The 2017 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 71st season of Formula One motor racing. It featured the 68th Formula One World Championship, a motor racing championship for Formula One cars which is recognised by the sport's governing body, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars. Teams and drivers competed in twenty Grands Prix—starting in Australia on 26 March and ending in Abu Dhabi on 26 November—for the World Drivers' and World Constructors' championships.
Sebastian Vettel was runner-up, driving for Ferrari.
Valtteri Bottas finished third in his first year at Mercedes.
Mercedes retained the Constructors' Championship for a fourth consecutive year
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Sir Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton is a British racing driver competing in Formula One, driving for Mercedes. Hamilton has won a joint-record seven Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, and holds the records for most number of wins (103), pole positions (104), and podium finishes (197), among other records.
Hamilton celebrating with his father and then-manager Anthony Hamilton after the 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix
Hamilton took his first Formula One win at the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix in only his sixth Grand Prix.
Hamilton and his team celebrate his maiden Formula One World Championship title in 2008.