Race Results 2017 Japanese F1 Grand Prix

2017 Japanese GP podium: 1. Hamlton 2. Verstappen 3. Ricciardo

Event: Japanese Grand Prix
Track: Suzuka Circuit.

Weather: 26°C dry & sunny
Tarmac: 43°C dry

Lewis Hamilton won the Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka today. It was his 61st victory of his F1 career and the 74th for the Mercedes F1 team.

Hamilton started from pole position and lead almost the entire race. Max Verstappen who finished 2nd was able to follow the pace of Hamilton, but could not really attack him. Hamilton was able to keep the gap around 3 seconds until the last 2 laps, where Verstappen was right on his tail.

Max Verstappen had a very good start en jumped from 4th to 3rd place after the red lights turned off by passing his Red Bull team mate Daniel Ricciardo. He also passed Sebastian Vettel in the first lap of the Japanese Grand Prix.

Ferrari driver and title contender  Sebastian Vettel again had technical problems with the SF70H and had to retire his car in the 4th lap of the race.

Daniel Ricciardo had a solid drive and finished 3rd with Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas right on his tail.

F1 classification 2017 Japanese GP

P	No	Driver	Team	Time	Laps	Grid	Pts
1	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	01:27:31.194	53	1	25
2	33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	01:27:32.405	53	4	18
3	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull	01:27:40.873	53	3	15
4	77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	01:27:41.774	53	6	12
5	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	01:28:03.816	53	10	10
6	31	Esteban Ocon	Force India	01:28:38.982	53	5	8
7	11	Sergio Pérez	Force India	01:28:42.618	53	8	6
8	20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	01:29:00.147	53	12	4
9	8	Romain Grosjean	Haas	01:29:01.077	53	13	2
10	19	Felipe Massa	Williams	01:27:34.905	52	8	1
11	14	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	01:27:35.765	52	20	0
12	30	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	01:27:36.400	52	18	0
13	10	Pierre Gasly	Toro Rosso	01:27:38.999	52	14	0
14	2	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren	01:27:52.232	52	9	0
15	94	Pascal Wehrlein	Sauber	01:27:57.431	51	17	0
DNF	18	Lance Stroll	Williams	Tyre failure	45	15	0
DNF	27	Nico Hülkenberg	Renault	DRS failure	40	11	0
DNF	9	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	Crashed	7	16	0
DNF	5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	Power unit	4	2	0
DNF	55	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso	Spun off	0	19	0

Fastest lap: 1:33.144 min by Valtteri Bottas, Mercedes W08 in lap 50 @224,439 km/h
Highest speed: 316.0 km/h by Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari SF70H

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