| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Grand Prix: | Silverstone |
| Round No: | 5 |
| Season No: | 11 |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Location: | Silverstone Circuit Silverstone, United Kingdom |
| Course: | Permanent racing facility |
| Course Mi: | 3.660 |
| Course Km: | 5.891 |
| Date R1: | 9 July |
| Laps R1: | 29 |
| Pole Driver Country: | FRA |
| Pole Driver: | Norman Nato |
| Pole Team: | Racing Engineering |
| Pole Time: | 1:38.216 |
| First Driver Country R1: | FRA |
| First Driver R1: | Pierre Gasly |
| First Team R1: | Prema Racing |
| Second Driver Country R1: | ITA |
| Second Driver R1: | Antonio Giovinazzi |
| Second Team R1: | Prema Racing |
| Third Driver Country R1: | GBR |
| Third Driver R1: | Oliver Rowland |
| Third Team R1: | MP Motorsport |
| Fast Driver Country R1: | NZL |
| Fast Driver R1: | Mitch Evans |
| Fast Team R1: | Campos Racing |
| Fast Time R1: | 1:43.172 |
| Fast Lap R1: | 24 |
| Date R2: | 10 July |
| Laps R2: | 21 |
| First Driver Country R2: | GBR |
| First Driver R2: | Jordan King |
| First Team R2: | Racing Engineering |
| Second Driver Country R2: | ITA |
| Second Driver R2: | Luca Ghiotto |
| Second Team R2: | Trident |
| Third Driver Country R2: | GBR |
| Third Driver R2: | Oliver Rowland |
| Third Team R2: | MP Motorsport |
| Fast Driver Country R2: | ITA |
| Fast Driver R2: | Luca Ghiotto |
| Fast Team R2: | Trident |
| Fast Time R2: | 1:44.199 |
| Fast Lap R2: | 3 |
The 2016 Silverstone GP2 Series round was a GP2 Series motor race held on 9 and 10 July 2016 at the Silverstone Circuit in the United Kingdom. It was the fifth round of the 2016 GP2 Series. The race weekend they supported the 2016 British Grand Prix.
ART Grand Prix's Nobuharu Matsushita returned to the series after serving his one-round ban in Austria.
In a somewhat controversial manner, Norman Nato achieved the fastest time of 1:38.216, thereby achieving his first pole position of the year. He was under investigation for setting his pole lap under red flag conditions. He was deemed by officials to set the lap time under green conditions and his pole time stood. Pierre Gasly achieved second place two-tenths behind Nato and Nicholas Latifi achieved a career-best of third.
| Driver | Team | Time | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 |  Norman Nato | Racing Engineering | 1:38.216 | 1 | |
| 2 | 21 | Pierre Gasly | Prema Racing | 1:38.441 | 2 | |
| 3 | 6 |  Nicholas Latifi | DAMS | 1:38.797 | 3 | |
| 4 | 9 |  Raffaele Marciello | Russian Time | 1:38.842 | 4 | |
| 5 | 2 |  Sergey Sirotkin | ART Grand Prix | 1:38.904 | PL | |
| 6 | 20 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Prema Racing | 1:38.912 | 5 | |
| 7 | 7 |  Mitch Evans | Campos Racing | 1:39.084 | 6 | |
| 8 | 4 |  Jordan King | Racing Engineering | 1:39.123 | 7 | |
| 9 | 12 | Arthur Pic | Rapax | 1:39.160 | 8 | |
| 10 | 22 | Oliver Rowland | MP Motorsport | 1:39.192 | 9 | |
| 11 | 10 | Artem Markelov | Russian Time | 1:39.370 | 10 | |
| 12 | 1 |  Nobuharu Matsushita | ART Grand Prix | 1:39.572 | 11 | |
| 13 | 19 |  Marvin Kirchhöfer | Carlin | 1:39.668 | 12 | |
| 14 | 18 |  Sergio Canamasas | Carlin | 1:39.749 | 16 | |
| 15 | 8 | Sean Gelael | Campos Racing | 1:39.750 | 13 | |
| 16 | 11 |  Gustav Malja | Rapax | 1:39.798 | 14 | |
| 17 | 5 | Alex Lynn | DAMS | 1:39.928 | 15 | |
| 18 | 23 | Daniël de Jong | MP Motorsport | 1:40.459 | 17 | |
| 19 | 25 | Jimmy Eriksson | Arden International | 1:40.838 | 18 | |
| 20 | 24 |  Nabil Jeffri | Arden International | 1:41.160 | 19 | |
| 21 | 14 | Philo Paz Armand | Trident | 1:41.385 | 20 | |
| – | 15 | Luca Ghiotto | Trident | no time | 21 | |
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The preferred tire strategy for the feature race was often to start on the hard compound and then switch to soft later in the race. Prema Racing went against this using the opposite strategy to great effect, with Pierre Gasly taking his maiden GP2 win from teammate Antonio Giovinazzi. Oliver Rowland also went with this strategy, achieving third despite struggling for grip in the dying laps. This result elevates both Prema drivers to first and second in the standings, with Evans maintaining third.
