2017 Canadian Grand Prix

2017 Canadian Grand Prix
2017 Canadian Grand Prix
Race 7 of 20 in the 2017 Formula One World Championship
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	Layout of the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
Race details
Date	11 June 2017
Official name	Formula 1 Grand Prix du Canada 2017
Location	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve ; Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Course	Street circuit
Course length	4.361 km (2.710 miles)
Distance	70 laps, 305.270 km (189.686 miles)
Weather	Sunny and hot with temperatures reaching up to 29 °C (84 °F); wind speeds reaching 12.9 kilometres per hour (8.0 mph)
Attendance	360,000
Pole position
Driver	Lewis Hamilton ;
Time	1:11.459
Fastest lap
Driver	Lewis Hamilton
Time	1:14.551 on lap 64
Podium
First	Lewis Hamilton ;
Second	Valtteri Bottas ;
Third	Daniel Ricciardo ;
	Lap leaders ;

Last updated January 28, 2025

The 2017 Canadian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Grand Prix du Canada 2017)^[1] was a Formula One motor race that took place on 11 June 2017 at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.^[1] The race was the seventh round of the 2017 FIA Formula One World Championship. It was the fifty-fourth running of the Canadian Grand Prix, and the forty-eighth time the event had been included as a round of the Formula One World Championship since the inception of the series in 1950, and the thirty-eighth time that a World Championship round had been held at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

The race was won by Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton who took pole, led every lap of the race and set the fastest lap. His teammate Valtteri Bottas finished second to allow Mercedes earn their first 1-2 finish of the season. Daniel Ricciardo, driving for Red Bull, finished the race in 3rd place to complete the podium positions. Mercedes dominated the weekend after a bad weekend at Monaco. Lance Stroll finished in 9th place, earning him his first career points in F1 and became the first Canadian Formula One driver to score a point since Jacques Villeneuve in the 2006 British Grand Prix.

Report

Background

Fernando Alonso returned to racing for McLaren, after missing the previous round in Monaco to participate in the Indianapolis 500.

Tyre supplier Pirelli made the soft, supersoft and ultrasoft tyres available to teams for the race.^[6]

Free practice

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton went fastest in first practice, setting a time of 1.13:809. He was followed by the Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel and his teammate Valtteri Bottas in second and third.^[7] Fernando Alonso's McLaren continued to suffer from reliability issues as he broke down and retired from the session.^[8] In second practice the Ferrari of Kimi Räikkönen was fastest followed by Hamilton and Vettel.^[7] Saturday's third and final practice was topped by Vettel, with Raikkonen second and Hamilton third.^[7] Vettel set the quickest time of all three practices with a 1.12:572.^[7]

Qualifying

Q1 ended with Pascal Wehrlein crashing his Sauber at turn one after touching the grass border of the track. Damage sustained in the accident meant he would start the race from the pit lane.^[9]

In Q3 Lewis Hamilton secured pole position with a 1:11.459 matching Ayrton Senna's second all-time highest pole record,^[9] 0.330 seconds quicker than Ferrari's Vettel in second. Third spot on the grid went to Valtteri Bottas with Raikkonen and Verstappen starting fourth and fifth.^[10]

Race

At the start, Max Verstappen advanced three positions to head into turn two right behind Hamilton who was in the lead. Third and fourth were Bottas and Vettel, the latter had sustained slight front wing damage from contact with Verstappen heading into turn 2. Daniel Ricciardo moved into 5th when he passed Kimi Räikkönen on the first lap. Räikkönen would eventually finish 7th after falling behind the Force Indias and struggling with brake problems in the late stages of the race. Also on the first lap, an incident occurred causing the retirement of Carlos Sainz and Felipe Massa, and a pit stop front wing change for Romain Grosjean. The safety car was brought out to allow marshals to clear the track. At the restart Vettel's damaged wing partially collapsed as he accelerated back to racing speed. He pitted on lap 5 to repair the damage and dropped to 18th (last) position. On lap 11, Verstappen's Red Bull lost electrical power and forced his retirement from 2nd position. As the race continued, Canadian Lance Stroll worked his way up into 9th position for what would be his first points in F1. On lap 66 Fernando Alonso's McLaren suffered an engine failure preventing him from scoring his team's first points of the season. Hamilton finished the race 20 seconds ahead of teammate Bottas with Ricciardo in third. Sebastian Vettel overtook Sergio Pérez on the penultimate lap to finish in 4th position close behind Ricciardo, following a race-long charge from the back and an alternate two-stop strategy. Earlier Pérez had ignored requests from his team to allow his faster teammate Esteban Ocon past in order to challenge Ricciardo for the last podium place.^[11]

