Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2017

 Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2017

Racing data
8th of 20 races of the 2017 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	2017 Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix
Date:	June 25, 2017
Place:	Baku
Course:	Baku City Circuit
Length:	306.153 km in 51 laps of 6.003 km
Pole position
Driver:	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Time:	1: 40.593 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari
Time:	1: 43.441 min (lap 47)
Podium
First:	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-TAG Heuer
Second:	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes
Third:	Lance Stroll	Williams-Mercedes

The Grand Prix of Azerbaijan in 2017 (officially 2017 Formula 1 Grand Prix Azerbaijan ) took place on 25 June at the Baku City Circuit in Baku held and was the eighth race of the Formula 1 World Championship in 2017 .

report

backgrounds

After the Canadian Grand Prix , Sebastian Vettel led the drivers' standings with twelve points ahead of Lewis Hamilton and 48 points ahead of Valtteri Bottas . In the constructors' championship, Mercedes led Ferrari with eight points and Red Bull Racing with 110 points .

At the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Pirelli provided the drivers with the tire compounds P Zero Medium (white), P Zero Soft (yellow) and P Zero Supersoft (red), as well as Cinturato Intermediates (green) and Cinturato Full Wets (blue) for wet conditions .

Compared to the previous year, there were various changes to the route, which were mainly made for safety reasons. The run-off zones in curve one , curve two , curve three , curve five , curve eight and curve 15 were enlarged by moving the road boundaries to the rear. In addition, an additional row of TecPro barriers was erected in curve one , curve three , curve five , curve seven , curve eight and curve 15 . At the corner exit of corner one , as well as on the inside of corner three and curve five , the curbs were replaced by painted strips on the asphalt, and the dividing strip that previously consisted of curbs between the pit exit and the track was now only painted. In front of turn seven and in turn 18 , new openings were built in the route boundary so that vehicles could be recovered more quickly. The SAFER barriers on the outside of turn 13 and turn 19 have each been lengthened by 34 meters.

There were two DRS zones on the route , which were changed compared to the previous year. The first zone was on the start-finish straight and began 54 meters after curve 20 , the measuring point was at the apex of the curve. The second zone began 347 meters after turn two , here the measuring point was on the safety car line at the level of the start of the pit entrance. In the previous year there was only one measuring point for both zones.

Honda provided the McLaren team with a revised MGU-H for free practice for the first time on this race weekend . Since both drivers had already used five MGU-Hs this season, they received a starting place penalty.

Before the race, Sauber parted ways with his team boss Monisha Kaltenborn , this position was temporarily taken over by Beat Zehnder and Jörg Zander during the race .

Jolyon Palmer (seven), Vettel (six), Daniil Kwjat , Kevin Magnussen , Sergio Pérez , Carlos Sainz jr. (five each), Nico Hülkenberg , Esteban Ocon (four each), Romain Grosjean , Stoffel Vandoorne (three each), Hamilton, Felipe Massa , Pascal Wehrlein (two each) and Max Verstappen (one) went into the race weekend with penalty points.

The Azerbaijan Grand Prix was held for the first time. Last year, a race called the European Grand Prix took place on the same track.

The race stewards were Paul Gutjahr (CHE), Anar Schukurow (AZE), Vincenzo Spano (VEN) and Danny Sullivan (USA).

free training

In the first free practice, Verstappen was fastest with a lap time of 1: 44.410 minutes ahead of Daniel Ricciardo and Vettel. The training had to be interrupted by Pérez after an accident.

In the second free practice session, Verstappen again set the fastest time, this time in 1: 43.362 minutes ahead of Bottas and Ricciardo. This training also had to be interrupted after an accident, this time Palmer caused the interruption.

Since the two accidents that caused the training interruptions happened in turn eight , the drivers suggested that the race management revise the curbs in this corner. When driving over this curb, some of the vehicles took off and landed unpredictably, so that several drivers lost control. The curb was therefore flattened at this point before the third free practice session.

