Jacques Villeneuve has won the British Grand ...

Published on 13 July 1997 by Verstappen Info Page

Jacques Villeneuve has won the British Grand Prix, Jean Alesi was second and Alexander Wurz was surprisingly second. The rest of the points were divided among David Coulthard, Ralf Schumacher and Damon Hill who became sixth in the last minutes due to the extra pitstop of Fisichella and the retirement of Nakano. Michael Schumacher was leading the race for a long time but retired with a smoking left rear wheel. Mika Hakkinen who then was leading retired with a blown-up engine.

Jos sadly had to retire with a blown-up engine while driving on 14th position, Salo retired one lap earlier with exactly the same problem. The other two Ford engines didn't last a complete race distance too. Michael Schumacher is still in the lead in the World Championship Title but Jacques Villeneuve is now only 4 points behind.

A complete race report with pictures including a complete overview of times and rankings can be found at our season page. We have also announced the winners of our prize contest. The first prize is won by Hanneke van Paradijs with 35 points. Second is Marcel Silvius, third Stephan Steegs, fourth Martijn Berghuis and fifth was Michel Sanders with 26 points. All results can be found on our contest page.