Grand Prix of Germany 2016

 Grand Prix of Germany 2016

Racing data
12th of 21 races in the 2016 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	Formula 1 Grand Prix of Germany 2016
Date:	July 31, 2016
Place:	Hockenheim
Course:	Hockenheimring Baden-Württemberg
Length:	306.458 km in 67 laps of 4.574 km
Spectator:	~ 57,000
Pole position
Driver:	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes
Time:	1: 14.363 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-TAG Heuer
Time:	1: 18.442 min (lap 48)
Podium
First:	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Second:	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-TAG Heuer
Third:	Max Verstappen	Red Bull-TAG Heuer

The Grand Prix of Germany 2016 (officially Formula 1 Grand Prix of Germany 2016 ) took place on July 31 at the Hockenheimring Baden-Württemberg in Hockenheim and was the twelfth race of the 2016 Formula 1 World Championship . It is the 76th German Grand Prix, including the 62nd race in the Formula 1 World Championship and the 35th race of the Formula 1 World Championship in Hockenheim.

report

backgrounds

After the Hungarian Grand Prix , Lewis Hamilton led the drivers' standings with six points from Nico Rosberg and 77 points from Daniel Ricciardo . In the constructors' championship, Mercedes led Ferrari with 154 points and Red Bull with 155 points .

At the German Grand Prix, Pirelli provided the drivers with the tire compounds P Zero Medium (white), P Zero Soft (yellow) and P Zero Supersoft (red), as well as Cinturato Intermediates (green) and Cinturato Full Wets (blue) for wet conditions .

Daniil Kwjat (seven), Max Verstappen (six), Räikkönen (five), Valtteri Bottas , Marcus Ericsson , Esteban Gutiérrez , Rio Haryanto , Nico Hülkenberg , Felipe Nasr , Pascal Wehrlein (four each), Fernando Alonso , Romain Grosjean , Hamilton, Jolyon Palmer , Rosberg and Sebastian Vettel (two each) went into the race weekend with penalty points.

With Alonso (three times), Hamilton (twice), Sebastian Vettel and Rosberg (once each), four former winners competed in this Grand Prix. Alonso won three times at the Hockenheimring, Hamilton and Rosberg once each.

Ricciardo contested his 100th Grand Prix in the Formula 1 World Championship.

The race commissioners were José Abed (MEX), Emerson Fittipaldi (BRA), Paul Gutjahr (CHE) and Achim Loth (DEU).

Before the race, the restrictions on radio traffic that have been in effect since this season were lifted. Jenson Button and Rosberg had received fines in the previous two races for having been given instructions over the radio by the engineers, which the race stewards deemed unauthorized assistance .

training

In the first free practice, Rosberg set the fastest time in 1: 15.517 minutes ahead of Hamilton and Vettel.

In the second free practice, Rosberg again set the fastest time, this time in 1: 15.614 minutes. Second fastest was again Hamilton ahead of Vettel. Button parked his McLaren in the pits about halfway through practice, complaining of pain in his left eye. After an examination in the medical center of the route, a carbon fragment was removed from his left eye in a hospital in Mannheim .

In the third free practice session too, Rosberg was fastest with a lap time of 1: 15.738 minutes ahead of Hamilton and Ricciardo. Hamilton left his pits sim training when Grosjean approached in the pit lane. Grosjean had to stop his vehicle to avoid a collision. The race stewards issued a fine of 10,000 euros against the Mercedes team, Hamilton was not punished. A little later, Grosjean spun because of a gearbox damage, the gearbox had to be changed.

Qualifying

The qualifying consisted of three parts with a net running time of 45 minutes. In the first qualifying segment (Q1), the drivers had 18 minutes to qualify for the race. All drivers who achieved a time in the first section that was a maximum of 107 percent of the fastest lap time qualified for the Grand Prix. The best 16 drivers reached the next part. Hamilton was fastest, just like his team-mate Rosberg, he set his fast lap on the soft - rather than the super soft mixture. The Sauber and Manor pilots, Kwjat and Kevin Magnussen were eliminated.

The second section (Q2) lasted 15 minutes. The ten fastest pilots qualified for the third part of qualifying. All pilots started on intermediates, but switched to the supersoft mix shortly before the end of the section . Hamilton was again fastest. Palmer, the Haas and McLaren drivers, and Carlos Sainz Jr. dropped out.

The final section (Q3) lasted twelve minutes, during which the first ten starting positions were awarded. Rosberg broke off his first attempt with an electronics problem, but in the second attempt drove the fastest time with a lap time of 1: 14.363 minutes ahead of Hamilton and Ricciardo. It was the 27th pole position for Rosberg.

