Your guide to the 2016 European Grand Prix

The European Grand Prix, is a Formula One event that was introduced during the mid-1980s and was held regularly from 1999 until 2012.

The most recent host venue for this event was the Valencia Street Circuit in Valencia, Spain, hosting the race from 2008 until 2012.

The race was removed from the calendar in 2013, and will return in 2016 being run on a street circuit in Baku, Azerbaijan.

 

Number of times held: 22

 

Circuit	Times held
Nürburgring	12
Valencia Street Circuit	5
Brands Hatch	2
Circuito de Jerez	2
Donington Park	1

 

European Grand Prix, Round eight of the 2016 Formula 1 season

 

Circuit Name: Baku City Cirtcuit

Race Laps: 51

Circuit Length: 6.006 km (3.732 mi)

Race Length: 306.306 km (190.332 mi)

Number of corners: 20 (8 Right, 12 Left)

DRS Zone: Two Zones (730m on approach of Turn 1, 630m on approach of Turn 3)

Circuit Direction: Anti-Clockwise

Pole Position 2012: Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:38.086

 

 

Pirelli used compounds

 

Pirelli will bring the following three compounds to the European round to be held (17-19 June) on The Baku City Circuit

P Zero White medium: this has not been extensively chosen, so unlikely to figure prominently.
P Zero Yellow soft:  a high working range tyre, which could make it very important in the heat of Baku.
P Zero Red super soft: the most popular choice, which will be used heavily in qualifying and the race.

The tires that Pirelli has said must be used at some point in the race:
One set of P Zero White medium
One set of P Zero Yellow soft
Each driver must have both these sets available for the race, and must use at least one of them.

The tires assigned for Q3 in qualifying:
One set of P Zero Red super soft.

THE LAST EUROPEAN GRAND PRIX:    

The last European Grand Prix was actually held four years ago, in Valencia (where it was also the eighth race of the season). Fernando Alonso won for Ferrari from 11^thon the grid.

PAUL HEMBERY, PIRELLI MOTORSPORT DIRECTOR:

“We’ve heard lots of interesting things about the circuit, and it seems that its character, lap length, and speed will certainly make it stand out. Obviously it’s never easy when you go to a circuit for the first time, but the conditions and the tyres are of course as always the same for everyone. The selection of compounds we have nominated should cope with a wide range of potential conditions; now of course it is down to the teams to get the most out of their choices and to identify the best possible strategies, which is why the running we see in free practice will be particularly important.”

Drivers / Teams compound choices

Team	Car #	Driver	Medium	Soft	Super Soft
Mercedes AMG	44	Lewis Hamilton	1	4	8
	6	Nico Rosberg	2	3	8
Scuderia Ferrari	5	Sebastian Vettel	1	5	7
	7	Kimi Raikkonen	1	5	7
Williams-Mercedes	19	Felipe Massa	1	5	7
	77	Valtteri Bottas	2	4	7
Red Bull Racing	3	Daniel Ricciardo	1	4	8
	26	Daniil Kvyat	1	4	8
Force India-Mercedes	11	Sergio Perez	2	4	7
	27	Nico Hulkenberg	2	4	7
Renault	20	Kevin Magnussen	1	4	8
	30	Jolyon Palmer	1	4	8
Toro Rosso-Ferrari	33	Max Verstappen	1	4	8
	55	Carlos Sainz Jr.	1	4	8
Sauber-Ferrari	9	Marcus Ericsson	2	5	6
	12	Felipe Nasr	1	6	6
McLaren-Honda	14	Fernando Alonso	1	5	7
	22	Jenson Button	1	5	7
Manor-Mercedes	88	Rio Haryanto	2	4	7
	94	Pascal Wehrlein	2	4	7
Haas-Ferrari	8	Romain Grosjean	2	3	8
	21	Esteban Gutierrez	1	4	8

  

Australian Grand Prix Winners (By year)

 

Year	Driver	Constructor	Location
2012	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	Valencia
2011	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault
2010	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault
2009	Rubens Barrichello	Brawn-Mercedes
2008	Felipe Massa	Ferrari
2007	Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Mercedes	Nürburgring
2006	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
2005	Fernando Alonso	Renault
2004	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
2003	Ralf Schumacher	Williams-BMW
2002	Rubens Barrichello	Ferrari
2001	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
2000	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
1999	Johnny Herbert	Stewart-Ford
1998	Not held
1997	Mika Häkkinen	McLaren-Mercedes	Jerez
1996	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams-Renault	Nürburgring
1995	Michael Schumacher	Benetton-Renault
1994	Michael Schumacher	Benetton-Ford	Jerez
1993	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Ford	Donington
1992	Not held
–
1986
1985	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Honda	Brands Hatch
1984	Alain Prost	McLaren-TAG	Nürburgring GP-Strecke
1983	Nelson Piquet	Brabham-BMW	Brands Hatch

 

Multiple Winners (Drivers)

