2017 United States Grand Prix
The 2017 United States Grand Prix (formally known as the 2017 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on October 22, 2017, at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, United States as the seventeenth round of the 2017 FIA Formula One World Championship. The race marked the forty-seventh running of the United States Grand Prix, the thirty-ninth time that the race was run as a World Championship event since the inaugural season in 1950, and the sixth time that a World Championship round was held at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.
| 2017 United States Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 17 of 20 in the 2017 Formula One World Championship
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Layout of the Circuit of the Americas | |||||
| Race details | |||||
| Date | October 22, 2017 | ||||
| Official name | 2017 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix | ||||
| Location | Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas, United States | ||||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
| Course length | 5.513 km (3.426 miles) | ||||
| Distance | 56 laps, 308.405 km (191.634 miles) | ||||
| Weather | Sunny with temperatures reaching up to 82.9 °F (28.3 °C); wind speeds approaching speeds of 13.8 miles per hour (22.2 km/h) | ||||
| Attendance | 258,000 | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
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| Mercedes | |||
| Time | 1:33.108 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | |||
| Time | 1:37.766 on lap 51 | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First |
| Mercedes | |||
| Second | Ferrari | ||||
| Third | Ferrari | ||||
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Lap leaders | |||||
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton entered the round with a 59-point lead over Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel in the World Drivers' Championship. Hamilton's teammate Valtteri Bottas was third, a further 13 points behind. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes held a lead of 155 points over Ferrari, with Red Bull Racing a further 92 points behind in third place.
Mercedes clinched its fourth successive World Constructors' Championship after Hamilton won and Bottas finished 5th.