miles)
Distance 53 laps, 306.720 km (190.587 miles)
Weather Sunny, warm
Attendance 147,500 (Weekend) [4]
Pole position
Driver Mercedes
Time 1:21.135
Fastest lap
Driver Spain Fernando Alonso McLaren-Honda
Time 1:25.340 on lap 51
Podium
First Mercedes
Second Mercedes
Third Ferrari
Lap leaders
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The 2016 Italian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d'Italia 2016)[1] was a Formula One motor race held on 4 September 2016 at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza in Monza, Italy. It was the fourteenth round of the 2016 FIA Formula One World Championship, and marked the 86th running of the Italian Grand Prix and the 81st time the race was held at Monza.

Mercedes driver and winner of the previous year's race, Lewis Hamilton, entered the race leading the World Drivers' Championship by nine points ahead of teammate Nico Rosberg. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes held a lead of 181 points. Red Bull Racing was placed second and Ferrari third.

Background

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Tyres

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Pirelli provided the teams with medium, soft and supersoft tyres. Pirelli anticipated that the difference between the different compounds would be less than one second per lap, with the differences between soft and supersoft to be around 0.7 of a second, and the difference between soft and medium about 0.9 seconds.[5]

Qualifying

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Pos. Car
no.
Driver Constructor Qualifying times Final
grid
Q1 Q2 Q3
1 44 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:21.854 1:21.498 1:21.135 1
2 6 Germany Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:22.497 1:21.809 1:21.613 2
3 5 Germany Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1:23.077 1:22.275 1:21.972 3
4 7 Finland Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:23.217 1:22.568 1:22.065 4
5 77 Finland Valtteri Bottas Williams-Mercedes 1:23.264 1:22.499 1:22.388 5
6 3 Australia Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer 1:23.158 1:22.638 1:22.389 6
7 33 Netherlands Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer 1:23.229 1:22.857 1:22.411 7
8 11 Mexico Sergio Pérez Force India-Mercedes 1:23.439 1:22.922 1:22.814 8
9 27 Germany Nico Hülkenberg Force India-Mercedes 1:23.259 1:22.951 1:22.836 9
10 21 Mexico Esteban Gutiérrez Haas-Ferrari 1:23.386 1:22.856 1:23.184 10
11 19 Brazil Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes 1:23.489 1:22.967 11
12 8 France Romain Grosjean Haas-Ferrari 1:23.421 1:23.092 171
13 14 Spain Fernando Alonso McLaren-Honda 1:23.783 1:23.273 12
14 94 Germany Pascal Wehrlein MRT-Mercedes 1:23.760 1:23.315 13
15 22 United Kingdom Jenson Button McLaren-Honda 1:23.666 1:23.399 14
16 55 Spain Carlos Sainz Jr. Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:23.661 1:23.496 15
17 26 Russia Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:23.825 16
18 12 Brazil Felipe Nasr Sauber-Ferrari 1:23.956 18
19 9 Sweden Marcus Ericsson Sauber-Ferrari 1:24.087 19
20 30 United Kingdom Jolyon Palmer Renault 1:24.230 20
21 20 Denmark  Kevin Magnussen Renault 1:24.436 21
107% time: 1:27.583
31 France Esteban Ocon MRT-Mercedes No time 221, 2
Source:[6]
Notes
  • ^1Romain Grosjean and Esteban Ocon received a five-place grid penalty for an unscheduled gearbox change.
  • ^2Esteban Ocon failed to set a lap time in qualifying. His participation in the race was at the discretion of the stewards.

Lewis Hamilton started poorly and was overtaken by his teammate Nico Rosberg, Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Räikkönen, Valtteri Bottas and Daniel Ricciardo. Rosberg went into a comfortable lead with Hamilton slowly recovering, firstly picking off Ricciardo then Bottas shortly afterwards. Hamilton didn't have the pace or tyres to catch his teammate Rosberg who went on to win the race. Sebastian Vettel finished third ahead of his Ferrari teammate Räikkönen. Ricciardo took 5th ahead of Bottas.[7]

Race classification

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Pos. No. Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 6 Germany Nico Rosberg Mercedes 53 1:17:28.089 2 25
2 44 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 53 +15.070 1 18
3 5 Germany Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 53 +20.990 3 15
4 7 Finland Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 53 +27.561 4 12
5 3 Australia Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer 53 +45.295 6 10
6 77 Finland Valtteri Bottas Williams-Mercedes 53 +51.015 5 8
7 33 Netherlands Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer 53 +54.236 7 6
8 11 Mexico Sergio Pérez Force India-Mercedes 53 +1:04.954 8 4
9 19 Brazil Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes 53 +1:05.617 11 2
10 27 Germany Nico Hülkenberg Force India-Mercedes 53 +1:18.656 9 1
11 8 France Romain Grosjean Haas-Ferrari 52 +1 Lap 17
12 22 United Kingdom Jenson Button McLaren-Honda 52 +1 Lap 14
13 21 Mexico Esteban Gutiérrez Haas-Ferrari 52 +1 Lap 10
14 14 Spain Fernando Alonso McLaren-Honda 52 +1 Lap 12
15 55 Spain Carlos Sainz Jr. Toro Rosso-Ferrari 52 +1 Lap 15
16 9 Sweden Marcus Ericsson Sauber-Ferrari 52 +1 Lap 19
17 20 Denmark  Kevin Magnussen Renault 52 +1 Lap 21
18 31 France Esteban Ocon MRT-Mercedes 51 +2 Laps 22
Ret1 26 Russia Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso-Ferrari 36 Battery 16
Ret 94 Germany Pascal Wehrlein MRT-Mercedes 26 Oil leak 13
Ret 30 United Kingdom Jolyon Palmer Renault 7 Collision damage 20
Ret2 12 Brazil Felipe Nasr Sauber-Ferrari 6 Collision damage 18
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Notes
  • ^1Daniil Kvyat received a 5-second time penalty for speeding in the pit-lane,[9] which was added to his finishing time (despite his being retired and not classified in the race).[8][11][12]
  • ^2Felipe Nasr received a 10-second penalty for causing a collision with Jolyon Palmer,[9] which, unlike Kvyat's penalty, was not added to his finishing time.[8][11][13]

Championship standings after the race

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  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

See also

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References

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