Race · Round 2 of 17 · 30 March 1997

1997 Brazilian Grand Prix

Jacques Villeneuve won for Williams from pole at Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace (Interlagos). 3 of the starters were not classified.

Dry, with cloud · High of 22 °C, 0.1 mm of rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace (Interlagos)Sao Paulo, Brazil
Winner: Jacques VilleneuveWilliams
Pole: Jacques Villeneuve
Fastest lap: Jacques Villeneuve
Entries: 2218 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	FW19	1	72	Finished	10	fastest lap
2	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	B197	3	72	Finished	6
3	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	JS45	5	72	Finished	4
4	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	MP4/12	4	72	Finished	3
5	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	F310B	2	72	Finished	2
6	Jean Alesi	Benetton	B197	6	72	Finished	1
7	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	C16	13	72	Finished	0
8	Giancarlo Fisichella	Jordan	197	7	72	Finished	0
9	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	FW19	8	72	Finished	0
10	David Coulthard	McLaren	MP4/12	12	71	Finished	0
11	Nicola Larini	Sauber	C16	19	71	Finished	0
12	Jarno Trulli	Minardi	M197	17	71	Finished	0
13	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	21	22	71	Finished	0
14	Shinji Nakano	Prost Grand Prix	JS45	15	71	Finished	0
15	Jos Verstappen	Tyrrell	21	21	70	Finished	0
16	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	F310B	14	70	Finished	0
17	Damon Hill	Arrows	A18	9	68	Engine	0
18	Ukyo Katayama	Minardi	M197	18	67	Finished	0
DNF	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	197	10	52	Electrical	0
DNF	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	SF01	11	16	Suspension	0
DNF	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	A18	16	15	Suspension	0
DNS	Jan Magnussen	Stewart Grand Prix	SF01	20	—	Collision	0

F1DB layout interlagos-2 · 4.309 km · 15 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Jacques Villeneuve	1	1	72
Gerhard Berger	3	2	72
Olivier Panis	5	3	72
Mika Hakkinen	4	4	72
Michael Schumacher	2	5	72
Jean Alesi	6	6	72
Johnny Herbert	13	7	72
Giancarlo Fisichella	7	8	72
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	8	9	72
David Coulthard	12	10	71
Nicola Larini	19	11	71
Jarno Trulli	17	12	71
Mika Salo	22	13	71
Shinji Nakano	15	14	71
Jos Verstappen	21	15	70
Eddie Irvine	14	16	70
Damon Hill	9	17	68
Ukyo Katayama	18	18	67
Ralf Schumacher	10	DNF	52
Rubens Barrichello	11	DNF	16
Pedro Diniz	16	DNF	15

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Time	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	3	1:16.004	—	0 m	—
2	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	5	1:16.594	+0.590	33 m	+0.590
3	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	8	1:16.644	+0.640	36 m	+0.050
4	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	9	1:16.692	+0.688	39 m	+0.048
5	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	14	1:16.756	+0.752	42 m	+0.064
6	Jean Alesi	Benetton	7	1:16.757	+0.753	43 m	+0.001
7	Giancarlo Fisichella	Jordan	12	1:16.912	+0.908	51 m	+0.155
8	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	4	1:16.924	+0.920	52 m	+0.012
9	Damon Hill	Arrows	1	1:17.090	+1.086	61 m	+0.166
10	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	11	1:17.175	+1.171	66 m	+0.085
11	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	22	1:17.259	+1.255	71 m	+0.084
12	David Coulthard	McLaren	10	1:17.262	+1.258	71 m	+0.003
13	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	16	1:17.409	+1.405	79 m	+0.147
14	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	6	1:17.527	+1.523	86 m	+0.118
15	Shinji Nakano	Prost Grand Prix	15	1:17.999	+1.995	113 m	+0.472
16	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	2	1:18.095	+2.091	118 m	+0.096
17	Jarno Trulli	Minardi	21	1:18.336	+2.332	132 m	+0.241
18	Ukyo Katayama	Minardi	20	1:18.557	+2.553	144 m	+0.221
19	Nicola Larini	Sauber	17	1:18.644	+2.640	149 m	+0.087
20	Jan Magnussen	Stewart Grand Prix	23	1:18.773	+2.769	156 m	+0.129
21	Jos Verstappen	Tyrrell	18	1:18.885	+2.881	163 m	+0.112
22	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	19	1:19.274	+3.270	185 m	+0.389

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Pit stops

Bars run in finishing order, ticked at each stop. An unticked bar may hide a stop: F1DB’s record has gaps. A cross is a driver not classified. Ticks and strip mark the lap, not cause, tyres or gain; the table gives times.

