The 2016 GP2 Series season was the fiftieth season of the second-tier of Formula One feeder championship and also twelfth and final season under the GP2 Series moniker, a motor racing feeder series that was run in support of the 2016 FIA Formula One World Championship . It was the final season run under the "GP2 Series" name, with the championship being rebranded as the FIA Formula 2 Championship from 2017 . It was also originally scheduled to be the final season for the Dallara GP2/11 chassis that was introduced in 2011 and the Mecachrome 4.0 litre V8 normally-aspirated engine package that débuted in the maiden season of the series in 2005 before a brand new chassis and engine package was introduced for 2017, however due to another cost-cutting, the series announced it would keep the current chassis and engine package for one more season.
5-596: Emil G. J. Bernstorff (born 7 June 1993) is a former British racing driver and content creator of Danish and German descent. He last raced in the 2016 GP2 Series . Born in Greater London , Bernstorff began karting in 2003 and raced mostly in the United Kingdom for the majority of his karting career, working his way up from the junior ranks to progress through to the KF2 category by 2009, when he finished in eighth position in
10-1106: The FIA European Formula Three Championship in 2012 , switching to ma-con Motorsport. He finished tenth, with a podium finish at the Norisring . Bernstorff moved to the German Formula Three Championship in 2013 , reviving his collaboration with Motopark Academy, now running under the Lotus moniker. Bernstorff began streaming iRacing on Twitch.tv in July 2020 amid the Coronavirus pandemic and started streaming on YouTube in 2022 mainly on iRacing . In 2022 he also started streaming on YouTube . ( key ) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) ( key ) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) 2016 GP2 Series ART Grand Prix started
15-566: The Spanish KF2 championship. 2010 saw Bernstorff début in the British Formula Ford Championship with Jamun Racing. He finished seventh in the championship with three podiums. In 2011 , Bernstorff took part in the full ADAC Formel Masters season with Motopark Academy , taking thirteen podiums in twenty-four races, including five victories, to finish runner-up in the final championship standings. Bernstorff stepped up to
20-683: The season as the defending teams' champions after securing the title–their fourth in the championship–at the series' second visit to the Bahrain International Circuit in 2015. Prema Racing won the Teams' championship, their first in the series and first attempt, while Pierre Gasly won the Drivers' championship. Pierre Gasly took 4 race wins and the championship. The most races were won by Gasly’s teammate Antonio Giovinazzi , who took 5 victories, Sergey Sirotkin took victories at Mogyoród in
25-459: The sprint race, and in Hockenheim - he took pole position and won the race. Alex Lynn got 3 sprint races wins, Racing Engineering drivers Jordan King and Norman Nato took 2 race wins each, and Luca Ghiotto , Artem Markelov , Mitch Evans and Nobuharu Matsushita each got 1 race win. On 4 March 2016, the full calendar was revealed with eleven rounds taking place. Points were awarded to
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