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The 2016 Formula One season will be the 67th season of the FIA Formula One World Championship, a motor racing championship for Formula One cars which is recognised by the sport's governing body, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars. Teams and drivers are scheduled to take part in twenty-one Grands Prix—making for the longest season in the sport's history—starting in Australia on 20 March and finishing in Abu Dhabi on 27 November as they compete for the World Drivers' and World Constructors' Championships.

The 2016 season will see the grid expand to twenty-two cars with the addition of the Haas F1 Team entry. The calendar will also expand, with the return of the German Grand Prix and the revival of the European Grand Prix in Azerbaijan.

Mercedes will start the season as the defending Constructors' Champions, having secured their second championship title at the 2015 Russian Grand Prix.

Signed teams and drivers

The following teams and drivers are currently signed to take part in the 2016 Formula One World Championship:

Entrant	Constructor	Power unit	Tyre	No.	Drivers
Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari	Ferrari	P	5	Sebastian Vettel
				7	Kimi Räikkönen
Sahara Force India F1 Team	Force India-Mercedes	Mercedes	P	11	Sergio Pérez
				27	Nico Hülkenberg
Haas F1 Team	Haas-Ferrari	Ferrari	P	8	Romain Grosjean
				TBA	TBA
Lotus F1 Team	Lotus-TBA	TBA	P	13	Pastor Maldonado
				TBA	Jolyon Palmer
Manor Marussia F1 Team	Marussia-Mercedes	Mercedes	P	TBA	TBA
				TBA	TBA
McLaren Honda	McLaren-Honda	Honda	P	14	Fernando Alonso
				22	Jenson Button
Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	Mercedes	Mercedes	P	6	Nico Rosberg
				44	Lewis Hamilton
Infiniti Red Bull Racing	Red Bull-TBA	TBA	P	3	Daniel Ricciardo
				26	Daniil Kvyat
Sauber F1 Team	Sauber-Ferrari	Ferrari	P	9	Marcus Ericsson
				12	Felipe Nasr
Scuderia Toro Rosso	Toro Rosso-TBA	TBA	P	33	Max Verstappen
				TBA	TBA
Williams Martini Racing	Williams-Mercedes	Mercedes	P	19	Felipe Massa
				77	Valtteri Bottas
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Team changes

• Haas F1 Team, a team formed by NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team owner Gene Haas, will join the Formula One grid, becomimg the first American team to compete since Penske in 1977. The team will use power units supplied by Ferrari and a chassis developed by Dallara. Dallara last participated in Formula One as the chassis manufacturer for HRT in 2010.
• Lotus' participation in the 2016 season depends on the resolution of a High Court case brought against the team by HM Revenue and Customs over unpaid PAYE tax. In September 2015, Renault signed a letter of intent to purchase Lotus from Genii Capital, the firm Renault originally sold their team to in 2010, but have not confirmed any changes to the constructor's identity yet.
• Marussia will switch from Ferrari to Mercedes power, with the team upgrading to a 2016-specification engine after having used a year-old Ferrari engine in 2015.
• Red Bull Racing will end their nine-year partnership with engine supplier Renault at the end of the 2015 season, with the team citing the lack of performance from the Renault Energy-F1 2015 engine as a leading factor in the split.
  • Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner admitted that the team had held exploratory talks with the Volkswagen Group about entering the sport as an engine supplier, but that negotiations came to a halt following the emissions scandal that broke in September 2015.
• Scuderia Toro Rosso will also seek out a new engine supplier after Renault announced that they would no longer supply customer engines.

Driver changes

• Romain Grosjean will leave Lotus at the end of the 2015 season. He will join the newly formed Haas F1 team for 2016. Grosjean will be replaced at Lotus by Jolyon Palmer, the 2014 GP2 champion, who regularly made free practice appearances with the team in 2015.
• Having already secured contracts for Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso, McLaren chose not to renew the contract of Kevin Magnussen, who entered a single race for the team in 2015.

Scheduled events

The following twenty-one Grands Prix are provisionally scheduled to take place in 2016. However, the 2016 sporting regulations stated that the calendar would be limited to twenty races in a season.

