1997 Japanese Grand Prix

F1 Japan 1947 Japanese XXIII Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix Suzuka circuit map (1987-2002).svg 12 October 1997 16 17 Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka, Mie, Japan Permanent racing facility 3.641https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/database/races/1997-japanese-grand-prix/ 1997 Japanese Grand Prix | Motorsport Database 5.860 53 192.995 310.5962013 Japanese Grand Prix: Official Media Kit http://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/external_archive/node4131/jpn_media_kit_en_2013.pdf dead https://web.archive.org/web/20140307111513/http://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/external_archive/node4131/jpn_media_kit_en_2013.pdf 7 March 2014 2022-09-19 FIA.com Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile 31 PDF SunnyDomenjoz Luc Formula 1 Yearbook – 1997–98 https://archive.org/details/formula1yearbook0000unse_g8j1 1997 8th Parragon 0-7525-2386-4 209 Internet Archive registration 317,000https://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/2022_japanesegp_mediakit_english.pdf Formula 1 Honda Japanese Grand Prix 2022 – Media Kit Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile 5 October 2022 5 October 2022 Jacques Villeneuve Williams-Renault 1:36.071Domenjoz Luc Formula 1 Yearbook – 1997–98 https://archive.org/details/formula1yearbook0000unse_g8j1 1997 8th Parragon 0-7525-2386-4 204 Internet Archive registration Canada Heinz-Harald Frentzen Williams-Renault 1:38.942 48Domenjoz Luc Formula 1 Yearbook – 1997–98 https://archive.org/details/formula1yearbook0000unse_g8j1 1997 8th Parragon 0-7525-2386-4 205 Internet Archive registration Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari Germany Heinz-Harald Frentzen Williams-Renault Germany Eddie Irvine Ferrari United Kingdom JPN 1997 Luxembourg Grand Prix 1997 European Grand Prix The 1997 Japanese Grand Prix (officially known as the XXIII Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 12 October 1997 at the Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka. It was the 16th and penultimate race of the 1997 Formula One season. The 53-lap race was won by Michael Schumacher for the Ferrari team after starting from second position. Heinz-Harald Frentzen finished second in a Williams, and Eddie Irvine third in the other Ferrari. Irvine led much of the race before moving over to assist Schumacher's championship battle by blocking Drivers' Championship leader Jacques Villeneuve. Villeneuve started on pole position in a Williams car. Before the race, it emerged that Villeneuve had been put to the back of the grid, for having ignored waved yellow flags on two consecutive laps during a practice session for the race. Williams appealed and Villeneuve started from the pole. He drove a conservative race to finish 5th, gaining two points. After the race, Williams withdrew their appeal, meaning he lost the two points he originally earned.http://grandprix.com/ns/ns01297.html Villeneuve in trouble GrandPrix.com 1997-10-13 2008-05-09http://grandprix.com/ns/ns01310.html Williams drops its appeal GrandPrix.com 1997-10-20 2008-05-09 Schumacher's win put him in front of Villeneuve in the championship on 78 points, with Villeneuve on 77 points. However, as a result of Frentzen finishing second, Williams clinched the Constructors' Championship as Ferrari could not pass their points total with only one race remaining.https://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr613.html GrandPrix.com Grand Prix Results: Japanese GP, 1997 2008-05-09 This race was the last for Gianni Morbidelli. It was also the last time that two German Formula One drivers finished first and second until the 1999 Italian Grand Prix. Report Practice and qualifying For each race in the 1997 Formula One season there were four practice sessions; two sessions on Friday and two sessions on Saturday morning. The practice sessions on Friday lasted an hour and the practice sessions on Saturday lasted 45 minutes.Formula 1 Yearbook – 1997–98 https://archive.org/details/formula1yearbook0000unse_g8j1 Domenjoz Luc Parragon 1997 0-7525-2386-4 8th 220 Internet Archive registration "I clearly saw the yellow flag. If they had been waved in a corner, I would have slowed down. But on a straight it was not necessary." Jacques Villeneuve, commenting on not slowing down under a yellow flag zone during the first Saturday practice session. 