| 2016 German Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 12 of 21 in the2016 Formula One World Championship
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 The layout of the Hockenheimring | |||||
| Race details[1] | |||||
| Date | 31 July 2016 | ||||
| Official name | Formula 1 Grosser Preis von Deutschland 2016[2][3] | ||||
| Location | Hockenheimring,Hockenheim,Germany | ||||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
| Course length | 4.574 km (2.842 miles) | ||||
| Distance | 67 laps, 306.458 km (190.424 miles) | ||||
| Weather | Partially cloudy and dry | ||||
| Attendance | 60,000 (Race Day) | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver | Mercedes | ||||
| Time | 1:14.363 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver |  Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | |||
| Time | 1:18.442 on lap 48 | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First | Mercedes | ||||
| Second | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | ||||
| Third | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | ||||
Lap leaders | |||||
The2016 German Grand Prix (formally known as theFormula 1 Grosser Preis von Deutschland 2016) was aFormula Onemotor race that took place on 31 July 2016. After a one-year absence, the race returned to theHockenheimring nearHockenheim in the German state ofBaden-Württemberg, which last held the race in2014. It was the twelfth round of the2016 FIA Formula One World Championship, and marked the seventy-sixth running of theGerman Grand Prix, and the sixty-second time the race has been run as a round of the Formula One World Championship.
Lewis Hamilton entered the round with a six-point lead in the World Drivers' Championship over teammate and defending race winnerNico Rosberg. Hamilton won the race and extended his lead over Rosberg to nineteen points. Their team,Mercedes, further extended its lead in the World Constructors' Championship.
In the week before the race,MRT driverRio Haryanto was the subject of increased media scrutiny amidst reports that his primary sponsor—Indonesian petrochemical companyPertamina—had not met its financial obligations to the team, thus placing his future with MRT and in the sport in jeopardy.[4] Haryanto was ultimately able to secure the seat for the race, but his long-term future with the team remained in doubt.[5] This would eventually turn out to be his final F1 entry.
Following the handing out of several controversial penalties and extensive debate over the application of amendments to the sporting regulations, the FIA repealed all of the rules restricting pit-to-car communications.[6]
This was the first Grand Prix that double yellow flags would be the same as a red flag in qualifying after the controversial qualifying in the Hungarian Grand Prix.[7]
Tyre supplierPirelli provided teams with the medium, soft and supersoft compounds.[8]
In the race itselfLewis Hamilton won claiming his 4th victory in a row to move into a 19-point lead in the Championship,Daniel Ricciardo came home 2nd ahead of his teammateMax Verstappen,Nico Rosberg slipped back to 4th after being penalised for forcing Verstappen off the track.[9]
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