Details Ref: | [1] |
Type: | F1 |
Country: | Italy |
Grand Prix: | Italian |
Image-Size: | 250px |
Date: | 4 September |
Year: | 2016 |
Official Name: | Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d'Italia 2016[2] [3] |
Race No: | 14 |
Season No: | 21 |
Location: | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza Monza, Italy |
Course: | Permanent racing facility |
Course Mi: | 3.600 |
Course Km: | 5.793 |
Distance Laps: | 53 |
Distance Mi: | 190.587 |
Distance Km: | 306.720 |
Weather: | Sunny, warm |
Attendance: | 147,500 (Weekend) [4] |
Pole Driver: | Lewis Hamilton |
Pole Team: | Mercedes |
Pole Time: | 1:21.135 |
Pole Country: | GBR |
Fast Driver: | Fernando Alonso |
Fast Team: | McLaren-Honda |
Fast Time: | 1:25.340 |
Fast Lap: | 51 |
Fast Country: | ESP |
First Driver: | Nico Rosberg |
First Team: | Mercedes |
First Country: | DEU |
Second Driver: | Lewis Hamilton |
Second Team: | Mercedes |
Second Country: | GBR |
Third Driver: | Sebastian Vettel |
Third Team: | Ferrari |
Third Country: | DEU |
Previous Round: | 2016 Belgian Grand Prix |
Next Round: | 2016 Singapore Grand Prix |
The 2016 Italian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d'Italia 2016) 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.
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]
Driver | Constructor | |||||||
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Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | ||||||
1 | 44 | Mercedes | 1:21.854 | 1:21.498 | 1:21.135 | 1 | ||
2 | 6 | Mercedes | 1:22.497 | 1:21.809 | 1:21.613 | 2 | ||
3 | 5 | Ferrari | 1:23.077 | 1:22.275 | 1:21.972 | 3 | ||
4 | 7 | Ferrari | 1:23.217 | 1:22.568 | 1:22.065 | 4 | ||
5 | 77 | Williams-Mercedes | 1:23.264 | 1:22.499 | 1:22.388 | 5 | ||
6 | 3 | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | 1:23.158 | 1:22.638 | 1:22.389 | 6 | ||
7 | 33 | 1:23.229 | 1:22.857 | 1:22.411 | 7 | |||
8 | 11 | Force India-Mercedes | 1:23.439 | 1:22.922 | 1:22.814 | 8 | ||
9 | 27 | 1:23.259 | 1:22.951 | 1:22.836 | 9 | |||
10 | 21 | Haas-Ferrari | 1:23.386 | 1:22.856 | 1:23.184 | 10 | ||
11 | 19 | Williams-Mercedes | 1:23.489 | 1:22.967 | 11 | |||
12 | 8 | Haas-Ferrari | 1:23.421 | 1:23.092 | 17 | |||
13 | 14 | McLaren-Honda | 1:23.783 | 1:23.273 | 12 | |||
14 | 94 | MRT-Mercedes | 1:23.760 | 1:23.315 | 13 | |||
15 | 22 | McLaren-Honda | 1:23.666 | 1:23.399 | 14 | |||
16 | 55 | Toro Rosso-Ferrari | 1:23.661 | 1:23.496 | 15 | |||
17 | 26 | Toro Rosso-Ferrari | 1:23.825 | 16 | ||||
18 | 12 | Sauber-Ferrari | 1:23.956 | 18 | ||||
19 | 9 | Sauber-Ferrari | 1:24.087 | 19 | ||||
20 | 30 | Renault | 1:24.230 | 20 | ||||
21 | 20 | Renault | 1:24.436 | 21 | ||||
107% time 1:27.583 | ||||||||
– | 31 | MRT-Mercedes | No time | |||||
Source:[6] |
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]
Driver | Constructor | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points | ||
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1 | 6 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 53 | 1:17:28.089 | 2 | 25 |
2 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 53 | +15.070 | 1 | 18 |
3 | 5 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 53 | +20.990 | 3 | 15 |
4 | 7 | Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 53 | +27.561 | 4 | 12 |
5 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | 53 | +45.295 | 6 | 10 | |
6 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Williams-Mercedes | 53 | +51.015 | 5 | 8 |
7 | 33 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | 53 | +54.236 | 7 | 6 |
8 | 11 | Sergio Pérez | Force India-Mercedes | 53 | +1:04.954 | 8 | 4 |
9 | 19 | Felipe Massa | Williams-Mercedes | 53 | +1:05.617 | 11 | 2 |
10 | 27 | Nico Hülkenberg | Force India-Mercedes | 53 | +1:18.656 | 9 | 1 |
11 | 8 | Romain Grosjean | Haas-Ferrari | 52 | +1 Lap | 17 | |
12 | 22 | Jenson Button | McLaren-Honda | 52 | +1 Lap | 14 | |
13 | 21 | Haas-Ferrari | 52 | +1 Lap | 10 | ||
14 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | McLaren-Honda | 52 | +1 Lap | 12 | |
15 | 55 | Carlos Sainz Jr. | Toro Rosso-Ferrari | 52 | +1 Lap | 15 | |
16 | 9 | Marcus Ericsson | Sauber-Ferrari | 52 | +1 Lap | 19 | |
17 | 20 | Renault | 52 | +1 Lap | 21 | ||
18 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | MRT-Mercedes | 51 | +2 Laps | 22 | |
Ret | 26 | Daniil Kvyat | Toro Rosso-Ferrari | 36 | Battery | 16 | |
Ret | 94 | Pascal Wehrlein | MRT-Mercedes | 26 | Oil leak | 13 | |
Ret | 30 | Jolyon Palmer | Renault | 7 | Collision damage | 20 | |
Ret | 12 | Felipe Nasr | Sauber-Ferrari | 6 | 18 | ||
Source:[8] [9] [10] | |||||||
Driver | Points | |||
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1 | Lewis Hamilton | 250 | ||
2 | Nico Rosberg | 248 | ||
3 | 161 | |||
4 | Sebastian Vettel | 143 | ||
5 | Kimi Räikkönen | 136 | ||
Source:[14] |
Constructor | Points | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Mercedes | 498 | ||
2 | 290 | |||
3 | Ferrari | 279 | ||
1 | 4 | Williams-Mercedes | 111 | |
1 | 5 | Force India-Mercedes | 108 | |
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