2017 United States Grand Prix

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2017 United States Grand Prix
Race 17 of 20 in the 2017 Formula One World Championship
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Austin circuit.svg
Layout of the Circuit of the Americas
Race details [1]
Date October 22, 2017 (2017-10-22)
Official name 2017 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix [2] [3]
Location Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas, United States
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 5.513 km (3.426 miles)
Distance 56 laps, 308.405 km (191.634 miles)
Weather Sunny with temperatures reaching up to 82.9 °F (28.3 °C); wind speeds approaching speeds of 13.8 miles per hour (22.2 km/h) [4]
Attendance 258,000 [5]
Pole position
Driver
 Mercedes
Time 1:33.108
Fastest lap
Driver Flag of Germany.svg Sebastian Vettel Ferrari
Time 1:37.766 on lap 51
Podium
First
 Mercedes
Second
 Ferrari
Third
 Ferrari
Lap leaders
  • 2017 United States Grand Prix

The 2017 United States Grand Prix (formally known as the 2017 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on October 22, 2017, at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, United States as the seventeenth round of the 2017 FIA Formula One World Championship. [6] The race marked the forty-seventh running of the United States Grand Prix, the thirty-ninth time that the race was run as a World Championship event since the inaugural season in 1950, and the sixth time that a World Championship round was held at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.

Contents

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton entered the round with a 59-point lead over Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel in the World Drivers' Championship. Hamilton's teammate Valtteri Bottas was third, a further 13 points behind. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes held a lead of 155 points over Ferrari, with Red Bull Racing a further 92 points behind in third place.

Mercedes clinched its fourth successive World Constructors' Championship after Hamilton won and Bottas finished 5th.

Background

Driver changes

Brendon Hartley made his Formula One debut with Scuderia Toro Rosso. BrendonHartleyF1Debut.jpg
Brendon Hartley made his Formula One debut with Scuderia Toro Rosso.

Carlos Sainz Jr. moved from Toro Rosso to Renault and replaced Jolyon Palmer. [7] Daniil Kvyat returned to Toro Rosso after having missed the Malaysian and Japanese Grands Prix, taking over Sainz's car. [8] [lower-alpha 1] Pierre Gasly missed the round to compete in the final weekend of the 2017 Super Formula Championship and was replaced at Toro Rosso by the 2015 World Endurance Champion Brendon Hartley, who made his Formula One début, [10] [9] this was the first time a New Zealander participated in a Formula One race in 33 years.[ citation needed ]

Tyres

Tyre supplier Pirelli provided teams with the ultra-soft, super-soft and soft compounds of tyre. The purple branding on the ultra-soft compound was replaced by pink for the race to raise awareness of breast cancer. Several teams also incorporated pink into their liveries to support the cause (except Force India, whose cars were pink to begin with).

Qualifying

Pos.Car
no.		DriverConstructorQualifying timesFinal
grid
Q1Q2Q3
144 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:34.8221:33.4371:33.1081
25 Flag of Germany.svg Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1:35.4201:34.1031:33.3472
377 Flag of Finland.svg Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 1:35.3091:33.7691:33.5683
43 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer 1:35.9911:34.4951:33.577 1 4
57 Flag of Finland.svg Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:35.6491:33.8401:33.577 1 5
633 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer 1:34.8991:34.7161:33.65816 2
731 Flag of France.svg Esteban Ocon Force India-Mercedes 1:35.8491:35.1131:34.6476
855 Flag of Spain.svg Carlos Sainz Jr. Renault 1:35.5171:34.8991:34.8527
914 Flag of Spain.svg Fernando Alonso McLaren-Honda 1:35.7121:35.0461:35.0078
1011 Flag of Mexico.svg Sergio Pérez Force India-Mercedes 1:36.3581:34.7891:35.1489
1119 Flag of Brazil.svg Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes 1:35.6031:35.15510
1226 Flag of Russia.svg Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso 1:36.0731:35.52911
132 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Stoffel Vandoorne McLaren-Honda 1:36.2861:35.64120 3
148 Flag of France.svg Romain Grosjean Haas-Ferrari 1:36.8351:35.87012
1527 Flag of Germany.svg Nico Hülkenberg Renault 1:35.740No time18 4
169 Flag of Sweden.svg Marcus Ericsson Sauber-Ferrari 1:36.84213
1718 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Lance Stroll Williams-Mercedes 1:36.86815 5
1839 Flag of New Zealand.svg Brendon Hartley Toro Rosso 1:36.88919 6
1994 Flag of Germany.svg Pascal Wehrlein Sauber-Ferrari 1:37.17914
2020 Flag of Denmark.svg Kevin Magnussen Haas-Ferrari 1:37.39417 7
107% time: 1:41.459
Source: [11]
Notes

Race

Lewis Hamilton won after passing title rival Sebastian Vettel early on in the race with the German driver coming home second, Hamilton extended his Championship lead in the process to 66 points. Kimi Räikkönen was third, Max Verstappen did overtake Räikkönen on the final lap, although Verstappen was found to have cut the corner, resulting in a time penalty. [14]

Race classification

Pos.No.DriverConstructorLapsTime/RetiredGridPoints
144 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 561:33:50.991125
25 Flag of Germany.svg Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 56+10.143218
37 Flag of Finland.svg Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 56+15.779515
433 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer 56+16.768 1 1612
577 Flag of Finland.svg Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 56+34.967310
631 Flag of France.svg Esteban Ocon Force India-Mercedes 56+1:30.98068
755 Flag of Spain.svg Carlos Sainz Jr. Renault 56+1:32.94476
811 Flag of Mexico.svg Sergio Pérez Force India-Mercedes 55+1 Lap94
919 Flag of Brazil.svg Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes 55+1 Lap102
1026 Flag of Russia.svg Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso 55+1 Lap111
1118 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Lance Stroll Williams-Mercedes 55+1 Lap15
122 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Stoffel Vandoorne McLaren-Honda 55+1 Lap20
1339 Flag of New Zealand.svg Brendon Hartley Toro Rosso 55+1 Lap19
148 Flag of France.svg Romain Grosjean Haas-Ferrari 55+1 Lap12
159 Flag of Sweden.svg Marcus Ericsson Sauber-Ferrari 55+1 Lap 2 13
1620 Flag of Denmark.svg Kevin Magnussen Haas-Ferrari 55+1 Lap17
Ret14 Flag of Spain.svg Fernando Alonso McLaren-Honda 24Engine8
Ret3 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer 14Engine4
Ret94 Flag of Germany.svg Pascal Wehrlein Sauber-Ferrari 5Collision damage14
Ret27 Flag of Germany.svg Nico Hülkenberg Renault 3Engine18
Source: [15]
Notes

Championship standings after the race

Notes

  1. ↑ Daniil Kvyat drove the car that Carlos Sainz Jr. had previously competed in rather than the car he had driven in the first fourteen rounds of the championship. [9]
  2. ↑ Although Brendon Hartley made his Formula One début in the race, he received a grid penalty because power unit components are assigned to the car rather than the driver. Hartley thus received the penalty because the car's previous drivers, Daniil Kvyat and Pierre Gasly, [9] had used up the quota of power unit components.

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