Grosjean received a starting place penalty of five places because his gearbox was changed prematurely after the third free practice session. Sainz was relocated three places on the grid because he obstructed Felipe Massa on his fast lap. He also received two penalty points. Hülkenberg also received a starting place penalty. He was moved one place back because he used a set of tires in qualifying that, according to the team's electronic message, he should have returned to tire supplier Pirelli after free practice.

run

Rosberg did not start well and fell back to fourth place behind Hamilton and both Red Bull drivers. Verstappen overtook Ricciardo in the first corner. Behind it, Vettel passed Raikkonen. Palmer braked himself in front of the Parabolika driveway and pulled a brake plate on himself . In the hairpin , there was a collision between him and Massa, as Palmer misjudged the distance to Massas Williams because of the resulting vibrations. Palmer pitted at the end of the second lap to change tires. Hamilton led ahead of Verstappen, Ricciardo, Rosberg, Vettel, Raikkonen, Bottas, Hulkenberg, Button and Massa.

Alonso overtook Massa on the sixth lap and there was a collision between Wehrlein and Haryanto in the rear field. Rosberg and Verstappen were the first pilots in the leading group to pit in the eleventh lap and again switched to Supersoft . Both fell behind Button, Verstappen overtook him shortly afterwards. A lap later Ricciardo and Bottas changed tires, both were now driving soft . Ricciardo came back on the track between Verstappen and Button. Another lap later Vettel and Button stopped, another lap later Hamilton, Raikkonen and Alonso stopped. These drivers now also drove the soft mix. The two Haas drivers had not yet changed their tires at this point and were initially in the top ten, but were quickly overtaken by the rivals with the fresh tires. At this point, Rosberg drove the fastest lap so far.

Massa lost further positions, he had to let Magnussen, Sainz and Grosjean, who had been in the pits in the meantime, pass in quick succession. Palmer pitted on lap 26 and changed not only the tires but also the front wing, which he had damaged in the collision with Massa on the first lap. Rosberg switched to Soft one lap later , as did Verstappen in the 28th lap. Rosberg overtook Verstappen shortly afterwards, but pushed him off the track in the hairpin . The race stewards pronounced a five-second penalty against Rosberg for this, and he also received two penalty points.

On the 31st lap, Vettel switched to Supersoft and fell behind Bottas, whom he overtook shortly afterwards. Another lap later, Raikkonen and Hulkenberg stopped, both then also drove on Supersoft . Next, Raikkonen, Hamilton and Bottas changed tires, with Bottas being the only driver to pull on Soft . Ricciardo was significantly faster than Verstappen at this point and caught up with him, on lap 40 Verstappen let him pass without a fight. Massa had recently given up the race with his damaged vehicle.

On the 44th lap, Rosberg and Hülkenberg, the first pilots came to the pits for their third tire change. At Mercedes, due to a problem with the stopwatch, the team waited more than eight seconds instead of five seconds before work on Rosberg's car began. In the following three laps, first Verstappen, then Ricciardo, Vettel and Button and then Hamilton, Raikkonen and Alonso changed tires. The Red Bull drivers switched to Supersoft and drove the fastest laps of the race shortly after the pit stop.

Bottas, who had not been in the pits after changing tires on lap 33, drove significantly slower than the drivers behind him. So Hülkenberg caught up and overtook Bottas on lap 62, four laps later Button also passed Bottas. A few raindrops fell on the final laps of the race, but they did not affect the race. The Super Soft tires the Red Bull drivers eased in the last few laps, so Rosberg caught up. However, he was no longer within striking distance. Shortly before the end of the race, Pérez passed Alonso and took tenth place.

Hamilton won the race ahead of Ricciardo and Verstappen. It was the 49th victory for Hamilton in the Formula 1 World Championship. For the first time since the 2015 Hungarian Grand Prix , both Red Bull drivers were on the podium. The remaining points were placed by Rosberg, Vettel, Raikkonen, Hülkenberg, Button, Bottas and Pérez.