Pit stops
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap	Pit-lane time (s)
Jacques Villeneuve	1	72	2	26, 45	30.3, 30.5
Gerhard Berger	2	72	2	22, 48	31.0, 31.5
Olivier Panis	3	72	1	35	32.7
Mika Hakkinen	4	72	2	24, 39	28.3, 30.6
Michael Schumacher	5	72	2	26, 45	28.8, 30.0
Jean Alesi	6	72	2	23, 46	30.1, 31.2
Johnny Herbert	7	72	2	17, 41	28.7, 31.6
Giancarlo Fisichella	8	72	2	25, 44	32.4, 31.9
Heinz-Harald Frentzen	9	72	1	28	30.8
David Coulthard	10	71	2	21, 40	28.7, 32.7
Nicola Larini	11	71	2	22, 45	29.8, 33.0
Jarno Trulli	12	71	1	35	33.3
Mika Salo	13	71	2	18, 43	30.2, 29.5
Shinji Nakano	14	71	1	37	59.1
Jos Verstappen	15	70	2	20, 46	31.6, 29.8
Eddie Irvine	16	70	2	24, 35	28.5, 69.7
Damon Hill	17	68	1	38	35.5
Ukyo Katayama	18	67	3	6, 23, 44	117.1, 31.6, 30.9
Ralf Schumacher	DNF	52	2	26, 39	30.6, 46.9
Rubens Barrichello	DNF	16	0	None recorded	—
Pedro Diniz	DNF	15	0	None recorded	—

A pit-lane time is all of a stop’s time in the pit lane, any wait or repair there included.

Who stopped first, between neighbours

Who stopped first, between neighbours
Drivers, in grid order	Grid	Result	First recorded stop, lap	Stopped first	Grid to flag
Jacques Villeneuve · Gerhard Berger	1 · 3	1 · 2	26 · 22	Gerhard Berger	Kept their order
Jacques Villeneuve · Michael Schumacher	1 · 2	1 · 5	26 · 26	Same lap	Kept their order
Michael Schumacher · Gerhard Berger	2 · 3	5 · 2	26 · 22	Gerhard Berger	Swapped places
Gerhard Berger · Olivier Panis	3 · 5	2 · 3	22 · 35	Gerhard Berger	Kept their order
Gerhard Berger · Mika Hakkinen	3 · 4	2 · 4	22 · 24	Gerhard Berger	Kept their order
Mika Hakkinen · Olivier Panis	4 · 5	4 · 3	24 · 35	Mika Hakkinen	Swapped places
Olivier Panis · Jean Alesi	5 · 6	3 · 6	35 · 23	Jean Alesi	Kept their order
Michael Schumacher · Mika Hakkinen	2 · 4	5 · 4	26 · 24	Mika Hakkinen	Swapped places
Michael Schumacher · Jean Alesi	2 · 6	5 · 6	26 · 23	Jean Alesi	Kept their order
Jean Alesi · Johnny Herbert	6 · 13	6 · 7	23 · 17	Johnny Herbert	Kept their order
Jean Alesi · Giancarlo Fisichella	6 · 7	6 · 8	23 · 25	Jean Alesi	Kept their order
Giancarlo Fisichella · Johnny Herbert	7 · 13	8 · 7	25 · 17	Johnny Herbert	Swapped places
David Coulthard · Johnny Herbert	12 · 13	10 · 7	21 · 17	Johnny Herbert	Swapped places
Johnny Herbert · Eddie Irvine	13 · 14	7 · 16	17 · 24	Johnny Herbert	Kept their order
Giancarlo Fisichella · Heinz-Harald Frentzen	7 · 8	8 · 9	25 · 28	Giancarlo Fisichella	Kept their order
Heinz-Harald Frentzen · David Coulthard	8 · 12	9 · 10	28 · 21	David Coulthard	Kept their order
Heinz-Harald Frentzen · Damon Hill	8 · 9	9 · 17	28 · 38	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Kept their order
David Coulthard · Nicola Larini	12 · 19	10 · 11	21 · 22	David Coulthard	Kept their order
Jarno Trulli · Nicola Larini	17 · 19	12 · 11	35 · 22	Nicola Larini	Swapped places
Ukyo Katayama · Nicola Larini	18 · 19	18 · 11	6 · 22	Ukyo Katayama	Swapped places
Jarno Trulli · Mika Salo	17 · 22	12 · 13	35 · 18	Mika Salo	Kept their order
Jarno Trulli · Ukyo Katayama	17 · 18	12 · 18	35 · 6	Ukyo Katayama	Kept their order
Shinji Nakano · Mika Salo	15 · 22	14 · 13	37 · 18	Mika Salo	Swapped places
Jos Verstappen · Mika Salo	21 · 22	15 · 13	20 · 18	Mika Salo	Swapped places
Eddie Irvine · Shinji Nakano	14 · 15	16 · 14	24 · 37	Eddie Irvine	Swapped places
Shinji Nakano · Jos Verstappen	15 · 21	14 · 15	37 · 20	Jos Verstappen	Kept their order
Eddie Irvine · Jos Verstappen	14 · 21	16 · 15	24 · 20	Jos Verstappen	Swapped places
Damon Hill · Eddie Irvine	9 · 14	17 · 16	38 · 24	Eddie Irvine	Swapped places
Damon Hill · Ukyo Katayama	9 · 18	17 · 18	38 · 6	Ukyo Katayama	Kept their order

