2017 Canadian Grand Prix

 2017 Canadian Grand Prix

Racing data
7th of 20 races of the 2017 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	Formula 1 Grand Prix du Canada 2017
Date:	June 11, 2017
Place:	Montreal
Course:	Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve
Length:	305.27 km in 70 laps of 4.361 km
Pole position
Driver:	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Time:	1: 11.459 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Time:	1: 14.551 min (lap 64)
Podium
First:	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Second:	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes
Third:	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-TAG Heuer

The 2017 Canadian Grand Prix (officially the Formula 1 Grand Prix du Canada 2017 ) took place on June 11 at the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve in Montreal and was the seventh race of the 2017 Formula 1 World Championship .

report

backgrounds

After the Monaco Grand Prix , Sebastian Vettel led the drivers' standings with 25 points ahead of Lewis Hamilton and 54 points ahead of Valtteri Bottas . In the constructors' championship, Ferrari was ahead of Mercedes with 17 points and Red Bull Racing with 99 points .

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

Compared to the previous year, there were several safety-relevant changes to the route. Many safety fences at the edge of the track were replaced by wall blocks with attached safety fences, this applied to turn one to turn three , turn seven , turn eight and turn ten . The safety fence was renewed at turn 15 . In the run-off zone of curve eight , the gravel bed was replaced by an asphalt surface, and the grass pavers in curve 14 and curve 15 were also replaced by asphalt. Instead of stacks of tires were in the curves one to three , eight , ten and 13 now TecPro barriers take. In addition, five SAFER barriers were installed in the area of ​​the curve .

There were two DRS zones that remained unchanged compared to the previous year. The first zone began after the pits hairpin , exactly 55 meters before the next full throttle curve. The second zone was on the start-finish straight and began 70 meters after the last corner. Just like at the season opener in Australia , there was only one measuring point for both DRS zones , so that in the event of a successful overtaking maneuver in the first zone, the driver ahead could use the DRS again in the second zone.

In this race, the Mercedes customer teams Force India and Williams F1 used the engine update for the first time, which the works team had been using since the Spanish Grand Prix .

After he skipped the race in Monaco because of the Indianapolis 500 , Fernando Alonso returned to the Formula 1 World Championship in this race.

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

With Hamilton (five times), Raikkonen, Alonso, Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo (once each), five former winners competed in this Grand Prix.

Race commissioners were José Abed (MEX), Garry Connelly (AUS), Paul Cooke (CAN) and Derek Daly (IRL).

free training

In the first free practice, Hamilton set the fastest time with a lap time of 1: 13.809 minutes ahead of Vettel and Bottas.

In the second free practice, Raikkonen was fastest in 1: 12.935 minutes ahead of Hamilton and Vettel. The training had to be interrupted after Verstappen parked his vehicle with a defect on the edge of the track.

In the third free practice session, Vettel set the fastest time ahead of Raikkonen and Hamilton with a lap time of 1: 12.572 minutes.

Qualifying

Hamilton achieved its 65th pole position in Formula 1 world championship and got an original helmet of the previous record holder Senna given

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. Wehrlein hit the road barrier shortly before the end of the section, so there was no improvement for the other drivers. The Sauber drivers, Magnussen, Lance Stroll and Vandoorne were eliminated.

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

The final section (Q3) lasted twelve minutes, during which the first ten starting positions were awarded. Hamilton set the fastest time with a lap time of 1: 11.459 minutes ahead of Vettel and Bottas. It was Hamilton's 65th pole position in the Formula 1 World Championship, and he drew level with Ayrton Senna .

