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The 2016 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 70th season of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile ()'s Formula One motor racing. It featured the 67th Formula One World Championship, a motor racing championship for Formula One cars which is recognised by the sport's governing body, the FIA, as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars.
The race was the twenty-first and final round of the 2016 FIA Formula One World Championship and determined the 2016 World Drivers' Championship. It marked the eighth running of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and the eighth time that the race had been run as a World Championship event since the inaugural race in 2009.
Rosberg holding the 2016 Formula One World Drivers' Championship trophy Rosberg, who had signed a two-year contract extension with Mercedes to 2018 in mid-2016, [ 126 ] began to contemplate retirement from motor racing when he considered the possibility of a championship win after the 2016 Japanese Grand Prix. [ 117 ]
Fangio is the oldest winner of the World Drivers' Championship; he was 46 years and 41 days old when he won the 1957 title. [15] As of the 2024 season, out of the 777 drivers who have started a Formula One Grand Prix, [16] the 75 titles awarded have been won by a total of 34 different drivers.
When you throw in Nico Rosberg’s title in 2016, just four drivers have won a world championship since Jenson Button was the 2009 champion. The weekend did not get off to a good start for Verstappen.
The World Championship for Drivers has been contended since 1950, [2] after the Formula One standard was agreed upon in 1946. [5] The Constructors' Championship was added for the 1958 season and has been awarded ever since. [2] Lewis Hamilton has won 105 Grands Prix during his career. He won 21 races with McLaren and 84 with Mercedes.
The 2016 Belgian Grand Prix (formally known as the 2016 Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix) [1] was a Formula One motor race held on 28 August 2016 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Spa, Belgium. It was the thirteenth round of the 2016 FIA Formula One World Championship , and marks the seventy-second running of the Belgian Grand Prix and the ...
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. Nico 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 ...