Formula 1 Race Results 2017

Kimi Räikkönen seized his first pole position since 2008 in Monaco, delighting fans who had long awaited more success for the Finn of few words. Since then, we've seen an exciting championship battle, numerous crashes, engine failures, and exchanges of unpleasantries between drivers. 2017 was the first genuine inter-team title battle for five years. Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes had to contend with a resurgent Ferrari team with lead driver Sebastian Vettel heading the championship for the first 12 rounds and challenging deep into the twenty race season.

At the conclusion of the championship, Hamilton won his fourth World Drivers' Championship title. Hamilton finished 46 points ahead of Sebastian Vettel in second with 317 points and Valtteri Bottas in third with 305 points. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes won their fourth consecutive title at the 2017 United States Grand Prix and finished with 668 points. Ferrari finished second with 522 points and Red Bull Racing were third with 368 points.

At Monaco, Ferrari was again the car to beat and their drivers locked the front row, though Kimi Raikkonen was on Pole Position for the first time since the 2008 French Grand Prix. Hamilton struggled and could not get pas tQ2 due to a crash from McLaren's Stoffel Vandoorne. Raikkonen led the first part of the race, but an overcut by Vettel was effective to give the team a solid 1-2 and in the order they would have liked, with Vettel winning and increasing his championship lead.

The start of the season was tight between the title contenders, with various analysts describing the Ferrari SF70H as initially the more consistent car in race trim. Sebastian Vettel led the championship for the first 12 rounds but never by more than 25 points. Vettel's loss of self‑control when he chose to barge Hamilton in Baku was the most incendiary incident between the pair, in a season in which there was a friendly mutual respect.

However, Ferrari's challenge faltered towards the end of the season, with setbacks in Singapore and Malaysia , costing them vital points in both championships. Lewis Hamilton took the title at the Mexican Grand Prix with 2 races still to go. Hamilton was looking to regain the World Championship and his fourth overall while Vettel was looking to capture his first since 2013. Pirelli continued to be Formula One's sole tyre partner and supplier in 2017, beating out a bid by Michelin to provide tyres for the championship.

Continuing from previous seasons, the company offered a range of seven different tyre compounds, five for dry and two for wet conditions. While both wet compounds are available for every Grand Prix, only a choice of three dry compounds are made available to teams for a single race weekend. As in the previous season, teams are allowed to choose ten out of thirteen sets of tyres for a race weekend freely from the three compounds made available by Pirelli.

However, due to limited testing time for the new compounds during the winter break, Pirelli chose to provide teams with a mandatory number of sets for the first five races. The 2017 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 71st season of Formula One motor racing. Teams and drivers competed in twenty Grands Prix—starting in Australia on 26 March and ending in Abu Dhabi on 26 November—for the World Drivers' and World Constructors' championships. Max Verstappen snatched third place from Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen on the final lap. A 15-place penalty following yesterday's qualifying didn't seem to affect the driver one bit. Max drove a superb race with the daring overtakes he's known for.

Unfortunately for the Dutch driver, the move on Raikkonen netted him a five-second penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage. Vettel finished a comfortable second for Ferrari, 10.1 seconds adrift of Hamilton. While his title hopes remain alive he has quite a trek to secure that title. The German driver trails the championship leader by 66 points with only three races left.

Vettel, who started in second behind his teammate Kimi Raikkonen, took advantage of his team's pit-stop strategy. Raikkonen led the first portion of the race, but when he made his first and only stop of the race to switch tires, Vettel squeezed out hot laps to make some ground. By the time Vettel was sent to the pits, his Ferrari car came out ahead of Raikkonen and the rest was history for the German driver.

As he had in the season opener in Australia, Hamilton started on pole ahead of Sebastian Vettel but this time managed to hold on to his lead through every lap and finish ahead of the Ferrari driver. In the event that a race is declared wet and must start behind the safety car, the grid will follow normal starting procedures once conditions are declared satisfactory for racing. Drivers will line up on the grid for a standing start once the safety car pulls into pit lane, although any laps completed behind the safety car will still count towards the total race distance.

Under rules introduced in 2015, grid penalties for exceeding a driver's quota of power unit components carried over from one race to the next if the penalty could not be fully served when issued. When this carry-over system was abandoned, teams could build up a reserve of spare components by introducing several at once while only serving a single grid penalty. From 2017, teams will only be able to use one new component over their quota per race, with any additional components incurring further penalties. This change prevents teams from "stockpiling" spare power unit components. In the final rounds of the championship, Toro Rosso rotated several drivers between their cars.

