8th May 2017, 11:42 8th May 2017, 12:23 | Written by Keith Collantine The fascination was in what lay behind that order. They had assumed it would be like Melbourne, leading but with Vettel tight behind, using the Ferrari’s greater tyre range to either undercut or overcut them. 4 anni fa | 10 visualizzazioni. At the time of writing the team was still trying to understand what wrong turnings may have been made in the complexities of trying to get the Sochi tyre equation right. Events after Russia. Your email address will not be published. With a couple of laps to go he’d got DRS on the back straight. Vandoorne’s McLaren actually finished the race, even if it was only a lapped 14th ahead only of the Saubers. Down the gap came. Palmer, with a Sauber to his left couldn’t give Grosjean, slightly ahead on his right, any more room as the Haas came across to take up the line. From lap 19 Bottas was far enough clear of fifth-place Verstappen to have dropped into clear air after stopping but Merc preferred to keep him out for as long as possible, to minimise the length of the second stint on super-softs they were not confident of being as quick on as the Ferrari. The team rebuilt his car around a new tub for this weekend, he lost an engine on Saturday morning, missing most of that session and, trying hard to play catch up, slid wide and took too much Turn 4 kerb – pitching him into the barriers at the end of Q1, leaving him back in 16th. W październiku będzie Grand Prix F1 w Soczi. It would have been 1sec less than that had there not been a 1sec delay with getting on the front-left. For a better experience, keep your browser up to date. Last Updated: 04/05/17 8:04am. Over a single lap the Dutch driver had the measure of both…, Extreme E is the latest green racing series – read our guide to find out what it is, who's in it, where it is, when it is and how you can watch it, With crowds to be allowed back from May, club racing could finally start to recover from Covid – but the future is uncertain for some, Part of the supporting cast for Formula 1, the FIA Formula 3 championship is one of the main hotbeds of talent in single-seater racing. Ferrari endured an afternoon to forget at the Russian Grand Prix. It was a remarkably quiet weekend for Hamilton, not at any point in contention and completely eclipsed by his team-mate. The Williams of sixth-fastest Massa was precisely 2sec adrift of Vettel’s Ferrari, Felipe putting together the complex tyre preparation well and delivering a solid lap. Three tenths on the 36th lap, another 0.3sec next time around. 2,017 likes. The home of Formula 1 on BBC Sport online. To combat this required diff. He will remember the 2017 Russian Grand Prix for many many years to come, sadly he may be the only one that does. It’s more important for us that we do what we need to and we didn’t have any problems. 27:57. Because his rival Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel pitted much later and took the lead until he had to pit. Explore F1 Russia hospitality. Hamilton scored an additional point for setting the fastest lap of the race. “There’s lots of work to be done in figuring it out. “I had different settings to Valtteri in the mid-lower speeds ranges – the diff. Without emotion. Its more aggressive turn in (once the fronts were up to temperature) would be imposing higher initial loads on the rears. On and on it went, the degradation rates on this super-smooth circuit so low, the gap back to Verstappen, Massa and the Force Indias so massive. Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas secures his maiden F1 victory by holding off Sebastian Vettel in the Russian Grand Prix. They interlocked wheels and were out on the spot. “There was nothing I could have done. Seventeen laps to go, Bottas with a 4.6sec lead over Vettel who had tyres that were not only seven laps newer but which the Ferrari worked much better than the Mercedes – and Vettel with the scent of victory. Räikkönen was in a similar position – with slower pace than his team-mate but greater tyre deg. The Toro Rossos were not at their best around this layout but both Carlos Sainz and Daniil Kvyat, 11th and 13th, were pushing visibly hard. Still Vettel stayed out on his old rubber, going remarkably quickly and actually pulling out time on Bottas. In the wake of another car, the W08 is more difficult than the Ferrari. Letting rip, fuelled by the adrenaline of the chase. At this point, his team job done, and his place over Hamilton secure, Räikkönen dropped right off the pace for several laps, keeping his engine cool, not eating into its life, saving fuel – and controlling an overheating brake caliper. Valtteri Botts won his first F1 race ever at Sochi today. With the first stops expected in the early 20s, he needed to get that gap back to undercut/overcut range. By Peter Windsor, Andreas Seidl 2021 Beyond