1997 Spanish Grand Prix

F1 Spain Spanish 25 May 1997 Circuit Catalunya 1995-2003.svg 6 17 Circuit de Catalunya, Montmeló, Catalonia, Spain1997 Spanish Grand Prix https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/database/races/1997-spanish-grand-prix/ Motor Sport 31 May 2022 Permanent racing facility 2.938 4.728 64 302.469 187.946 65 307.196 190.883 Clear 64,000 Jacques Villeneuve Williams-Renault 1:16.525 Canada Giancarlo Fisichella Jordan-Peugeot 1:22.242 20 Italy Jacques Villeneuve Williams-Renault Canada Olivier Panis Prost-Mugen-Honda France Jean Alesi Benetton-Renault France ESP XXXIX Gran Premio Marlboro de España 1997 Monaco Grand Prix 1997 Canadian Grand Prix The 1997 Spanish Grand Prix (formally the XXXIX Gran Premio Marlboro de España) was a Formula One motor race held on 25 May 1997 at the Circuit de Catalunya in Montmeló, Spain. It was the sixth race of the 1997 Formula One World Championship. The 64-lap race was won from pole position by Canadian Jacques Villeneuve, driving a Williams-Renault. Frenchman Olivier Panis finished second in a Prost-Mugen-Honda, six seconds behind Villeneuve, having only started 12th.https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2009/04/classic_spanish_grands_prix.html Classic Spanish GP BBC 7 May 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090508000427/http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2009/04/classic_spanish_grands_prix.html 8 May 2009 live Another Frenchman, Jean Alesi, finished third in a Benetton-Renault. The win, Villeneuve's third of the season, put him back into the lead of the Drivers' Championship by three points from German Michael Schumacher, who finished fourth in his Ferrari. Race summary Michael Schumacher, having started 7th, ended the first lap in 2nd position, and was challenging Villeneuve in the Williams for the lead. However, Schumacher, in the spare Ferrari, was unable to stay with the leader and was starting to slow the cars behind him. By lap 13, the gap between him and Villeneuve was approximately 20 seconds, and a train of cars consisting to David Coulthard, Jean Alesi, Mika Häkkinen, Heinz-Harald Frentzen, and Johnny Herbert was behind him. His lap times were approximately 1:26 while Villeneuve's was 1:22. In this high tyre wearing race, especially for the Goodyear tyres, the first pit stops started at approximately lap 14, with the final one being on lap 25, which was Olivier Panis, in his finely balanced Prost with Bridgestone tyres. Soon after, beginning from lap 29, three stop runners were starting to pit for the 2nd time. This enabled Panis to gain positions, and by lap 34, he was 4th, and closing on Alesi and Coulthard who were 2nd and 3rd respectively. Soon after, Panis overtook Coulthard, who was on inferior Goodyear tyres, in a fine move on the approach to turn 1. Panis managed to jump to 2nd place ahead of Alesi in the pits. Panis was gaining on the leader, Villeneuve, by approximately 1.5 seconds per lap. By the end of lap 49, the gap was 10.8 seconds, from 13 seconds at the end of lap 47. However, during lap 50, Panis was held up by traffic, firstly Ralf Schumacher's Jordan and then the Ferrari of Eddie Irvine. With marshals not waving the blue flags, Murray Walker, Martin Brundle (Commentators) 1997 ITV F1 - Spanish Grand Prix Television Barcelona, Spain ITV Irvine failed to let Panis through, and thus allowing Jean Alesi and Michael Schumacher to catch him up. When Irvine finally yielded on lap 57, the gap between Panis and Villeneuve was back up to 16.1 seconds. Irvine later received a stop-go penalty for his actions. After Panis cleared the traffic, he was lapping 1.5 to 2 seconds faster than the leader and managed to close the gap to less than 6 seconds by the end of the race, but it was too late and Villeneuve took his 3rd victory of the season. This was Panis's final podium finish in Formula One. Classification