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Furthermore, he stressed that Verstappen's move to Red Bull would tie him to the team for the foreseeable future. Red Bull's team principal Christian Horner explained the driver swap with Verstappen's talent, saying that the 18-year old Dutchman and Daniel Ricciardo had the potential to become Formula One's best driver pairing. Verstappen joined Red Bull Racing while Kvyat returned to Scuderia Toro Rosso. Both Mercedes drivers retired from the race following a collision with each other on the first lap, thus marking the first Mercedes double retirement since the 2011 Australian Grand Prix and the first time the team had not scored a point since the 2012 United States Grand Prix.ĭaniil Kvyat and Max Verstappen traded places ahead of the race. In the process he also became the first Dutchman to win a Grand Prix and the first Grand Prix winner born in the 1990s. At the age of 18 years and 228 days, Verstappen became the youngest ever winner, the youngest driver to score a podium finish and the youngest ever to lead a lap of a Formula One race, breaking the previous records held by Sebastian Vettel. Max Verstappen won the race upon his debut for his new team Red Bull, having swapped his Toro Rosso seat with Daniil Kvyat ahead of the event.

Hamilton took pole position during qualifying, ahead of teammate Rosberg and Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo. Their team, Mercedes, held an eighty-one point lead over Ferrari in the Constructors' Championship. Nico Rosberg was the defending race winner and entered the round with a forty-three point lead over teammate Lewis Hamilton in the Drivers' Championship. It was the twenty-sixth time that the race has been held at the circuit. The race was the fifth round of the 2016 season, and marked the forty-sixth running of the Spanish Grand Prix as a round of the Formula One World Championship. The 2016 Spanish Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Gran Premio de España Pirelli 2016) was a Formula One motor race held on at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmeló, Spain.

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