The sprint race saw another dominant performance from Jordan King who led from start to finish despite a late charge from Luca Ghiotto. The race was rather calm for the most part until three-laps from the end when the rain started to descend upon the circuit. As the circuit became more and more slippery, the drivers soon found themselves struggling for grip. Norman Nato spun off and several others left the circuit. Rowland passed Matsushita in the final laps to achieve another podium, the only driver to do so throughout the weekend.
| Driver | Team | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Jordan King | Racing Engineering | 21 | 37:35.325 | 1 | 15 |
| 2 | 15 | Luca Ghiotto | Trident | 21 | +0.580 | 4 | 12 (2) |
| 3 | 22 | Oliver Rowland | MP Motorsport | 21 | +11.664 | 6 | 10 |
| 4 | 20 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Prema Racing | 21 | +11.786 | 7 | 8 |
| 5 | 1 | Nobuharu Matsushita | ART Grand Prix | 21 | +17.518 | 3 | 6 |
| 6 | 9 | Raffaele Marciello | Russian Time | 21 | +20.467 | 9 | 4 |
| 7 | 21 | Pierre Gasly | Prema Racing | 21 | +23.126 | 8 | 2 |
| 8 | 19 | Marvin Kirchhöfer | Carlin | 21 | +25.873 | 12 | 1 |
| 9 | 18 | Sergio Canamasas | Carlin | 21 | +26.721 | 13 | |
| 10 | 6 | Nicholas Latifi | DAMS | 21 | +27.370 | 11 | |
| 11 | 12 | Arthur Pic | Rapax | 21 | +28.061 | 14 | |
| 12 | 10 | Artem Markelov | Russian Time | 21 | +28.632 | 10 | |
| 13 | 7 | Mitch Evans | Campos Racing | 21 | +28.844 | 5 | |
| 14 | 5 | Alex Lynn | DAMS | 21 | +29.598 | 16 | |
| 15 | 24 | Nabil Jeffri | Arden International | 21 | +31.284 | 17 | |
| 16 | 23 | Daniël de Jong | MP Motorsport | 21 | +32.249 | 19 | |
| 17 | 25 | Jimmy Eriksson | Arden International | 21 | +35.412 | 15 | |
| 18 | 8 | Sean Gelael | Campos Racing | 21 | +40.058 | 21 | |
| 19 | 11 | Gustav Malja | Rapax | 21 | +46.964 | 22 | |
| 20 | 14 | Philo Paz Armand | Trident | 21 | +1:30.028 | 20 | |
| 21 | 2 | Sergey Sirotkin | ART Grand Prix | 21 | +1:30.624 | 18 | |
| Ret | 3 | Norman Nato | Racing Engineering | 19 | Spun off | 2 | |
| Fastest lap: Luca Ghiotto (Trident) – 1:44.199 (on lap 3) | |||||||
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| Pos | Driver | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1 | Oliver Rowland | 79 | |
| 4 | 2 | Antonio Giovinazzi | 78 | |
| 5 | 3 | Pierre Gasly | 74 | |
| 3 | 4 | Raffaele Marciello | 72 | |
| 3 | 5 | Mitch Evans | 70 |
| Pos | Team | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | Prema Racing | 152 | |
| 2 | Racing Engineering | 129 | ||
| 2 | 3 | Russian Time | 127 | |
| 4 | Campos Racing | 94 | ||
| 1 | 5 | ART Grand Prix | 86 |