In the overall standings Hamilton extended the lead from Rosberg to 19 points, Ricciardo remained third. With the constructors, Mercedes was still in the lead with a large margin, Red Bull overtook Ferrari and was now in second place.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes F1 W07 Hybrid	Mercedes-Benz PU106C Hybrid	P
	06th	Nico Rosberg
Scuderia Ferrari	05	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari SF16-H	Ferrari 059/5	P
	07th	Kimi Raikkonen
Williams Martini Racing	19th	Felipe Massa	Williams FW38	Mercedes-Benz PU106C Hybrid	P
	77	Valtteri Bottas
Red Bull Racing	03	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull RB12	Day, this year	P
	33	Max Verstappen
Sahara Force India F1 Team	27	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India VJM09	Mercedes-Benz PU106C Hybrid	P
	11	Sergio Perez
Renault Sport F1 Team	20th	Kevin Magnussen	Renault RS16	Renault Energy F1 2016	P
	30th	Jolyon Palmer
	45	Esteban Ocon
Scuderia Toro Rosso	26th	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso STR11	Ferrari 059/4	P
	55	Carlos Sainz Jr.
Sauber F1 Team	09	Marcus Ericsson	Clean C35	Ferrari 059/5	P
	12	Felipe Nasr
McLaren Honda	14th	Fernando Alonso	McLaren MP4-31	Honda RA616H	P
	22nd	Jenson Button
Manor Racing MRT	94	Pascal Wehrlein	Manor MRT05	Mercedes-Benz PU106C Hybrid	P
	88	Rio Haryanto
Haas F1 team	08th	Romain Grosjean	Haas VF-16	Ferrari 059/5	P
	21st	Esteban Gutiérrez
	50	Charles Leclerc

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} The Renault with start number 45 was used in the first free practice for Ocon. Palmer then took over the vehicle with its number 30 for the rest of the race weekend.
2. ↑ ^{a b} The Haas with the starting number 50 was used in the first free practice for Leclerc. Gutiérrez then took over the vehicle for the rest of the race weekend with his number 21.

Classifications

Qualifying

Item	driver	constructor	Q1	Q2	Q3	begin
01	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1: 15.485	1: 14.839	1: 14.363	01
02	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1: 15.243	1: 14.748	1: 14.470	02
03	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-TAG Heuer	1: 15.591	1: 15.545	1: 14.726	03
04th	Max Verstappen	Red Bull-TAG Heuer	1: 15.875	1: 15.124	1: 14.834	04th
05	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1: 15.752	1: 15.242	1: 15.142	05
06th	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1: 15.927	1: 15.630	1: 15.315	06th
07th	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	1: 16.301	1: 15.623	1: 15.510	08th
08th	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	1: 15.952	1: 15.490	1: 15.530	07th
09	Sergio Perez	Force India-Mercedes	1: 16.169	1: 15,500	1: 15.537	09
10	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	1: 16.503	1: 15.699	1: 15.615	10
11	Esteban Gutiérrez	Haas-Ferrari	1: 15.987	1: 15.883	-	11
12	Jenson Button	McLaren Honda	1: 16.172	1: 15.909	-	12
13	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1: 16.317	1: 15.989	-	15th
14th	Fernando Alonso	McLaren Honda	1: 16.338	1: 16.041	-	13
15th	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	1: 16.328	1: 16.086	-	20th
16	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	1: 16.636	1: 16.665	-	14th
17th	Kevin Magnussen	Renault	1: 16.716	-	-	16
18th	Pascal Wehrlein	Manor Mercedes	1: 16.717	-	-	17th
19th	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1: 16.876	-	-	18th
20th	Rio Haryanto	Manor Mercedes	1: 16.977	-	-	19th
21st	Felipe Nasr	Clean Ferrari	1: 17.123	-	-	21st
22nd	Marcus Ericsson	Clean Ferrari	1: 17.238	-	-	22nd
107 percent time : 1: 20.510 min (based on Q1 best time of 1: 15.243 min)

Remarks

1. ↑ Hülkenberg was moved one place back because he had used the wrong set of tires in qualifying
2. ↑ Sainz was relocated three places on the grid because he had obstructed Massa in qualifying
3. ↑ Grosjean was moved five starting positions back due to a premature gearbox change

