| Type: | F1 |
| Country: | USA |
| Grand Prix: | United States |
| Details Ref: | [1] |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Race No: | 17 |
| Season No: | 20 |
| Image-Size: | 250px |
| Official Name: | 2017 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix[2] [3] |
| Location: | Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas, United States |
| Weather: | Sunny with temperatures reaching up to 82.9F; wind speeds approaching speeds of 13.8mph[4] |
| Course: | Permanent racing facility |
| Course Km: | 5.513 |
| Course Mi: | 3.426 |
| Distance Laps: | 56 |
| Distance Km: | 308.405 |
| Distance Mi: | 191.634 |
| Pole Driver: | Lewis Hamilton |
| Pole Country: | GBR |
| Pole Team: | Mercedes |
| Pole Time: | 1:33.108 |
| Fast Driver: | Sebastian Vettel |
| Fast Team: | Ferrari |
| Fast Time: | 1:37.766 |
| Fast Lap: | 51 |
| Fast Country: | DEU |
| First Driver: | Lewis Hamilton |
| First Country: | GBR |
| First Team: | Mercedes |
| Second Driver: | Sebastian Vettel |
| Second Country: | GER |
| Second Team: | Ferrari |
| Third Driver: | Kimi Räikkönen |
| Third Country: | FIN |
| Third Team: | Ferrari |
| Attendance: | 258,000[5] |
| Previous Round: | 2017 Japanese Grand Prix |
| Next Round: | 2017 Mexican Grand Prix |
The 2017 United States Grand Prix (formally known as the 2017 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on October 22, 2017, at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, United States as the seventeenth round of the 2017 FIA Formula One World Championship.[6] The race marked the forty-seventh running of the United States Grand Prix, the thirty-ninth time that the race was run as a World Championship event since the inaugural season in, and the sixth time that a World Championship round was held at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton entered the round with a 59-point lead over Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel in the World Drivers' Championship. Hamilton's teammate Valtteri Bottas was third, a further 13 points behind. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes held a lead of 155 points over Ferrari, with Red Bull Racing a further 92 points behind in third place.
Mercedes clinched its fourth successive World Constructors' Championship after Hamilton won and Bottas finished 5th.
Carlos Sainz Jr. moved from Toro Rosso to Renault and replaced Jolyon Palmer.[7] Daniil Kvyat returned to Toro Rosso after having missed the Malaysian and Japanese Grands Prix, taking over Sainz's car.[8] Pierre Gasly missed the round to compete in the final weekend of the 2017 Super Formula Championship and was replaced at Toro Rosso by the 2015 World Endurance Champion Brendon Hartley, who made his Formula One début;[9] this was the first time a New Zealander participated in a Formula One race in 33 years.
Tyre supplier Pirelli provided teams with the ultra-soft, super-soft and soft compounds of tyre. The purple branding on the ultra-soft compound was replaced by pink for the race to raise awareness of breast cancer. Several teams also incorporated pink into their liveries to support the cause (except Force India, whose cars were pink to begin with).
