Race · Round 17 of 17 · 26 October 1997

1997 European Grand Prix

Mika Hakkinen won for McLaren from 5th on the grid at Circuito de Jerez. 5 of the starters were not classified. It was the first championship race win for Mika Hakkinen. This round settled the drivers' title for Jacques Villeneuve. Michael Schumacher had led the championship going into it.

Circuit: Circuito de JerezJerez de la Frontera, Spain
Winner: Mika HakkinenMcLaren
Pole: Jacques Villeneuve
Fastest lap: Heinz-Harald Frentzen
Entries: 2217 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	MP4/12	5	69	Finished	10
2	David Coulthard	McLaren	MP4/12	6	69	Finished	6
3	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	FW19	1	69	Finished	4
4	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	B197	8	69	Finished	3
5	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	F310B	7	69	Finished	2
6	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	FW19	3	69	Finished	1	fastest lap
7	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	JS45	9	69	Finished	0
8	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	C16	14	69	Finished	0
9	Jan Magnussen	Stewart Grand Prix	SF01	11	69	Finished	0
10	Shinji Nakano	Prost Grand Prix	JS45	15	69	Finished	0
11	Giancarlo Fisichella	Jordan	197	17	68	Finished	0
12	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	21	21	68	Finished	0
13	Jean Alesi	Benetton	B197	10	68	Finished	0
14	Norberto Fontana	Sauber	C16	18	68	Finished	0
15	Tarso Marques	Minardi	M197	20	68	Finished	0
16	Jos Verstappen	Tyrrell	21	22	68	Finished	0
17	Ukyo Katayama	Minardi	M197	19	68	Finished	0
DNF	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	F310B	2	47	Collision	0
DNF	Damon Hill	Arrows	A18	4	47	Gearbox	0
DNF	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	197	16	44	Water leak	0
DNF	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	SF01	12	30	Gearbox	0
DNF	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	A18	13	11	Spun off	0

F1DB layout jerez-2 · 4.428 km · 15 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Mika Hakkinen	5	1	69
David Coulthard	6	2	69
Jacques Villeneuve	1	3	69
Gerhard Berger	8	4	69
Eddie Irvine	7	5	69
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	3	6	69
Olivier Panis	9	7	69
Johnny Herbert	14	8	69
Jan Magnussen	11	9	69
Shinji Nakano	15	10	69
Giancarlo Fisichella	17	11	68
Mika Salo	21	12	68
Jean Alesi	10	13	68
Norberto Fontana	18	14	68
Tarso Marques	20	15	68
Jos Verstappen	22	16	68
Ukyo Katayama	19	17	68
Michael Schumacher	2	DNF	47
Damon Hill	4	DNF	47
Ralf Schumacher	16	DNF	44
Rubens Barrichello	12	DNF	30
Pedro Diniz	13	DNF	11

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	3	1:21.072	—	—
2	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	5	1:21.072	+0.000	+0.000
3	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	4	1:21.072	+0.000	+0.000
4	Damon Hill	Arrows	1	1:21.130	+0.058	+0.058
5	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	9	1:21.369	+0.297	+0.239
6	David Coulthard	McLaren	10	1:21.476	+0.404	+0.107
7	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	6	1:21.610	+0.538	+0.134
8	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	8	1:21.656	+0.584	+0.046
9	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	14	1:21.735	+0.663	+0.079
10	Jean Alesi	Benetton	7	1:22.011	+0.939	+0.276
11	Jan Magnussen	Stewart Grand Prix	23	1:22.167	+1.095	+0.156
12	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	22	1:22.222	+1.150	+0.055
13	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	2	1:22.234	+1.162	+0.012
14	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	16	1:22.263	+1.191	+0.029
15	Shinji Nakano	Prost Grand Prix	15	1:22.351	+1.279	+0.088
16	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	11	1:22.740	+1.668	+0.389
17	Giancarlo Fisichella	Jordan	12	1:22.804	+1.732	+0.064
18	Norberto Fontana	Sauber	17	1:23.281	+2.209	+0.477
19	Ukyo Katayama	Minardi	20	1:23.409	+2.337	+0.128
20	Tarso Marques	Minardi	21	1:23.854	+2.782	+0.445
21	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	19	1:24.222	+3.150	+0.368
22	Jos Verstappen	Tyrrell	18	1:24.301	+3.229	+0.079

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

Pit stops

Bars run in finishing order, ticked on each lap a driver stopped. An unticked bar may hide a stop: F1DB’s record has gaps. A cross is a driver not classified. Only the lap is recorded: not a stop’s length, tyres or gain.

