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• In 2017 F1 reports bigger crowds with Mexico best race
• Hamilton crowned Formula 1 champion at royal palace
• 2017 McLaren Analysis: An Unmitigated Disaster

In 2017 F1 reports bigger crowds with Mexico best race

Posted: 09 Dec 2017 02:48 PM PST

Formula 1 saw an eight percent increase in the number of fans attending races during the 2017 season, with 13 of the 20 races reporting bigger crowds, according to figures published by the sport’s commercial rights holder.

Monaco and Abu Dhabi reported no change while five, including two of the races with the biggest overall turnout, saw slight decreases on 2016.

Formula 1 said in a statement that the season’s global average attendance per three-day event was 203,570 and 76,722 on race Sunday.

The total attendance over the 20-race season was 4,071,400 and is set to grow next year with an extra race added to the calendar. The 2017 season was the first under new U.S.-based owners Liberty Media.

“An attendance of more than 200,000 per event means that for 20 weekends per year, the population of a medium-sized city visits a racetrack to watch a Formula One Grand Prix,” said commercial managing director Sean Bratches.

Canada reported the biggest overall attendance of 360,000, an increase of 60,000 in 2016, followed by the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on 344,500 and Mexico with 337,043. Formula 1 said the attendance figures were provided by promoters.

Azerbaijan saw the biggest percentage rise, up 58 percent with a reported crowd of 71,451. That was still the smallest of any race. Japan saw the biggest drop, down to 137,000 from a previous 145,000.

Malaysia, which has fallen off the calendar after this year’s race, pulled in a total of 110,604 – a 19.69 percent rise on 2016.

The Mexican Grand Prix was named the best race of the season for the third year in a row. The award is decided by Formula One management in consultation with teams and stakeholders.

“This is the first time ever that the same city gets three in a row,” race promoter Alejandro Soberon told Reuters at the governing FIA’s end-of-season awards in Paris.

“I think we are going to continue doing bigger and better every time,” added Soberon, president and chief executive of the CIE Group that hosts the race with government backing.

The Australia Grand Prix also won the award in three successive seasons but one of those was in Adelaide before the race moved to Melbourne.

Soberon said the award was all the more meaningful this year since the Oct. 29 race came after devastating earthquakes in September.

Hamilton crowned Formula 1 champion at royal palace

Posted: 09 Dec 2017 04:47 AM PST

Lewis Hamilton was handed the Formula 1 World Championship winner’s trophy for the fourth time on Friday at a gala prizegiving ceremony in the sumptuous palace of France’s former monarchy.

With Formula 1 chairman Chase Carey looking on, newly-re-elected International Automobile Federation (FIA) president Jean Todt handed the 32-year-old Mercedes driver the silverware he won in Mexico with two races to spare.

“This has been an amazing year,” Hamilton told the audience of champions and FIA members gathered in the palace’s 18th-century opera.

“I hope that next year’s an even better year for all of you. I know for me that I‘m going to try to do better.”

Hamilton won nine of 20 races in 2017 and set an all-time record of 72 career pole positions as well as scoring points in every grand prix.

Asked earlier for his highlight of the season, Hamilton singled out his home British Grand Prix at Silverstone because of the support he received after the ‘negativity’ surrounding his failure to take part in an earlier London event.

He had also told reporters that while he did not like going to award ceremonies or being on stage, he enjoyed watching others succeed.

Mercedes won both championships for the fourth year in a row but team boss Toto Wolff said 2017 had been particularly difficult.

“We keep it now,” he said after being handed the constructors’ trophy by Carey.

Red Bull’s 20-year-old Dutch driver Max Verstappen beat a field that included Hamilton and his own Australian team mate Daniel Ricciardo to the ‘Personality of the Year” award for the third successive year.

The award is selected by permanently accredited media from all FIA championships.

“I always try to be honest and straightforward so I guess that gave me the personality again this year,” said the winner of two races in 2017.

“It was a hard season but I learnt a lot from it.”

Monaco’s Formula Two winner and 2018 Sauber F1 driver Charles Leclerc won the Rookie of the Year award while Finnish rally driver Esapekka Lappi won the ‘Action of the Year’ for a jump in the Rally of Portugal.

British teenager Billy Monger, who had his lower legs amputated after a horrific smash in a Formula Four race at Donington Park in April, was presented with an FIA president’s special award.

Monger, who has already returned to driving, walked out onto the stage on prosthetic legs to a resounding ovation.

2017 McLaren Analysis: An Unmitigated Disaster

Posted: 09 Dec 2017 04:30 AM PST

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Zero wins. Zero podiums. Zero hope. Thanks to an engine as underpowered as it was unreliable, the final year of the McLaren-Honda experiment was an unmitigated disaster.

Season Summary

After a brutal first season back with Honda in 2015, 2016 had shown marked improvement in the fortunes of McLaren – alas, 2017 turned out to be more like the former than the latter. Racking up the engine failures in a fashion that would be comical if it weren’t so sad, the once-great team couldn’t even muster half of last year’s points total. Whether McLaren had a chassis to compete for wins or not (and it certainly looked the part at high-downforce circuits like Monaco and Hungary), it was clear Honda’s development programme was fundamentally broken, and it came as no surprise when their divorce was announced at the Singapore Grand Prix in September. For 2018, the Woking outfit moves to a Renault supply and the hope that finally, their nightmare run is over.

Rating: 3/10

Driver Ratings:

Fernando Alonso

Undoubtedly still one of the best drivers in the sport, 2017 was a year in which Alonso was afforded few chances to show it. Sapped of any motivation amidst Honda’s struggles, the Spaniard still managed to impress by closing the season with three-straight top-ten finishes, showing his trademark ability to extract the most out of every car. Unfortunately, it doesn’t count for much when he’s still as far away from championship contention as he was three years ago. If all goes well, the Renault deal will breath new life into his fading F1 championship aspirations – otherwise at 36-going-on-37, he might start having to look elsewhere.

Rating: 8/10

Stoffel Vandoorne

His first full season in the sport, much of the promise the Belgian possessed seemed to be quickly curtailed by his car’s shortcomings. Even compared to his teammate Vandoorne seemed miserable, and while it was always going to be a tough ask, it would have been nice to see him match up more favourably with Alonso. Still, the 25-year-old had his moments – chiefly two consecutive P7s in Singapore and Malaysia – but you’d like to see more in 2018 from a driver purported to be the future of one of F1’s most storied franchises.

Rating: 5/10

The Stats

• 2017 WCC Position: 9th – 30 points
• 2016 WCC Position: 6th – 76 points
• Best Finish: 6th (Fernando Alonso, Hungary)
• Average Finish: 11.48
• DNFs: 13 (+ 2 DNS)
• Q3 Appearances: 14
• Engine Related Grid Penalties: 393

Teammate Head-to-Head:

Fernando Alonso		Stoffel Vandoorne
14	Qualifying	5
5	Race	1
7	DNFs	5
7	Q3 Appearances	5
-0.259s	Qualy Pace Difference
17	Points	13

Big Question: How would you rate McLaren-Honda this past season?

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