ROUND 17: 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS AZERBAIJAN GRAND PRIX 2024
Circuit stats
- Circuit name: Baku City Circuit
- First Grand Prix: 2016
- Number of laps: 51
- Circuit Length: 6.003 km
- Race Distance: 306.049 km
- Lap record: 1:43.009 Charles Leclerc (2019)
- 2023 winner: Sergio Perez
Track Map
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Man piastri has got ice flowing through his veins. Calm throughout the race under immense pressure and even after winning such a great race. Unbelievable temperament.
He had like 25 laps with Leclerc behind him AND with DRS. Every lap I was look at that interval timer and it was close to 0.6s which meant an overtake opportunity or it was almost 1.0s which would have broken the tow.
Then LECs tyres fell HARD. The crash at the end was crazy (haven’t seen Perez’s replay but it seemed like his fault), however I feel like the last two laps would have been bonkers and I think Leclerc would have finished 4th.
What a bonkers race. So much close racing throughout. Still in awe about the crash.
Piastri was fantastic. Norris from 15th on start to 4th was excellent salvaging by McLaren.
10 mega points for Williams! Points for Colapinto.
Bearman squeezes another point in.
Russell getting a random podium yet again.
What a weekend for Williams and most specially for Colapinto! Here’s to hoping he will take this chance and make his 9-race-only chance the start of a brilliant F1 career. He seems to have what it takes
Unpopular opinion here but Ricciardo has to go… almost literally ANYONE coming into F1 has shown to be better that him, even in much lesser cars.
It is time to open the seats for new talent!
Using that logic, can we also get rid of Stroll?
Yes. Stroll is a bad driver and only has a seat because Daddy bought him an F1 team for his birthday.
That race had a lot going on. Unfortunate to see Perez put in such a good drive just for that to happen.
Indeed, I felt sorry for him. He had earned some good points.
Having said that and even though the Stewards rules nobody was at fault, I believe he had the better chance to avoid this crash
I was really fed up for him, it’s not often he gets to be faster than Max pretty much all weekend, and he really needed a good weekend. He even stayed back out of trouble till the moment came to pounce with Charles and then it goes wrong.
Am I correct in thinking this is the first time McLaren has led the Constructor’s Championship since 2008?
Edit: Nevermind, McLaren were leading the Constructor’s at the beginning of 2014.
The slow mos of piastri and leclerc grazing walls and sliding out of turns is so sick. They were pushing each other to the absolute limit.
Russell confirms that the sun was in the eye in on the straight after turn 2. Could be why both perez and sainz did not realise that they were drifting towards each other
What a race, I was glued to the screen from the start to the VSC period. Oscar’s overtake and defense were brilliant, Leclerc’s defense against Perez before the crash was unbelievable too. What a race and racecraft.
Great season isn’t it? Next year should be one for the ages. 2012 vibes
EDIT: year
This season seems like parts of 2009 and 2012 put together. The championship leaders have fallen hard like 2009 while 4 teams are fighting for wins like 2012. Great stuff
Oscar about Carlos & Checo: “They haven’t been great friends this weekend” 😂
Never change, Oscar, never change.
Oscar is that quiet friend that drops the sickest burns every now and then.
Hulkenberg is oddly mysterious in post-race interview right now on how he ended up behind Hamilton and Bearman, only saying “something happened in the last two laps and I don’t want to talk about it”
Maybe he went off?
Ah, they have the on-board on the “Drivers Reaction” video on YouTube. Basically Hulk made the mistake of intuitively thinking that there was yellow already when passing the crash, but it was green still and so Hamilton and Bearman both overtook him.
Oh man, that’s shitty.
Russell suddenly finding himself on the podium is quite a plot twist
This season is coming down to the wire and I love it. Bravo to Williams!
