2016 Singapore Grand Prix
Race 15 of 21 in the 2016 Formula One World Championship
Layout of the Marina Bay Street Circuit
Race details[1]
Date	18 September 2016
Official name	2016 Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix
Location	Marina Bay Street Circuit Marina Bay, Singapore
Course	Temporary street circuit
Course length	5.065 km (3.147 mi)
Distance	61 laps, 308.828 km (191.897 mi)
Weather	Clear 30 °C (86 °F) air temperature 34-35 °C (93-95 °F) track temperature 1.5 m/s (4.9 ft/s) wind from the east[2]
Attendance	218,824 (Weekend) 73,000 (3-Day Average)[3]
Pole position
Driver	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes
Time	1:42.584
Fastest lap
Driver
Time	1:47.187 on lap 49
Podium
First	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes
Second	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer
Third	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Lap leaders

The 2016 Singapore Grand Prix (formally known as the 2016 Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 18 September 2016 at the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Marina Bay, Singapore. It was the fifteenth round of the 2016 Formula One World Championship, and marked the seventeenth running of the Singapore Grand Prix and the ninth time the race had been held at Marina Bay.

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton entered the race leading the World Drivers' Championship by two points, ahead of teammate Nico Rosberg. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes held a lead of 208 points. Red Bull Racing was placed second and Ferrari third. Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel was the defending race winner.

Rosberg started the race from pole position^[4] and led throughout, holding off a late challenge by Daniel Ricciardo to win by less than half a second in his 200th race in Formula One. Sebastian Vettel was awarded the Driver of the Day award after moving 17 spots to claim 5th position.^[5]

Classification

Qualifying

Notes:

• ^1 - Sergio Pérez received a five-place grid penalty for failing to slow for yellow flags and an additional three-place grid penalty for passing Esteban Gutiérrez under yellows.^[6][7]
• ^2 - Romain Grosjean received a five-place grid penalty for a new gearbox.^[8]
• ^3 - Sebastian Vettel received a five-place grid penalty for unscheduled gearbox changes, and a twenty-place grid penalty for using additional power unit elements.^[9]

Race

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	6	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	61	1:55:48.950	1	25
2	3	Daniel Ricciardo		61	+0.488	2	18
3	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	61	+8.038	3	15
4	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	61	+10.219	5	12
5	5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	61	+27.694	22	10
6	33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	61	+1:11.197	4	8
7	14	Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Honda	61	+1:29.198	9	6
8	11	Sergio Pérez	Force India-Mercedes	61	+1:51.062	17	4
9	26	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	61	+1:51.557	7	2
10	20		Renault	61	+1:59.952	15	1
11	21		Haas-Ferrari	60	+1 Lap	13
12	19	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	60	+1 Lap	11
13	12	Felipe Nasr	Sauber-Ferrari	60	+1 Lap	16
14	55	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	60	+1 Lap	6
15	30	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	60	+1 Lap	18
16	94	Pascal Wehrlein	MRT-Mercedes	60	+1 Lap	19
17	9	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber-Ferrari	60	+1 Lap	14
18	31	Esteban Ocon	MRT-Mercedes	59	+2 Laps	21
Ret	22	Jenson Button	McLaren-Honda	43	Brakes	12
Ret	77	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	35	Overheating	10
Ret	27	Nico Hülkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	0	Collision	8
DNS	8	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	0	Brakes	--
Source:[10]

Championship standings after the race

• Bold text indicates who still had a theoretical chance of becoming World Champion.

Drivers' Championship standings Pos. Driver Points 1 1 Nico Rosberg 273 1 2 Lewis Hamilton 265 3 179 4 Sebastian Vettel 153 5 Kimi Räikkönen 148 Source: [11]

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Mercedes 538 2 316 3 Ferrari 301 1 4 Force India-Mercedes 112 1 5 Williams-Mercedes 111 Source: [11]

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

Footnotes

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