Race · Round 20 of 21 · 13 November 2016

2016 Brazilian Grand Prix

Sir Lewis Hamilton won for Mercedes from pole at Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace (Interlagos). 5 of the starters were not classified.

Wet · High of 19 °C, 17 mm of rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace (Interlagos)Sao Paulo, Brazil
Winner: Sir Lewis HamiltonMercedes
Pole: Sir Lewis Hamilton
Fastest lap: Max Verstappen
Entries: 2216 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	F1 W07	1	71	Finished	25
2	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	F1 W07	2	71	Finished	18
3	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	RB12	4	71	Finished	15	fastest lap
4	Sergio Perez	Force India	VJM09	9	71	Finished	12
5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	SF16-H	5	71	Finished	10
6	Carlos Sainz	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR11	15	71	Finished	8
7	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	VJM09	8	71	Finished	6
8	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	RB12	6	71	Finished	4
9	Felipe Nasr	Sauber	C35	21	71	Finished	2
10	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	MP4-31	10	71	Finished	1
11	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	FW38	11	71	Finished	0
12	Esteban Ocon	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	MRT05	22	71	Finished	0
13	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR11	14	71	Finished	0
14	Kevin Magnussen	Renault	R.S.16	18	71	Finished	0
15	Pascal Wehrlein	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	MRT05	19	71	Finished	0
16	Jenson Button	McLaren	MP4-31	17	71	Finished	0
DNF	Esteban Gutierrez	Haas F1 Team	VF-16	12	60	Electrical	0
DNF	Felipe Massa	Williams	FW38	13	46	Accident	0
DNF	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	R.S.16	16	20	Collision damage	0
DNF	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	SF16-H	3	19	Accident	0
DNF	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	C35	20	11	Accident	0
DNS	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	VF-16	7	—	Accident	0

F1DB layout interlagos-2 · 4.309 km · 15 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Sir Lewis Hamilton	1	1	71
Nico Rosberg	2	2	71
Max Verstappen	4	3	71
Sergio Perez	9	4	71
Sebastian Vettel	5	5	71
Carlos Sainz	15	6	71
Nico Hulkenberg	8	7	71
Daniel Ricciardo	6	8	71
Felipe Nasr	21	9	71
Fernando Alonso	10	10	71
Valtteri Bottas	11	11	71
Esteban Ocon	22	12	71
Daniil Kvyat	14	13	71
Kevin Magnussen	18	14	71
Pascal Wehrlein	19	15	71
Jenson Button	17	16	71
Esteban Gutierrez	12	DNF	60
Felipe Massa	13	DNF	46
Jolyon Palmer	16	DNF	20
Kimi Raikkonen	3	DNF	19
Marcus Ericsson	20	DNF	11

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:11.511	1:11.238	1:10.736	—	0 m	—
2	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	6	1:11.815	1:11.373	1:10.838	+0.102	6 m	+0.102
3	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	7	1:12.100	1:12.301	1:11.404	+0.668	41 m	+0.566
4	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:11.957	1:11.834	1:11.485	+0.749	46 m	+0.081
5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	5	1:12.159	1:12.010	1:11.495	+0.759	46 m	+0.010
6	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	3	1:12.409	1:12.047	1:11.540	+0.804	49 m	+0.045
7	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	8	1:12.893	1:12.343	1:11.937	+1.201	73 m	+0.397
8	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	27	1:12.428	1:12.360	1:12.104	+1.368	83 m	+0.167
9	Sergio Perez	Force India	11	1:12.684	1:12.331	1:12.165	+1.429	87 m	+0.061
10	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	14	1:12.700	1:12.312	1:12.266	+1.530	93 m	+0.101
11	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	77	1:12.680	1:12.420	—	—	71 m	—
12	Esteban Gutierrez	Haas F1 Team	21	1:13.052	1:12.431	—	—	72 m	—
13	Felipe Massa	Williams	19	1:12.432	1:12.521	—	—	78 m	—
14	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia Toro Rosso	26	1:13.071	1:12.726	—	—	90 m	—
15	Carlos Sainz	Scuderia Toro Rosso	55	1:12.950	1:12.920	—	—	102 m	—
16	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	30	1:13.259	1:13.258	—	—	122 m	—
17	Jenson Button	McLaren	22	1:13.276	—	—	—	106 m	—
18	Kevin Magnussen	Renault	20	1:13.410	—	—	—	114 m	—
19	Pascal Wehrlein	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	94	1:13.427	—	—	—	115 m	—
20	Esteban Ocon	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	31	1:13.432	—	—	—	116 m	—
21	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	9	1:13.623	—	—	—	127 m	—
22	Felipe Nasr	Sauber	12	1:13.681	—	—	—	131 m	—