Classification

Qualifying

Pos.	Car no.	Driver	Constructor	Qualifying times			Final grid
Pos.	Car no.	Driver	Constructor	Q1	Q2	Q3	Final grid
1	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:12.692	1:12.496	1:11.459	1
2	5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1:13.046	1:12.749	1:11.789	2
3	77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1:12.685	1:12.563	1:12.177	3
4	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:13.548	1:12.580	1:12.252	4
5	33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	1:13.177	1:12.751	1:12.403	5
6	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	1:13.543	1:12.810	1:12.557	6
7	19	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	1:13.435	1:13.012	1:12.858	7
8	11	Sergio Pérez	Force India-Mercedes	1:13.470	1:13.262	1:13.018	8
9	31	Esteban Ocon	Force India-Mercedes	1:13.520	1:13.320	1:13.135	9
10	27	Nico Hülkenberg	Renault	1:13.804	1:13.406	1:13.271	10
11	26	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso	1:13.802	1:13.690		11
12	14	Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Honda	1:13.669	1:13.693		12
13	55	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Toro Rosso	1:14.051	1:13.756		13
14	8	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	1:13.780	1:13.839		14
15	30	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	1:13.990	1:14.293		15
16	2	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren-Honda	1:14.182			16
17	18	Lance Stroll	Williams-Mercedes	1:14.209			17
18	20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	1:14.318			18
19	9	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber-Ferrari	1:14.495			19
20	94	Pascal Wehrlein	Sauber-Ferrari	1:14.810			PL¹
107% time: 1:17.772
Source:^[12]

Notes

^1 – Pascal Wehrlein penalised five grid places for an unscheduled gearbox change and required to start from the pit lane for changing to a new specification of rear wing assembly.

Race

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	70	1:33:05.154	1	25
2	77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	70	+19.783	3	18
3	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	70	+35.297	6	15
4	5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	70	+35.907	2	12
5	11	Sergio Pérez	Force India-Mercedes	70	+40.476	8	10
6	31	Esteban Ocon	Force India-Mercedes	70	+40.716	9	8
7	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	70	+58.632	4	6
8	27	Nico Hülkenberg	Renault	70	+1:00.374	10	4
9	18	Lance Stroll	Williams-Mercedes	69	+1 Lap	17	2
10	8	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	69	+1 Lap	14	1
11	30	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	69	+1 Lap	15
12	20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	69	+1 Lap	18
13	9	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber-Ferrari	69	+1 Lap	19
14	2	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren-Honda	69	+1 Lap	16
15	94	Pascal Wehrlein	Sauber-Ferrari	68	+2 Laps	PL
16¹	14	Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Honda	66	Power unit	12
Ret	26	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso	54	Power unit	11
Ret	33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	10	Electrical	5
Ret	19	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	0	Collision	7
Ret	55	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Toro Rosso	0	Collision	13
Source:^[13]

Notes

^1 – Fernando Alonso was classified as he had completed 90% of the winner's race distance.

Championship standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

	Pos.	Driver	Points
	1	Sebastian Vettel	141
	2	Lewis Hamilton	129
	3	Valtteri Bottas	93
	4	Kimi Räikkönen	73
	5	Daniel Ricciardo	67
Source: ^[14]

Constructors' Championship standings

	Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	1	Mercedes	222
1	2	Ferrari	214
	3	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	112
	4	Force India-Mercedes	71
	5	Toro Rosso	29
Source: ^[14]

Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

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2017 Canadian Grand Prix

Contents

Report

Background

Free practice

Qualifying

Race

Classification

Qualifying

Race

Championship standings after the race

Related Research Articles

References

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