2016 f1 calendar

2016 Formula 1 calendar. This is the 2016 F1 calendar. The 2016 season saw the grid expand to twenty-two cars with the addition of the The following teams and drivers took part in the 2016 Formula One World Championship. The 2016 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 70th season of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA)'s Formula One motor racing. The USA’s slot remains provisional.Free and simple registration required to view this content© 2003-2020 Formula One World Championship Limited

2016 F1 Calendar / Schedule. The driver line-ups saw a couple of changes prior to the 2016 season and three more while the season was underway.

Add the 2016 F1 calendar to your mobile device … 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. Formula One racing's governing body, the FIA, has formally ratified a 21-race calendar for the 2016 season, running from March to November. Australia will once again host the season opener, on March 18-20, while Abu Dhabi will stage the final round for a fifth time, on November 25-27.The 2016 calendar also includes six back-to-back weekends - Canada and Baku, Austria and Great Britain, Hungary and Germany, Belgium and Italy, Malaysia and Japan, and the USA and Mexico will all be held on respective consecutive weekends. If two or more or constructors would have achieved equal results an equal number of times, the FIA would have nominated the winner according to such criteria as it thought fit. A meeting of the FIA's World Motor Sport Council in Paris on Wednesday confirmed a change in the F1 sporting regulations, increasing the maximum permitted number of races in a season from 20 to 21. A meeting of the FIA's World Motor Sport Council in Paris on Wednesday confirmed a change in the F1 sporting regulations, increasing the maximum permitted number of races in a season from 20 to 21. Melbourne, 18-20 March .

In the event of a tie, a count-back system was used as a tie-breaker, with a driver's best result used to decide the standings.In the event of a tie, a count-back system was used as a tie-breaker, with a constructor's best result used to decide the standings.

Bahrain Grand Prix. The three-period format first introduced in The stewards' powers to monitor pit-to-car communications were broadened for the 2016 season, with race control able to monitor the radio feeds for each driver in real time and consult with engineering advisors to further monitor the content in a bid to crack down on driver coaching and the use of coded messages.The process new drivers go through in order to qualify for a For the second year in a row, Hamilton decided not to exercise his option of switching his car number to 1, as was his prerogative as reigning World Champion, and would instead race with his career number 44.The season started with the Australian Grand Prix, and featured the newly introduced elimination-style qualifying format.At the next race in Bahrain, Alonso was ruled out of taking part on medical grounds and was later revealed to have suffered broken ribs and a pneumothorax as a result of the previous race's collision, and was replaced by rookie Stoffel Vandoorne.At the next Grand Prix in China, the elimination style qualifying format was permanently dropped in favour of the previous format used between 2006 and 2015.Before the race in Spain, Daniil Kvyat and Max Verstappen swapped places with Kvyat going to Toro Rosso and Verstappen to Red Bull.At the next round in Monaco, Ricciardo took the first pole position of his career.Hamilton took pole position at the next round in Austria while Rosberg started sixth after a grid penalty.Lewis Hamilton took the championship lead from Nico Rosberg at the next round in Hungary, leading another Mercedes 1–2 finish to gain a six-point lead in the Drivers' Championship standings.Following penalties for Rosberg and Button for unauthorised pit-to-car communications in the previous races, the FIA repealed all regulations for the next round in Germany.With Mercedes opting to take a series of grid penalties to build up a stockpile of components, Hamilton was forced to start the next race in Belgium from the back of the grid.Rosberg reduced Hamilton's championship lead to two points at the next round in Italy, taking advantage of a slow start by Hamilton to establish an early lead that went unchallenged through the race.Rosberg reclaimed the championship lead in Singapore, qualifying on pole while Hamilton was forced to settle for third after struggling with mechanical issues and driving errors.Mercedes's streak of ten consecutive wins came to an end in Malaysia.Rosberg further extended his championship lead to thirty-three points in Japan, starting the race from pole and winning it.With the championship leaving Asia for the Americas, Hamilton gradually started to erode Rosberg's championship lead.Going into the final round at Abu Dhabi, Rosberg led Hamilton by twelve points.Five days after winning the title, Rosberg announced his immediate retirement from the sport at the FIA Prize Giving Ceremony in Vienna.