2016 Brazilian Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 20 of 21 in the 2016 Formula One season | |||
Layout of the Autódromo José Carlos Pace
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| Date | 13 November 2016 | ||
| Official name | Formula 1 Grande Prêmio do Brasil 2016 | ||
| Location |
Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo, Brazil |
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| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 4.309 km (2.677 mi) | ||
| Distance | 71 laps, 305.909 km (190.067 mi) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Mercedes | ||
| Time | 1:10.736 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Max Verstappen
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Red Bull-TAG Heuer | |
| Time | 1:25.305 on lap 67 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Mercedes | ||
| Second | Mercedes | ||
| Third | Red Bull-TAG Heuer | ||
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The 2016 Brazilian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula One Grande Prêmio do Brasil 2016) was a Formula One motor race held on 13 November 2016 at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace in São Paulo, Brazil. The race was the 20th round of the 2016 season and marked the forty-fifth running of the Brazilian Grand Prix and the forty-fourth time that the race has been run as a World Championship event since the inaugural season in 1950. At 3h 1m 1.335s, the race was the longest Brazilian race in history.
Defending race winner Nico Rosberg entered the round with a nineteen-point lead over teammate Lewis Hamilton in the World Drivers' Championship. Their team, Mercedes, had already clinched the World Constructors' Championship, holding a lead of two hundred and fifty-two points over Red Bull Racing, with third place Scuderia Ferrari another sixty-two points behind.
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