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Race details[1]
Date
30 April 2017
Official name
2017 Formula 1 VTB Russian Grand Prix[2][3]
Location
Sochi Autodrom, Adlersky City District, Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia
Course
Permanent racing facility
Course length
5.848 km (3.634 miles)
Distance
52 laps, 303.897 km (188.833 miles)
Scheduled distance
53 laps, 309.745 km (192.467 miles)
Weather
Sunny
Attendance
150,000[4]
Pole position
Driver
Sebastian Vettel
Ferrari
Time
1:33.194
Fastest lap
Driver
Kimi Räikkönen
Ferrari
Time
1:36.844 on lap 49
Podium
First
Valtteri Bottas
Mercedes
Second
Sebastian Vettel
Ferrari
Third
Kimi Räikkönen
Ferrari
Lap leaders
Motor car race
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,[1] 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.[5] 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. Sebastian Vettel started the race from pole, with his teammate Kimi Räikkönen in second in Ferrari's first front-row lockout since the 2008 French Grand Prix. Valtteri Bottas won the race, taking his first win in Formula 1 by 0.617 seconds over Vettel, the smallest winning margin since the 2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Going into the race, Vettel led Lewis Hamilton in the World Drivers' Championship by seven points, with Bottas third; they remained in the same order after the race. In the World Constructors' Championship, Ferrari was in the lead ahead of Mercedes before the race, with Red Bull Racing third; Mercedes was ahead of Ferrari after the race.
^ ab"2017 Formula 1 VTB Russian Grand Prix". Formula One Administration. Archived from the original on 16 April 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
^Mitchell, Malcolm. "2017 Formula 1 World Championship Programmes - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
^Mitchell, Malcolm. "Sochi Autodrom - The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project". Progcovers.com. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
^"F1 reveals overall rise in 2017 attendance". Gpupdate.net. 8 December 2017. Archived from the original on 9 December 2017.
^"FIA Announces World Motorsports Council decisions". Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 30 November 2016. Archived from the original on 30 November 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
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