| 2016 Mexican Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 19 of 21 in the 2016 Formula One World Championship
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| Race details[1] | |||||
| Date | 30 October 2016 | ||||
| Official name | Formula 1 Gran Premio de México 2016 | ||||
| Location | Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City, Mexico | ||||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
| Course length | 4.304 km (2.674 miles) | ||||
| Distance | 71 laps, 305.354 km (189.738 miles) | ||||
| Weather | Sunny | ||||
| Attendance | 339,967 (Weekend)[2] 135,026 (Race Day)[3] | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver | Mercedes | ||||
| Time | 1:18.704 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver |
 Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | |||
| Time | 1:21.134 on lap 53 | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First | Mercedes | ||||
| Second | Mercedes | ||||
| Third | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | ||||
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Lap leaders | |||||
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 1950.
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.
- ^ "Mexico". formula1.com. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- ^ "2016 Mexico Grand Prix Attendance". Formula1.com. Formula One Administration. 30 October 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ "2016 Mexico Grand Prix Attendance". Formula1.com. Formula One Administration. 30 October 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2016.