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2017 Australian Grand Prix
Race 1 of 20 in the 2017 Formula One World Championship
Race details
Date	26 March 2017 (2017-03-26)
Official name	2017 Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix
Location	Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne, Australia
Course	Temporary street circuit
Course length	5.303 km (3.295 miles)
Scheduled distance	57 laps, 302.271 km (187.823 miles)
Pole position
Driver	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Time	1:22.188
Fastest lap
Driver	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari
Time	1:26.536 on lap 56
Podium
First	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari
Second	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Third	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes
Lap leaders

The 2017 Australian Grand Prix (formally known as the 2017 Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix) is a Formula One motor race that is scheduled to take place on 26 March 2017 in Melbourne. The race is scheduled be contested over fifty-eight laps of the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit and to be the first round of the 2017 FIA Formula One World Championship. The race is planned to mark the eighty-first race in the combined history of the Australian Grand Prix—which dates back to the 100 Miles Road Race of 1928—and the twenty-second time the event is held at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit. The current World Champion Nico Rosberg was the winner of the 2016 race, but he will not defend his win as he retired from the sport after the 2016 season.

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton started the race from pole, the sixty-second of his career and matching Ayrton Senna's record of six pole positions in Australia.

Report

Background

Circuit modifications

With the technical regulations undergoing a revision for the 2017 season, the FIA requested that every circuit on the calendar undergo revisions to update safety features. Organisers of the race introduced Techpro barriers to the run-off areas at the fastest points of the circuit, and reprofiled tyre barriers.

Driver changes

Before the beginning of the third free practice session, Sauber announced that Pascal Wehrlein would not start the race. Wehrlein had sustained a back injury in an accident at the Race of Champions during the winter pre-season. Although Wehrlein was certified as fit to take part in the Grand Prix ahead of the first practice session, he withdrew as a precaution, citing the increased physical demands of the 2017 specification of cars and the lack of sustained running during pre-season testing as compromising his ability to complete a full race distance. He was replaced by Antonio Giovinazzi for the third session, qualifying and the race.

Lance Stroll made his Formula One début with Williams. Giovinazzi and Stroll are the only rookies in the field, with Stoffel Vandoorne at McLaren starting his first full season in the sport after a one-off appearance at the 2016 Bahrain Grand Prix and Esteban Ocon at Force India starting his first full season in the sport after starting the last 9 races of the 2016 season.

Tyres

Pirelli supplied the teams with ultrasoft, supersoft and soft tyres. Usually, teams are allowed to choose an individual selection of thirteen different sets for every driver. However, due to the selection deadline falling before the pre-season test when teams were first able to drive with the new compounds, Pirelli allocated every driver the same sets. These were seven sets of ultrasoft, four sets of supersoft and two sets of soft tyres.

Classification

Qualifying

Pos.	Car no.	Driver	Constructor	Qualifying times			Final grid
				Q1	Q2	Q3
1	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:24.291	1:23.251	1:22.188	1
2	5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1:25.510	1:23.401	1:22.456	2
3	77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1:24.514	1:23.215	1:22.481	3
4	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:24.352	1:23.376	1:23.033	4
5	33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	1:24.482	1:24.092	1:23.485	5
6	8	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	1:25.419	1:24.718	1:24.074	6
7	19	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	1:25.099	1:24.597	1:24.443	7
8	55	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Scuderia Toro Rosso-TBC	1:25.542	1:24.997	1:24.487	8
9	26	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia Toro Rosso-TBC	1:25.970	1:24.864	1:24.512	9
10	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	1:25.383	1:23.989	no time	15
11	11	Sergio Pérez	Force India-Mercedes	1:25.064	1:25.081		10
12	27	Nico Hülkenberg	Renault	1:24.975	1:25.091		11
13	14	Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Honda	1:25.872	1:25.425		12
14	31	Esteban Ocon	Force India-Mercedes	1:26.009	1:25.568		13
15	9	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber-Ferrari	1:26.236	1:26.465		14
16	36	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber-Ferrari	1:26.419			16
17	20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	1:26.847			17
18	2	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren-Honda	1:26.858			18
19	18	Lance Stroll	Williams-Mercedes	1:27.143			20
20	30	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	1:28.244			19
107% time: 1:30.084
Source:

Notes

• ^1  – Daniel Ricciardo and Lance Stroll received five-place grid penalties for an unscheduled gearbox changes.

Race

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts.
1	5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	57		2	25
2							18
3							15
4							12
5							10
6							8
7							6
8							4
9							2
10							1
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
Source:

Championship standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings Pos. Driver Points 1 2 3 4 5

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 2 3 4 5

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

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2. "Nico Rosberg retires: World champion quits Formula 1 five days after title win". British Broadcasting Corporation. 2 December 2016. Archived from the original on 2 December 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
3. ^ "2017 Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix – Qualifying". Formula1.com. Formula One World Championship Ltd. 25 March 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
4. "F1 rules: elimination qualifying confirmed for Australia, 2017 cars "five seconds faster"". James Allen on F1. James Allen. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
5. "FIA requests upgrades to F1 circuits for 2017". speedcafe.com. 18 January 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
6. Howard, Tom (29 January 2017). "Albert Park prepares for circuit revisions". speedcafe.com. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
7. "Pascal Wehrlein not to start at the Australian Grand Prix". Sauber F1 Team. 25 March 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
8. "F1 Australian GP: Can Lance Stroll match these game changing F1 debuts?". crash.net. 22 March 2017. Archived from the original on 23 March 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
9. Gibson, Sean (22 February 2017). "F1 2017: Race calendar and rule changes explained ahead of new season". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 23 March 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2017. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
10. "Pirelli announce tyre choices for Bahrain and Russia". Formula1.com. Formula One World Championship Ltd. 11 January 2017. Archived from the original on 10 March 2017. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
11. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/128654/ricciardo-grid-penalty-after-gearbox-change
12. Noble, Jonathan (25 March 2017). "Stroll hit with gearbox change grid penalty into Australian GP". Autosport.com. Retrieved 25 March 2017.

External links

• Official website

• 2017 Formula One races
• Australian Grand Prix
• 2017 in Australian motorsport
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