the Grid interview. Instead, the loads had to be massaged into those fronts progressively over one or two gentle laps. “All through the first stint on ultra it was good, the front and rear of the car were working together,” explained Bottas. The Russian GP in numbers From gear changes to corner speeds, our track guide is the home of F1 geekery. Vettel’s support driver Räikkönen finished 11sec down in third, well clear of a struggling Hamilton who was a further minute clear of Verstappen who had the loneliest race of his career (he kept himself amused by watching the lead battle on the big screens as he passed by). Now, one lap to go, that Merc is squirming under braking, Seb is watching the carbon dust blowing from its front wheels, seeing it slip and slide out of the turns, its seven-lap older rubber beginning to surrender. With his engine temperatures back under control, Vettel was allowed off the leash on the 12th lap, from 3.7sec behind. Maybe not. Ideally therefore, you needed to be ready for the qualifying lap after just one gentle out-lap. He rejoined on super-softs seven laps newer than those on Bottas’ race-leading Merc and soon began cutting into Valtteri’s 5sec lead. Just before the safety car for this incident was deployed, things got tight at Turn 4 between Hülkenberg and Stroll, the latter spinning and rejoining near the back after simply applying too much lock as he was squeezed by the Renault. That was costing me around 0.7sec.” But even when the engine temperatures were under control, those of the tyres were not. As well as his cooling issue, which he could control by engine settings and backing off, Lewis was also struggling to get the tyres in their operating window, just as he had been all weekend. Vandoorne knew however he was taking a theoretical 15-place grid drop for the replacement of yet-more Honda components and the actual Q lap time was immaterial and didn’t represent a serious effort. Posted on 30th April 2017, 14:21 30th April 2017, 22:53 Author Keith Collantine Categories 2017 Russian Grand Prix, Rate the Race, Russian Grand Prix Tags 2017 Russian Grand Prix, F1 Russia, F1 Russia 2017, F1 Sochi Autodrom, Grand Prix of Russia, russian grand prix Generally, the Ferrari could do this but the Mercedes needed an out-lap plus a further slow preparation lap to get the fronts up to temperature – and therefore the risk of overheating the rears. I tried to get it all back at the last corner.”, Bottas also had a small moment in Turn 13-14 that arguably lost him pole (he ended up 0.1sec adrift of Vettel) but as this was likely just a function of the car as it was through that sector, it might also be argued that pole was never realistically within reach. Russia Grandstands You could be also interested in. So Bottas streaked away and Ferrari warned both Vettel and Räikkönen they needed to back off to bring the engine temps back down after the safety car. “It was all in the last sector. One lap to go, that Merc is squirming under braking, Seb is watching the carbon dust blowing from its front wheels, seeing it slip and slide out of the turns, its seven lap older rubber beginning to surrender. Meanwhile, Mercedes was a little bemused. At Ferrari they were straight on the radio to Vettel. Lewis Hamilton;Valtteri Bottas. The surprising thing – and the real key to the victory – was how he had then quickly put distance on the front row Ferraris of Vettel and Kimi Räikkönen. 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Bottas knew the Ferrari was going to be on his tail before too much longer. The winner of the 2017 Russian Grand Prix took the lead at the start and kept it till the finish. The timing of Vettel’s stop was now being determined by the gap back to his closing team-mate Räikkönen. The very thing that has always been among his greatest assets as a driver. The choreography of the opening few moments – once the original start had been abandoned and the race shortened by a lap for the broken down McLaren-Honda of Fernando Alonso on the formation lap – was partly determined by how much more grip there is on the clean (pole) side here than the dirty side. 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Sainz edged it on this occasion by two hundredths but would be taking a three-place grid penalty for his Bahrain accident. Includes the latest news stories, results, fixtures, video and audio. Nico Hülkenberg qualified the Renault R.S.17 within two tenths of Verstappen, lining him up directly behind. Bottas had extended his lead in that first stint to take him out of Seb’s undercut range. 2017 Formula 1 Results. A stop would cost around 25sec and by lap 33 Kimi was just 27sec adrift and closing fast on his new tyres. “I was even more pleased with the restart than I was the start,” said Bottas, of how he simply streaked away from the Ferraris after taking masterful command of the rolling start sequence. 