In the third free practice session, Bottas was fastest in 1: 42.742 minutes ahead of Raikkonen and Hamilton. Palmer parked his Renault about an hour before the end of the training with a fire in the drive area at the edge of the track, the team then had to change the drive unit.

Qualifying

The qualifying consisted of three parts with a net running time of 45 minutes. In the first qualifying segment (Q1), the drivers had 18 minutes to qualify for the race. All drivers who achieved a time in the first section that was a maximum of 107 percent of the fastest lap time qualified for the Grand Prix. The best 15 drivers reached the next part. Bottas was the fastest. After the fire in his car in free practice, Palmer was unable to participate in qualifying and therefore did not qualify for the race. The McLaren drivers, Ericsson and Grosjean were eliminated.

The second section (Q2) lasted 15 minutes. The ten fastest pilots qualified for the third part of qualifying. Hamilton was fastest. Wehrlein, Hülkenberg, Magnussen and the Toro Rosso pilots were eliminated.

The final section (Q3) lasted twelve minutes, during which the first ten starting positions were awarded. The segment was interrupted about three and a half minutes before the end after an accident by Ricciardo due to a driving error. Hamilton set the best time with a lap time of 1: 40.593 minutes, ahead of Bottas and Raikkonen. It was the 66th pole position for Hamilton in the Formula 1 World Championship, so he passed Ayrton Senna and had now achieved the second-most pole position in the Formula 1 World Championship alone behind Michael Schumacher .

Alonso has been moved a total of 40 positions back this season because of the use of the sixth and seventh MGU-H, the sixth and seventh turbocharger, the fifth internal combustion engine and the fifth MGU-K . Vandoorne was moved a total of 35 positions back because of the use of the sixth and seventh MGU-H and the sixth and seventh turbocharger this season and an early gear change. Sainz was relocated three places on the grid for causing a collision with Grosjean in the Canadian Grand Prix. Palmer was allowed to start because he had been fast enough in free practice.

run

At the start, the positions at the top remained unchanged. After settling at the approach to the first curve braked had went Kwjat corner exit back directly in front of his teammates Sainz on the route. Sainz tried to avoid a collision and spun, falling back to the end of the field. In turn two Raikkonen attacked Botta on the outside. Bottas left Raikkonen space and drove over the curb on the inside of the curve, his car understeer and the vehicles came into contact. Raikkonen lost control of his Ferrari and hit the track barrier, he lost three positions, but continued the race. Bottas suffered a puncture, fell back to the end of the field and switched to soft at the end of the first lap , and the front wing on his Mercedes was changed. Since he had to finish the lap at slow speed and the repair stop lasted significantly longer than a normal pit stop, he resumed the race one lap behind in last place.

Hamilton led before Vettel, Pérez, Verstappen, Räikkönen, Massa, Ocon, Lance Stroll , Ricciardo and Hülkenberg.

At the end of the fifth lap, Ricciardo pitted because a piece of debris from the accident between Bottas and Raikkonen was blocking his brake cooling. He also switched to soft and fell back to 17th place. On the seventh lap, Palmer, who had been complaining about a misfire of his engine since the warm-up lap, gave up the race in the pits.

On the ninth lap, Kvjat parked his vehicle on the track with an electrical failure. One lap later, Verstappen reported engine problems by radio, and with the help of his racing engineer, he made various adjustments to the steering wheel, but these did not improve the situation. He pitted and gave up the race. In retrospect, it turned out that a piece of debris from the collision had blocked the supply of cooling air on the first lap and the oil and water temperature had risen significantly as a result. Meanwhile, the race management sent the safety car out onto the track to rescue Kvjat's vehicle .

Almost all drivers used the safety car phase to change tires and switched to Soft , Ricciardo and Bottas switched back to Supersoft .

Hamilton led before Vettel, Pérez, Räikkönen, Massa, Ocon, Stroll, Hülkenberg, Magnussen and Ricciardo. Hulkenberg was the only driver in the top ten who had not yet changed the tires.

