The Official 2016 Formula One Season

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The Official 2016 Formula 1 entry list

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Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team
[www.mercedesamgf1.com]



Chassis: W07
Engine: Mercedes-Benz

44. Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton
6. Nico Erik Rosberg

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Scuderia Ferrari
[www.ferrari.com]




Chassis: SF16-H
Engine: Ferrari

5. Sebastian Vettel
7. Kimi-Matias Räikkönen

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Williams Martini Racing
[www.williamsf1.com]



Chassis: FW38
Engine: Mercedes-Benz

77. Valtteri Bottas
19. Felipe Massa

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Red Bull Racing
[www.redbullracing.com]



Chassis: RB12
Engine: Tag Heuer

3. Daniel Ricciardo
33. Max Emilian Verstappen

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Sahara Force India F1 Team
[www.forceindiaf1.com]



Chassis: VJM09
Engine: Mercedes-Benz

11. Sergio Pérez Mendoza
27. Nicolas "Nico" Hülkenberg

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Renault F1 Team
[www.renaultsportf1.com]



Chassis: RS16
Engine: Renault

20. Kevin Jan Magnussen
30. Jolyon Carlyle Palmer

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Scuderia Toro Rosso
[www.tororosso.com]



Chassis: STR11
Engine: Ferrari

55. Carlos Sainz Vázquez de Castro
26. Daniil Kvyat

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Sauber F1 Team
[www.sauber-motorsport.com]



Chassis: C35
Engine: Ferrari

12. Luiz Felipe de Oliveira Nasr
9. Marcus Ericsson

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McLaren Honda
[www.mclaren.com]



Chassis: MP4/31
Engine: Honda

14. Fernando Alonso Díaz
22. Jenson Alexander Lyons Button

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Manor Racing
[manorf1team.com]



Chassis: MRT05
Engine: Mercedes-Benz

94. Pascal Wehrlein
34. Esteban Ocon

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Hass F1 Team
[www.haasf1team.com]



Chassis: VF16
Engine: Ferrari

8. Romain Grosjean
21. Esteban Manuel Gutiérrez Gutiérrez

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The Official 2016 Formula 1 Calender

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Round 1

2016 FORMULA 1 AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX
18th - 20th March

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Circuit Length: 5.303 km
Circuit Turns: 16
Circuit Direction: Clockwise
Capacity: 80,000
Established: 1996

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Round 2

2016 FORMULA 1 BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX
1st - 3rd April

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Circuit Length: 5.412 km
Circuit Turns: 15
Circuit Direction: Clockwise
Capacity: 50,000
Established: 2004
Designer: Hermann Tilke

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Round 3

2016 FORMULA 1 CHINESE GRAND PRIX
15th - 17th April

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Circuit Length: 5.451 km
Circuit Turns: 16
Circuit Direction: Clockwise
Capacity: 200,000
Established: 2004
Designer: Hermann Tilke

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Round 4

2016 FORMULA 1 RUSSIAN GRAND PRIX
29th April - 1st May

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Circuit Length: 5.872 km
Circuit Turns: 19
Circuit Direction: Clockwise
Established: 2014
Designer: Krasnodarsky Krai

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Round 5

FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO DE ESPAÑA 2016
13th - 15th May

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Circuit Length: 4.655 km
Circuit Turns: 16
Circuit Direction: Clockwise
Capacity: 107,000
Established: 1991

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Round 6

FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO 2016
26th - 29th May

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Circuit Length: 3.340 km
Circuit Turns: 19
Circuit Direction: Clockwise
Capacity: 120,000
Established: 1929

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Round 7

FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DU CANADA 2016
10th - 12th June

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Circuit Length: 4.361 km
Circuit Turns: 13
Circuit Direction: Clockwise
Capacity: 100,000
Established: 1978

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Round 8

2016 FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE
17th - 19th June

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Circuit Length: 6.006 km
Circuit Turns: 20
Circuit Direction: Anti-clockwise
Established: 2016
Designer: Hermann Tilke

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Round 9

FORMULA 1 GROSSER PREIS VON ÖSTERREICH 2016
1st - 4rd July

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Circuit Length: 4.326 km
Circuit Turns: 8
Circuit Direction: Clockwise
Established: 1969
Designer: Hermann Tilke