30% left In the first practice session on Saturday morning, an incident occurred 30 minutes into the session. Jos Verstappen in a Tyrrell car pulled over to the side of the track with a fuel pick-up problem. The track marshals as a result waved yellow flags meaning that drivers must slow down at that part of the track. Despite the yellow flags, nine drivers, including Michael Schumacher and Jacques Villeneuve, never slowed down. Villeneuve in the process, set his fastest time of the session on that lap. Villeneuve set pole position with a time of 1:36.071, half a tenth faster than Schumacher, who was second in the Ferrari setting a time of 1:36.133. Schumacher's team-mate, Eddie Irvine, qualified third, four-tenths behind Villeneuve. McLaren driver Mika Häkkinen rounded out the top four, only three thousands of a second behind Irvine. The Benetton drivers were fifth and seventh; Gerhard Berger ahead of Jean Alesi. Heinz-Harald Frentzen in a Williams split the two in sixth, six-tenths behind Villeneuve. On the Thursday before practice, the local driver Ukyo Katayama announced his retirement from the category after the next race. Classification Qualifying Pos No Driver Constructor Time Gap 1 3 CAN Jacques Villeneuve Williams-Renault 1:36.071 2 5 DEU Michael Schumacher Ferrari 1:36.133 +0.062 3 6 GBR Eddie Irvine Ferrari 1:36.466 +0.395 4 9 FIN Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes 1:36.469 +0.398 5 8 AUT Gerhard Berger Benetton-Renault 1:36.561 +0.490 6 4 DEU Heinz-Harald Frentzen Williams-Renault 1:36.628 +0.557 7 7 FRA Jean Alesi Benetton-Renault 1:36.682 +0.611 8 16 GBR Johnny Herbert Sauber-Petronas 1:36.906 +0.835 9 12 ITA Giancarlo Fisichella Jordan-Peugeot 1:36.917 +0.846 10 14 FRA Olivier Panis Prost-Mugen-Honda 1:37.073 +1.002 11 10 GBR David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 1:37.095 +1.024 12 22 BRA Rubens Barrichello Stewart-Ford 1:37.343 +1.272 13 11 DEU Ralf Schumacher Jordan-Peugeot 1:37.443 +1.372 14 23 DNK Jan Magnussen Stewart-Ford 1:37.480 +1.409 15 15 JPN 1947 Shinji Nakano Prost-Mugen-Honda 1:37.588 +1.517 16 2 BRA Pedro Diniz Arrows-Yamaha 1:37.853 +1.782 17 1 GBR Damon Hill Arrows-Yamaha 1:38.022 +1.951 18 17 ITA Gianni Morbidelli Sauber-Petronas 1:38.556 +2.485 19 20 JPN 1947 Ukyo Katayama Minardi-Hart 1:38.983 +2.912 20 21 BRA Tarso Marques Minardi-Hart 1:39.678 +3.607 21 18 NLD Jos Verstappen Tyrrell-Ford 1:40.259 +4.188 22 19 FIN Mika Salo Tyrrell-Ford 1:40.529 +4.458107% time: 1:42.796 Source:http://www.statsf1.com/en/1997/japon/qualification.aspx Japan 1997 – Qualifications StatsF1 27 March 2016 Race At the start, Jacques Villeneuve dived to the right and blocked Michael Schumacher, keeping the lead. Behind the frontrunners, Mika Hakkinen passed Eddie Irvine for third. At the final of the first lap, the order was Villeneuve, Michael Schumacher, Hakkinen, Irvine, Frentzen and Berger. Running light on fuel, Irvine started an aggressive climbing of the grid, storming to the lead on lap 3. By lap 5, the Northern Irishman had built a gap of 8.9 seconds from Villeneuve, meanwhile the difference from the Canadian, in 2nd place, to Jean Alesi, in 6th, was less than two seconds. The first casualties were the Stewart duo, retiring with three laps of difference apart. Local heroes Ukyo Katayama and Shinji Nakano soon followed them. After 13 laps, the drivers started to pit, as did Hakkinen and Berger. At the end of lap 15 Irvine pitted for the lead, 12.7 seconds from Villeneuve in 2nd place. The top-6 were formed then by Michael Schumacher, Frentzen, Johnny Herbert and Giancarlo Fisichella. Schumacher pitted just after his teammate and Villeneuve did the same at the end of lap 19. The Canadian exited the pits just in front of Schumacher, however, with warmer tires, the German stormed to the main straight, dived inside and passed Villeneuve