Pairs of classified drivers who started or finished next to each other, each with a stop recorded; the two names in a row are in grid order. Both are read from the stops F1DB records, which has gaps. It is the order things happened in and no more: with no lap times, the record cannot say whether stopping first won or lost a place.

Practice sessions Practice 1 · Practice 2 · Warm-up

Practice 1

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	4	1:17.506	—	0 m	—	29
2	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	3	1:17.829	+0.323	18 m	+0.323	30
3	Jean Alesi	Benetton	7	1:18.000	+0.494	27 m	+0.171	27
4	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	16	1:18.261	+0.755	42 m	+0.261	30
5	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	8	1:18.437	+0.931	52 m	+0.176	22
6	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	11	1:18.479	+0.973	54 m	+0.042	30
7	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	5	1:18.488	+0.982	54 m	+0.009	30
8	David Coulthard	McLaren	10	1:18.818	+1.312	73 m	+0.330	28
9	Damon Hill	Arrows	1	1:18.978	+1.472	82 m	+0.160	27
10	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	9	1:19.271	+1.765	98 m	+0.293	23
11	Giancarlo Fisichella	Jordan	12	1:19.326	+1.820	101 m	+0.055	30
12	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	14	1:19.408	+1.902	105 m	+0.082	30
13	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	19	1:19.546	+2.040	113 m	+0.138	30
14	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	2	1:19.573	+2.067	114 m	+0.027	27
15	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	22	1:19.613	+2.107	117 m	+0.040	25
16	Ukyo Katayama	Minardi	20	1:19.963	+2.457	136 m	+0.350	25
17	Jos Verstappen	Tyrrell	18	1:20.076	+2.570	142 m	+0.113	29
18	Shinji Nakano	Prost Grand Prix	15	1:20.520	+3.014	167 m	+0.444	30
19	Jarno Trulli	Minardi	21	1:20.521	+3.015	167 m	+0.001	29
20	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	6	1:20.787	+3.281	182 m	+0.266	14
21	Nicola Larini	Sauber	17	1:21.120	+3.614	200 m	+0.333	16
22	Jan Magnussen	Stewart Grand Prix	23	1:21.864	+4.358	241 m	+0.744	20