30 April 2017. “With the tyres, the lock up and the vibration, the backmarkers and Sebastian coming, it was not easiest of races to win. A Grand Prix winner at last, a driver doing everything in his power to establish his credentials as a world title contender despite who his team-mate is. Bottas was past and into the lead even before they reached the braking area for Turn 2. Hamilton was struggling more than Bottas to resolve the difficulties of that final sector – and that’s where he lost all his half-second deficit to him. It was in fact 3-deg hotter, a swing of 6-degrees C as the expected cloud cover never arrived. Are tensions brewing between Hamilton and Russell. 2001-2021 © F1-Fansite.com. But putting those together with a good time in the traction-dominated final sector proved out of reach of the Mercedes. The heavily-revised Barcelona car cannot come soon enough. Relive one of F1's most gripping qualifying sessions as Ferrari duo Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen look to end Mercedes' recent run of pole positions. Lewis Hamilton had hoped to match Michael Schumacher's all-time record of 91 victories in Formula One But the Brit was hit by two penalties after practice start infringements before the race in … Mercedes retained the Constructors' Championship for a fourth consecutive year. The winner of the 2017 Russian Grand Prix took the lead at the start and kept it till the finish. The differing traits of the Ferrari SF70-H and the Mercedes W08 already seen in the first three events were exaggerated around the singular traits of the Sochi track, with its super-smooth surface and unusual layout. We lost Ricciardo from seventh place at this point. It resulted in Ferrari’s first front row lock-out in nine years, Vettel taking his 47th career pole less than a tenth clear of Räikkönen, with Mercedes relegated to the second row, Bottas a hefty half-second quicker than Hamilton. Getting a balance in temperatures between the surface of the tyre and its core potentially meant multiple preparation laps. Tickets Grandstands. 2:36 Now Playing. Bottas dropped enough to miss out on the front row by four-hundredths – and Hamilton dropped a massive half a second after oversteering wide over the Turn 13 kerb. His first Grand Prix victory. The fifty-two lap race was held at the Sochi Autodrom, marking the fourth running of the Russian Grand Prix as a round of the Formula One World Championship. Need help? From the chic European cities of Barcelona, Monaco, Budapest and Milan, to the exotic excitement of Singapore and Japan; from the opulence of Abu Dhabi and … 2021 Pre-Season Team Guide: Ferrari. On the super-softs, a tyre with a higher working temperature range, his car just didn’t have the same feeling as on the ultras. The boy-faced Bottas stood on the podium a few minutes later, flushed with success. Ferrari’s greater tyre flexibility allowed it the luxury of experimenting in Q2 with two runs each for Vettel and Räikkönen. So he too had been brought in – on the 29th lap. It was a luxury Ferrari had given itself by saving a set of ultras through using super-softs to get through Q1. ... F1® Fan Voice; Beyond The Grid - the F1® podcast; F1® Extreme Innovation; F1® Corporate Site; Refer a Friend North America; Game most definitely on. It was almost enough to have sneaked him pole, but Vettel shaded it by six hundredths. Rank Driver Number Team Grid Pits Fastest Lap Race Time Points Pts; 1 … F1 2017 Russia GP - Paddock Pass Post Race. All rights reserved. Raikkonen, Event: Russian Grand Prix Track: Sochi International Street Circuit, Weather: Sunny, Clear Sky, 26ºC Tarmac: Dry, 41ºC. It featured the 68th Formula One World Championship, a motor racing championship for Formula One cars which is recognised by the sport's governing body, … Räikkönen, a couple of tenths down on the trio after two sectors thereby had enough life in the rears to be quickest of all through that final sector. Lewis Hamilton ran the gauntlet of a dramatic qualifying session - before setting himself up to match Michael Schumacher's record of 91 victories by grabbing pole position for the Russian … Closing, closing on the race-leading Mercedes. For my first one, it’s very special.”