2016 Monaco Grand Prix
The 2016 Monaco Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2016) was a Formula One motor race held on 29 May 2016 at the Circuit de Monaco, a street circuit that runs through the Principality of Monaco. It was the sixth round of the 2016 FIA Formula One World Championship, and marked the seventy-fourth time that the Monaco Grand Prix had been held, as well as the sixty-third time it had been held as a round of the Formula One World Championship since the series inception in 1950.
| 2016 Monaco Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 6 of 21 in the 2016 Formula One World Championship
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Layout of the Circuit de Monte Carlo, Monaco | |||||
| Race details | |||||
| Date | 29 May 2016 | ||||
| Official name | Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2016 | ||||
| Location |
Circuit de Monaco La Condamine and Monte Carlo, Monaco | ||||
| Course | Street circuit | ||||
| Course length | 3.337 km (2.074 miles) | ||||
| Distance | 78 laps, 260.286 km (161.734 miles) | ||||
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Rainy at start, dry later 17–18 °C (63–64 °F) air temperature 20–22 °C (68–72 °F) track temperature 2 m/s (6.6 ft/s) wind from the north | ||||
| Attendance | 200,000 (Weekend) | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | ||||
| Time | 1:13.622 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | |||
| Time | 1:17.939 on lap 71 | ||||
| Podium | |||||
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| Mercedes | |||
| Second | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | ||||
| Third |
| Force India-Mercedes | |||
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Lap leaders | |||||
Nico Rosberg was the defending race winner having won the past three Monaco Grands Prix in a row and entered the race with a thirty-nine-point lead held over Ferrari driver Kimi Räikkönen in the Drivers' Championship. Rosberg's team, Mercedes, held a 48-point lead over Ferrari in the Constructors' Championship.
During Saturday's qualifying, Daniel Ricciardo, who was driving for Red Bull Racing, achieved the first pole position of his career. In an eventful race, Mercedes's Lewis Hamilton took victory ahead of Ricciardo, who had lost time during a pitstop, when his engineers made a last second strategy call to swap to a different set of tyres while mechanics were already in the pit lane; as a result, the tyres arrived late to the car. Sergio Pérez completed the podium for Force India, the team's first appearance in the top three of the season and their first since the 2015 Russian Grand Prix.