Prior to the Malaysian Grand Prix, Daniil Kvyat was replaced by 2016 GP2 Series champion Pierre Gasly. After Sainz Jr. left the team for Renault, Kvyat returned as his replacement for the United States Grand Prix. Gasly was forced to miss this race as it clashed with the final round of his Super Formula Championship campaign.

FIA World Endurance Championship driver and former Red Bull Junior Team member Brendon Hartley stood in for him. After the race, Kvyat was released from the team and from the Red Bull programme entirely, with Gasly returning to the team at the next race and Hartley being promoted to a regular race seat. Opened the season off the pace due to a discrepancy between data from the wind tunnel and performance on the track but now have it licked.

They are confident of stepping up as the season progresses and, though the championship is beyond them, race wins are on the cards. As part of the safety car restart at the end of lap 19, control of the race was relinquished by the safety car to Hamilton, who let off the throttle into a slow corner, with a feisty Vettel on his heels. Formula 1 cars, even without the use of brakes, will generate around 1 G of deceleration forces when the throttle is closed, due to aerodynamic drag, tires with high rolling resistance, and of course, engine braking. This slowdown caught an antsy Vettel off guard, causing a minor collision, which prompted a later-dismissed accusation of brake checking. This means the four-time world champion will start from the very back of the grid. The race stewards also hit Vettel with three penalty points.

We're getting closer to the start of the 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix. The weather forecast is for there to be cooler conditions than have been seen so far this weekend, much cooler than during Saturday's qualifying for example. There could be some wind, though, and that could blow sand on to the track. It'll be important, then, for drivers to manage their tyres well.

It was at the Bahrain Grand Prix last season that Romain Grosjean had his scary fireball accident. There was another race in Bahrain after that, the Sakhir Grand Prix, but that used the outer circuit at the track. Although Grosjean isn't racing in F1 this season, he will be watching on and he was tweeting throughout qualifying on Saturday.

Excitement as the cars have virtually their second start of the race. Hamilton almost overtakes Verstappen right at the start, but Leclerc puts pressure on Hamilton at the same time. The Red Bull, Mercedes and Ferrari are tight, but stay in the positions they were in before the safety car. At the beginning of the race it was Vettel who took the lead, getting off the line to a fantastic start. The early move on Mercedes set a tone for today's race, and while Ferrari did everything it needed to do, it wasn't enough. Hamilton regained the position, going on to secure his 62nd career victory and securing the Constructor's Championship for Mercedes.

Raikkonen finished second for a Ferrari one-two at the podium -- the 82nd time that has happened in the history of Scuderia Ferrari. Daniel Ricciardo of Red Bull Racing finished third to round out the podium. As for Mercedes, Valtteri Bottas finished fourth while Lewis Hamilton, who started the race in 13th, finished seventh. Having taken a record-breaking pole, Hamilton was in total control for this race and he took an outright lead in the championship for the first time. The momentum started to really shift with the Mercedes clearly faster than the Ferraris.

One championship would be sealed up on Sunday at Circuit of the Americas, but not the drivers fight. The constructors title was secured by Mercedes AMG Petronas on Sunday with Hamilton's win, making it yet another consecutive year the silver arrows took the crown. Again, Hamilton had trouble controlling the temperatures of his tyres in qualifying and qualified just fourth, while Ferrari locked the front row again in a twisty circuit. Also in the race, Verstappen had taken out his teammate Ricciardo at the start of the race.

McLaren Formula 1 will race with Mercedes-Benz power in the 2021 season onwards, bringing F1's most renowned hybrid engine to the 2021 challenger - the MCL35M. The agreement brings McLaren and Mercedes together as customer team and power unit supplier for the first time since 2014. Struggled with balance, set up and putting the tyres into their temperature operating window early in the season after the FIA insisted their suspension system had to be changed but are now fully up to speed. Still quickest in qualifying and boast two drivers both scoring strongly.

