2016 Italian Grand Prix
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| Race 14 of 21 in the 2016 Formula One season | |||
Layout of the Monza circuit
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| Date | 4 September 2016 | ||
| Official name | Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d'Italia 2016 | ||
| Location |
Autodromo Nazionale Monza Monza, Italy |
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| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 5.793 km (3.600 mi) | ||
| Distance | 53 laps, 306.720 km (190.587 mi) | ||
| Weather | Sunny, warm | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Mercedes | ||
| Time | 1:21.135 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Fernando Alonso
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McLaren-Honda | |
| Time | 1:25.340 on lap 51 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Mercedes | ||
| Second | Mercedes | ||
| Third | Ferrari | ||
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The 2016 Italian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d'Italia 2016) was a Formula One motor race held on 4 September 2016 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Monza, Italy. It was the fourteenth round of the 2016 Formula One season, and marked the eighty-sixth running of the Italian Grand Prix and the eighty-second time the race was held at Monza.
Mercedes driver and winner of the previous year's race, Lewis Hamilton, entered the race leading the World Drivers' Championship by nine points ahead of team-mate Nico Rosberg. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes held a lead of 181 points. Red Bull Racing was placed second and Ferrari third.
Pirelli provided the teams with medium, soft and supersoft tyres. Pirelli anticipated that the difference between the different compounds would be less than one second per lap, with the differences between soft and supersoft to be around 0.7 of a second, and the difference between soft and medium about 0.9 seconds.
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