2017 Japanese Grand Prix

2017 Japanese Grand Prix
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Layout of the Suzuka International Racing Course
Race details[1]
Date	8 October 2017 (2017-10-08)
Official name	2017 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix[2][3]
Location	Suzuka International Racing Course, Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, Japan
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	5.807 km (3.608 miles)
Distance	53 laps, 307.471 km (191.054 miles)
Weather	Sunny
Attendance	137,000[4]
Pole position
Driver	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Time	1:27.319
Fastest lap
Driver	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes
Time	1:33.144 on lap 50
Podium
First	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Second	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer
Third	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer
Lap leaders

The 2017 Japanese Grand Prix (formally known as the 2017 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix)^[1] was a Formula One motor race held on 8 October 2017 at the Suzuka International Racing Course in Suzuka in the Mie Prefecture, Japan. The race was the sixteenth round of the 2017 FIA Formula One World Championship and marked the forty-third running of the Japanese Grand Prix.^[5] The 2017 event was the thirty-third time that the race has been run as a World Championship event since the inaugural season in 1950, and the twenty-ninth time that a World Championship round had been held at Suzuka. This would also prove to be the last Grand Prix for Jolyon Palmer, as he was replaced by Carlos Sainz Jr. for the rest of the 2017 season. Sainz contested his last race for Toro Rosso before replacing Palmer at Renault.

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton entered the round with a thirty-four-point lead over Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel in the World Drivers' Championship. Hamilton's teammate Valtteri Bottas sat third, a further twenty-five points behind. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes held a lead of one hundred and eighteen points over Ferrari, with Red Bull Racing a further one hundred and fifteen points behind in third place.