2016 Monaco Grand Prix

2016 Monaco Grand Prix
Race 6 of 21 in the 2016 Formula One World Championship
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Layout of the Circuit de Monte Carlo, Monaco
Layout of the Circuit de Monte Carlo, Monaco
Race details
Date 29 May 2016
Official name Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2016[1][2][3]
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)
Weather 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[4]
Attendance 200,000 (Weekend) [5]
Pole position
Driver Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer
Time 1:13.622
Fastest lap
Driver United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
Time 1:17.939 on lap 71[6]
Podium
First Mercedes
Second Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer
Third Force India-Mercedes
Lap leaders

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.

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.

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  6. ^ "Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2016". formula1.com. Formula One World Championship Limited. Archived from the original on 30 August 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2016.