Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg won 2016 Formula 1 Grand Prix of Europe
Nico Rosberg of Germany on 19 June 2016 won the European Grand Prix Formula 1 championship in Baku, Azerbaijan.
• To win the title, the Mercedes driver overcame Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany in the final race.
• In this championship, Rosberg completed second career Grand Slam. Prior to him, only Lewis Hamilton, Mika Hakkinen, Jack Brabham and Juan Manuel Fangio could able to achieve this rare feat.
• He recorded the first career Grand Slam in Russian Grand Prix in May 2016. Grand Slam in Formula One racing denotes winning a race from pole while leading every lap and scoring the fastest lap.
• For Rosberg, it was the first European title and the 5th title in 2016 season as he stood as the champion in Austria, Bahrain, China and Russia also.
• Overall, it was the 19th title since the beginning of his career in 2006.
• The Formula 1 event was introduced during the mid-1980s. It was held regularly between 1999 and 2012.
• The race was removed from the calendar in 2013. In 2016, the race returned, being run on a street circuit in Baku, Azerbaijan.
• In earlier years, the European Grand Prix was not a race in its own right but just an honorific title.
• The first race to be so named was the 1923 Italian Grand Prix, held at Monza and won by Carlo Salamano in a Fiat and the last one was the 1977 British Grand Prix.
• Since its reintroduction, the European Grand Prix has usually been held in a country in Europe that also holds a national Grand Prix in that same year.