. F1 Russia 2017 articles archive Maiden victory earn Bottas first Driver of the Weekend win since 2014 2017 Russian Grand Prix Driver of the Weekend result Posted on . Now the chase was on. Behind them Räikkönen and Hamilton shimmied wheel-to-wheel away from the grid, Hamilton grinding ahead on the outside but then brought up short as Vettel flicked to the outside as he was passed by Bottas. That went back to Saturday when the direction he was able to go in I just couldn’t. “I don’t know how much it’s to do with Mercedes struggling,” said the delighted pole winner. Valtteri Bottas won the Russian Grand Prix for Mercedes at Sochi, round 10 of the Formula 1 World Championship, after Mercedes teammate Lewis … It was also determined by how big the slipstream effect is as they accelerate up to beyond 200mph even from a standing start on what effectively is a 1km straight with a kink in it. The Q1 effort was, he informed the world, a great lap in a car with great balance… Stoffel Vandoorne was 0.7sec adrift and two places back, just ahead of the Saubers of Pascal Wehrlein (who went off at the end of Q1 in turn 13) and Marcus Ericsson. Race highlights - Russia 2017. “I just wasn’t quick enough today,” he said. The Sochi circuit, located in the Black Sea resort of the same name, is the first purpose-built Formula One facility in Russia and hosted the country's inaugural Grand Prix in October 2014, in the same year that the city also stages the Winter Olympics. Required fields are marked *, Qualifying results 2017 Russian F1 Grand Prix, Lap times 1st practice 2017 Spanish F1 Grand Prix, Mercedes made worst start of the season in seven years, McLaren's team boss doesn't feel sorry for Vettel, Alonso says the new Alpine is a little slow, Russell says Alfa Romeo made the biggest step this season, Team boss admits Red Bull Racing is much faster than Mercedes. From around lap 25 I was having to turn the engine down to stop the cylinder cutting. Valtteri Bottas had been ahead of him ever since slipstreaming past down to Turn 2 on the opening lap. Formula One 2017 F1 Russian Grand Prix: five things we learned in Sochi Lewis Hamilton has a few questions and the title race is even more open than … “I got some traffic on the out lap and couldn’t really make the tyres work as well as on the first run. Difficult days for him at the moment. Team-mate Lance Stroll fell short of Q3 by a couple of places after a compromised out-lap and a snap of oversteer in Q2. They locked up as he braked and he was in that awful situation where you must continue to slow, but are desperately trying not to flat-spot the tyres. Every time he leant on it, the blisters would begin opening up. 2017 Russian GP podium: 1. Stop F1 in Russia. Guarda altri video. Benefitting from Ricciardo’s retirement immediately ahead of them were the Force Indias of Sergio Pérez and Esteban Ocon. And a great pressure drive from Bottas. It was all about the cooler, smoother airflow that gets fed to the radiators of the leader compared to those in dirty air on a day when cooling levels were very marginal. Note - Magnussen received a 5-second time penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage. settings through the final sector that gave a general understeer balance. F1 Russian Grand Prix 2019 LIVE: Result and reaction as Lewis Hamilton wins in Sochi. Near the back were the usual skirmishes. The Russian Grand Prix (Russian: Гран-при России, romanized: Gran-Pri Rossii) is an annual auto race held at Sochi Autodrom – a street circuit built around Olympic Park in Sochi, Russia, as part of the Formula One World Championship. Considering just the best sector times rather than the individual Q3 laps, after the first two sectors there was only one hundredth of a second covering Hamilton, Bottas and Vettel. Mercedes knew there was no way on earth they were going be as quick as the Ferrari after Vettel stopped and that Seb was going to be chasing Valtteri down fast. But Ferrari left him out after Bottas pitted so as to give him another bite at the cherry. Because his rival Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel pitted much later and took the lead until he had to pit. When Massa didn’t go out of his way to move aside for Vettel through the long turn three and Seb had to lift, it was game over. But we held it together at the critical points and that makes it feel even better. But I just couldn’t get the car or the tyres really working, snaps of oversteer. In fact one of Hamilton’s cylinders began to cut out – as it’s programmed to, once a critical temperature is reached. Race highlights - Russia 2017. Daniil Kvyat of Scuderia Toro Rosso and Russia celebrates his birthday during previews to the Formula One Grand Prix of Russia on April 27, 2017 in Sochi, Russia. Bottas, 2. The time just fell away there as I didn’t have the heat in the tyres.”. ... 