2017 British Grand Prix

2017 British Grand Prix
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Layout of the Silverstone Circuit
Race details
Date	16 July 2017
Official name	2017 Formula 1 Rolex British Grand Prix[1][2][3]
Location	Silverstone Circuit Silverstone, United Kingdom
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	5.891 km (3.660 miles)
Distance	51 laps, 300.307 km (186.602 miles)
Scheduled distance	52 laps, 306.198 km (190.262 miles)
Weather	Overcast
Attendance	344,500[4]
Pole position
Driver	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Time	1:26.600
Fastest lap
Driver	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Time	1:30.621 on lap 48
Podium
First	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Second	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes
Third	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari
Lap leaders

The 2017 British Grand Prix (formally known as the 2017 Formula 1 Rolex British Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race that took place on 16 July 2017 at the Silverstone Circuit in Silverstone, United Kingdom. This race was the seventy-second running of the British Grand Prix, the sixty-eighth time that the race has been run as a World Championship event, and the fifty-first time that the World Championship event has been held at the Silverstone Circuit.

Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel entered the round with a twenty-point lead over Mercedes's Lewis Hamilton in the Drivers' Championship. Mercedes led Ferrari by thirty-three points in the Constructors' Championship.

The race was dominated and won by Lewis Hamilton, who achieved a grand slam: starting from pole position, leading every lap of the race, setting fastest lap, and winning with a 14-second lead over Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas.

With his fifth British Grand Prix win, Hamilton equalled the records of Alain Prost and Jim Clark, who won the race five times each. His championship rival Sebastian Vettel suffered a tyre failure with two laps to go and finished seventh. As a result, Vettel's lead over Hamilton in the Drivers' standings was cut down to one point. Kimi Räikkönen, Vettel's teammate, suffered the same problem while in second position and lost his place to Bottas, and managed to finish third.