F1 pole positions
Polesitters
- First pole position (drivers)
- Heinz-Harald Frentzen
- Mika Hakkinen
- Last pole position (drivers)
- Jean Alesi
- Gerhard Berger
- Jacques Villeneuve
- First pole position (constructors)
- No constructor took their first pole position in 1997
- Last pole position (constructors)
- No constructor took their last pole position in 1997
- First pole position since…
- 1993 for McLaren
- 1994 for Jean Alesi
- 1995 for Gerhard Berger and Benetton
- Last pole position until…
- 1999 for Heinz-Harald Frentzen
- 2001 for Williams
- First pole position by a…
- Finnish driver since 1986
- French driver since 1994
- Austrian driver since 1995
- Last pole position by a…
- Canadian driver until 2020