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FIA Prize Giving GALA 2017, Chateaux de Versailles-Paris,  - all winners -


The FIA Prize-Giving ceremony is one of the year’s most anticipated events within the motorsport community. Always a glittering occasion, the FIA’s annual Prize-Giving gala sees champions from every major branch of international motorsport gather together to receive their official FIA awards during a unique star-studded evening.


Since 2011, the FIA Prize-Giving ceremony has been the traditional closing event of FIA Annual General Assembly week and having recently travelled to Monaco, New Delhi, Istanbul, Doha, and Vienna.

This year’s event 8.12.2017 was hosted in Versailles at the world famous Château de Versailles, Paris - France, for what is was a memorable and spectacular evening !


PRIZE WINNER List:

FIA Formula 1 World Championship for Drivers 2017:
Lewis Hamilton

FIA Formula 1 World Championship for Manufacturer 2017:
Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula 1 Team

FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers 2017:
Sébastien Ogier

FIA World Rally Championship for Co-Drivers 2017:
Julien Ingrassia

FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturer 2017:
M-Sport

FIA World Endurance Championship for Drivers 2017:
Timo Bernhard - Earl Bamber - Brendon Hartley

FIA World Endurance Championship for Manufacturer 2017:
DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AG

FIA World Endurance Championship for LMGTE Drivers 2017 :
James Calado - Alessandro Pier Guidi

FIA World Endurance Championship for LMGTE Manufacturer 2017:
Ferrari

FIA World Rallycross Championship for Drivers 2017:
Johan Kristoffersson


FIA World Rallycross Championship for Team 2017:
PSWX - Volkswagen Sweden


CIK - FIA World Championship for Drivers 2017:
Danny Keirle


CIK - FIA World Junior Championship for Drivers 2017:
Dexter Patterson

CIK - FIA World KZ Championship for Drivers 2017:
Paolo de Conto

FIA Formula E Championship for Drivers 2016 - 2017:
Luca di Grassi

FIA Formula E Championship for Team 2016 - 2017:
e-Dams Renault

FIA Formula 2 Championship for Drivers 2017:
Charles Leclerc

FIA Formula 2 Championship for Teams 2017:
RUSSIAN TIME

FIA F3 European Championship for Drivers 2017:
Lando Norris

FIA F3 European Championship for Team 2017:
Prema Powerteam

FIA F3 World Cup 2017 :
Dan Ticktum

FIA GT World Cup 2017 :
Edoardo Mortara

FIA European Truck Racing Championship for Drivers 2017:
Lacko Adam

FIA European Drag Racing Championship for Drivers 2017:
Duncan Micallef

FIA Masters Historic Sport Car Championship for Drivers 2017:
Keith Ahlers & James Bellinger

FIA European Rally Championship for Drivers 2017:
Kajetan Kajetanowicz

FIA European Rally Championship for Co-Drivers 2017:
Jaroslaw Baran

FIA African Rally Championship for Drivers 2017:
Manvir Sing Baryan

FIA African Rally Championship for Co-Drivers 2017:
Drew Sturrock

FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship for Drivers 2017:
Gaurav Gill

FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship for Co-Drivers 2017:
Stephan Prevot

FIA CODASUR South American Rally Championship for Drivers 2017:
Gustavo Saba

FIA CODASUR South American Rally Championship for Co-Drivers 2017:
Fernando Mussano

FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup for Drivers 2017:
Naser Al-Atya

FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup for Co-Drivers 2017:
Matthieu Baumel

FIA Middle-East Rally Championship for Drivers 2017:
Nasser Al-Atya

FIA Middle-East Rally Championship for Co-Drivers 2017:
Matthieu Baumel




Quotes - MERCEDES AMG Petronas F1 Team and Lewis Hamilton 4 times F1 Worldchampion  :
A week of celebrations tops off a year of hard work

Christmas came early this year for the Silver Arrows.
After an equally challenging and successful Formula One season, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport received a few treats in the past days - including the FIA Formula One World Championship trophies.
On Sunday, the Mercedes-AMG F1 W08 EQ Power+ won the title "Racing Car of the Year" at the renowned Autosport Awards in London.
Yesterday, the team was awarded its fourth consecutive FIA Formula One World Constructors' Championship trophy at the FIA Prize Giving Gala in Versailles, France, while Lewis received his fourth Drivers' Championship trophy.
And tonight, colleagues from both Brixworth and Brackley will celebrate together at the team's legendary Christmas Party.

