| 2017 Canadian Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 7 of 20 in the2017 Formula One World Championship
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.svg) Layout of the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve | |||||
| Race details | |||||
| Date | 11 June 2017 | ||||
| Official name | Formula 1 Grand Prix du Canada 2017[1][2][3] | ||||
| 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)[4] | ||||
| Attendance | 360,000[5] | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver | Mercedes | ||||
| Time | 1:11.459 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver |  Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | |||
| Time | 1:14.551 on lap 64 | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First | Mercedes | ||||
| Second | Mercedes | ||||
| Third | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | ||||
Lap leaders | |||||
The2017 Canadian Grand Prix (formally known as theFormula 1 Grand Prix du Canada 2017)[1] was aFormula Onemotor race that took place on 11 June 2017 at theCircuit Gilles Villeneuve inMontreal, Quebec, Canada.[1] The race was the seventh round of the2017 FIA Formula One World Championship. It was the fifty-fourth running of theCanadian Grand Prix, and the forty-eighth time the event had been included as a round of theFormula One World Championship since the inception of the series in1950, and the thirty-eighth time that a World Championship round had been held at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
The race was won byMercedes driverLewis Hamilton who took pole, led every lap of the race and set the fastest lap. His teammateValtteri Bottas finished second to allowMercedes earn their first 1-2 finish of the season.Daniel Ricciardo, driving forRed Bull, finished the race in 3rd place to complete the podium positions.Mercedes dominated the weekend after a bad weekend atMonaco.Lance Stroll finished in 9th place, earning him his first career points in F1 and became the firstCanadian Formula One driver to score a point sinceJacques Villeneuve in the2006 British Grand Prix.
Fernando Alonso returned to racing forMcLaren, after missing the previous round inMonaco to participate in theIndianapolis 500.
Tyre supplierPirelli made the soft, supersoft and ultrasoft tyres available to teams for the race.[6]
Mercedes'Lewis Hamilton went fastest in first practice, setting a time of 1.13:809. He was followed by theFerrari ofSebastian Vettel and his teammateValtteri Bottas in second and third.[7]Fernando Alonso'sMcLaren continued to suffer from reliability issues as he broke down and retired from the session.[8] In second practice the Ferrari ofKimi 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]
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]
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 passedKimi 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 ofCarlos Sainz andFelipe Massa, and a pit stop front wing change forRomain Grosjean. Thesafety 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'sRed Bull lost electrical power and forced his retirement from 2nd position. As the race continued,CanadianLance Stroll worked his way up into 9th position for what would be his first points in F1. On lap 66Fernando Alonso'sMcLaren 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 overtookSergio 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 teammateEsteban Ocon past in order to challenge Ricciardo for the last podium place.[11]
| Pos. | No. | Driver | Constructor | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 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 | |
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