2016 Austrian Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 9 of 21 in the 2016 Formula One season | |||
Layout of the Red Bull Ring
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| Date | 3 July 2016 | ||
| Official name | Formula 1 Großer Preis von Österreich 2016 | ||
| Location |
Red Bull Ring Spielberg, Styria, Austria |
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| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 4.326 km (2.684 mi) | ||
| Distance | 71 laps, 307.146 km (190.564 mi) | ||
| Weather | Cloudy | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Mercedes | ||
| Time | 1:07.922 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Lewis Hamilton
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Mercedes | |
| Time | 1:08.411 on lap 67 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Mercedes | ||
| Second | Red Bull-TAG Heuer | ||
| Third | Ferrari | ||
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The 2016 Austrian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Großer Preis von Österreich 2016) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 3 July 2016 at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria. The race, which was contested over seventy-one laps, was the ninth round of the 2016 season, and marked the thirtieth running of the Austrian Grand Prix as a round of the Formula One World Championship since the series inception in 1950.
Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg entered the round as the defending race winner and championship leader, with a twenty-four point advantage over team-mate Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton started the race from pole and went on to win the race after colliding with Rosberg on the final lap; as a result, Rosberg finished fourth behind Max Verstappen and Kimi Räikkönen, and saw his championship lead cut to eleven points. Mercedes led rivals Ferrari by eighty-one points in the Constructors' standings at the start of the round, extending their lead to one hundred and three after Sebastian Vettel retired.
Going into the weekend, Nico Rosberg was leading the Drivers' Championship with 141 points, 24 points ahead of teammate Lewis Hamilton, with Sebastian Vettel a further 21 points behind in third. In the Constructors' Championship standings, Mercedes was in the lead with 258 points, followed by Ferrari and Red Bull Racing with 177 and 140 points respectively.
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