# of wins	Driver	Achieved
6	Michael Schumacher	1994, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006
3	Fernando Alonso	2005, 2007, 2012
2	Rubens Barrichello	2002, 2009
	Sebastian Vettel	2010, 2011

 

Multiple Winners (Constructors)

# of wins	Constructor	Achieved
7	Ferrari	2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2012
4	McLaren	1984, 1993, 1997, 2007
3	Williams	1985, 1996, 2003
2	Benetton	1994, 1995
	Red Bull	2010, 2011

  

Numbers and Facts

Most wins (driver) 6 Michael Schumacher 1994 – 1995 – 2000 – 2001 – 2004 – 2006

Most wins (constructor) 7 – Ferrari 2000 – 2001 – 2002 – 2004 – 2006 – 2008 – 2012

Wins from pole position 6 – 1994 – 2001 – 2004 – 2008 – 2010 – 2011

Lowest grid for past winner 14 – Johnny Herbert 1999

Most recent 1-2 finish 2004 Ferrari (M.Schumacher – Barrichello)

Most emphatic win 1993 1’23.199 (A.Senna-D.Hill)

Closest winning margin 2002 0.294 (Barrichello – M.Schumacher)

Rain-affected races 5 – 1993 – 1995 – 1999 – 2000 – 2007

Safety Car-affected races 5 – 1999 – 2006 – 2007 – 2010 – 2012

Red Flag (and result declared) races 0

2-hour rule shortened races 0

Fastest race 2001 67 laps @1:29’ 42.724 (Nurburgring)

Slowest race 2007 60 laps @ 2:06’ 26.358 (Nurburgring

Most pole positions (driver) 3 Michael Schumacher 1994 – 2001 – 2004 and Sebastian Vettel 2010 – 2011 – 2012

Most pole positions (constructor) 6 Williams 1993 – 1995 – 1996 – 1997 – 2002 – 2005

 

What Happened last race in Valencia?

Fernando Alonso won  for Ferrari his home race at Valencia Starting  11^th on the grid, after a series of overtakes and Sebastian Vettel’s, who strated from pole, retirement.

Lewis Hamilton was set to finish second after Romain Grosjean have retired from the race, but crashed out with three laps remaining.

Hamilton was pitched into the barriers after a tussle with Williams’s Pastor Maldonado, handing second to Lotus’s Kimi Raikkonen.

The frantic action promoted Mercedes’s Michael Schumacher to third place – the first and last podium since his comeback in 2010 – and Red Bull’s Mark Webber to fourth from 19th on the grid.

 

2012 Race Classification

Pos	Driver	Constructor	Time/Retired	Grid
1	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:44:16.649	11
2	Kimi Räikkönen	Lotus-Renault	+6.421	5
3	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	+12.639	12
4	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	+13.628	19
5	Nico Hülkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	+19.993	8
6	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	+21.176	6
7	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	+22.866	10
8	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	+24.653	9
9	Sergio Pérez	Sauber-Ferrari	+27.777	15
10	Bruno Senna	Williams-Renault	+35.961	14
11	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	+37.041	17
12	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	+54.6301	3
13	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham-Renault	+1:15.871	20
14	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham-Renault	+1:34.654	16
15	Charles Pic	Marussia-Cosworth	+1:36.551	23
16	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	+1 Lap	13
17	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT-Cosworth	+1 Lap	21
18	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	+1 Lap	22
19	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	Collision	2
Ret	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	Alternator	4
Ret	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	Alternator	1
Ret	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	Collision damage	7
Ret	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	Collision damage	18
DNS	Timo Glock	Marussia-Cosworth	Illness

  

Did you know?

✪ Lewis Hamilton having scored his 45th F1 win in Canada is now just 6 wins from equalling Alain Prost’s second-best of all-time 51 wins

✪ Hamilton has set 35 of his 53 pole positions to date on Pirelli tyres. It is 4 more than any other driver in the history of F1 (Vettel next-best 31)

✪ Hamilton is just 15 pole positions from equalling Michael Schumacher’s all-time record of 68 F1 GP pole positions. Since he has been at Mercedes he has taken pole 27 times already. That is over 40% of all races he’s started for the team (27/ 64 = 42.2%)

✪ Hamilton has started 94 Grand Prix from the front row. It is exactly twice the number of front row starts by Nico Rosberg (47)

✪ In the 64 events to date that Hamilton and Rosberg have been Mercedes teammates they have locked-out the front row of the starting grid 34 times (53%)

✪ Hamilton has won (45) 25.9% of all GP he’s started (174) and is in the top 10 drivers races to win ratio of all-time. This is how he compares:- 1. Fangio 47.0%, 2. Ascari 40.6%, 3. Clark 34.7%, 4. M.Schumacher 29.7%, 5. Ja.Stewart 27.2% 6. Hamilton 25.9% 7= Prost 25.6% 7= Vettel 25.6% (42/ 164), 9. Senna 25.5%, 10. Moss 24.2%