Round	Grand Prix	Circuit	Date
1	Australian Grand Prix	Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne	20 March
2	Bahrain Grand Prix	Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir	3 April
3	Chinese Grand Prix	Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai	17 April
4	Russian Grand Prix	Sochi Autodrom, Sochi	1 May
5	Spanish Grand Prix	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Barcelona	15 May
6	Monaco Grand Prix	Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo	29 May
7	Canadian Grand Prix	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal	12 June
8	Baku European Grand Prix	Baku Street Circuit, Baku	19 June
9	Austrian Grand Prix	Red Bull Ring, Spielberg	3 July
10	British Grand Prix	Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone	10 July
11	Hungarian Grand Prix	Hungaroring, Budapest	24 July
12	German Grand Prix	Hockenheimring, Hockenheim	31 July
13	Belgian Grand Prix	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot	28 August
14	Italian Grand Prix	Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza	4 September
15	Singapore Grand Prix	Marina Bay Street Circuit, Singapore	18 September
16	Malaysian Grand Prix	Sepang International Circuit, Kuala Lumpur	2 October
17	Japanese Grand Prix	Suzuka International Racing Course, Suzuka	9 October
18	United States Grand Prix	Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas	23 October
19	Mexican Grand Prix	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City	6 November
20	Brazilian Grand Prix	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo	13 November
21	Abu Dhabi Grand Prix	Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi	27 November
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Calendar changes

New and returning races

• The European Grand Prix will be held for the first time since 2012 with the race to be held on a street circuit in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The race will be run under the name "Baku European Grand Prix".
• The German Grand Prix will return to the Hockenheimring after the event was cancelled in 2015 when a venue could not be secured. The circuit had previously hosted the race in 2014 as part of their agreement with the Nürburgring to host the event every even-numbered season.

Date changes

• The Malaysian Grand Prix—which had been held in the early months since the 2001 season—will now be held later in the year, paired up with the Japanese Grand Prix in October.
• The Russian Grand Prix will be brought forward from its October date to May, becoming the fourth round of the season.

Failed race bids

• The Grand Prix of America was set to be held for the first time at the Port Imperial Street Circuit in New Jersey, in accordance with an active fifteen-year contract. The race was originally scheduled to début in 2013, but has been delayed for four consecutive years.
• In 2006, Formula One Management signed a seven-year contract to run the Korean Grand Prix at the Korea International Circuit beginning in 2010. However, the event was discontinued in 2014, and was omitted from the calendar for the third consecutive season in 2016.

Rule changes

Technical regulations

• Cars will be required to be designed with a separate wastegate for exhaust gasses to pass through—colloquially dubbed the "screamer pipe"—in a bid to increase the noise of the cars following criticism since the introduction of the 2014 generation of engines.
• Tyre supplier Pirelli will introduce a fifth tyre compound known as "ultrasoft".

Sporting regulations

• Starting in 2016, the number of pre-season tests will be reduced from three to two.
• The stewards will be given greater powers in enforcing track limits, with drivers required to stay between the white lines marking the edges of the circuit, except in cases of driver error. The change was introduced after an investigation by Pirelli into Sebastian Vettel's high-speed blow-out at the 2015 Belgian Grand Prix that concluded that Vettel's off-track excursions had been a significant factor in the incident.
• Any driver who causes the start of the race to be aborted will be required to start the race from pit lane at the restart.
• The procedure for issuing gearbox penalties will be amended so that penalties are applied in the order that they are awarded, bringing the system in line with the wider grid penalty system.
• The process new drivers go through in order to qualify for a superlicence will be changed, with additional restrictions put in place. The changes were introduced following controversy surrounding Max Verstappen qualifying for a superlicence at the age of sixteen after a single season competing in European Formula 3.

Footnotes

1. An American-registered constructor known as US F1 was accepted to the grid in 2010, but the team collapsed before the start of the season.
2. The name "Baku Street Circuit" has been used to refer to three different circuits used by Formula One, the FIA GT Series and the Blancpain Sprint Series. The proposed European Grand Prix circuit will be based around Azadliq Avenue.

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