Azerbaijan

Follow the updates and see the highlights from the 2022 Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Max Verstappen still leads Charles Leclerc in the drivers' world championship ...

Lap 5: Verstappen is getting closer and closer to Leclerc every lap with DRS whilst Carlos Sainz in P4 continues to fall further away from the Dutch driver as a result. 45 mins to lights out: Ferrari's Charles Leclerc provided the entertainment for fans yesterday as he put his car P1 for today's race. RACE START: And we're off in Baku! It's an amazing start from Perez as he snatches the lead away from Leclerc into the first corner. Quite a few are wearing their cooling vests as Baku swelters in the sun. Lap 15: VERSTAPPEN LEADS! The Dutch driver puts in a mega lap and makes up over a second on his team mate. There's a huge flurry of action in the pit stop now as most cars come in. Lap 13: Vettel is now off the track as he looks to overtake Alonso down the back straight. Lap 21: LECLERC IS OUT! As the Ferrari man comes down the straight his engine goes up in smoke. Lap 39: It's a rarely seen black and orange flag for Tsunoda as the DRS on his rear wing appears to snap in half under pressure. Lap 32: Hamilton is on the team radio complaining of severe back pain as his Mercedes porpoises continually down the two long straights. It was a strange decision at the time from AlphaTauri to not pit Gasly during that second virtual safety car and it's proved the French drivers downfall in the battle for fourth spot here. Lap 43: So out front, Verstappen is in commanding control of this race with less than ten laps to go.

Baku City Circuit, Saturday 11 June. Hear from McLaren Formula 1 drivers Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo, and Team Principal Andreas Seidl after ...

Sector Three is very challenging for our package and, despite taking some very good steps forward across the practice sessions, it just wasn’t quite enough to progress into Q3. Our focus now switches to race-prep. Personally, I found some things with the car that are suiting me, and I’ve felt like I’ve been able to lean on it and be a bit more comfortable. I don’t think we were miles off getting into Q3. I’d put it down to a couple of smaller mistakes by me and maybe not getting the ideal strategy for the tyres in the final few laps, but I don’t think we expected a lot more today anyway. “It’s a little bit frustrating to miss-out on Q3 by such a small gap, but I think we did a decent job today. 1m43.398s (Softs) 1m44.237s (Softs)

Ferrari suffered a nightmare double retirement at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix to hand another huge opportunity to Max Verstappen and Red Bull.

Reliability issues had been a Red Bull problem at the start of the season. Leclerc was already nine points down on Verstappen in the championship. "We need to look into it so it doesn't happen again.

Round 8 of the 2022 season comes from Baku, Azerbaijan · Charles Leclerc starts on pole for Ferrari, alongside Sergio Perez · Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz ...

Max Verstappen led a bruising Red Bull 1-2 to win Formula 1's 2022 Azerbaijan Grand Prix once Ferrari had endured a disaster as polesitter Charles Leclerc ...

Schumacher crossed the line in 14th. Red Bull reacted by pitting Verstappen for a second time to take on a set of hard tyres to the flag, finally nailing a 2.7s stop, before Perez made his stop for hards on the same lap 34. But a rear-left delay meant more time was lost in the pitlane thanks to a 4.4s stop, to give Verstappen a lead of 10s when the four-minute VSC interluded was over. Red Bull called Verstappen in for his jump to hards only two laps later, and he too endured a sub-par 3.5s service to rejoin in the lead with a 13s deficit to Leclerc – managing overheating rear tyres - as Perez nicked fastest lap from the Ferrari while running 4s behind Verstappen. Perez completed the first lap with 1.3s in hand over Leclerc to immediately escape the DRS zone and extended that by half a second over the next two tours to cement first place. Verstappen was able to have a look up the inside of Leclerc but thought better of it as Sainz tried to get in on the act before dropping adrift of the leading three cars.

Max Verstappen has extended his Formula One championship lead with victory at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix after Charles...

It happened to me, it happened to many people in the past. The slump in Ferrari reliability comes as Red Bull seems to have solved its own issues. There were more late reliability concerns Sunday when Verstappen told his team the car felt odd under braking, but he was able to make it to the finish. Verstappen had passed Pérez shortly before Leclerc's failure and the reigning F1 champion cruised to his fifth win in seven races. I don’t really find the right words to describe, obviously it is very disappointing," Leclerc said. Leclerc regained the lead when he pitted under “virtual safety car” speed restrictions while the two Red Bull cars stayed out.

As the 2022 Azerbaijan Grand Prix got under way, it was Red Bull's Sergio Perez who aced the start from P2, as pole-sitter Charles Leclerc locked up, ...

Max Verstappen cruised to victory at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Sunday to extend his lead at the top of the Formula One drivers' championship to 21 ...

I dunno, we really need to look into it. Overall, really happy with the balance of the car. "Tire behavior, together with general grip of the car, that's what you need around here.

Max Verstappen has extended his Formula One championship lead with victory at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix after Charles Leclerc retired from the lead with an ...

It happened to me, it happened to many people in the past. The slump in Ferrari reliability comes as Red Bull seems to have solved its own issues. There were more late reliability concerns Sunday when Verstappen told his team the car felt odd under braking, but he was able to make it to the finish. Verstappen had passed Pérez shortly before Leclerc's failure and the reigning F1 champion cruised to his fifth win in seven races. I don’t really find the right words to describe, obviously it is very disappointing," Leclerc said. Leclerc regained the lead when he pitted under “virtual safety car” speed restrictions while the two Red Bull cars stayed out.