The 2016 Mexican Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Gran Premio de México 2016) was the Formula One motor race run on 30 October 2016 at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City, the eighteenth Mexican Grand Prix, and the sixteenth time that the race had been run as a World Championship event since the inaugural season in 1950.

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2016 Mexican Grand Prix
Race 19 of 21 in the 2016 Formula One World Championship ← Previous race Next race →
Race details[1]
Date	30 October 2016 (2016-10-30)
Official name	Formula 1 Gran Premio de México 2016
Location	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City, Mexico
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	4.304 km (2.674 miles)
Distance	71 laps, 305.354 km (189.738 miles)
Weather	Sunny
Attendance	339,967 (Weekend)[2] 135,026 (Race Day)[3]
Pole position
Driver	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Time	1:18.704
Fastest lap
Driver	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer
Time	1:21.134 on lap 53
Podium
First	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Second	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes
Third	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer
Lap leaders

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Defending race winner Nico Rosberg entered the round with a twenty-six-point lead over teammate Lewis Hamilton in the World Drivers' Championship; they were the only two drivers who could win the title at the start of the race, and both remained in contention after it. Their team, Mercedes, held a lead of two hundred and thirty-six points over Red Bull Racing in the World Constructors' Championship before the race; Red Bull were fifty-three points ahead of Scuderia Ferrari.

Lewis Hamilton won the race to narrow the Championship gap between him and teammate Nico Rosberg surviving a scare at the start when he ran wide at the first corner, before there was a brief Safety Car period after Pascal Wehrlein was punted off at the same corner. Both Max Verstappen and Sebastian Vettel were stripped of third place podium finishes when penalised post-race. Verstappen crossed the finish line in third, followed 0.99 seconds later by Vettel, himself followed 3.55 seconds later by Verstappen's teammate Daniel Ricciardo. Before the trophy presentation, Verstappen was penalised five seconds for cutting a race corner and unfairly maintaining his narrow lead over Vettel on lap 68. While Vettel attended the podium ceremony as the revised third-place finisher, he was soon given a ten-second penalty for driving dangerously on lap 69, for moving under braking to block Ricciardo as he attempted a pass, under new rules introduced at the United States Grand Prix the previous week. This meant that Ricciardo was promoted to third which also sealed third place in the championship for him, while Verstappen was relegated from third to fourth and Vettel was moved from fourth to third to fifth once the stewards had reviewed all incidents.^[4]

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Drivers' Championship standings Pos. Driver Points 1 Nico Rosberg* 349 2 Lewis Hamilton* 330 3 Daniel Ricciardo 242 4 Sebastian Vettel 187 5 Kimi Räikkönen 178 Source: [7]

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Mercedes* 679 2 Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer 427 3 Ferrari 365 4 Force India-Mercedes 145 5 Williams-Mercedes 136 Source: [7]

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• Note: Only the top five positions are included for the sets of standings.
• Bold text and an asterisk indicates competitors with a theoritical chance of being World Champion.