Grand Prix of Luxembourg 1997
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15th of 17 races in the 1997 Formula 1 World Championship | ||
Surname: | V Grand Prix of Luxembourg | |
Date: | September 28, 1997 | |
Place: | Adenau | |
Course: | Nürburgring | |
Length: | 305.252 km in 67 laps of 4.556 km
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Weather: | dry and cloudy | |
Spectator: | ~ 120,000 | |
Pole position | ||
Driver: | Mika Hakkinen | McLaren-Mercedes |
Time: | 1: 16.602 min | |
Fastest lap | ||
Driver: | Heinz-Harald Frentzen | Williams-Renault |
Time: | 1: 18.805 min (lap 32) | |
Podium | ||
First: | Jacques Villeneuve | Williams-Renault |
Second: | Jean Alesi | Benetton Renault |
Third: | Heinz-Harald Frentzen |
Williams-Renault
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Leadership laps
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The 1997 Grand Prix of Luxembourg (officially V Grand Prix of Luxembourg ) took place on September 28th at the Nürburgring and was the 15th race of the 1997 Formula 1 World Championship . Jacques Villeneuve took first place ahead of Jean Alesi and Heinz-Harald Frentzen .
report
background
Olivier Panis returned after a serious accident in Montreal where he broke both legs. Jarno Trulli , who was brought in to replace the Frenchman, could no longer find a cockpit and stayed with the team as a substitute driver.
training
Friday training
Mika Häkkinen set the fastest time with 1: 17.998 ahead of Rubens Barrichello , Gerhard Berger and Ralf Schumacher . Michael Schumacher was eighth, about a second behind, Jacques Villeneuve was twelve with one and a half seconds. Olivier Panis , who came back to Formula 1 after a serious injury, was able to secure eleventh place, leaving title contender Villeneuve behind by half a second.
With the exception of Ukyo Katayama , who had problems with the car and only managed a time that is around twenty seconds behind Hakkinen's best time, all drivers were within three and a half seconds.
Saturday training
Heinz-Harald Frentzen set the session best time with 1: 17.158 ahead of Häkkinen and Giancarlo Fisichella , Villeneuve and Michael Schumacher.
All drivers were within three seconds.
Qualifying
Häkkinen was able to prevail by nine hundredths ahead of Villeneuve, followed by Frentzen, Fisichella, Schumacher, David Coulthard and Gerhard Berger.
It is Mika Häkkinen's first of 26 pole positions in his career, the first pole position for McLaren since the 1993 Australian Grand Prix and the first pole position for Mercedes as a designer or engine supplier since the 1955 Italian Grand Prix .
Warm-up
For the third time, Häkkinen set the best session time, this time around a second ahead of his teammate Coulthard, which suggests that the Finn will start the race with little fuel.
With the exception of Shinji Nakano , who set a time ten seconds behind Häkkinen's best time, all drivers were within four seconds.
run
Häkkinen, who celebrated his 29th birthday on race day, led the team in front of his colleague Coulthard, who moved up from sixth to second, followed by Villeneuve. During the start, Ralf Schumacher and his team-mate Giancarlo Fisichella collided while attempting to overtake . As a result, the Jordan took off from Ralf and landed on his brother Michael's Ferrari. The thrown up dust made Katayama unable to avoid the rolling Fisichella and crashed into the Italian. Michael was able to continue the race, Ralf, Fisichella and Katayama had to give up the race before the first lap. Two laps later, Michael also had to give up at the pits due to safety issues.
After the start, Häkkinen, Coulthard, Villeneuve, Barrichello, Alesi and Magnussen are in places one to six. Frentzen, who damaged his ignition lock after touching it , flew far back. The first six were to maintain their positions until the first series of pit stops.
