Flashback - Last Race To Date Featuring Slick Tyres
It has been announced yesterday that the F1 teams will be testing slick tyres during the upcoming test in Jerez. So the slicks are returning to the place where they featured last time, 10 years ago at the European Grand Prix 1997 in Jerez. And what a race it was… It was the final race of 1997 season, with Schumacher leading Villeneuve by 1 point …
Famous qualifying - 3 drivers recorded identical time in qualifying for the first time in the F1 history - Jacques Villeneuve, Michael Schumacher and Heinz-Harald Frentzen
Famous win - Mika Hakkinen won his first F1 race
Famous incident - Michael Schumecher hit Jacques Villeneuve during Villeneuve’s overtaking attempt and later got disqualified from the whole season
The race was won by Hakkinen, ahead of Coulthard (both McLaren) and Jacques Villeneuve (Williams). The 3rd place was enough for Jacques Villeneuve to claims his first and only Formula 1 Drivers Title.
Check the rest of this post for the video highlights from 1997 European Grand Prix in Jerez
tags: Tags: 1997, Flashback, Jacques Villeneuve, Jerez, Michael Schumacher, Mika Hakkinen, video
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November 22nd, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Strange you should that race, i actually watched a highlight video of that race on youTube the other day.
Awesome race, with Schumcaher trying to take out Villeneuve and failing
November 23rd, 2007 at 5:32 am
I just realized the coincidence that they are testing in Jerez and last time they raced on slicks was also in Jerez
so went for the video and than I realized that was the Schumacher / Villeneuve one 