30 April 2017. It was a tactical rather than wheel-to-wheel race, but no less fascinating for that. F1 2017 Russia GP - Paddock Pass Post Race. The other Red Bull of Max Verstappen had got ahead of him before Turn 2 to run fifth, Daniel then having lost out in a wheel-rubbing contest with Felipe Massa’s Williams through there. He’d faced down a late Vettel charge, stayed calm and focused even after the lock-up, when it would have been so easy for it all to have unravelled. As the inevitable happened and the Ferrari’s greater tyre range began to tell, with Vettel cutting back what had been a 5.5sec deficit on lap 20 to 2.5sec within six laps, and with lapped traffic looming, Mercedes pulled the plug. Search F1 Russian GP 2017 For all that Bottas has his own very special rhythm between the Sochi walls, he’d given himself a big flat spot into the tricky Turn 13 with 15 laps still to go – and that’s when Vettel really began to scent blood. Pérez remained ahead of Ocon, giving Force India another good haul of points from sixth and seventh, with Hülkenberg’s Renault chasing them down ahead of Massa and Sainz. The safety car stayed out for three laps, allowing those who had gambled on the slower super-soft rather than the ultra – the two Saubers and Stoffel Vandoorne’s McLaren – to be rid of them, ready for two stints on ultras, calculated as around 9sec faster over a race distance than one each of super-softs and ultras. If you have a rhythm here it feels fantastic. He smelt the burnt rubber as he arrived there a few seconds later. The 2017 Russian Grand Prix (Russian: Гран-при России 2017 года, romanized: Gran-pri Rossii 2017 goda), officially known as the 2017 Formula 1 VTB Russian Grand Prix, was a Formula One motor race that took place on 30 April 2017 as the fourth round of the 2017 FIA Formula One World Championship. Then, depending how the gaps were looking, try to either under or overcut him. How had it turned? To access your subscription or free account. Last year Mercedes may not have risked trying to match the forecasted ambient temperature so closely when choosing the cooling levels they’d be committed to from Saturday onwards. At this point Mercedes was looking seriously at using Hamilton as a foil to help Bottas. Ferrari, by the same token, reckoned they’d keep Vettel out as long as possible, try to get Bottas to wear his old ultras out before them. At this stage Ferrari remained confident it had the pace in hand to get that gap back later. This was going to be a great test for Bottas, the biggest pressure imaginable for a driver yet to win a race. “I had lost the tyre temperatures after I’d flat-spotted,” explained Bottas. Valtteri Botts won his first F1 race ever at Sochi today. It meant the hard compounds and stiffer 2017 constructions of even the softest tyres in Pirelli’s range required a very intricate preparation – one that brought Mercedes a conundrum to which there was no answer. 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The hard points of this fascinating Merc vs Ferrari race – which more than ever was defined as a straight one-stop by the smooth surface and tougher 2017 tyres – were built around track position and cooling levels. “I can’t explain it right now,” said Hamilton afterwards. The team was going backwards and forwards between Brembo and Carbone Industrie brakes and eventually reverted back to the former, this rather dominating their weekend and leaving them struggling with the balance of the car. Compared to the Williams I think we have more rear downforce and we may be better on the tyres but they have the straight-line speed.”, Max Verstappen was a couple of tenths slower and lined up seventh in the sister car. “I felt like I had a tent dragging behind me,” explained Vettel of the phenomenon of how the car behind can suck the air towards the car in front, hobbling it, and benefitting from the hole in the air the lead car is punching. F1 Report: 2017 Russian GP Review. So now Bottas was out of Vettel’s range, there came the Mexican stand-off between the two teams of when to pit. Third place finisher Kimi Raikkonen completed the podium to score a 2 podium finish for Ferrari. Verstappen was told to wind his brakes as far forward as he could, as a precaution. It was an approach that was forever just out of reach of the Mercedes. Check here for latest versions. +1 718-682-7493. But this year both Mercedes and Ferrari ran as close as they dared to the forecast – which was that it would be 3-deg C cooler than on Saturday. What had been a 4.6sec gap evaporated down to DRS range. They weren’t expecting to have been able to pull away like this. The high track temperatures and the extra front camber Ferrari was using was ripping up the outside of Vettel’s left-front. Might he have tried with DRS down the back straight but for that? Next time they did an out-lap plus a prep lap before going for a time. For whatever reason it just didn’t work on my car.”. Just what had happened? Marc Priestley is joined by former F1 drivers David Brabham and Perry McCarthy to review the Russian … Just before it risked undercutting Räikkönen ahead, Ferrari brought Vettel in. Sign-up now for access to a limited number of articles. Check out more items on this website about: Your email address will not be published. Sport Motor Racing Formula 1. I had the outside line [up to Turn 2] but nowhere to go and that’s part of why we lost the race.”.

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