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year. Each driver is measured against the fastest lap of the last part they set a time in.

Pit stops

Bars run in finishing order, ticked at each stop. An unticked bar may hide a stop: F1DB’s record has gaps. A cross is a driver not classified. Ticks and strip mark the lap, not cause, tyres or gain; the table gives times.

Pit stops
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap	Pit-lane time (s)
Sir Lewis Hamilton	1	71	2	20, 28	2010.4, 1482.0
Nico Rosberg	2	71	2	20, 28	2009.7, 1481.6
Max Verstappen	3	71	5	13, 20, 28, 43, 54	24.2, 2009.6, 1481.4, 24.4, 24.0
Sergio Perez	4	71	2	20, 28	2008.4, 1482.3
Sebastian Vettel	5	71	3	10, 20, 28	30.0, 2010.6, 1483.9
Carlos Sainz	6	71	2	20, 28	2008.8, 1483.1
Nico Hulkenberg	7	71	3	20, 22, 28	2008.5, 24.3, 1485.3
Daniel Ricciardo	8	71	5	13, 20, 28, 40, 52	24.6, 2008.6, 1484.7, 29.6, 24.5
Felipe Nasr	9	71	2	20, 28	2008.2, 1483.2
Fernando Alonso	10	71	3	9, 20, 28	24.8, 2008.8, 1483.8
Valtteri Bottas	11	71	4	9, 20, 28, 38	24.7, 2008.6, 1484.0, 25.0
Esteban Ocon	12	71	2	20, 28	2009.1, 1485.1
Daniil Kvyat	13	71	4	9, 17, 20, 28	25.8, 25.4, 2011.3, 1484.4
Kevin Magnussen	14	71	4	7, 20, 28, 41	25.0, 2009.0, 1484.5, 24.3
Pascal Wehrlein	15	71	3	20, 28, 52	2008.5, 1485.0, 25.5
Jenson Button	16	71	5	8, 20, 28, 34, 44	24.2, 2010.1, 1485.0, 25.0, 24.8
Esteban Gutierrez	DNF	60	4	12, 20, 28, 47	25.1, 2011.1, 1484.4, 17.8
Felipe Massa	DNF	46	4	9, 20, 28, 31	29.4, 2009.6, 1486.0, 29.8
Jolyon Palmer	DNF	20	2	9, 17	24.7, 24.7
Kimi Raikkonen	DNF	19	0	None recorded	—
Marcus Ericsson	DNF	11	1	9	25.4

A pit-lane time is all of a stop’s time in the pit lane, any wait or repair there included.