Since the gearbox of Wehrlein's vehicle was changed after qualifying, he was moved five starting positions back. Since his rear wing was also replaced with a component that was not identical - Sauber only had one rear wing in the latest configuration for each driver - he had to start from the pit lane.

run

At the start of the introductory lap, Kwjat initially stopped and had to let the entire starting field pass. He followed the field with some delay. Since he had not returned to his position until the first safety car line, which was just before the last chicane, he should have started from the pit lane. Since he had already overtaken all the pilots who were supposed to start behind him at this point, with the exception of Alonso, he nevertheless took the grid and started from eleventh place on the grid. The stewards thereupon pronounced a drive-through penalty against Kwjat, and he received two penalty points. Since the stewards later realized that a drive-through penalty was the wrong punishment because the regulations provided for a 10-second stop-and-go penalty for this offense , he was later given an additional ten-second time penalty. After the race, his team argued that it was very dangerous to overtake so many drivers up to a certain point on the track, as all the drivers used the entire width of the track to zigzag and warm up the tires. In addition, at the time when Kwjat realized that he could no longer overtake Alonso, it was no longer possible to drive into the pit lane.

Hamilton turns into the first corner in front of Verstappen and Bottas, behind which Vettel loses parts of his front wing

At the start, Hamilton stayed in front, Bottas and Verstappen started much better than Vettel and Raikkonen. Bottas overtook Vettel on the inside before the first corner, both of Verstappen on the outside. In the process, Verstappen's right rear wheel came into contact with Vettel's front wing, which was damaged. In midfield, when approaching turn four , Sainz came into contact with Grosjean, who was driving next to him. Sainz overlooked Grosjean and spun after the vehicles collided. The car skidded over the grass without much braking and hit the Williams von Massa, who had just turned into turn four , and then hit the barrier. Both cars were so badly damaged that the drivers were eliminated. Alonso, who drove directly behind Massa, could only avoid both vehicles by leaving the track and lost several positions. At the end of the lap, Grosjean pitted to repair his car. The race management sent the safety car out onto the track to rescue the two vehicles . Sainz received a starting place penalty of three places for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix and two penalty points for causing this collision .

Hamilton led ahead of Verstappen, Bottas, Vettel, Ricciardo, Räikkönen, Pérez, Ocon, Hülkenberg and Kwjat. At the end of the third lap, the race was released again and Vettel lost part of his damaged front wing. At the exit of turn eight , Raikkonen came onto the grass verge with the left rear tire. He managed to intercept the vehicle, but lost one position to Pérez. In the fifth lap, Vettel switched to Supersoft and had the vehicle nose changed, so he fell back to last place. Meanwhile, Hamilton is clearly at the top.

In the eleventh lap, Verstappen rolled out with a defective battery. Since he parked his vehicle on the edge of the track, the race management announced a virtual safety car phase , which Hülkenberg was the only driver in the top ten to use to change tires. The race was released again on lap 14. A few seconds before the clearance, Magnussen accelerated and overtook Vandoorne despite the overtaking ban. Although he let it pass again shortly afterwards, the race stewards gave Magnussen a five-second time penalty and he received two penalty points.

On lap 17, Raikkonen, who was in fifth place, switched to Supersoft , one lap later Ricciardo switched to Soft and another lap later Pérez, who had previously driven directly behind Ricciardo, switched to Supersoft . The order of the three pilots remained unchanged, they then passed Alonso one after the other, who had not yet been to the pits. At this point, Vettel first overtook Stroll and Magnussen, so he was eighth.

On lap 22 Bottas switched to Soft and fell back to third place behind Ocon. He narrowed the gap to Ocon, but failed to overtake him. Hülkenberg had reduced the gap to Stroll and attacked him, but Stroll drove to the pit stop at the end of the lap and switched to Supersoft . Vettel caught up with Alonso and overtook him on lap 26.

On lap 31, Hamilton and Ocon also switched to Supersoft , Hamilton remained in the lead, Ocon fell back to sixth. This meant that Hamilton was ahead of Bottas, Ricciardo, Pérez, Räikkönen, Ocon, Vettel, Alonso, Hülkenberg and Kwjat. Ricciardo drove slower than the drivers behind him, so that Pérez, Räikkönen and Ocon caught up on the following laps. The Vettel driving behind also shortened his gap to the group.