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Round 10

2016 FORMULA 1 BRITISH GRAND PRIX
8th - 10th July

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Circuit Length: 5.900 km
Circuit Turns: 17
Circuit Direction: Clockwise
Capacity: 150,000
Established: 1950

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Round 11

FORMULA 1 MAGYAR NAGYDÍJ 2016
22nd- 24th July

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Circuit Length: 4.381 km
Circuit Turns: 14
Circuit Direction: Clockwise
Capacity: 120,000
Established: 1986

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Round 12

FORMULA 1 GROSSER PREIS VON DEUTSCHLAND 2016
29th - 31st July

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Circuit Length: 4.574 km
Circuit Turns: 13
Circuit Direction: Clockwise
Capacity: 130,000
Established: 1932

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Round 13

2016 FORMULA 1 BELGIAN GRAND PRIX
26th - 28th August

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Circuit Length: 7.004 km
Circuit Turns: 19
Circuit Direction: Clockwise
Capacity: 90,000
Established: 1924

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Round 14

FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO D'ITALIA 2016
2nd - 4th September

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Circuit Length: 5.793 km
Circuit Turns: 11
Circuit Direction: Clockwise
Capacity: 115,000
Established: 1922

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Round 15

2016 FORMULA 1 SINGAPORE AIRLINES SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX
16th - 18th September

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Circuit Length: 5.067 km
Circuit Turns: 23
Circuit Direction: Anti-clockwise
Capacity: 110,000
Established: 2008

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Round 16

2016 FORMULA 1 MALAYSIA GRAND PRIX
30th September - 2nd October

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Circuit Length: 5.543 km
Circuit Turns: 15
Circuit Direction: Clockwise
Capacity: 133,000
Established: 1999
Designer: Hermann Tilke

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Round 17

2016 FORMULA 1 JAPANESE GRAND PRIX
7th - 9th October

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Circuit Length: 5.451 km
Circuit Turns: 17
Circuit Direction: Clockwise
Capacity: 100,000
Established: 1962
Designer: John Hugenholtz

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Round 18

2016 FORMULA 1 UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX
21st - 23rd October

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Circuit Length: 5.470 km
Circuit Direction: Anti-clockwise
Designer: Hermann Tilke

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Round 19

FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO DE MÉXICO 2016
28th - 30th October

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Circuit Length: 4.421 km
Circuit Turns: 18
Circuit Direction: Clockwise
Capacity: 120,000
Established: 1962

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Round 20

FORMULA 1 GRANDE PRÊMIO DO BRASIL 2016
11th - 13th November

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Circuit Length: 4.309 km
Circuit Turns: 15
Circuit Direction: Anti-clockwise
Capacity: 119,000
Established: 1936

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Round 21

2016 FORMULA 1 ETIHAD AIRWAYS ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX
25th - 27th November

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Circuit Length: 5.550 km
Circuit Turns: 21
Circuit Direction: Anti-clockwise
Capacity: 50,000
Established: 2009
Designer: Hermann Tilke




Edited 37 time(s). Last edit at 08/10/2016 01:24PM by madotter.

Yes! Its that time of the year again!

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GPGSL -
GPGSL-3 - Pizza Party Racing manager and driver
Nations Cup - Team Scotland manager

My predictions for the seats currently empty...

Red Bull: I wouldn't be at all surprised if they retained Kvyat, provided that Red Bull remains Red Bull. (I can also imagine the Infiniti sponsorship coming to an end with the loss of Renault)
Team currently known as Lotus: My guess is Magnussen or Vandoorne to partner Pastor. I also believe that they'll at the least run Renault engines next year - takeover is likely, in addition to the fact that Merc are going to supply Manor instead.
STR: If Red Bull stays in, I'd expect the STR lineup to remain as is.
Manor: My bet is Pascal-with-the-Merc-support and Rossi
Haas: Gutierrez, surely?

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GPGSL -
GPGSL-3 - Pizza Party Racing manager and driver
Nations Cup - Team Scotland manager



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/05/2015 02:42PM by smoglessbutton4.

I think your predictions will be true. I'm just glad JB is staying, I'm not a McLaren fan or even a big JB fan but the sport needs the "humorous gentleman"!!