Who stopped first, between neighbours

Who stopped first, between neighbours
Drivers, in grid order	Grid	Result	First recorded stop, lap	Stopped first	Grid to flag
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Nico Rosberg	1 · 2	1 · 2	20 · 20	Same lap	Kept their order
Nico Rosberg · Max Verstappen	2 · 4	2 · 3	20 · 13	Max Verstappen	Kept their order
Max Verstappen · Sergio Perez	4 · 9	3 · 4	13 · 20	Max Verstappen	Kept their order
Max Verstappen · Sebastian Vettel	4 · 5	3 · 5	13 · 10	Sebastian Vettel	Kept their order
Sebastian Vettel · Sergio Perez	5 · 9	5 · 4	10 · 20	Sebastian Vettel	Swapped places
Nico Hulkenberg · Sergio Perez	8 · 9	7 · 4	20 · 20	Same lap	Swapped places
Sergio Perez · Fernando Alonso	9 · 10	4 · 10	20 · 9	Fernando Alonso	Kept their order
Sebastian Vettel · Carlos Sainz	5 · 15	5 · 6	10 · 20	Sebastian Vettel	Kept their order
Sebastian Vettel · Daniel Ricciardo	5 · 6	5 · 8	10 · 13	Sebastian Vettel	Kept their order
Nico Hulkenberg · Carlos Sainz	8 · 15	7 · 6	20 · 20	Same lap	Swapped places
Daniil Kvyat · Carlos Sainz	14 · 15	13 · 6	9 · 20	Daniil Kvyat	Swapped places
Daniel Ricciardo · Nico Hulkenberg	6 · 8	8 · 7	13 · 20	Daniel Ricciardo	Swapped places
Daniel Ricciardo · Felipe Nasr	6 · 21	8 · 9	13 · 20	Daniel Ricciardo	Kept their order
Fernando Alonso · Felipe Nasr	10 · 21	10 · 9	9 · 20	Fernando Alonso	Swapped places
Felipe Nasr · Esteban Ocon	21 · 22	9 · 12	20 · 20	Same lap	Kept their order
Fernando Alonso · Valtteri Bottas	10 · 11	10 · 11	9 · 9	Same lap	Kept their order
Valtteri Bottas · Esteban Ocon	11 · 22	11 · 12	9 · 20	Valtteri Bottas	Kept their order
Daniil Kvyat · Esteban Ocon	14 · 22	13 · 12	9 · 20	Daniil Kvyat	Swapped places
Daniil Kvyat · Kevin Magnussen	14 · 18	13 · 14	9 · 7	Kevin Magnussen	Kept their order
Jenson Button · Kevin Magnussen	17 · 18	16 · 14	8 · 7	Kevin Magnussen	Swapped places
Kevin Magnussen · Pascal Wehrlein	18 · 19	14 · 15	7 · 20	Kevin Magnussen	Kept their order
Jenson Button · Pascal Wehrlein	17 · 19	16 · 15	8 · 20	Jenson Button	Swapped places

Pairs of classified drivers who started or finished next to each other, each with a stop recorded; the two names in a row are in grid order. Both are read from the stops F1DB records, which has gaps. It is the order things happened in and no more: with no lap times, the record cannot say whether stopping first won or lost a place.

Practice sessions Practice 1 · Practice 2 · Practice 3

Practice 1

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:11.895	—	0 m	—	32
2	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:11.991	+0.096	6 m	+0.096	29
3	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	6	1:12.125	+0.230	14 m	+0.134	26
4	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	3	1:12.371	+0.476	29 m	+0.246	27
5	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	77	1:13.129	+1.234	74 m	+0.758	36
6	Sergio Perez	Force India	11	1:13.289	+1.394	84 m	+0.160	31
7	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	27	1:13.293	+1.398	84 m	+0.004	33
8	Felipe Massa	Williams	19	1:13.318	+1.423	85 m	+0.025	33
9	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	5	1:13.567	+1.672	100 m	+0.249	24
10	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	7	1:13.569	+1.674	100 m	+0.002	26
11	Carlos Sainz	Scuderia Toro Rosso	55	1:13.711	+1.816	109 m	+0.142	22
12	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia Toro Rosso	26	1:14.090	+2.195	132 m	+0.379	15
13	Jenson Button	McLaren	22	1:14.252	+2.357	141 m	+0.162	27
14	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	14	1:14.296	+2.401	144 m	+0.044	26
15	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	8	1:14.507	+2.612	157 m	+0.211	25
16	Felipe Nasr	Sauber	12	1:14.631	+2.736	164 m	+0.124	21
17	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	9	1:14.654	+2.759	165 m	+0.023	23
18	Esteban Ocon	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	31	1:14.827	+2.932	176 m	+0.173	30
19	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	30	1:14.908	+3.013	181 m	+0.081	32
20	Pascal Wehrlein	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	94	1:14.948	+3.053	183 m	+0.040	32
21	Charles Leclerc	Haas F1 Team	50	1:15.391	+3.496	210 m	+0.443	27
22	Sergey Sirotkin	Renault	46	1:15.800	+3.905	234 m	+0.409	10