Pit stops
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap
Mika Hakkinen	1	69	2	26, 44
David Coulthard	2	69	2	25, 45
Jacques Villeneuve	3	69	2	23, 44
Gerhard Berger	4	69	2	29, 47
Eddie Irvine	5	69	2	24, 44
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	6	69	2	28, 48
Olivier Panis	7	69	2	20, 43
Johnny Herbert	8	69	2	27, 46
Jan Magnussen	9	69	2	19, 45
Shinji Nakano	10	69	2	25, 48
Giancarlo Fisichella	11	68	2	24, 47
Mika Salo	12	68	3	15, 34, 51
Jean Alesi	13	68	3	25, 45, 47
Norberto Fontana	14	68	2	24, 42
Tarso Marques	15	68	3	15, 33, 51
Jos Verstappen	16	68	2	22, 43
Ukyo Katayama	17	68	2	25, 46
Michael Schumacher	DNF	47	2	22, 43
Damon Hill	DNF	47	2	22, 45
Ralf Schumacher	DNF	44	2	17, 43
Rubens Barrichello	DNF	30	0	None recorded
Pedro Diniz	DNF	11	0	None recorded

Who stopped first, between neighbours

Who stopped first, between neighbours
Drivers, in grid order	Grid	Result	First recorded stop, lap	Stopped first	Grid to flag
Mika Hakkinen · David Coulthard	5 · 6	1 · 2	26 · 25	David Coulthard	Kept their order
Jacques Villeneuve · David Coulthard	1 · 6	3 · 2	23 · 25	Jacques Villeneuve	Swapped places
David Coulthard · Eddie Irvine	6 · 7	2 · 5	25 · 24	Eddie Irvine	Kept their order
Jacques Villeneuve · Gerhard Berger	1 · 8	3 · 4	23 · 29	Jacques Villeneuve	Kept their order
Eddie Irvine · Gerhard Berger	7 · 8	5 · 4	24 · 29	Eddie Irvine	Swapped places
Gerhard Berger · Olivier Panis	8 · 9	4 · 7	29 · 20	Olivier Panis	Kept their order
Heinz-Harald Frentzen · Eddie Irvine	3 · 7	6 · 5	28 · 24	Eddie Irvine	Swapped places
Heinz-Harald Frentzen · Olivier Panis	3 · 9	6 · 7	28 · 20	Olivier Panis	Kept their order
Olivier Panis · Johnny Herbert	9 · 14	7 · 8	20 · 27	Olivier Panis	Kept their order
Olivier Panis · Jean Alesi	9 · 10	7 · 13	20 · 25	Olivier Panis	Kept their order
Jan Magnussen · Johnny Herbert	11 · 14	9 · 8	19 · 27	Jan Magnussen	Swapped places
Johnny Herbert · Shinji Nakano	14 · 15	8 · 10	27 · 25	Shinji Nakano	Kept their order
Jean Alesi · Jan Magnussen	10 · 11	13 · 9	25 · 19	Jan Magnussen	Swapped places
Jan Magnussen · Shinji Nakano	11 · 15	9 · 10	19 · 25	Jan Magnussen	Kept their order
Shinji Nakano · Giancarlo Fisichella	15 · 17	10 · 11	25 · 24	Giancarlo Fisichella	Kept their order
Giancarlo Fisichella · Mika Salo	17 · 21	11 · 12	24 · 15	Mika Salo	Kept their order
Giancarlo Fisichella · Norberto Fontana	17 · 18	11 · 14	24 · 24	Same lap	Kept their order
Jean Alesi · Mika Salo	10 · 21	13 · 12	25 · 15	Mika Salo	Swapped places
Tarso Marques · Mika Salo	20 · 21	15 · 12	15 · 15	Same lap	Swapped places
Mika Salo · Jos Verstappen	21 · 22	12 · 16	15 · 22	Mika Salo	Kept their order
Jean Alesi · Norberto Fontana	10 · 18	13 · 14	25 · 24	Norberto Fontana	Kept their order
Norberto Fontana · Tarso Marques	18 · 20	14 · 15	24 · 15	Tarso Marques	Kept their order
Norberto Fontana · Ukyo Katayama	18 · 19	14 · 17	24 · 25	Norberto Fontana	Kept their order
Ukyo Katayama · Tarso Marques	19 · 20	17 · 15	25 · 15	Tarso Marques	Swapped places
Tarso Marques · Jos Verstappen	20 · 22	15 · 16	15 · 22	Tarso Marques	Kept their order
Ukyo Katayama · Jos Verstappen	19 · 22	17 · 16	25 · 22	Jos Verstappen	Swapped places

Pairs of classified drivers who started or finished next to each other, each with a stop recorded; the two names in a row are in grid order. Both are read from the stops F1DB records, which has gaps. It is the order things happened in and no more: with no stop duration and no lap times, the record cannot say whether stopping first won or lost a place.

