2017 Brazilian Grand Prix
The 2017 Brazilian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Grande Prêmio Heineken do Brasil 2017) was a Formula One motor race held on 12 November 2017 at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace in the Interlagos neighborhood of São Paulo, Brazil. The race was the nineteenth and penultimate round of the 2017 FIA Formula One World Championship and marked the forty-sixth running of the Brazilian Grand Prix, the forty-fifth time that the race had been run as a World Championship event since the inaugural season in 1950, and the thirty-fourth World Championship event to be held at Interlagos.
| 2017 Brazilian Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 19 of 20 in the 2017 Formula One World Championship
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Layout of the Autódromo José Carlos Pace | |||||
| Race details | |||||
| Date | 12 November 2017 | ||||
| Official name | Formula 1 Grande Prêmio Heineken do Brasil 2017 | ||||
| Location | Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo, Brazil | ||||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
| Course length | 4.309 km (2.677 miles) | ||||
| Distance | 71 laps, 305.909 km (190.083 miles) | ||||
| Weather | Sunny | ||||
| Attendance | 141,218 | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver | Mercedes | ||||
| Time | 1:08.322 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | |||
| Time | 1:11.044 on lap 64 | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First | Ferrari | ||||
| Second | Mercedes | ||||
| Third | Ferrari | ||||
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Lap leaders | |||||
Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas started from pole position with Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Räikkönen behind, after World Champion Lewis Hamilton crashed out of qualifying early and started from the pit lane. Vettel overtook Bottas on the first corner, after which he set the pace through most of the race. Vettel won the Grand Prix, followed by Bottas and Räikkönen. Hamilton eventually climbed to fourth, closing to less than one second of a podium finish.