Hamilton wins Canadian GP, beats Vettel

The Mercedes driver beat Vettel by over three tenths of a second, teammate Bottas finished third.

Published On: 12/06/17
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This Hamilton’s sixth pole position in Montreal after finishing in first place in qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix. With a lap time of 1m11.459s, Hamilton beat Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel by over three tenths of a second. This is his fourth pole of the 2017 season and the 65th overall.

His Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas finished in third, but was over seven tenths slower than Hamilton. Kimi Raikkonen finished in second in the Ferrari. The two Red Bulls, with Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo piloting them, will share the third row in the grid on race day.

Felipe Massa qualified in seventh place in his Williams, and finished ahead of both the Force Indias, with Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon piloting them. Nico Hulkenberg ended up in tenth place.

POS	DRIVER	CAR	TIME	GAP
1	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1m11.459s	-
2	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1m11.789s	0.330s
3	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1m12.177s	0.718s
4	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1m12.252s	0.793s
5	Max Verstappen	Red Bull/Renault	1m12.403s	0.944s
6	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull/Renault	1m12.557s	1.098s
7	Felipe Massa	Williams/Mercedes	1m12.858s	1.399s
8	Sergio Perez	Force India/Mercedes	1m13.018s	1.559s
9	Esteban Ocon	Force India/Mercedes	1m13.135s	1.676s
10	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	1m13.271s	1.812s
11	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m13.690s	-
12	Fernando Alonso	McLaren/Honda	1m13.693s	-
13	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m13.756s	-
14	Romain Grosjean	Haas/Ferrari	1m13.839s	-
15	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	1m14.293s	-
16	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren/Honda	1m14.182s	-
17	Lance Stroll	Williams/Mercedes	1m14.209s	-
18	Kevin Magnussen	Haas/Ferrari	1m14.318s	-
19	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber/Ferrari	1m14.495s	-
20	Pascal Wehrlein	Sauber/Ferrari	1m14.810s	-