Marcus Ericsson crashed on lap 12 on the pit straight bringing the safety car back out again. The track was very wet at the start so the race began behind the safety car until the start of Lap 8. ^1 – Esteban Ocon received a three-place grid penalty for impeding Jolyon Palmer during Q1.Max Verstappen finished third, having dropped to 16th after a pit stop with 16 laps to go. Hamilton took pole position and won the race from Rosberg to take the championship to the final round in Abu Dhabi. Their team, Mercedes, had already clinched the World Constructors' Championship, holding a lead of two hundred and fifty-two points over Red Bull Racing, with third place Scuderia Ferrari another sixty-two points behind. Winner of the previous year's race Nico Rosberg entered the round with a 19-point lead over his teammate Lewis Hamilton in the World Drivers' Championship. At the race duration of a little over 3 hours, the race was the longest Brazilian Grand Prix in history. The race was the 20th and penultimate round of the 2016 FIA Formula One World Championship and marked the 45th running of the Brazilian Grand Prix and the 44th time that the race had been run as a World Championship event since the inaugural season in 1950. The 2016 Brazilian Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula One Grande Prêmio do Brasil 2016) was a Formula One motor race held on 13 November 2016 at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace in São Paulo, Brazil.

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