| 2016 Mexican Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 19 of 21 in the2016 Formula One World Championship
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| Race details[1] | |||||
| Date | 30 October 2016 (2016-10-30) | ||||
| Official name | Formula 1Gran Premio de México 2016 | ||||
| Location | Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez,Mexico City,Mexico | ||||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
| Course length | 4.304 km (2.674 miles) | ||||
| Distance | 71 laps, 305.354 km (189.738 miles) | ||||
| Weather | Sunny | ||||
| Attendance | 339,967 (Weekend)[2] 135,026 (Race Day)[3] | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver | Mercedes | ||||
| Time | 1:18.704 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver |  Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | |||
| Time | 1:21.134 on lap 53 | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First | Mercedes | ||||
| Second | Mercedes | ||||
| Third | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | ||||
Lap leaders | |||||
The2016 Mexican Grand Prix (formally known as theFormula 1 Gran Premio de México 2016) was the Formula One motor race run on 30 October 2016 at theAutódromo 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 in1950.
Defending race winnerNico Rosberg entered the round with a twenty-six-point lead over teammateLewis 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 overRed Bull Racing in the World Constructors' Championship before the race; Red Bull were fifty-three points ahead ofScuderia Ferrari.
Lewis Hamilton won the race to narrow the Championship gap between him and teammate Nico Rosberg surviving a scare at the start when he ran wide at the first corner, before there was a brief Safety Car period after Pascal Wehrlein was punted off at the same corner. BothMax Verstappen andSebastian 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 teammateDaniel 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.[4]
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| Preceded by 2015 Mexican Grand Prix | Formula One Promotional Trophy for Race Promoter 2016 | Succeeded by 2017 Mexican Grand Prix |