At the end of the 16th lap the race was released, shortly before Bottas was allowed to lap back. Hamilton had left relatively little distance from the safety car, so that he had almost caught up with it before entering the pit. Toto Wolff spoke from less than 150 meters after the race. Pérez attacked Vettel at the end of the start-finish straight, but he defended himself. Behind them Massa and Ocon overtook Raikkonen, who shortly afterwards lost an air baffle. Ricciardo overtook Magnussen and was now in ninth place. As there were other debris lying on the track in addition to the parts that Raikkonen's Ferrari had lost, the safety car was sent out again. Since some parts were on the start-finish straight, the field was led through the pit lane.

In the 19th lap, the safety car switched off the flashing lights, thus announcing the renewed release at the end of the lap. Hamilton, who no longer had to drive within ten car lengths behind the safety car, did not accelerate out of turn 15 to leave more distance to the safety car. Vettel was surprised and drove on Hamilton. Then he drove next to Hamilton, complained with hand signals and steered his Ferrari against Hamilton's Mercedes. He complained by radio that Hamilton had carried out a "brake test" with him, Hamilton in turn complained by radio that Vettel had intentionally caused a collision. An analysis of the telemetry data showed that, contrary to Vettel's statement, Hamilton had not slowed down. The race stewards investigated the incident, but initially no penalty was issued.

At the restart, Massa overtook Pérez, and in turn two , Ocon also tried to overtake Pérez. The vehicles came into contact, Ocon suffered a tire damage at the rear right, Pérez then touched the barrier and lost his front wing, and his tie rod broke. Raikkonen ran over part of the front wing and also suffered a tire damage to the rear right. The safety car came out again. Raikkonen drove back to the pit lane so quickly that parts of the tread of the disintegrating tire caused serious damage to the area of ​​the rear wing and the engine cover. At the pits, Raikkonen and Pérez got out of their vehicles.

Hamilton led ahead of Vettel, Massa, Stroll, Ricciardo, Hülkenberg, Magnussen, Alonso, Sainz and Grosjean. Since countless debris was lying on the track again, the race management decided to interrupt the race with the red flag . In the meantime, the vehicles were repaired by Pérez and Räikkönen, so that both participated in the restart. Repairs were also made on the other vehicles, including Vettel's front wing and Hamilton's diffuser .

The race was reopened after one lap behind the safety car. Ricciardo overtook Hülkenberg, Stroll and Massa at the end of the start-finish straight, who shortly thereafter lost further positions to Stroll, Hülkenberg, Magnussen and Alonso. He gave up the race one lap later with a defective shock absorber . After a driving mistake, Hülkenberg touched the barrier, suffered a break in the suspension and retired.

Hamilton led before Vettel, Ricciardo, Stroll, Magnussen, Alonso, Sainz, Ocon, Bottas and Grosjean. Ocon and Bottas overtook Sainz on laps 30 and 31 respectively.

In Hamilton's Mercedes, the headrest attachment came loose, he first tried to hold the headrest on the straight with his hand. The race management decided, however, that this was too dangerous and that Hamilton had to have it repaired in the pits. He pitted on lap 31 and fell back to ninth place, one lap later he overtook Sainz.

Vettel was given a ten-second stop-and-go penalty for “dangerous driving” during the safety car phase, and he also received three penalty points. He took the penalty on lap 34 and dropped to seventh place, just ahead of Hamilton. Räikkönen and Pérez received drive-through penalties because work was carried out on the vehicles in the pits during the break in the race. Ocon and Bottas overtook Alonso in quick succession on lap 35, one lap later Vettel and then Hamilton also passed Alonso.

Grosjean pitted on lap 36 with braking problems, he resumed the race after a short repair. Ocon and Bottas caught up with Magnussen and overtook him on lap 37, followed two laps later by Vettel and Hamilton.

Another lap later, Bottas overtook Ocon and was now in third place, twelve seconds behind Stroll. Pérez left the race with a broken seat for safety reasons. Vettel and Hamilton also caught up with Ocon and overtook him on lap 42 and 43 respectively. Bottas drove the fastest lap of the race to date and shortened the gap to Stroll by around one second per lap.