Practice sessions Practice 1 · Practice 2 · Warm-up

Practice 1

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	Interval	Laps
1	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	14	1:22.735	—	—	28
2	Damon Hill	Arrows	1	1:22.898	+0.163	+0.163	29
3	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	3	1:22.922	+0.187	+0.024	29
4	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	22	1:22.964	+0.229	+0.042	26
5	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	9	1:23.024	+0.289	+0.060	20
6	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	4	1:23.124	+0.389	+0.100	30
7	Jean Alesi	Benetton	7	1:23.174	+0.439	+0.050	21
8	David Coulthard	McLaren	10	1:23.440	+0.705	+0.266	15
9	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	5	1:23.532	+0.797	+0.092	24
10	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	11	1:23.678	+0.943	+0.146	22
11	Jan Magnussen	Stewart Grand Prix	23	1:23.685	+0.950	+0.007	20
12	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	6	1:23.695	+0.960	+0.010	25
13	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	8	1:23.923	+1.188	+0.228	22
14	Giancarlo Fisichella	Jordan	12	1:24.263	+1.528	+0.340	25
15	Ukyo Katayama	Minardi	20	1:24.329	+1.594	+0.066	23
16	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	16	1:24.507	+1.772	+0.178	29
17	Shinji Nakano	Prost Grand Prix	15	1:24.735	+2.000	+0.228	28
18	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	2	1:24.797	+2.062	+0.062	28
19	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	19	1:25.025	+2.290	+0.228	25
20	Norberto Fontana	Sauber	17	1:25.134	+2.399	+0.109	28
21	Jos Verstappen	Tyrrell	18	1:25.327	+2.592	+0.193	20
22	Tarso Marques	Minardi	21	1:26.816	+4.081	+1.489	9

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	Interval	Laps
1	David Coulthard	McLaren	10	1:20.738	—	—	22
2	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	9	1:20.856	+0.118	+0.118	20
3	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	4	1:21.263	+0.525	+0.407	26
4	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	14	1:21.364	+0.626	+0.101	26
5	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	8	1:21.525	+0.787	+0.161	21
6	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	3	1:21.593	+0.855	+0.068	23
7	Jan Magnussen	Stewart Grand Prix	23	1:21.605	+0.867	+0.012	24
8	Shinji Nakano	Prost Grand Prix	15	1:21.671	+0.933	+0.066	28
9	Damon Hill	Arrows	1	1:21.780	+1.042	+0.109	30
10	Jean Alesi	Benetton	7	1:21.814	+1.076	+0.034	10
11	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	11	1:21.881	+1.143	+0.067	28
12	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	16	1:22.065	+1.327	+0.184	28
13	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	22	1:22.117	+1.379	+0.052	21
14	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	5	1:22.120	+1.382	+0.003	29
15	Norberto Fontana	Sauber	17	1:22.404	+1.666	+0.284	30
16	Giancarlo Fisichella	Jordan	12	1:22.438	+1.700	+0.034	30
17	Ukyo Katayama	Minardi	20	1:22.512	+1.774	+0.074	19
18	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	2	1:22.750	+2.012	+0.238	27
19	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	6	1:22.820	+2.082	+0.070	29
20	Tarso Marques	Minardi	21	1:23.369	+2.631	+0.549	28
21	Jos Verstappen	Tyrrell	18	1:23.742	+3.004	+0.373	27
22	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	19	1:24.429	+3.691	+0.687	27

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

Warm-up

Warm-up
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	Interval	Laps
1	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	9	1:23.016	—	—	14
2	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	8	1:23.160	+0.144	+0.144	13
3	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	14	1:23.166	+0.150	+0.006	18
4	David Coulthard	McLaren	10	1:23.359	+0.343	+0.193	12
5	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	3	1:23.849	+0.833	+0.490	13
6	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	16	1:24.012	+0.996	+0.163	14
7	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	5	1:24.063	+1.047	+0.051	16
8	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	4	1:24.089	+1.073	+0.026	15
9	Shinji Nakano	Prost Grand Prix	15	1:24.125	+1.109	+0.036	15
10	Damon Hill	Arrows	1	1:24.231	+1.215	+0.106	11
11	Jan Magnussen	Stewart Grand Prix	23	1:24.309	+1.293	+0.078	12
12	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	11	1:24.386	+1.370	+0.077	17
13	Jean Alesi	Benetton	7	1:24.540	+1.524	+0.154	10
14	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	6	1:24.560	+1.544	+0.020	15
15	Norberto Fontana	Sauber	17	1:24.795	+1.779	+0.235	7
16	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	2	1:25.103	+2.087	+0.308	12
17	Ukyo Katayama	Minardi	20	1:25.159	+2.143	+0.056	15
18	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	22	1:25.275	+2.259	+0.116	13
19	Giancarlo Fisichella	Jordan	12	1:25.377	+2.361	+0.102	16
20	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	19	1:25.419	+2.403	+0.042	15
21	Tarso Marques	Minardi	21	1:25.707	+2.691	+0.288	12
22	Jos Verstappen	Tyrrell	18	1:26.307	+3.291	+0.600	12

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

5 more photographs

Minardi M197
Minardi M197 · Andrea borsari · CC BY-SA 4.0

Where this comes from

Round: 17 of 1997
Grand Prix: European Grand Prix
Dates: 26 Oct 1997
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: McLaren
Entrant: McLaren-Mercedes
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.