Qualifying Pos No Driver Constructor Time Gap 1 3 Canada Jacques Villeneuve Williams-Renault 1:16.525 2 4 Germany Heinz-Harald Frentzen Williams-Renault 1:16.791 +0.266 3 10 UK David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 1:17.521 +0.996 4 7 France Jean Alesi Benetton-Renault 1:17.717 +1.192 5 9 Finland Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes 1:17.737 +1.212 6 8 Austria Gerhard Berger Benetton-Renault 1:18.041 +1.516 7 5 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari 1:18.313 +1.788 8 12 Italy Giancarlo Fisichella Jordan-Peugeot 1:18.385 +1.860 9 11 Germany Ralf Schumacher Jordan-Peugeot 1:18.423 +1.898 10 16 UK Johnny Herbert Sauber-Petronas 1:18.494 +1.969 11 6 UK Eddie Irvine Ferrari 1:18.873 +2.348 12 14 France Olivier Panis Prost-Mugen-Honda 1:19.157 +2.632 13 17 Italy Gianni Morbidelli Sauber-Petronas 1:19.323 +2.798 14 19 Finland Mika Salo Tyrrell-Ford 1:20.079 +3.554 15 1 UK Damon Hill Arrows-Yamaha 1:20.089 +3.564 16 15 Japan 1947 Shinji Nakano Prost-Mugen-Honda 1:20.103 +3.578 17 22 Brazil Rubens Barrichello Stewart-Ford 1:20.255 +3.730 18 21 Italy Jarno Trulli Minardi-Hart 1:20.452 +3.927 19 18 the Netherlands Jos Verstappen Tyrrell-Ford 1:20.582 +4.057 20 20 Japan 1947 Ukyo Katayama Minardi-Hart 1:20.672 +4.147 21 2 Brazil Pedro Diniz Arrows-Yamaha 1:21.029 +4.504 22 23 Denmark Jan Magnussen Stewart-Ford 1:21.060 +4.535107% time: 1:21.882Source:http://www.statsf1.com/en/1997/espagne/qualification.aspx Spain 1997 - Qualifications • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com en 13 October 2018 Race Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 3 Canada Jacques Villeneuve Williams-Renault 64 1:30:35.896 1 10 2 14 France Olivier Panis Prost-Mugen-Honda 64 +5.804 12 6 3 7 France Jean Alesi Benetton-Renault 64 +12.534 4 4 4 5 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari 64 +17.979 7 3 5 16 UK Johnny Herbert Sauber-Petronas 64 +27.986 10 2 6 10 UK David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes 64 +29.744 3 1 7 9 Finland Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes 64 +48.785 5   8 4 Germany Heinz-Harald Frentzen Williams-Renault 64 +1:04.139 2   9 12 Italy Giancarlo Fisichella Jordan-Peugeot 64 +1:04.767 8   10 8 Austria Gerhard Berger Benetton-Renault 64 +1:05.670 6   11 18 Netherlands Jos Verstappen Tyrrell-Ford 63 +1 lap 19   12 6 UK Eddie Irvine Ferrari 63 +1 lap 11   13 23 Denmark Jan Magnussen Stewart-Ford 63 +1 lap 22   14 17 Italy Gianni Morbidelli Sauber-Petronas 62 +2 laps 13   15 21 Italy Jarno Trulli Minardi-Hart 62 +2 laps 18   Ret Retired 2 Brazil Pedro Diniz Arrows-Yamaha 53 Engine 21   Ret Retired 11 Germany Ralf Schumacher Jordan-Peugeot 50 Engine 9   Ret Retired 22 Brazil Rubens Barrichello Stewart-Ford 37 Engine 17   Ret Retired 19 Finland Mika Salo Tyrrell-Ford 35 Puncture 14   Ret Retired 15 Japan 1947 Shinji Nakano Prost-Mugen-Honda 34 Gearbox 16   Ret Retired 1 UK Damon Hill Arrows-Yamaha 17 Engine 15   Ret Retired 20 Japan 1947 Ukyo Katayama Minardi-Hart 11 Gearbox 20  Source:http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1997/152/ 1997 Spanish Grand Prix formula1.com https://web.archive.org/web/20141029040306/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1997/152/ 29 October 2014 24 December 2015 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Canada Jacques Villeneuve 30 2 Germany Michael Schumacher 27 3 France Olivier Panis 15 4 UK Eddie Irvine 14 5 UK David Coulthard 11Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/1997/espagne/championnat.aspx Spain 1997 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 20 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 Italy Ferrari 41 2 UK Williams-Renault 40 3 UK McLaren-Mercedes 21 4 Italy Benetton-Renault 17 5 France Prost-Mugen-Honda 15Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. 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