1997 Italian Grand Prix

Infobox Grand Prix race report
Type = F1
Country = Italy
Grand Prix = Italian
Date = September 7
Year = 1997


Race_No = 13
Season_No = 17
Location = Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza, Italy
Course = Permanent racing facility
Course_mi = 3.600
Course_km = 5.770
Distance_laps = 53
Distance_mi = 190.774
Distance_km = 305.810
Weather = Dry
Pole_Driver = flagicon|France Jean Alesi
Pole_Team = Benetton-Renault
Pole_Time = 1:22.990
Fast_Driver = flagicon|Finland Mika Häkkinen
Fast_Team = McLaren-Mercedes
Fast_Time = 1:24.808
Fast_L

First_Driver = flagicon|UK David Coulthard
First_Team = McLaren-Mercedes
Second_Driver = flagicon|France Jean Alesi
Second_Team = Benetton-Renault
Third_Driver = flagicon|Germany Heinz-Harald Frentzen
Third_Team = Williams-RenaultThe 1997 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on September 7, 1997. Jean Alesi, starting from pole position, led the race until the halfway stage; however, David Coulthard, who had jumped from sixth on the grid into second place coming out of the first corner, got ahead of the Frenchman courtesy of a faster pit-stop, and held on to win the race by less than two seconds, gaining some measure of revenge for an incident in the French Grand Prix earlier that season, in which Alesi recklessly pushed Coulthard off the track on the final lap to rob the Scot of his fifth place. The top five finishers and Mika Häkkinen ran in two separate processional orders throughout - Häkkinen dropped out of the points due to a puncture.

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Notes

*Pole position: Jean Alesi
*Fastest L

*Coulthard dedicated this race to Princess DianaFact|date=October 2007

F1 race report
Name_of_race = Italian Grand Prix | Year_of_race = 1997
Previous_race_in_season = 1997 Belgian Grand Prix
Next_race_in_season = 1997 Austrian Grand Prix
Previous_year's_race = 1996 Italian Grand Prix
Next_year's_race = 1998 Italian Grand Prix