2016 Formula One World Championship facts for kids

The 2016 Formula One World Championship is the 67th season of the Formula One World Championship. The motor racing championship is the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars. German racing driver Nico Rosberg won the title. The Mercedes team also won the title.

Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso changed drivers during the season, when Red Bull driver Daniil Kvyat switched places with Toro Rosso driver Max Verstappen. Verstappen won his first race with Red Bull at the Spanish Grand Prix.

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Mercedes successfully defended their World Constructors' title in a highly dominant performance, winning 19 of the 21 races ran during the season.
Jolyon Palmer performing a practice pit stop in his Renault R.S.16. The black testing livery was later replaced.
Stoffel Vandoorne made his debut in the Bahrain Grand Prix, scoring his first Formula One career point for McLaren.
Max Verstappen became the youngest ever winner in Formula One when he won the Spanish Grand Prix.
Following the Austrian Grand Prix, Sauber was the last remaining team that had not scored a single point in the 2016 Formula One World Championship.
Lewis Hamilton's engine failure in Malaysia was a key moment in the Drivers' Championship fight.
Daniel Ricciardo took the first pole position of his career in Monaco.