Monday , 14 October 2024
Jack Amey
Jack Amey

2017 British GP Post-Race Stats

Another British GP gone, and another British GP win for Lewis Hamilton, in an incredibly dominant fashion.

Qualifying started off wet on the Saturday with Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso making late stops for slick tyres while everyone else ran the intermediates, with Alonso making the line before the flag with less than a second to spare. Then Alonso did what Alonso does best, he did the impossible and took his McLaren to the top of Q1. While he obviously had an advantage of the slick tyres, it’s still impressive, especially as Ocon on the same tyres was only sixth and almost two seconds off of Alonso.

After that point Hamilton DOMINATED, fastest in Q2 by almost a second and pole by half a second. In the race that domination continued, he led every single lap of the race, he took the fastest lap of the race, even with a late pit stop from Verstappen. But the best drive of the race? Daniel Ricciardo. He dropped out of Q1 and qualified last after his car failed, though moving to 19th with Alonso’s 30 place penalty. But even with that low grid position he had a fantastic race, fighting his way through the pack with a lot of overtakes at Stowe and finished in fifth.

Valtteri Bottas had a bit of a tough start to the weekend, only qualifying fourth and then getting a five place gearbox penalty, but he too had a great race and finished in second. His compatriot Kimi Raikkonen spent most of the race in second place but suffered a puncture late on and was forced to pit, but only lost out on one position. Sebastian Vettel also had a late puncture but lost out far more, dropping from fourth to seventh.

Just a single change here after no change in the last race. Renault take seventh from Toro Rosso after their horrific weekend where Daniil Kvyat took out his teammate, giving himself a drive through and two penalty points in the process.

Two changes, Max Verstappen takes sixth back from Sergio Perez and Nico Hulkenberg jumps both Williams for tenth. As far as the championship lead goes, the gap is down to just a single point.

Pos Driver Team Nation Points Laps Fastest Lap Grid
1 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes GBR 25 51 01:30.621 1
2 Valtteri Bottas Mercedes FIN 18 51 01:30.905 9
3 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari FIN 15 51 01:31.517 2
4 Max Verstappen Red Bull NED 12 51 01:30.678 4
5 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull AUS 10 51 01:31.874 19
6 Nico Hulkenberg Renault GER 8 51 01:32.577 5
7 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari GER 6 51 01:31.872 3
8 Esteban Ocon Force India FRA 4 50 01:33.521 7
9 Sergio Perez Force India MEX 2 50 01:33.504 6
10 Felipe Massa Williams BRA 1 50 01:33.562 14
11 Stoffel Vandoorne McLaren BEL 0 50 01:33.464 8
12 Kevin Magnussen Haas DEN 0 50 01:32.683 16
13 Romain Grosjean Haas FRA 0 50 01:32.290 10
14 Marcus Ericsson Sauber SWE 0 50 01:33.119 18
15 Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso RUS 0 50 01:33.594 12
16 Lance Stroll Williams CAN 0 50 01:33.400 15
17 Pascal Wehrlein Sauber GER 0 50 01:33.342 17
RET Fernando Alonso McLaren ESP 32 01:34.263 20
RET Carlos Sainz Toro Rosso ESP 0 13
DNS Jolyon Palmer Renault GBR 0 11

 

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