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	3	1:16.030	—	0 m	—	26
2	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	9	1:16.205	+0.175	10 m	+0.175	27
3	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	8	1:16.517	+0.487	27 m	+0.312	28
4	Jean Alesi	Benetton	7	1:16.588	+0.558	31 m	+0.071	26
5	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	4	1:16.611	+0.581	33 m	+0.023	25
6	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	5	1:16.720	+0.690	39 m	+0.109	30
7	David Coulthard	McLaren	10	1:16.820	+0.790	45 m	+0.100	27
8	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	11	1:16.833	+0.803	45 m	+0.013	13
9	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	22	1:17.148	+1.118	63 m	+0.315	25
10	Giancarlo Fisichella	Jordan	12	1:17.192	+1.162	66 m	+0.044	30
11	Damon Hill	Arrows	1	1:17.490	+1.460	82 m	+0.298	28
12	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	16	1:17.587	+1.557	88 m	+0.097	26
13	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	6	1:17.635	+1.605	91 m	+0.048	28
14	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	2	1:17.795	+1.765	100 m	+0.160	30
15	Nicola Larini	Sauber	17	1:17.934	+1.904	107 m	+0.139	25
16	Jarno Trulli	Minardi	21	1:18.043	+2.013	114 m	+0.109	21
17	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	14	1:18.069	+2.039	115 m	+0.026	14
18	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	19	1:18.161	+2.131	120 m	+0.092	27
19	Shinji Nakano	Prost Grand Prix	15	1:18.283	+2.253	127 m	+0.122	24
20	Ukyo Katayama	Minardi	20	1:18.316	+2.286	129 m	+0.033	24
21	Jos Verstappen	Tyrrell	18	1:18.473	+2.443	138 m	+0.157	29
22	Jan Magnussen	Stewart Grand Prix	23	1:18.630	+2.600	147 m	+0.157	23

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Warm-up

Warm-up
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams	3	1:17.421	—	0 m	—	14
2	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren	9	1:17.642	+0.221	12 m	+0.221	11
3	Olivier Panis	Prost Grand Prix	14	1:17.800	+0.379	21 m	+0.158	14
4	Johnny Herbert	Sauber	16	1:17.843	+0.422	23 m	+0.043	18
5	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Williams	4	1:17.866	+0.445	25 m	+0.023	15
6	Damon Hill	Arrows	1	1:17.973	+0.552	31 m	+0.107	15
7	Jean Alesi	Benetton	7	1:18.034	+0.613	34 m	+0.061	12
8	David Coulthard	McLaren	10	1:18.313	+0.892	49 m	+0.279	14
9	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	5	1:18.316	+0.895	50 m	+0.003	17
10	Gerhard Berger	Benetton	8	1:18.358	+0.937	52 m	+0.042	10
11	Giancarlo Fisichella	Jordan	12	1:18.563	+1.142	63 m	+0.205	17
12	Ralf Schumacher	Jordan	11	1:18.630	+1.209	67 m	+0.067	16
13	Rubens Barrichello	Stewart Grand Prix	22	1:18.743	+1.322	73 m	+0.113	16
14	Eddie Irvine	Ferrari	6	1:18.879	+1.458	81 m	+0.136	11
15	Mika Salo	Tyrrell	19	1:19.088	+1.667	92 m	+0.209	15
16	Jarno Trulli	Minardi	21	1:19.102	+1.681	93 m	+0.014	20
17	Ukyo Katayama	Minardi	20	1:19.218	+1.797	100 m	+0.116	11
18	Jan Magnussen	Stewart Grand Prix	23	1:19.282	+1.861	103 m	+0.064	12
19	Nicola Larini	Sauber	17	1:19.401	+1.980	110 m	+0.119	14
20	Shinji Nakano	Prost Grand Prix	15	1:19.406	+1.985	110 m	+0.005	15
21	Pedro Diniz	Arrows	2	1:19.664	+2.243	124 m	+0.258	12
22	Jos Verstappen	Tyrrell	18	1:19.690	+2.269	126 m	+0.026	14

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

5 more photographs

Minardi M197
Minardi M197 · Andrea borsari · CC BY-SA 4.0

Where this comes from

Round: 2 of 1997
Grand Prix: Brazilian Grand Prix
Dates: 30 Mar 1997
Layout raced: Revised · 4.292 km · 15 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Williams
Entrant: Williams-Renault
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.