Vettel and Hamilton also drove much faster than Stroll and reduced the gap lap by lap. Vettel drove the fastest lap of the race.

At the beginning of the last lap, Bottas was only 1.3 seconds behind Stroll and further shortened the gap so that he was within a second behind Stroll at the DRS measuring point. On the start-finish straight, with activated DRS, Bottas passed Stroll a few meters before the finish line thanks to an excess speed of 34 km / h.

Ricciardo won the race ahead of Bottas and Stroll. It was the first win for Ricciardo and Red Bull Racing since the 2016 Malaysian Grand Prix . Bottas achieved the fifth podium finish of the season, for Stroll it was the first podium finish in the Formula 1 World Championship, and also the first for a Williams driver since the 2016 Canadian Grand Prix when Bottas finished third. The remaining points were placed by Vettel, Hamilton, Ocon, Magnussen, Sainz, Alonso and Wehrlein. For Alonso and McLaren it was the first points of the season.

In the drivers 'and constructors' championships, the first three positions remained unchanged.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes F1 W08 EQ Power +	Mercedes-AMG F1 M08 EQ Power +	P
	77	Valtteri Bottas
Red Bull Racing	03	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull RB13	Day, this year	P
	33	Max Verstappen
Scuderia Ferrari	05	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari SF70H	Ferrari 062	P
	07th	Kimi Raikkonen
Sahara Force India F1 Team	11	Sergio Perez	Force India VJM10	Mercedes-AMG F1 M08 EQ Power +	P
	31	Esteban Ocon
Williams Martini Racing	19th	Felipe Massa	Williams FW40	Mercedes-AMG F1 M08 EQ Power +	P
	18th	Lance Stroll
McLaren Honda	14th	Fernando Alonso	McLaren MCL32	Honda RA617H	P
	02	Stoffel Vandoorne
Scuderia Toro Rosso	26th	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso STR12	Renault RE17	P
	55	Carlos Sainz Jr.
Haas F1 team	08th	Romain Grosjean	Haas VF-17	Ferrari 062	P
	20th	Kevin Magnussen
Renault Sport F1 Team	27	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault RS17	Renault RE17	P
	30th	Jolyon Palmer
Sauber F1 Team	09	Marcus Ericsson	Clean C36	Ferrari 061	P
	94	Pascal Wehrlein

Classifications

Qualifying

Item	driver	constructor	Q1	Q2	Q3	begin
01	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1: 41.983	1: 41.275	1: 40.593	1
02	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1: 43.026	1: 41.502	1: 41.027	2
03	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1: 42.678	1: 42.090	1: 41.693	3
04th	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1: 42.952	1: 41.911	1: 41.841	4th
05	Max Verstappen	Red Bull-TAG Heuer	1: 42.544	1: 41.961	1: 41.879	5
06th	Sergio Perez	Force India-Mercedes	1: 43.162	1: 42.467	1: 42.111	6th
07th	Esteban Ocon	Force India-Mercedes	1: 43.051	1: 42.751	1: 42.186	7th
08th	Lance Stroll	Williams-Mercedes	1: 43.613	1: 42.284	1: 42.753	8th
09	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	1: 43.165	1: 42.735	1: 42.798	9
10	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-TAG Heuer	1: 42.857	1: 42.215	1: 43.414	10
11	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Renault	1: 42.927	1: 43.186	-	11
12	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Toro Rosso-Renault	1: 43.489	1: 43.347	-	15th
13	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	1: 44.029	1: 43.796	-	12
14th	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	1: 43.930	1: 44.267	-	13
15th	Pascal Wehrlein	Clean Ferrari	1: 44.317	1: 44.603	-	14th
16	Fernando Alonso	McLaren Honda	1: 44.334	-	-	19th
17th	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	1: 44.468	-	-	16
18th	Marcus Ericsson	Clean Ferrari	1: 44.795	-	-	17th
19th	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren Honda	1: 45.030	-	-	18th
107 percent time : 1: 49.122 min (based on the Q1 best time of 1: 41.983 min)
20th	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	no time	-	-	20th

