2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix

2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix
Race 8 of 20 in the 2017 Formula One World Championship
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Layout of the Baku City Circuit
Layout of the Baku City Circuit
Race details[1]
Date 25 June 2017
Official name Formula 1 FlyEmirates Azerbaijan Grand Prix[2][3]
Location Baku City Circuit
Baku, Azerbaijan
Course Temporary street circuit
Course length 6.003 km (3.730 miles)
Distance 51 laps, 306.049 km (190.170 miles)
Weather Sunny
Attendance 71,451[4]
Pole position
Driver
Mercedes
Time 1:40.593
Fastest lap
Driver Germany Sebastian Vettel Ferrari
Time 1:43.441 on lap 47
Podium
First
Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer
Second
Mercedes
Third
Williams-Mercedes
Lap leaders

The 2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix (officially the 2017 Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 25 June 2017 at the Baku City Circuit in Baku, Azerbaijan. The race was the eighth round of the 2017 FIA Formula One World Championship,[5] and was the maiden running of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix as a round of the Formula One World Championship. It was the second time that a race was held at the circuit and the second time that a Grand Prix was held in Azerbaijan.[6][N 1]

Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel entered the round with a twelve-point lead over Mercedes's Lewis Hamilton in the World Drivers' Championship, while Mercedes led Ferrari by eight points in the World Constructors' Championship. Lewis Hamilton started the race from pole.[7] Red Bull Racing's Daniel Ricciardo recovered from a crash in qualifying to claim his fifth career victory ahead of the Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas,[8] while Lance Stroll became the first Canadian to stand on the podium since Jacques Villeneuve at the 2001 German Grand Prix, and the second youngest driver ever to finish on the podium. This would be the last podium for a Williams driver until the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix.[9]

This was also the last race to feature a red flag until the 2020 Italian Grand Prix.

  1. ^ "2017 Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix". formula1.com. Formula One World Championship Limited. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  2. ^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "2017 Formula 1 World Championship Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
  3. ^ Mitchell, Malcolm. "Baku City Circuit - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
  4. ^ "F1 reveals overall rise in 2017 attendance". Gpupdate.net. 8 December 2017. Archived from the original on 9 December 2017.
  5. ^ "FIA Announces World Motorsports Council decisions". Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 30 November 2016. Archived from the original on 30 November 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  6. ^ "No German Grand Prix on F1 2017 calendar but Azerbaijan race is official". The Guardian. Reuters. 30 November 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference quali result was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference AZE race was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ "Williams F1- Podiums".


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