On lap 11, Verstappen's Red Bull lost electrical power and forced his retirement from 2nd position. He pitted on lap 5 to repair the damage and dropped to 18th (last) position. At the restart Vettel's damaged wing partially collapsed as he accelerated back to racing speed. The safety car was brought out to allow marshals to clear the track. Also on the first lap, an incident occurred causing the retirement of Carlos Sainz and Felipe Massa, and a pit stop front wing change for Romain Grosjean. Räikkönen would eventually finish 7th after falling behind the Force Indias and struggling with brake problems in the late stages of the race. Daniel Ricciardo moved into 5th when he passed Kimi Räikkönen on the first lap. Third and fourth were Bottas and Vettel, the latter had sustained slight front wing damage from contact with Verstappen heading into turn 2. Race Īt the start, Max Verstappen advanced three positions to head into turn two right behind Hamilton who was in the lead. Third spot on the grid went to Valtteri Bottas with Raikkonen and Verstappen starting fourth and fifth. In Q3 Lewis Hamilton secured pole position with a 1:11.459 matching Ayrton Senna's second all-time highest pole record, 0.330 seconds quicker than Ferrari's Vettel in second. Damage sustained in the accident meant he would start the race from the pit lane. Q1 ended with Pascal Wehrlein crashing his Sauber at turn one after touching the grass border of the track. Vettel set the quickest time of all three practices with a 1.12:572. Saturday's third and final practice was topped by Vettel, with Raikkonen second and Hamilton third. In second practice the Ferrari of Kimi Räikkönen was fastest followed by Hamilton and Vettel. Fernando Alonso's McLaren continued to suffer from reliability issues as he broke down and retired from the session. ![]() He was followed by the Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel and his teammate Valtteri Bottas in second and third. Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton went fastest in first practice, setting a time of 1.13:809. Tyre supplier Pirelli made the soft, supersoft and ultrasoft tyres available to teams for the race. Lance Stroll finished in 9th place, earning him his first career points in F1 and became the first Canadian Formula One driver to score a point since Jacques Villeneuve in the 2006 British Grand Prix.įernando Alonso returned to racing for McLaren, after missing the previous round in Monaco to participate in the Indianapolis 500. Mercedes dominated the weekend after a bad weekend at Monaco. Daniel Ricciardo, driving for Red Bull, finished the race in 3rd place to complete the podium positions. His teammate Valtteri Bottas finished second to allow Mercedes earn their first 1-2 finish of the season. The race was won by Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton who took pole, led every lap of the race and set the fastest lap. It was the fifty-fourth running of the Canadian Grand Prix, and the forty-eighth time the event had been included as a round of the Formula One World Championship since the inception of the series in 1950, and the thirty-eighth time that a World Championship round had been held at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. The race was the seventh round of the 2017 FIA Formula One World Championship. ![]() The 2017 Canadian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Grand Prix du Canada 2017) was a Formula One motor race that took place on 11 June 2017 at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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