Remarks

1. ↑ Sainz was moved three places back for causing a collision with Grosjean at the Canadian Grand Prix.
2. ↑ Alonso has been moved a total of 40 positions back this season because of the use of the sixth and seventh MGU-H , the sixth and seventh turbocharger , the fifth combustion engine and the fifth MGU-K
3. ↑ Vandoorne was moved a total of 35 positions back because of the use of the sixth and seventh MGU-H and the sixth and seventh turbocharger this season and an early gear change.
4. ↑ Palmer was allowed to start because he was fast enough in free practice.

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-TAG Heuer	51	2	2: 03: 55.573	10	1: 44.882 (46.)
02	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	51	2	+ 3.904	02	1: 43.925 (51st)
03	Lance Stroll	Williams-Mercedes	51	1	+ 4.009	08th	1: 45.108 (44.)
04th	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	51	2	+ 5.976	04th	1: 43.441 (47th)
05	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	51	2	+ 6.188	01	1: 43,469 (46.)
06th	Esteban Ocon	Force India-Mercedes	51	2	+ 30.298	07th	1: 45.634 (39.)
07th	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	51	1	+ 41.753	12	1: 46.312 (45th)
08th	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Toro Rosso-Renault	51	1	+ 49,400	15th	1: 45.866 (46.)
09	Fernando Alonso	McLaren Honda	51	1	+ 59.551	19th	1: 45,168 (49.)
10	Pascal Wehrlein	Clean Ferrari	51	4th	+1: 29.093	14th	1: 47,120 (46.)
11	Marcus Ericsson	Clean Ferrari	51	2	+1: 31.794	17th	1: 47,186 (45.)
12	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren Honda	51	1	+1: 32.160	18th	1: 46.648 (45th)
13	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	50	3	+ 1 lap	16	1: 46.831 (45.)
14th	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	46	2	DNF	03	1: 45,542 (44.)
-	Sergio Perez	Force India-Mercedes	39	2	DNF	06th	1: 45.588 (37.)
-	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	25th	1	DNF	13	1: 48.536 ( 09.)
-	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	25th	1	DNF	09	1: 47.340 (10.)
-	Max Verstappen	Red Bull-TAG Heuer	12	0	DNF	05	1: 46.398 (10.)
-	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Renault	09	0	DNF	11	1: 48.394 ( 09.)
-	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	07th	0	DNF	box	1: 51.673 ( 05.)

World Cup stands after the race

The first ten of the race got 25, 18, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 point (s) respectively.

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points 01  Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 153 02  Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 139 03  Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 111 04th  Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull-TAG Heuer 92 05  Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 73 06th  Max Verstappen Red Bull-TAG Heuer 45 07th  Sergio Perez Force India-Mercedes 44 08th  Esteban Ocon Force India-Mercedes 35 09  Carlos Sainz Jr. Toro Rosso-Renault 29 10  Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes 20th 11  Nico Hulkenberg Renault 18th

Item driver constructor Points 12  Lance Stroll Williams-Mercedes 17th 13  Kevin Magnussen Haas-Ferrari 11 14th  Romain Grosjean Haas-Ferrari 10 15th  Pascal Wehrlein Clean Ferrari 5 16  Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso-Renault 4th 17th  Fernando Alonso McLaren Honda 2 18th  Jolyon Palmer Renault 0 19th  Marcus Ericsson Clean Ferrari 0 20th  Stoffel Vandoorne McLaren Honda 0 21st  Antonio Giovinazzi Clean Ferrari 0 -  Jenson Button McLaren Honda 0

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 1  Mercedes 250 2  Ferrari 226 3  Red Bull-TAG Heuer 137 4th  Force India-Mercedes 79 5  Williams-Mercedes 37

Item constructor Points 06th  Toro Rosso-Renault 33 07th  Haas-Ferrari 21st 08th  Renault 18th 09  Clean Ferrari 5 10  McLaren Honda 2

Individual evidence

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