2016 European Grand Prix
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| Race 8 of 21 in the 2016 Formula One season | |||
Layout of the Baku City Circuit
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| Date | 19 June 2016 | ||
| Official name | 2016 Formula 1 Grand Prix of Europe | ||
| Location |
Baku City Circuit Baku, Azerbaijan |
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| Course | Temporary street circuit | ||
| Course length | 6.003 km (3.73 mi) | ||
| Distance | 51 laps, 306.049 km (190.170 mi) | ||
| Weather | Partly cloudy 30–33 °C (86–91 °F) air temperature 39–45 °C (102–113 °F) track temperature 2.5 m/s (8.2 ft/s) wind from the southeast |
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| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Mercedes | ||
| Time | 1:42.758 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Nico Rosberg
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Mercedes | |
| Time | 1:46.485 on lap 48 (lap record) | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Mercedes | ||
| Second | Ferrari | ||
| Third | Force India-Mercedes | ||
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The 2016 European Grand Prix (formally known as the 2016 Formula 1 Grand Prix of Europe) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 19 June 2016 at the Baku City Circuit in Baku, Azerbaijan. The race was the eighth round of the 2016 season, and marked the twenty-third running of the European Grand Prix as a round of the Formula One World Championship. It was the first time that the race has been held at the circuit and the first time that a Grand Prix has been held in Azerbaijan.
Nico Rosberg entered the round holding a nine-point lead in the World Drivers' Championship ahead of team-mate Lewis Hamilton. Their team, Mercedes, came in leading Ferrari by seventy-six points in the World Constructors' Championship. Rosberg went on to win the race—his first race win since the Russian Grand Prix—and extended his championship lead to twenty-four points. The result also marked Rosberg's second career Grand Slam. Sebastian Vettel finished second, with Force India driver Sergio Pérez completing the podium. In the Constructors' Championship, Mercedes extended their lead over Ferrari to eighty-one points.
Valtteri Bottas recorded the highest ever clocked speed in an official Formula One session, at 378 kilometres per hour (235 mph) during qualifying, breaking the previous record of 369.6 kilometres per hour (229.7 mph), set by Antonio Pizzonia at Monza during the 2004 Italian Grand Prix.
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