Formula 1 2017 9 2017-07-09 2017-07-09 https://r2.thesportsdb.com/images/media/event/thumb/a0ksb31577554323.jpg https://r2.thesportsdb.com/images/media/event/poster/c28wkm1504457695.jpg The 2017 Austrian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Großer Preis von Österreich 2017) was a Formula One motor race that took place on 9 July 2017 at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria. The race, which was contested over seventy-one laps, was the ninth round of the 2017 season, and marked the thirty-first running of the Austrian Grand Prix as a round of the Formula One World Championship since the series inception in 1950. Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel entered the round as the championship leader, with a fourteen-point advantage over Lewis Hamilton, and extended it to 20 points. Mercedes led Ferrari by twenty-four points in the Constructors' standings at the start of the round, and extended it to 33 points. 522334