2016 Spanish Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 5 of 21 in the 2016 Formula One season | |||
Layout of the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
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| Date | 15 May 2016 | ||
| Official name | Formula 1 Gran Premio de España Pirelli 2016 | ||
| Location |
Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya Montmeló, Spain |
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| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 4.655 km (2.892 mi) | ||
| Distance | 66 laps, 307.104 km (190.826 mi) | ||
| Weather | Partly cloudy 20–22 °C (68–72 °F) air temperature 39–41 °C (102–106 °F) track temperature 2 m/s (6.6 ft/s) wind from the north |
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| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Mercedes | ||
| Time | 1:22.000 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Daniil Kvyat
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Toro Rosso-Ferrari | |
| Time | 1:26.948 on lap 53 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Red Bull-TAG Heuer | ||
| Second | Ferrari | ||
| Third | Ferrari | ||
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The 2016 Spanish Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Gran Premio de España Pirelli 2016) was a Formula One motor race held on 15 May 2016 at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmeló, Spain. The race was the fifth round of the 2016 season, and marked the forty-sixth running of the Spanish Grand Prix as a round of the Formula One World Championship. It was the twenty-sixth time that the race has been held at the circuit.
Nico Rosberg was the defending race winner and entered the round with a forty-three point lead over teammate Lewis Hamilton in the Drivers' Championship. Their team, Mercedes, held an eighty-one point lead over Ferrari in the Constructors' Championship. Hamilton took pole position during qualifying, ahead of teammate Rosberg and Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo.
Max Verstappen won the race upon his debut for his new team Red Bull, having swapped his Toro Rosso seat with Daniil Kvyat ahead of the event. At the age of 18 years and 228 days, Verstappen became the youngest ever winner, the youngest driver to score a podium finish and the youngest ever to lead a lap of a Formula One race, breaking the previous records held by Sebastian Vettel. In the process he also became the first Dutchman to win a Grand Prix and the first Grand Prix winner born in the 1990s. Both Mercedes drivers retired from the race following a collision with each other on the first lap, thus marking the first Mercedes double retirement since the 2011 Australian Grand Prix and the first time the team had not scored a point since the 2012 United States Grand Prix.
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