✪ Hamilton has now led 88 F1 GP, 2 more than Ayrton Senna. Only Michael Schumacher has led more (142)

✪ Rosberg has won 18 GP. Nobody has won more GP and not won the driver’s title at some point in their F1 career

✪ Rosberg in Baku can beat Niki Lauda’s 24 pole positions

✪ Sebastian Vettel now shares the all-time F1 points record total of 1,974 points with Hamilton

✪ Max Verstappen is 1 point away from reaching 100 F1 points. The fastest three to 100 is: 1.Hamilton (15 GP), 2. Alberto Ascari (18 GP) and 3. Juan-Manuel Fangio (22 GP). I think if MV does it in Baku (27th GP) he’ll be =5th with Nino Farina to 100 (Jacques Villeneuve 4th on 24 GP)

✪ With Felipe Massa’s retirement in Canada no driver has finished in the points in all 2016 Grand Prix to date

CONSTRUCTORS’

✪ Mercedes won its 51st F1 World Championship race victory in Canada. To date Mercedes has won just over one-third of all the F1 GP it has has competed in (51 wins/ 134 races = 38.1%). Mercedes is now equal with Red Bull’s F1 career total of 51 wins

✪ Mercedes beat Red Bull’s 58 F1 poles positions in Canada

✪ 92.2% of all Mercedes’s wins to date have come from front row starts (47/ 51)

✪ Mercedes has now led over 3,000 F1 Grand Prix race laps (3,045). Top is Ferrari with 13,920 race laps led to date

✪ Mercedes in Canada beat Tyrrell’s 66 F1 Grand Prix on the podium (legally the two teams are the same, sharing the official company no)

✪ Ferrari and Williams remain the only teams to have scored points in all 7 Grand Prix held so far this season

✪ Red Bull has won 2 of the last 3 Grand Prix of Europe

✪ Williams has won 3 Grand Prix of Europe’s but has not featured on the podium since 2005 (2nd), 7 GP of E ago

✪ Williams has not scored back-to-back podiums in any Grand Prix since Valtteri Bottas finished the 2014 Austrian, British and German Grand Prix in the top 3

✪ McLaren has recorded the most non-finishes of any of the teams so far this season. Their 4 DNF’s to date is 1 more than anybody else (Ferrari, STR, Haas, Renault and Sauber each have recorded 3 DNF’s in 2016 to date)

✪ Pirelli scored its 150th F1 podium in Canada (Goodyear 358, Bridgestone 168, Pirelli 150)

GRAND PRIX of EUROPE

✪ The Baku circuit is the 6th different venue to host the Grand Prix of Europe while Azerbaijan is the 4th different country to play host

✪ Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg and Mercedes have yet to win a Grand Prix of Europe. Rosberg has yet to take even a podium in this event

✪ The 2012 Grand Prix of Europe is notable for being the race at which Michael Schumacher scored his record 155th and final F1 podium

2002 European Grand Prix, Nurburgring, Germany. 23rd June 2002 – Rubens Barrichello, Ferrari F2002, wins ahead of Michael Schumacher.

 

World Drivers’ Championship standings

Pos.	Driver	Points	Diff
1	Nico Rosberg	116
2	Lewis Hamilton	107	9
3	Sebastian Vettel	78	38
4	Daniel Ricciardo	72	44
5	Kimi Räikkönen	69	47
6	Max Verstappen	50	66
7	Valtteri Bottas	44	72
8	Felipe Massa	37	79
9	Sergio Pérez	24	92
10	Daniil Kvyat	22	94
11	Romain Grosjean	22	94
12	Fernando Alonso	18	98
13	Nico Hülkenberg	18	98
14	Carlos Sainz, Jr.	18	98
15	Kevin Magnussen	6	110
16	Jenson Button	5	111
17	Stoffel Vandoorn	1	115
18	Esteban Gutiérrez	0
19	Jolyon Palmer	0
20	Marcus Ericsson	0
21	Pascal Wehrlein	0
22	Felipe Nasr	0
23	Rio Haryanto	0

 

 

World Constructors’ Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points	Diff
1	Mercedes	223
2	Ferrari	147	76
3	Red Bull-TAG Heuer	130	93
4	Williams-Mercedes	81	142
5	Force India-Mercedes	42	181
6	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	32	191
7	McLaren-Honda	24	199
8	Haas-Ferrari	22	201
9	Renault	6	217
10	Sauber-Ferrari	0
11	MRT-Mercedes	0

 

 

Drivers penalty points:

Driver	Penalty points
Daniil Kvyat	7
Max Verstappen	6
Marcus Erricson	6
Valtteri Bottas	6
Nico Hulkenberg	4
Pascal Wehrlein	4
Kimi Raikkonen	3
Romain Grosjean	2
Lewis Hamilton	2
Fernando Alonso	2
Rio Haryanto	2
Carlos Sainz	2
Esteban Gutierrez	2
Kevin Magnussen	2