1997 Luxembourg Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 15 of 17 in the 1997 Formula One season | |||
The Nürburgring in its 1997 configuration
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| Date | 28 September 1997 | ||
| Official name | V Großer Preis von Luxemburg | ||
| Location | Nürburgring, Nürburg, Germany | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 4.556 km (2.831 mi) | ||
| Distance | 67 laps, 305.252 km (189.675 mi) | ||
| Weather | Dry | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | McLaren-Mercedes | ||
| Time | 1:16.602 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Heinz-Harald Frentzen
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Williams-Renault | |
| Time | 1:18.805 on lap 32 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Williams-Renault | ||
| Second | Benetton-Renault | ||
| Third | Williams-Renault | ||
The 1997 Luxembourg Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Nürburgring, Nürburg, Germany on 28 September 1997. The 67-lap race was the fifteenth round of the 1997 Formula One season and was won by Canadian Jacques Villeneuve driving a Williams-Renault. Though Villeneuve won that year's Drivers' Championship, this turned out to be his final Formula One victory.
Qualifying saw Mika Häkkinen take pole position in the McLaren-Mercedes - the first-ever for the Finnish driver, the first for McLaren since the 1993 Australian Grand Prix, and the first for Mercedes (as an engine supplier or constructor) since the 1955 Italian Grand Prix. Villeneuve was alongside on the front row, while his Williams team-mate Heinz-Harald Frentzen shared the second row with Giancarlo Fisichella in the Jordan. Michael Schumacher, leading Villeneuve in the Drivers' Championship by one point, was fifth in his Ferrari, sharing the third row with David Coulthard in the second McLaren. The top ten was completed by Gerhard Berger in the Benetton, Ralf Schumacher in the second Jordan, Rubens Barrichello in the Stewart, and Jean Alesi in the second Benetton.
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