If the red bull teams stay then I'm convinced their driver line ups will remain the same.

Renault assuming they become Renault again have some "tasty options" personally my preference would be Jean Eric Vergne.. He makes sense... He's quick, French and has experience of the Renault engine from last year.

Manor... I imagine they'll be keen to take Pascal thingy on... To keep Merc sweet. Other than him then probably the best backed semi respectable graduate from GP2/FR3.5.

Hass? I agree, Guteireze seems pretty confident that the drive is his.

Probably the most promising drivers to be without F1 drives next year will be Vandoorne and Magussen, they'll be shuffled out by politics, money and marketing.

I'll be most interested to see how Hass perform, i'm intrigued at it's semi customer structure with Ferrari. Expecting them to be instant point scoring midfield is probably unrealistic yet I doubt they'll be as far off the pace as Virgin, Lotus and Hispania were.

If I understand this correctly, Ferrari have agreed to supply STR (but not Red Bull) in 2016
[www.auto-motor-und-sport.de]

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GPGSL -
GPGSL-3 - Pizza Party Racing manager and driver
Nations Cup - Team Scotland manager

So now Red Bull are forced to Walk to Canossa, to regain the support of Renault. What a fitting end.

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It's only after we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything.

Rumours of Redbull - Honda deal now. :/

Not sure how Mclaren will take this, although could speed up Honda's development with two sets of data.

Palmer confirmed at Lotus / Renault.

Poor Vergne.

mika19b Wrote:
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> Rumours of Redbull - Honda deal now. :/
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> Not sure how Mclaren will take this, although
> could speed up Honda's development with two sets
> of data.


Predictably, Ron had the same attitude that was expressed by Ferrari and Mercedes.

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It's only after we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything.

Gutierrez will likely use number 21 as in 2014 - iirc the time for the number to be freed up has not yet passed (I think it's 2 years?)

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GPGSL -
GPGSL-3 - Pizza Party Racing manager and driver
Nations Cup - Team Scotland manager

Do you guys know if there is any new circuit for 2016 apart from Mexico which made its debut this year?
I really like when they reace in a new one

For F1 lovers: www.f1legendraces.com

Azerbaijan - Baku

Just an update; Kvyat's confirmed as staying at Red Bull, and likewise Verstappen and Sainz at Toro Rosso.

Also, Felipe Nasr's surname has a wee typo...he's not a brand of ladies' hair remover.

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GPGSL: S6 - TafuroGP Tester (14th) /// S7 - ART Tester (6th) /// S8 - Demon Driver (13th) /// S9 - Demon/Snake Driver (13th) /// S10 - Snake Driver (???) ///]
"My ambition is handicapped by laziness" - Charles Bukowski

Incident 2k9 Wrote:
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> Just an update; Kvyat's confirmed as staying at
> Red Bull, and likewise Verstappen and Sainz at
> Toro Rosso.
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> Also, Felipe Nasr's surname has a wee typo...he's
> not a brand of ladies' hair remover.


LMAO! I didn't see the Nasr error, "he's not a brand of ladies' hair remover." is comment of the year!

so, Red Bull-TAG Heuer but still Renault engines... read somewhere that they only use the termical engine and will have Illmor working with them to develop it

Speaking of Renault, now that they own Toleman again get ready to see 494010691235461324986153987 concept liveries before February. (and i bet they will use a revised 2010 one, that is in itself a revised one from the 2007 30 ans thing they did in silverstone with a R27 if im not mistaken)

It was about bloody time they got all that sorted.

I think it's a good thing ultimately, to have three manufacture teams potentially competing competively. It'll take a few seasons for them to get up to par but Renault always get it right eventually.

So Red Bull keep Renault engines and get to call them Tag which is why Ron Dennis won't be happy. Toro Roso get year old Ferraris... Which kind of sucks because that definitely puts them on a back foot compared to the rest of the midfield.

I'm hoping that 2016 provides a bit more excitement on the track, as I'm getting rather tired of the off track politics being far more worthy of discussion. We basically need Ferrari to close the gap on Merc and the midfield to compress a bit. Pirelli are trying to increase the so called tyre "cliff" again so cue plenty of whinging from the drivers and crying from Red Bull when they discover that the tyres can't handle the ample downforce their car will have.

