2016 British Grand Prix
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| Race 10 of 21 in the 2016 Formula One season | |||
Layout of the Silverstone Circuit
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| Date | 10 July 2016 | ||
| Official name | 2016 Formula 1 British Grand Prix | ||
| Location |
Silverstone Circuit Silverstone, United Kingdom |
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| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 5.891 km (3.661 mi) | ||
| Distance | 52 laps, 306.198 km (190.263 mi) | ||
| Weather | Wet at start, dry later | ||
| Attendance | 122,000 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Mercedes | ||
| Time | 1:29.287 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Nico Rosberg
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Mercedes | |
| Time | 1:35.548 on lap 44 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Mercedes | ||
| Second | Red Bull-TAG Heuer | ||
| Third | Mercedes | ||
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The 2016 British Grand Prix (formally known as the 2016 Formula 1 British Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 10 July 2016 at the Silverstone Circuit in Silverstone, United Kingdom. This race was the seventy-first running of the British Grand Prix, the first having been held in 1926, and was the tenth round of the 2016 Formula One season and the fifty-second time that the race was held at the Silverstone Circuit since the Formula One series inception in 1950.
Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg entered the round with an eleven-point lead over teammate Lewis Hamilton in the Drivers' Championship. Mercedes held a 103-points advantage over Ferrari in the Constructors' Championship. During Saturday's qualifying session, Hamilton achieved the 55th pole position of his career to start from the front of the grid, ahead of Rosberg and Max Verstappen.
The race began behind the safety car due to rain shortly before the start. Hamilton was able to convert his pole position into a third straight victory at the British Grand Prix, leading home Rosberg and Verstappen in changing conditions. Rosberg came under investigation by the race stewards after he received detailed instructions by his team how to work around a gearbox problem in the closing laps of the race, a practice forbidden under Formula One regulations. He was later handed a ten-second time penalty, demoting him to third place. The result saw Rosberg's championship lead reduced to just a single point over Hamilton.
Going into the weekend, Nico Rosberg was leading the Drivers' Championship with 153 points, eleven ahead of his teammate Lewis Hamilton. Ferrari drivers Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Räikkönen were third and fourth respectively, with 96 points each, ahead of Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo with 88. In the Constructors' Championship standings, Mercedes was in front with 295 points, 103 ahead of Ferrari, with Red Bull Racing following in third with 168 points.
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