On lap 41 Raikkonen came to the pits for the second tire change, he switched to Ultrasoft again . A lap later, Alonso came into the pits and switched to Supersoft , falling back to eleventh place. Raikkonen drove the fastest lap of the race to date, Stroll passed Vandoorne and Alonso one after the other. In lap 48, Vettel also switched to Ultrasoft again , losing only one place to Raikkonen.

Vettel overtakes Ocon, who had attacked Pérez shortly before

Kvyat reported problems with the engine by radio. At the end of the 53rd lap, he drove to the pits, where the tires were changed after having served the ten-second time penalty. The rear right wheel nut could no longer be screwed tight, so that Kvjat lost two laps. He drove another lap and then gave up the race in the pits. Vettel drove the fastest race lap up until then several times, together with Räikkönen he caught up to Ricciardo, Pérez and Ocon by up to 1.5 seconds. On lap 60 Raikkonen suffered braking problems, so that he had to let Vettel pass and as a result had to slow down for up to six seconds per lap. However, his lap times then stabilized, so that he stayed ahead of Hulkenberg.

The Force India pilots put pressure on Ricciardo but failed to get past. On the 64th lap, Hamilton set the fastest lap of the race. Vettel had reduced the gap to Ricciardo, Pérez and Ocon and was now also within striking distance. Ocon attacked Pérez on lap 65, but he defended himself. Vettel took the opportunity and passed Ocon, one lap later he also passed Pérez. Due to these fights for positions, however, Ricciardo had separated by around four seconds and Vettel was no longer able to catch up with him before the finish. On lap 68, Alonso, in tenth place, parked his vehicle with an engine fault.

Bottas, Hamilton and Ricciardo at the award ceremony

Hamilton won the race ahead of Bottas and Ricciardo. It was Hamilton's 56th victory in the Formula 1 World Championship, including the sixth in Canada. Since he also achieved pole position, led every lap and achieved the fastest race lap, he managed a Grand Slam . It was the first one-two for the Mercedes team since the 2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix , with Ricciardo finishing third for the third time in a row. For the first time since the 2016 Brazilian Grand Prix , no Ferrari driver achieved a podium finish. The remaining points were placed by Vettel, Pérez, Ocon, Räikkönen, Hülkenberg, Stroll and Grosjean. For Stroll it was the first points in the Formula 1 World Championship.

The first three positions in the drivers' championship remained unchanged. In the constructors' championship, Mercedes took first place from Ferrari, Red Bull remained third.

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: 12.692	1: 12.496	1: 11.459	1
02	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1: 13.046	1: 12.749	1: 11.789	2
03	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1: 12.685	1: 12.563	1: 12,177	3
04th	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1: 13.548	1: 12.580	1: 12.252	4th
05	Max Verstappen	Red Bull-TAG Heuer	1: 13.177	1: 12.751	1: 12.403	5
06th	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-TAG Heuer	1: 13.543	1: 12.810	1: 12.557	6th
07th	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	1: 13.435	1: 13.012	1: 12.858	7th
08th	Sergio Perez	Force India-Mercedes	1: 13.470	1: 13.262	1: 13.018	8th
09	Esteban Ocon	Force India-Mercedes	1: 13.520	1: 13.320	1: 13.135	9
10	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	1: 13.804	1: 13.406	1: 13.271	10
11	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Renault	1: 13.802	1: 13.690	-	11
12	Fernando Alonso	McLaren Honda	1: 13.669	1: 13.693	-	12
13	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Toro Rosso-Renault	1: 14.051	1: 13.756	-	13
14th	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	1: 13.780	1: 13.839	-	14th
15th	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	1: 13.990	1: 14.293	-	15th
16	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren Honda	1: 14.182	-	-	16
17th	Lance Stroll	Williams-Mercedes	1: 14.209	-	-	17th
18th	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	1: 14.318	-	-	18th
19th	Marcus Ericsson	Clean Ferrari	1: 14.495	-	-	19th
20th	Pascal Wehrlein	Clean Ferrari	1: 14.810	-	-	box
107 percent time : 1: 17.772 min (based on Q1 best time of 1: 12.685 min)

Remarks

1. ↑ Wehrlein was moved five starting positions back due to a gear change.
2. ↑ Wehrlein had to start out of the pit lane because after qualifying his rear wing was replaced with a component that was not identical in construction.

