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2016 f1 season standings drivers#
2016 f1 season standings driver#

A very serious crash during the German Grand Prix hospitalized Paul di Resta. Sauber: Paul di Resta → Bernard Babineaux.

The Indian scored a retirement on his first return race, but soon caught up with his old replacement. Karthikeyan had recovered fully from his injuries by the Bahrain Grand Prix, and retook his seat from novice Italian Nino Magro.

Caterham: Nino Magro → Narain Karthikeyan.

Frenchman Philbert Rome replaces his compatriot and entourage at Red Bull's old sister team. However, some doubt his abilities to perform much better in what is seen to be a declining team. Vergne finally gets a good seat in Formula One, after 4 years of competing in back-marker teams.

Jean-Eric Vergne: Toro Rosso → Mercedes.

He seemed sad to announce it, but said he had begun thinking of it until Vettel joined Mercedes in 2013. His return to Formula One has undoubtedly not been as successful as he had hoped. After a 22-season career in Formula One, yielding seven world driver's championships, the great Schumacher retires.

Marussia has BMW be there new engine supplier.

Toyota makes a return to F1, replacing Huynadi-BMW.

They are the firstĪmerican F1 team to supply there own engine.

Chevrolet bought the team EADS after it went bankrupt.

The team is looking to see if they can bring there 24 Hours of Le Mans to F1 with Team Joist.

Audi bought Caterham F1 team for 70 million dollars.

McLaren announced it was looking for a new title sponsor. Vodafone withdrew its title sponsorship of McLaren, stating its contract had ended and it did not wish to renew it.

Vodafone McLaren Team → Team McLaren Honda.

Honda was happy to expand its customer base, though McLaren offered a neutral stance on the subject. Nevertheless, they were experiencing a lull in terms of the constructor's standings, and hoped Honda would revitalize them like they did McLaren. Their engine change has been a long time coming, since they were being pressured until 2014 by Red Bull to have Renault engine suppliers. Toro Rosso also announced their termination of Ferrari partnership for their engines. The deal was to last five years, until the 2021 season.

Both engine suppliers, therefore, became exclusive de facto as of the deal's signing. Lotus claimed they did so as Ford offered them an exclusive engine supply deal, whereas Renault claimed it was for strategic reasons.

2016 f1 season standings driver#

Following the German Grand Prix, when driver contract negotiations started, Lotus and Renault announced their departure as partners.

Lotus: Renault → Ford Lotus F1 Team → Team Lotus Ford.

2016 f1 season standings drivers#

Regardless, Vettel and Kimi are 2 experienced drivers and will extract the maximum out of the Ferraris. Ferrari are rumoured to be designing a superior car for 2017 and hence are thought to have not done much work on the 2016 car. The nearest challengers for the Mercedes duo will be Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen. Both Rosberg and Hamilton have clashed multiple times on and off the field and the 2016 title is also going to be a battle between the two unless the other teams don’t spring major surprises. Rosberg won the final 3 races to finish the season strong to send a warning to Hamilton. Though Rosberg finished 2nd best to Hamilton in the 2 previous seasons, he cannot be written off. Favourites for 2016īoth the ‘Silver Arrows’ drivers are red hot favourites for the title. Drivers are also required to wear in-ear accelerometers at each event and their cars must be fitted with high-speed cameras for accident analysis. There are modifications to the head protection structures in the cockpit in order to increase driver safety while tyre allocations were modified slightly with Pirelli supplying 13 sets of tyres for a race weekend. In a bid to ensure that the drivers drive their cars ‘alone and unaided’, teams have been prevented from giving specific technical instructions for a racer that might help him allow to drive his car faster in the middle of a race. One of the important change among them is the ‘radio restrictions’ imposed on a driver. Keeping in mind the fact that some major changes have been planned for the 2017 F1 season, only some minor tweaks were made for the 2016 season. Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa (both Williams) finished behind the Ferraris. The Ferraris of Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen were 3rd and 4th, clearly inferior to Hamilton and Raikkonen. Though he slacked off a bit after confirming his victory, he was a comfortable 59 points ahead of Nico Rosberg - his teammate and nearest challenger.

It was a defining season for Lewis Hamilton as he secured his 3rd World Driver’s Championship, who not only won the championship with 3 races remaining but also the FIA Pole Trophy, having finished first in qualifying a massive 11 times out of 19 in the season.