Formula 1 2017 13 2017-09-03 2017-09-03 https://r2.thesportsdb.com/images/media/event/thumb/0wh2np1577557144.jpg https://r2.thesportsdb.com/images/media/event/poster/5pzhli1504458215.jpg The 2017 Italian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d'Italia 2017) was a Formula One motor race held on 3 September 2017 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Monza, Italy. It was the thirteenth round of the 2017 Formula One season, and marked the eighty-seventh running of the Italian Grand Prix and the eighty-third time the race is held at Monza. Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel entered the round with a seven-point lead over Lewis Hamilton in the World Drivers' Championship, with Valtteri Bottas forty-one points behind in third. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes led Ferrari by thirty-nine points with Red Bull Racing in third. Hamilton started the race from pole position, the sixty-ninth of his career. With this pole position, he broke Michael Schumacher's record for the most pole positions in a career. The race concluded with Hamilton leading the championship by 3 points ahead of Vettel. 522338