F1 2016 Season

(This article contains fanon information, this isn't the actual F1 2016 season)

The 2016 Formula 1 Season was the 67th season of Formula One.

Rules changes

 * The points system was changed. Now the first 12 cars finishing a race are awarded points.

Team changes

 * Marussia was bought out by Manor and transformed into the Manor F1 team.
 * Renault bought the Lotus team and retransformed it into their works team.

Driver changes

 * McLaren dropped Kevin Magnussen after the 2015 season, who subsequently found a seat at the reborn Renault team. His seat was taken by GP2 champion Stoffel Vandoorne.
 * Daniil Kvyat was replaced at Toro Rosso by Carlos Sainz.
 * The reborn Renault team dropped Maldonado and lost Grosjean, who stated he couldn't reach an agreement with the team. In their place they hired Kevin Magnussen and 2015 Lotus test driver Jolyon Palmer.
 * In a controversial move, Haas dropped their countryman Alexander Rossi despite him having an active contract and retained Esteban Gutierrez whose results were worse than Rossi's. Romain Grosjean was brought to the team in Rossi's place.
 * Manor hired two rookies: Mercedes junior driver Pascal Wehrlein and first Indonesian F1 driver Rio Haryanto.
 * Caterham also hired two rookies: another Mercedes junior driver Esteban Ocon and their long time test driver Andre Lotterer.

Mid season changes

 * Alexander Rossi replaced Rio Haryanto for the final five races of the season at Manor after his sponsors failed to pay up.

Calendar changes

 * The Indian Grand Prix was discontinued due to lack of funding.
 * The Russian Grand Prix was created on a street circuit in Sochi.
 * As per the agreement between the Nurburgring and Hockenheimring circuits, the German Grand Prix was held on the second one.

Results
WIP