2017 stats: A busy year in numbers
It has been a busy season for the Silver Arrows by every measure. Every team member had to go the extra mile in order to defend the titles across a major regulation change, following a renewed challenge from our rivals at Ferrari and Red Bull. The fact that Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport was the first team in Formula One history to achieve this goal underlines just how difficult an endeavour this was.

The stats paint the same picture: 2017 was a year of hard work, but also one of great success. Over the course of the season, the Silver Arrows won 12 of the 20 races, claimed 15 pole positions and led 714 out of 1,196 race laps. Including practice and qualifying sessions as well as pre-season and in-season tests, the two cars completed 7,789 laps - that's 127,802 corners and 382,233 gear changes. The numbers for Mercedes-Benz Power are equally impressive: Mercedes-Benz powered cars accrued a total of 938 points in 2017 and raced 6,783 laps - more than any other engine manufacturer. The engineers also counted a total of 21,871 completed laps, 1,075,026 gear changes and 874,840,000 fuel injections. Indeed, Lewis completed every single racing lap but one during the 2017 season.

From the Autosport Awards to the FIA Prize Giving Gala
The team's extraordinary performance is not just reflected in this year's stats; it was also recognised by a number of awards that the Silver Arrows received in the past week. The celebrations started with the Autosport Awards on Sunday where the team picked up the trophy for Racing Car of the Year - winning the prestigious award for the fourth consecutive time. At the same event, Lewis won the categories International Racing Driver and British Competition Driver.

The following day, he received three prizes while attending the British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC) Annual Awards Lunch: two BRDC Gold Stars - one in recognition of the strongest performance of the year in international motorsport, the other one for winning the Formula 1 Drivers' World Championship - and the Johnny Wakefield Trophy for the fastest lap of the Silverstone circuit. Lewis is now the most decorated recipient of BRDC Gold Stars in the history of the Club, surpassing the record of 10 Gold Stars previously set by Sir Stirling Moss. On Tuesday, Engineering Director Aldo Costa travelled to his home country Italy where he accepted Autosprint's annual Cascho d'Oro on behalf of the team.

The most prestigious award ceremony, however, did not take place until yesterday, when the FIA Prize Giving Gala was held in the historic Palais de Versailles just outside Paris. For the fourth consecutive time, the FIA Formula One World Constructors' Championship was awarded to Mercedes. And it was also the fourth time that Lewis collected the FIA Formula One World Drivers' Championship trophy - all of which he won in a Mercedes-powered car.

"This has been a very challenging season for us," Toto said. "We knew that we set ourselves an ambitious goal when we said that we want to defend the titles across a major regulation change. We raced against some very strong opponents who put up a good fight. So every team member had to work extra hard in order to reach our target. I am incredibly proud of the accomplishment and I want to thank everyone in Brixworth, Brackley and Stuttgart for their hard work."

"It's great to see the all the other motorsport champions being honoured here as well," he continued. "I know how hard everyone fought who received a championship trophy tonight - huge congratulations to all of you!"

The best party is yet to start
While the FIA Prize Giving Gala marks the official end to the 2017 Formula One season, there's still one event to come:

the Silver Arrow's legendary Christmas Party. Some people call it "the best party in F1", others claim that they think it was great, but they don't remember much... All we know is: it will be a celebration worthy of four consecutive world championships.


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