Pre season testing is shorter than ever and so in many more vital than it ever has been before to sooth out and teething problems in a new car.

Mercedes
Anyone who is wearing their sensible shoes would have no hesitation in confidently predicting Mercedes to be the clear favourites to take a championship hat trick. And let's be honest Hamilton will stop sulking in time for Melbourne and there will be little to stop him from romping to title number four and becoming that little bit more insufferable. I'd like to see Rosberg take this one but as good as he is (and he is a damn fine driver) he's always going to be second fiddle to Hamilton.

I see the status quo being maintained, it won't be until 2017 at the earliest this team is knocked of its perch.

Ferrari
Expectations will be huge both internally and externally.. they're certainly the best placed to take on Mercedes and a bigger haul of victories than 2015 would certainly be no surprise. But a full on tilt for the title is a stretch too far for two reasons. One, Mercedes still enjoy the relative comfort of their turbo hybrid era advantage and two, the Vettle - Raikkonen is weaker than Hamilton - Rosberg. But it would certainly be fun to see Hamilton and Vettle go head to head in relatively equal cars.

I sense P2 again in the constructors but plenty of finger waving.

Williams
It is claimed that they stopped development on this cars early to focus on next year's which promises some significant changes. This is the standard kind of blurb from any F1 team, but it's true that if the team have any design on challenging for wins then some fundamental weaknesses in both the car and operations need addressing. It'd take a brave man to predict a win on merit but I have little doubt that on the right day in the right circumstances Massa or Bottas could sneak a plucky victory. It's unlikely that they can really threaten Mercedes or Ferrari, I think they'll have a job on their hands to contain Red Bull... but the next step in the team's overall recovery is now required.

I think a smattering of podiums are on the way, but no real chance of wins.

Red Bull
So all the uncertainty about what engine the team would have will have played havoc in the cars new cars development right? Bull @#$%&, with their resources this will not be a problem. Anyone with an ounce of sense would have developed the new car with the Renault in mind and Newey has tonnes of it. Newey and his team will be fully on top of the weaknesses of the 2015 chassis, and if Renault make any kind of step forward then a rerun to 2014 form at the very least is on the cards if not a bit better.

I imagine the Renault will ultimately thwart a title challenge, but the odd sneaky win can not be ruled out we know that Ricciardo can take a race by the throat.

Force India
Or should we say "Aston Martin"? Look debonair rebranding or not it's going to be hideously difficult to improve upon P5 in the championship, indeed they did marvellously well to achieve that this year. But ahead of them are teams with deeper resources and stronger infrastructure, behind them are a team with renewed works status and a sleeping giant in the form of McLaren. No, I'm sorry but it's downhill from here.

In lieu of a Perez patented tyre conservation demo to the podium I'll refrain from making any personal forfeit bet... There'll be no running through the streets naked for me.

Renault
They have their work cut out for them in the short term, but let's not be too dispirited. This team know Renault inside out. Developing the new car for the engine will not be a problem as they'll have plenty of data from the past plus now'll with more secure funding they can go forward with confidence. There's some doubt if Maldonaldo and Palmers contracts will be honoured but maybe that's not a bad thing, I do doubt Maldonaldo's ability to lead a team, and Jean Eric Vergne would have been a nice prospect for them.

I see no reason why Renault should not be on terms with Force India.

Toro Rosso
This is going to be interesting.. But I fear they're going to be on the back foot. The oldest spec engine on the grid, even Hass and Manor will have better power trains. This is a shame because the car was a neat little package this year and Verstappen and Sainz deserve good cars to show what they can do.

In Danger of slipping behind Sauber.

Sauber
Meh. Could climb a spot or two up the championship due to misfortune of others.

Mclaren
Well.. I'm going to give Honda the benefit of the doubt. It can't be as bad as this year can it? If Honda improve then McLaren have a chassis and drivers to get right back up there... If rather fewer sponsors to fund it.

Manor
New funding, new car, new power train. Very exciting.

Will still back of the grid though though.

Hass
Intriguing business plan, inspiring technical partnership with Ferrari.

Most likely to be fiddling around the back with Manor but with some prospects of producing a real surprise or two.

palmer number 30

Number 30 added for Palmer and all 21 tracks added to first post!

Enjoy