The current world champion Damon Hill almost reached his biggest career win in 1997 Hungarian GP when his Arrows slowed down few laps before the end of the race due to hidraulic failure and finished second behind his former team-mate Jacques Villeneuve.

Gerhard Berger secured his tenth and final Formula One victory from pole position on this day in 1997 and set the fastest lap while Jarno Trulli took his first F1 points.

European Grand Prix 1997. was the last of 17 races of the championship held at Jerez and was deciding race of the F1 world championship