Stewards issued a ten-second stop-and-go penalty for what was described as "dangerous driving," an accusation which mystified Vettel. With Hamilton suffering from a loose headrest, for which he was forced to pit, Vettel threw away a surefire race win, though he still finished ahead of his championship rival. Vettel denied that the team had manipulated the race's results with team orders, and a lap time chart published by F1 Fanatic supported Vettel's claims. The formula 1 season section provides the possibility to compare different points systems for a specific season and see the resulting F1 standings. It contains the graph to see the season progression and the F1 table with the results in both points and positions.

Below that are the F1 driver team battles based on the GP results for this season and the F1 calendar. Go to the teammate battles for detailed head-to-head comparison of teammates. Go to the animations section to see the bar chart race of this season. This is his 20th season in Formula 1 and the Alfa Romeo driver is looking to improve on last season's 16th placed finish in the drivers' championship. That was his worst finish during his F1 career, with his best coming in 2007 as he won the championship in a Ferrari.

There is just half an hour to go now and the cars have left the pits, making their way around the track and to the grid for the final adjustments. The sun is still out in Bahrain, but will set soon and the race will take place under the night sky. The drivers have left the grid and we have the first image of the season of the flurry of mechanics running across the main straight back to the garages. The formation lap is taking place now and this means we're even closer to the actual start of the race.

His car ended up at the side of the track after losing power, leading to the start being aborted. While the other 19 cars embark on another formation lap, Perez has had to return to the pits and he'll start from there. Verstappen keeps his position, while Hamilton and Bottas remain in second and third for the first few turns.

But, Leclerc overtakes Bottas halfway through the first lap to move into third. At the back, Mazepin drives his Haas into a wall at one of his first turns in Formula 1, bringing out the safety car. The top three is once again what it was before the start of the race, as Bottas has retaken third from Leclerc. There's an incident with Gasly to bring out a virtual safety car, but we're back racing as normal again. Verstappen still seems to have a problem, even as he leads the race. Having started second on the grid, the defending champion was involved in a cat-and-mouse tussle with the Red Bull driver throughout.

Hamilton's Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas completed the podium. Carlos drove an impressive debut race for Renault as we near season's end. To say he's made an immediate impact would be an understatement. While teammate Nico Hulkenberg retired with oil pressure troubles, Sainz pressed on for seventh place. It will be interesting to see what the duo can do in the final three rounds. As it stands, the Spaniard is one finishing position shy of Renault's best this year.

Hamilton finished first, with Vettel behind him and Max Verstappen of Red Bull rounding out the podium spots. Verstappen went from 16th on the grid due to grid-place penalties all the way to third, passing Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari on the final lap of the race. Lewis Hamilton has won the United States Grand Prix, going from pole to victory ahead of Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari, the closest man to him in the Drivers Championship. Hamilton needed to finish 16 points clear of Vettel to clinch the championship on Sunday but did not do that, so Vettel will still be in the running going into the next race. LEWIS Hamilton won the Italian Grand Prix virtually unchallenged from pole position and moved ahead of Sebastian Vettel to take the lead in the drivers' standings.

Hamilton started on pole but a poorly judged pit-stop allowed Vettel to sneak in and take control of the race. After Mercedes' incredible dominance in 2016 this was an early sign that we had a title race on our hands. Ferrari surprised many with their early speed advantage on the Mercedes cars.

After being beset by engine problems and frustrated by team-mate and eventual world champion Nico Rosberg last season, Hamilton has benefited from his own luck in a dramatic title race. The last two races, at Brazil and Abu Dhabi, went to Vettel and Bottas, respectively. Vettel finished second in the championship after winning only once in the second half of the year, while Bottas finished third with three wins. Ferrari's struggles carried on to Japan, where Hamilton won with Vettel retiring due to a spark plug issue. Hamilton had his first chance to seal the championship in Austin, where he won, but Vettel's second-place prevented him from sealing his fourth championship.

Verstappen had crossed the line in third in the USA, but he overtook Raikkonen with all his tyres out of the track and received a controversial five-second penalty after the race. With his Pole Position at Spa, Hamilton tied Michael Schumacher at the top of the all-time standings with 68 P1s on Saturdays. Eventually, Vettel was given a 10-second stop-go penalty, but Hamilton still finished behind him, as his headrest had come loose while leading the race. Ricciardo won ahead of Bottas and Stroll, who achieved the first podium of his career in what was only his second point-scoring outing. The Ferrari seemed the best car on race trim, but they shocked Mercedes at Sochi with a 1-2 in qualifying.