The drama began on lap 43: Häkkinen was leading around twelve seconds ahead of Coulthard, who is being followed by Villeneuve. But then, almost at the same time, the McLaren drivers' Mercedes engines burst. On the same lap, Jan Magnussen , among others, retired from sixth position due to a damaged drive shaft. Villeneuve subsequently inherited the lead, Alesi in second, Frentzen in third, Berger in four and Diniz in five were his pursuers.
Villeneuve was able to keep the lead and thus celebrate his eleventh career victory, which brought him ahead of Schumacher in the drivers' championship. It will also be the Canada's last win in the future. In this race, Yamaha also scored the last points as an engine supplier.
Registration list
classification
Qualifying
run
Item | driver | constructor | Round | Stops | time | begin | Fastest lap |
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1 | Jacques Villeneuve | Williams-Renault | 67 | 2 | 1: 31: 27.843 | 2 | 1: 19.838 |
2 | Jean Alesi | Benetton Renault | 67 | 2 | + 11.770 | 10 | 1: 19.716 |
3 | Heinz-Harald Frentzen | Williams-Renault | 67 | 2 | + 13,480 | 3 | 1: 18.805 |
4th | Gerhard Berger | Benetton Renault | 67 | 2 | + 16,416 | 7th | 1: 19.996 |
5 | Pedro Diniz | Arrows-Yamaha | 67 | 1 | + 43.147 | 15th | 1: 21.262 |
6th | Olivier Panis | Cheers to Mugen Honda | 67 | 1 | + 43.750 | 11 | 1: 21.086 |
7th | Johnny Herbert | Clean Petronas | 67 | 2 | + 44.354 | 16 | 1: 20.518 |
8th | Damon Hill | Arrows-Yamaha | 67 | 1 | + 44.777 | 13 | 1: 20.407 |
9 | Gianni Morbidelli | Clean Petronas | 66 | 2 | + 1 lap | 19th | 1: 20.865 |
10 | Mika Salo | Tyrrell-Ford | 66 | 2 | + 1 lap | 20th | 1: 21.996 |
- | Jos Verstappen | Tyrrell-Ford | 50 | 2 | DNF | 21st | 1: 22.455 |
- | Mika Hakkinen | McLaren-Mercedes | 43 | 1 | DNF | 1 | 1: 19.576 |
- | Rubens Barrichello | Stewart-Ford | 43 | 1 | DNF | 9 | 1: 20.737 |
- | David Coulthard | McLaren-Mercedes | 42 | 1 | DNF | 6th | 1: 19.920 |
- | Jan Magnussen | Stewart-Ford | 40 | 1 | DNF | 12 | 1: 21.448 |
- | Eddie Irvine | Ferrari | 22nd | - | DNF | 14th | 1: 21.793 |
- | Shinji Nakano | Cheers to Mugen Honda | 16 | - | DNF | 17th | 1: 21.969 |
- | Michael sSchumacher | Ferrari | 2 | - | DNF | 5 | 1: 29.314 |
- | Tarso Marques | Minardi-Hart | 1 | - | DNF | 18th | 1: 36.826 |
- | Ukyo Katayama | Minardi-Hart | 1 | - | DNF | 22nd | 3: 00.630 |
- | Giancarlo Fisichella | Jordan-Peugeot | 0 | - | DNF | 4th | - |
- | Ralf Schumacher | Jordan-Peugeot | 0 | - | DNF | 8th | - |
World Cup stands after the race
Driver ranking
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Constructors' championship
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Individual evidence
- ↑ motorsportarchiv.de Overview Luxembourg 1997 ( Memento from April 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ motorsportarchiv.de Friday training Luxembourg 1997 ( Memento from September 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Friday training Luxembourg 1997
- ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Saturday training Luxembourg 1997
- ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Qualifying Luxembourg 1997
- ↑ motorsport-magazin.com Warm-Up Luxembourg 1997
- ^ Motorsportarchiv.de Race Luxembourg 1997 ( Memento from September 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Motorsport-magazin.com Race Luxembourg 1997