Race 5 of 21 in the 2016 Formula One World Championship
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Layout of the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
Race details
Date
15 May 2016
Official name
Formula 1 Gran Premio de España Pirelli 2016[1][2][3]
Location
Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya Montmeló, Spain
Course
Permanent racing facility
Course length
4.655 km (2.892 miles)
Distance
66 laps, 307.104 km (190.826 miles)
Weather
Partly cloudy 20–22 °C (68–72 °F) air temperature 39–41 °C (102–106 °F) track temperature 2 m/s (6.6 ft/s) wind from the north[4]
Attendance
165,025 (Weekend)[5]
Pole position
Driver
Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes
Time
1:22.000
Fastest lap
Driver
Daniil Kvyat
Toro Rosso-Ferrari
Time
1:26.948 on lap 53
Podium
First
Max Verstappen
Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer
Second
Kimi Räikkönen
Ferrari
Third
Sebastian Vettel
Ferrari
Lap leaders
Motor car race
The 2016 Spanish Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Gran Premio de España Pirelli 2016) was a Formula One motor race held on 15 May 2016 at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmeló, Spain. The race was the fifth round of the 2016 FIA Formula One World Championship, and marked the forty-sixth running of the Spanish Grand Prix as a round of the Formula One World Championship. It was the twenty-sixth time that the race has been held at the circuit.
Nico Rosberg was the defending race winner and entered the round with a forty-three-point lead over teammate Lewis Hamilton in the Drivers' Championship. Their team, Mercedes, held an eighty-one point lead over Ferrari in the Constructors' Championship. Hamilton took pole position during qualifying, ahead of teammate Rosberg and Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo.
Max Verstappen won the race upon his début for his new team Red Bull, having swapped his Toro Rosso seat with Daniil Kvyat ahead of the event. At the age of 18 years and 228 days, Verstappen became the youngest ever winner, the youngest driver to score a podium finish and the youngest ever to lead a lap of a Formula One race, breaking the previous records held by Sebastian Vettel. In the process he also became the first Dutchman to win a Grand Prix and the first Grand Prix winner born in the 1990s. Both Mercedes drivers retired from the race following a collision with each other on the first lap, thus marking the only race of the 2016 season without a Mercedes driver on the podium, the first Mercedes double retirement since the 2011 Australian Grand Prix and the first time the team had not scored a point since the 2012 United States Grand Prix.
^"2016 Formula 1 Gran Premio de España". Formula1.com. Formula One Administration. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
^Mitchell, Malcolm. "2016 Formula 1 World Championship Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
^Mitchell, Malcolm. "Catalunya - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
^"GP Spanien in Barcelona / Rennen". Motorsport-total.com (in German). 15 May 2016. Archived from the original on 15 May 2016. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
^"F1 attendance figures hit four million in 2017". Formula1.com. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
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