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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.
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.
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 ]
FIA Masters Historic Formula One Championship: Fittipaldi/Stewart: Michael Lyons 2016 FIA Masters Historic Formula One Championship: Head/Lauda: Nick Padmore Formula STCC Nordic: Linus Lundqvist [9] 2016 Formula STCC Nordic season: Indy Lights: Ed Jones: 2016 Indy Lights: MRF Challenge Formula 2000 Championship: Pietro Fittipaldi [10]
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 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.
The race was the fifth round of the 2016 FIA Formula One World Championship, 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.
The World Constructors' Championship is presented by the FIA to the most successful F1 constructor over the course of the season through a points system based on individual Grand Prix results. Constructors' Championship points are calculated by adding points scored in each race by any driver for that constructor. [4]