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	70	1	1: 33: 05,154	01	1: 14,551 (64th)
02	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	70	1	+ 19.783	03	1: 15.894 (65th)
03	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-TAG Heuer	70	1	+ 35.297	06th	1: 16.165 (67.)
04th	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	70	2	+ 35.907	02	1: 14.719 (70th)
05	Sergio Perez	Force India-Mercedes	70	1	+ 40.476	08th	1: 16.367 (62.)
06th	Esteban Ocon	Force India-Mercedes	70	1	+ 40.716	09	1: 16.247 (68.)
07th	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	70	2	+ 58.632	04th	1: 15.388 (59th)
08th	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	70	1	+ 60.374	10	1: 16,136 (64th)
09	Lance Stroll	Williams-Mercedes	69	1	+ 1 lap	17th	1: 15.979 (64th)
10	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	69	1	+ 1 lap	14th	1: 16.949 (58th)
11	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	69	1	+ 1 lap	15th	1: 16.704 (64th)
12	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	69	1	+ 1 lap	18th	1: 16,341 (65th)
13	Marcus Ericsson	Clean Ferrari	69	1	+ 1 lap	19th	1: 16,995 (50th)
14th	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren Honda	69	1	+ 1 lap	16	1: 16.774 (69.)
15th	Pascal Wehrlein	Clean Ferrari	68	2	+ 2 rounds	box	1: 17,091 (66.)
16	Fernando Alonso	McLaren Honda	66	1	DNF	12	1: 15.853 (63rd)
-	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Renault	54	2	DNF	11	1: 16.713 (33rd)
-	Max Verstappen	Red Bull-TAG Heuer	10	0	DNF	05	1: 17.187 ( 09.)
-	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	0	0	DNF	07th	-
-	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Toro Rosso-Renault	0	0	DNF	13	-

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 141 02  Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 129 03  Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 93 04th  Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 73 05  Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull-TAG Heuer 67 06th  Max Verstappen Red Bull-TAG Heuer 45 07th  Sergio Perez Force India-Mercedes 44 08th  Esteban Ocon Force India-Mercedes 27 09   Carlos Sainz Jr. Toro Rosso-Renault 25th 10  Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes 20th 11  Nico Hulkenberg Renault 18th

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

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 1  Mercedes 222 2  Ferrari 214 3  Red Bull-TAG Heuer 112 4th  Force India-Mercedes 71 5  Toro Rosso-Renault 29

Item constructor Points 06th  Williams-Mercedes 22nd 07th  Renault 18th 08th  Haas-Ferrari 15th 09  Clean Ferrari 4th 10  McLaren Honda 0

Individual evidence

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5. ↑ Canadian GP in Montreal / 2nd free practice. Motorsport-Total.com, June 9, 2017, accessed June 10, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Fabian Hust, Christian Nimmervoll: Formula 1 Canada 2017: Friday best time for Kimi Räikkönen. Motorsport-Total.com, June 9, 2017, accessed June 10, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Canadian GP in Montreal / 3rd free practice. Motorsport-Total.com, June 10, 2017, accessed June 10, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Dieter Rencken, Juliane Ziegengeist: Daniil Kwjat pissed off at FIA: "Should drink more coffee!" Motorsport-Total.com, June 12, 2017, accessed June 15, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Dieter Rencken, Ruben Zimmermann: "Annoyed": Red Bull has to keep Max Verstappen happy. Motorsport-Total.com, June 12, 2017, accessed June 15, 2017 . 
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