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:12.271	—	0 m	—	41
2	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	6	1:12.301	+0.030	2 m	+0.030	40
3	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	77	1:12.761	+0.490	29 m	+0.460	47
4	Felipe Massa	Williams	19	1:12.789	+0.518	31 m	+0.028	43
5	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	3	1:12.828	+0.557	33 m	+0.039	43
6	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:12.928	+0.657	39 m	+0.100	45
7	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	5	1:13.002	+0.731	44 m	+0.074	45
8	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	7	1:13.047	+0.776	46 m	+0.045	24
9	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	27	1:13.299	+1.028	61 m	+0.252	42
10	Jenson Button	McLaren	22	1:13.440	+1.169	70 m	+0.141	19
11	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	14	1:13.572	+1.301	78 m	+0.132	18
12	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia Toro Rosso	26	1:13.689	+1.418	85 m	+0.117	46
13	Carlos Sainz	Scuderia Toro Rosso	55	1:13.801	+1.530	91 m	+0.112	47
14	Sergio Perez	Force India	11	1:13.918	+1.647	98 m	+0.117	38
15	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	8	1:14.074	+1.803	107 m	+0.156	35
16	Kevin Magnussen	Renault	20	1:14.109	+1.838	110 m	+0.035	47
17	Felipe Nasr	Sauber	12	1:14.309	+2.038	122 m	+0.200	40
18	Esteban Ocon	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	31	1:14.317	+2.046	122 m	+0.008	46
19	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	30	1:14.436	+2.165	129 m	+0.119	43
20	Esteban Gutierrez	Haas F1 Team	21	1:14.558	+2.287	136 m	+0.122	42
21	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	9	1:14.695	+2.424	145 m	+0.137	21
22	Pascal Wehrlein	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	94	1:14.958	+2.687	160 m	+0.263	22

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 3

Practice 3
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	6	1:11.740	—	0 m	—	19
2	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:11.833	+0.093	6 m	+0.093	21
3	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	5	1:11.959	+0.219	13 m	+0.126	14
4	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	7	1:12.027	+0.287	17 m	+0.068	16
5	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:12.077	+0.337	20 m	+0.050	19
6	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	3	1:12.287	+0.547	33 m	+0.210	21
7	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	77	1:12.614	+0.874	52 m	+0.327	27
8	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	30	1:12.968	+1.228	74 m	+0.354	19
9	Felipe Massa	Williams	19	1:12.990	+1.250	75 m	+0.022	26
10	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	14	1:13.002	+1.262	76 m	+0.012	12
11	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	27	1:13.203	+1.463	88 m	+0.201	14
12	Sergio Perez	Force India	11	1:13.231	+1.491	90 m	+0.028	19
13	Kevin Magnussen	Renault	20	1:13.255	+1.515	91 m	+0.024	15
14	Carlos Sainz	Scuderia Toro Rosso	55	1:13.293	+1.553	93 m	+0.038	20
15	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	8	1:13.344	+1.604	96 m	+0.051	15
16	Esteban Gutierrez	Haas F1 Team	21	1:13.596	+1.856	111 m	+0.252	16
17	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia Toro Rosso	26	1:13.609	+1.869	112 m	+0.013	13
18	Jenson Button	McLaren	22	1:13.750	+2.010	121 m	+0.141	9
19	Pascal Wehrlein	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	94	1:13.972	+2.232	134 m	+0.222	20
20	Felipe Nasr	Sauber	12	1:13.992	+2.252	135 m	+0.020	14
21	Esteban Ocon	Virgin Racing / Marussia / Manor	31	1:14.222	+2.482	149 m	+0.230	21
22	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	9	—	—	—	—	1

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

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Where this comes from

Round: 20 of 2016
Grand Prix: Brazilian Grand Prix
Dates: 13 Nov 2016
Layout raced: Current layout · 4.309 km · 15 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Mercedes
Entrant: Mercedes
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.