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2016 Italian Grand Prix

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Date
  
4 September 2016

Course length
  
5.793 km (3.600 mi)

2016 Italian Grand Prix

Official name
  
Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d'Italia 2016

Location
  
Autodromo Nazionale Monza Monza, Italy

Course
  
Permanent racing facility

Distance
  
53 laps, 306.720 km (190.587 mi)

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 Monza in Monza, Italy. It was the fourteenth round of the 2016 Formula One season, and marked the eighty-sixth running of the Italian Grand Prix and the eighty-second time the race was held at Monza.

Contents

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 team-mate Nico Rosberg. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes held a lead of 181 points. Red Bull Racing was placed second and Ferrari third.

Tyres

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.

Qualifying

Notes:

  • ^1 — Romain Grosjean and Esteban Ocon received a five-place grid penalty for an unscheduled gearbox change.
  • ^2 — Esteban Ocon failed to set a lap time in qualifying. His participation in the race was at the discretion of the stewards.

    • Race

  • ^3 — Daniil Kvyat received a 5-second time penalty for speeding in the pit-lane, which was added to his finishing time (despite his being retired and not classified in the race).
  • ^4 — Felipe Nasr received a 10-second penalty for causing a collision with Jolyon Palmer, which, unlike Kvyat's penalty, was not added to his finishing time.

    • Standings after the race

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

    • References

    2016 Italian Grand Prix Wikipedia
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