| Driver | Constructor | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | |||||
| 1 | 44 |  Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:34.822 | 1:33.437 | 1:33.108 | 1 |
| 2 | 5 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 1:35.420 | 1:34.103 | 1:33.347 | 2 |
| 3 | 77 |  Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 1:35.309 | 1:33.769 | 1:33.568 | 3 |
| 4 | 3 |  Daniel Ricciardo | 1:35.991 | 1:34.495 | 1:33.577 | 4 | |
| 5 | 7 | Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 1:35.649 | 1:33.840 | 1:33.577 | 5 |
| 6 | 33 | Max Verstappen | 1:34.899 | 1:34.716 | 1:33.658 | 16 | |
| 7 | 31 |  Esteban Ocon | Force India-Mercedes | 1:35.849 | 1:35.113 | 1:34.647 | 6 |
| 8 | 55 |  Carlos Sainz Jr. | Renault | 1:35.517 | 1:34.899 | 1:34.852 | 7 |
| 9 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | McLaren-Honda | 1:35.712 | 1:35.046 | 1:35.007 | 8 |
| 10 | 11 |  Sergio Pérez | Force India-Mercedes | 1:36.358 | 1:34.789 | 1:35.148 | 9 |
| 11 | 19 |  Felipe Massa | Williams-Mercedes | 1:35.603 | 1:35.155 | 10 | |
| 12 | 26 |  Daniil Kvyat | Toro Rosso | 1:36.073 | 1:35.529 | 11 | |
| 13 | 2 | McLaren-Honda | 1:36.286 | 1:35.641 | 20 | ||
| 14 | 8 | Romain Grosjean | Haas-Ferrari | 1:36.835 | 1:35.870 | 12 | |
| 15 | 27 | Nico Hülkenberg | Renault | 1:35.740 | No time | 18 | |
| 16 | 9 |  Marcus Ericsson | Sauber-Ferrari | 1:36.842 | 13 | ||
| 17 | 18 |  Lance Stroll | Williams-Mercedes | 1:36.868 | 15 | ||
| 18 | 39 |  Brendon Hartley | Toro Rosso | 1:36.889 | 19 | ||
| 19 | 94 | Pascal Wehrlein | Sauber-Ferrari | 1:37.179 | 14 | ||
| 20 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas-Ferrari | 1:37.394 | 17 | ||
| 107% time 1:41.459 | |||||||
| Source:[10] | |||||||
Lewis Hamilton won after passing title rival Sebastian Vettel early on in the race with the German driver coming home second, Hamilton extended his Championship lead in the process to 66 points. Kimi Räikkönen was third, Max Verstappen did overtake Räikkönen on the final lap, although Verstappen was found to have cut the corner, resulting in a time penalty.[13]
| Driver | Constructor | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 56 | 1:33:50.991 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 5 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 56 | +10.143 | 2 | 18 |
| 3 | 7 | Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 56 | +15.779 | 5 | 15 |
| 4 | 33 | Max Verstappen | 56 | +16.768 | 16 | 12 | |
| 5 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 56 | +34.967 | 3 | 10 |
| 6 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | Force India-Mercedes | 56 | +1:30.980 | 6 | 8 |
| 7 | 55 | Carlos Sainz Jr. | Renault | 56 | +1:32.944 | 7 | 6 |
| 8 | 11 | Sergio Pérez | Force India-Mercedes | 55 | +1 Lap | 9 | 4 |
| 9 | 19 | Felipe Massa | Williams-Mercedes | 55 | +1 Lap | 10 | 2 |
| 10 | 26 | Daniil Kvyat | Toro Rosso | 55 | +1 Lap | 11 | 1 |
| 11 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Williams-Mercedes | 55 | +1 Lap | 15 | |
| 12 | 2 | McLaren-Honda | 55 | +1 Lap | 20 | ||
| 13 | 39 | Brendon Hartley | Toro Rosso | 55 | +1 Lap | 19 | |
| 14 | 8 | Romain Grosjean | Haas-Ferrari | 55 | +1 Lap | 12 | |
| 15 | 9 | Marcus Ericsson | Sauber-Ferrari | 55 | +1 Lap | 13 | |
| 16 | 20 | Haas-Ferrari | 55 | +1 Lap | 17 | ||
| Ret | 14 | Fernando Alonso | McLaren-Honda | 24 | Engine | 8 | |
| Ret | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | 14 | Engine | 4 | ||
| Ret | 94 | Pascal Wehrlein | Sauber-Ferrari | 5 | 14 | ||
| Ret | 27 | Nico Hülkenberg | Renault | 3 | Engine | 18 | |
| Source:[14] | |||||||
| Driver | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lewis Hamilton* | 331 | ||
| 2 | Sebastian Vettel* | 265 | ||
| 3 | Valtteri Bottas | 244 | ||
| 4 | Daniel Ricciardo | 192 | ||
| 5 | Kimi Räikkönen | 163 | ||
| Source:[15] | ||||
| Constructor | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mercedes* | 575 | ||
| 2 |  Ferrari | 428 | ||
| 3 |  | 315 | ||
| 4 |  Force India-Mercedes | 159 | ||
| 5 | Williams-Mercedes | 68 | ||
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