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If it says 97 on the cap - then yes, absolutely essential.
The car will have been mapped with more ignition advance, running lower RON fuel will likely cause pinging/knock/detonation which kills engines or at the very least the ECU will detect knock and scale back the ignition timing, resulting in less performance and poorer mpg.