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	67	3	1: 30: 44,200	02	1: 18.746 (52nd)
02	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-TAG Heuer	67	3	+ 6.996	03	1: 18,442 (48th)
03	Max Verstappen	Red Bull-TAG Heuer	67	3	+ 13,413	04th	1: 18.910 (47th)
04th	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	67	3	+ 15.845	01	1: 19,122 (51.)
05	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	67	3	+ 32.570	06th	1: 18.710 (48th)
06th	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	67	3	+ 37.023	05	1: 19,572 (36th)
07th	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	67	3	+1: 10.049	08th	1: 20.056 (46.)
08th	Jenson Button	McLaren Honda	66	3	+ 1 lap	12	1: 19.781 (48th)
09	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	66	2	+ 1 lap	07th	1: 20.442 (36th)
10	Sergio Perez	Force India-Mercedes	66	3	+ 1 lap	09	1: 19.606 (46.)
11	Esteban Gutiérrez	Haas-Ferrari	66	2	+ 1 lap	11	1: 19.883 (56.)
12	Fernando Alonso	McLaren Honda	66	3	+ 1 lap	13	1: 20.132 (50th)
13	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	66	2	+ 1 lap	20th	1: 20,250 (58th)
14th	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	66	3	+ 1 lap	15th	1: 19,957 (54th)
15th	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	66	3	+ 1 lap	18th	1: 19.585 (51st)
16	Kevin Magnussen	Renault	66	2	+ 1 lap	16	1: 21.649 (42nd)
17th	Pascal Wehrlein	Manor Mercedes	65	3	+ 2 rounds	17th	1: 20.710 (49.)
18th	Marcus Ericsson	Clean Ferrari	65	2	+ 2 rounds	22nd	1: 21,212 (35.)
19th	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	65	3	+ 2 rounds	14th	1: 21,127 (55.)
20th	Rio Haryanto	Manor Mercedes	65	3	+ 2 rounds	19th	1: 21.845 (56.)
-	Felipe Nasr	Clean Ferrari	57	3	DNF	21st	1: 21,420 (45th)
-	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	36	2	DNF	10	1: 21.476 (31st)

World Cup stands after the race

The first ten of the race got 25, 18, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 point (s) respectively.

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points 01  Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 217 02  Nico Rosberg Mercedes 198 03  Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull-TAG Heuer 133 04th  Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 122 05  Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 120 06th  Max Verstappen Red Bull-TAG Heuer Toro Rosso-Ferrari 115 07th  Valtteri Bottas Williams-Mercedes 58 08th  Sergio Perez Force India-Mercedes 48 09  Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes 38 10  Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 33 11  Carlos Sainz Jr. Toro Rosso-Ferrari 30th 12  Romain Grosjean Haas-Ferrari 28

Item driver constructor Points 13  Fernando Alonso McLaren Honda 24 14th  Daniil Kvyat Red Bull-TAG Heuer Toro Rosso-Ferrari 23 15th  Jenson Button McLaren Honda 17th 16  Kevin Magnussen Renault 6th 17th  Pascal Wehrlein Manor Mercedes 1 18th  Stoffel Vandoorne McLaren Honda 1 19th  Esteban Gutiérrez Haas-Ferrari 0 20th  Jolyon Palmer Renault 0 21st  Marcus Ericsson Clean Ferrari 0 22nd  Felipe Nasr Clean Ferrari 0 23  Rio Haryanto Manor Mercedes 0

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 1  Mercedes 415 2  Red Bull-TAG Heuer 256 3  Ferrari 242 4th  Williams-Mercedes 96 5  Force India-Mercedes 81 6th  Toro Rosso-Ferrari 45

Item constructor Points 07th  McLaren Honda 42 08th  Haas-Ferrari 28 09  Renault 6th 10  Manor Mercedes 1 11  Clean Ferrari 0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Nimmervoll, Dieter Rencken: Strategy group decides abolitionist radio ban immediately. Motorsport-Total.com, July 28, 2016, accessed July 31, 2016 . 
2. ^ GP Germany in Hockenheim / 1st free practice. Motorsport-Total.com, July 29, 2016, accessed July 29, 2016 . 
3. ^ GP Germany in Hockenheim / 2nd free practice. Motorsport-Total.com, July 29, 2016, accessed July 29, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Sven Haidinger: Free training in the hospital: surgery on buttons eye. Motorsport-Total.com, July 29, 2016, accessed July 30, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Gerald Dirnbeck: Button gave the all-clear: carbon fragment removed from eye. Motorsport-Total.com, July 29, 2016, accessed July 30, 2016 . 
6. ^ GP Germany in Hockenheim / 3rd free practice. Motorsport-Total.com, July 30, 2016, accessed July 30, 2016 . 
7. ^ Christian Nimmervoll: "Unsafe Release": € 10,000 fine for Mercedes. Motorsport-Total.com, July 30, 2016, accessed July 30, 2016 . 
8. ^ ^{A b} Christian Nimmervoll: Gear change: grid penalty for Romain Grosjean after FT3. Motorsport-Total.com, July 30, 2016, accessed July 30, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Philip Schajer: Force India schlampt: punishment for Hulkenberg. Wrong tires in use. Motorsport-Magazin.com, July 30, 2016, accessed July 30, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Rebecca Friese: Renault: Why Palmer Couldn't Avoid a Collision. Motorsport-Total.com, July 31, 2016, accessed July 31, 2016 .