2016 Monaco Grand Prix
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| Race 6 of 21 in the 2016 Formula One season | |||
Layout of the Circuit de Monte Carlo, Monaco
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| Date | 29 May 2016 | ||
| Official name | Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2016 | ||
| Location |
Circuit de Monaco La Condamine and Monte Carlo, Monaco |
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| Course | Street circuit | ||
| Course length | 3.337 km (2.074 mi) | ||
| Distance | 78 laps, 260.286 km (161.734 mi) | ||
| 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 |
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| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Red Bull-TAG Heuer | ||
| Time | 1:13.622 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Lewis Hamilton
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Mercedes | |
| Time | 1:17.939 on lap 71 (lap record) | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Mercedes | ||
| Second | Red Bull-TAG Heuer | ||
| Third | Force India-Mercedes | ||
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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 season, 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 mechanics did not have the tyres ready for him. 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.
Following their controversial crash and double retirement at the previous race in Spain two weeks earlier, particular attention was on championship leaders Mercedes and their drivers Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton. The team was adamant that such an incident could not be repeated, with their head of motorsport Toto Wolff saying: "We cannot afford to drop the ball, so we must remain united, remain strong and hit back hard this weekend." With a win, Rosberg would have been able to become the only driver other than Ayrton Senna to win the Monaco Grand Prix four times in a row, while Hamilton had suffered a string of bad results at the circuit, having won only once in 2008. At the race the year before, Hamilton had lost what he felt was a certain victory by a wrong decision to pit him during a safety car period.
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