The 2016 Mexican Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Gran Premio de México 2016) was the Formula One motor race run on 30 October 2016 at the Autódromo 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 in .
Defending race winner Nico Rosberg entered the round with a twenty-six-point lead over teammate Lewis 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 over Red Bull Racing in the World Constructors' Championship before the race; Red Bull were fifty-three points ahead of Scuderia Ferrari.
Report 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. Both Max Verstappen and Sebastian 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 teammate Daniel 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.
Classification
Qualifying DriverConstructorQ1Q2Q3144Mercedes1:19.4471:19.1371:18.704126Mercedes1:19.9961:19.7611:18.9582333Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer1:19.8741:18.9721:19.0543431:19.7131:19.5531:19.13345271:20.5991:19.7691:19.330567Ferrari1:19.5541:19.9361:19.376675Ferrari1:19.8651:19.3851:19.3817877Williams-Mercedes1:20.3381:19.9581:19.5518919Williams-Mercedes1:20.4231:20.1511:20.03291055Toro Rosso-Ferrari1:20.4571:20.1691:20.378101114McLaren-Honda1:20.5521:20.282111211Force India-Mercedes1:20.3081:20.287121322McLaren-Honda1:21.3331:20.673131420Renault1:21.2541:21.13114159Sauber-Ferrari1:21.0621:21.536151694MRT-Mercedes1:21.3631:21.785161721Haas-Ferrari1:21.401171826Toro Rosso-Ferrari1:21.454181912Sauber-Ferrari1:21.692192031MRT-Mercedes1:21.88120218Haas-Ferrari1:21.91621107% time: 1:25.008—30RenaultNo time22Source: Notes – Jolyon Palmer did not set a lap time in qualifying. His participation in the race was permitted at the discretion of the stewards.
Race DriverConstructorLapsTime/RetiredGridPoints144 Lewis HamiltonMercedes711:40:31.40212526 Nico RosbergMercedes71 +8.35421833 Daniel RicciardoRed Bull Racing-TAG Heuer71 +20.858415433 Max VerstappenRed Bull Racing-TAG Heuer71 +21.32331255 Sebastian VettelFerrari71 +27.31371067 Kimi RäikkönenFerrari71 +49.37668727 Nico HülkenbergForce India-Mercedes71 +58.89156877 Valtteri BottasWilliams-Mercedes71 +1:05.61284919 Felipe MassaWilliams-Mercedes71 +1:16.206921011 Sergio PérezForce India-Mercedes71 +1:16.798121119 Marcus EricssonSauber-Ferrari70 +1 Lap151222 Jenson ButtonMcLaren-Honda70 +1 Lap131314 Fernando AlonsoMcLaren-Honda70 +1 Lap111430 Jolyon PalmerRenault70 +1 Lap211512 Felipe NasrSauber-Ferrari70+1 Lap191655 Carlos Sainz Jr.Toro Rosso-Ferrari70 +1 Lap101720 Kevin MagnussenRenault70 +1 Lap141826 Daniil KvyatToro Rosso-Ferrari70 +1 Lap181921 Esteban GutiérrezHaas-Ferrari70 +1 Lap17208 Romain GrosjeanHaas-Ferrari70 +1 LapPL2131 Esteban OconMRT-Mercedes69 +2 Laps20 94 Pascal WehrleinMRT-Mercedes0Collision16Source: Notes – Max Verstappen was handed a five-second time penalty for gaining an advantage while attempting to overtake Sebastian Vettel. – Sebastian Vettel received a ten-second penalty for moving under braking while defending against Daniel Ricciardo and two licence points penalty after the race. – Carlos Sainz Jr. was penalty five-second for pushing Fernando Alonso at the start, dropping him from 15th to 16th place. – Daniil Kvyat was handed a five-second penalty for exceeding track limits, dropping from 17th to 18th place. – Romain Grosjean required to start from the pit lane due to car being modified whilst under Parc Ferme conditions.
Championship standings after the race
Drivers' Championship standings Driver Points 1 Nico Rosberg* 349 2 Lewis Hamilton* 330 3 242 4 Sebastian Vettel 187 5 Kimi Räikkönen 178Source:
Constructors' Championship standings Constructor Points 1 Mercedes 679 2 427 3 Ferrari 365 4 Force India-Mercedes 145 5 Williams-Mercedes 136Source:
Note: Only the top five positions are included for the sets of standings. Bold text indicates the 2016 World Constructors' Champions. Bold text and an asterisk indicates competitors with a theoritical chance of being World Champion.
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