for good. On lap 23, after all the frontrunners had pitted, the order was Irvine, Schumacher, Villeneuve, Frentzen, Hakkinen and Alesi. The gap from the leader to the second was about 11 seconds on lap 22, but as part of Ferrari's strategy, Irvine soon started to lift his foot and in a couple of laps let Schumacher passed by him to the lead, immediately blocking and holding Villeneuve in third place. The strategy worked perfectly and Villeneuve anticipated his second pit to try to leave the traffic and undercut Irvine. This meant nothing to the Canadian, as he fell down to 6th place and never had the pace to challenge even a podium. After the second round of pits, the major change was in second place, as Frentzen, running heavier on fuel and spending more time on track, passed Irvine for 2nd place. By lap 38 the order was Schumacher, Frentzen (8.5 seconds behind), Irvine, Alesi, Hakkinen and Villeneuve (23 seconds from the leader). Frentzen eventually charged back and reduced the gap to 5 seconds by lap 45, meanwhile Villeneuve passed Alesi for 5th. The scenario was showing a comfortable leading and eventual winning for Schumacher with 8 laps to go; however, with two laps remaining, the German stuck behind Damon Hill, who was about to be lapped. This meant the gap from him to Frentzen to reduce to one second on final stages, but Schumacher cleaned his way and keep the lead until the chequered flag. As Villeneuve had ended in 5th place, the Canadian initially secured the Championship lead by one point. With his disqualification from the race, he lost two points and the Championship lead to Schumacher, also by one point and one round to go. Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 5 DEU Michael Schumacher Ferrari 53 1:29:48.446 2 10 2 4 DEU Heinz-Harald Frentzen Williams-Renault 53 +1.378 6 6 3 6 GBR Eddie Irvine Ferrari 53 +26.384 3 4 4 9 FIN Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes 53 +27.129 4 3 5 7 FRA Jean Alesi Benetton-Renault 53 +40.403 7 2 6 16 GBR Johnny Herbert Sauber-Petronas 53 +41.630 8 1 7 12 ITA Giancarlo Fisichella Jordan-Peugeot 53 +56.825 9   8 8 AUT Gerhard Berger Benetton-Renault 53 +1:00.429 5   9 11 DEU Ralf Schumacher Jordan-Peugeot 53 +1:22.036 13   10 10 GBR David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 52 Engine 11   11 1 GBR Damon Hill Arrows-Yamaha 52 +1 lap 17   12 2 BRA Pedro Diniz Arrows-Yamaha 52 +1 lap 16   13 18 NLD Jos Verstappen Tyrrell-Ford 52 +1 lap 21   Ret Retired 21 BRA Tarso Marques Minardi-Hart 46 Gearbox 20   Ret Retired 19 FIN Mika Salo Tyrrell-Ford 46 Engine 22   Ret Retired 14 FRA Olivier Panis Prost-Mugen-Honda 36 Engine 10   Ret Retired 15 JPN 1947 Shinji Nakano Prost-Mugen-Honda 22 Wheel bearing 15   Ret Retired 20 JPN 1947 Ukyo Katayama Minardi-Hart 8 Engine 19   Ret Retired 22 BRA Rubens Barrichello Stewart-Ford 6 Spun off 12   Ret Retired 23 DNK Jan Magnussen Stewart-Ford 3 Spun off 14   DSQ Disqualified 3 CAN Jacques Villeneuve Williams-Renault 53 Ignored yellow flags during practice 1   DNS Did not start 17 ITA Gianni Morbidelli Sauber-Petronas 0 Injury 18  Source:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1997/162/ 1997 Japanese Grand Prix formula1.com https://web.archive.org/web/20141029035240/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1997/162/ 29 October 2014 24 December 2015 Championship standings after the race Note, only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Germany Michael Schumacher 78 2 Canada Jacques Villeneuve 77 3 Germany Heinz-Harald Frentzen 41 4 France Jean Alesi 36 5 UK David Coulthard 30Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1997/japon/championnat.aspx Japan 1997 – Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 18 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 UK Williams-Renault 118 2 Italy Ferrari 100 3 Italy Benetton-Renault 64 4 UK McLaren-Mercedes 47 5 Ireland Jordan-Peugeot 33Source: References 3 Japanese Grand Prix 1997 1997 Luxembourg Grand Prix 1997 European Grand Prix 1996 Japanese Grand Prix 1998 Japanese Grand Prix Japanese Grand Prix Category:Japanese Grand Prix Grand Prix Japanese Grand Prix