2019 Azerbaijan Grand Prix Review

Review of the fourth round of the 2019 F1 season at Baku City Circuit in the the centre of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

The race itself was a good race to watch. Valtteri Bottas was on pole for the Chinese Grand Prix. Unlike the first three rounds this season where the pole sitter didn't win the Grand Prix, the pole sitter in this Grand Prix won the Grand Prix this season. Bottas controlled it. Bottas took the lead at the start with Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel behind him and didn't look back leading most of the laps, despite a Lewis Hamilton late charge in the end, it was Valtteri Bottas win too win this seasons Azerbaijan Grand Prix for Valtteri Bottas's second race win of the season.



While, Bottas's team-mate Current Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton finished in second place in the other Mercedes to give the team its fourth one-two finish of the season, Hamilton was fifteen tenths of a second behind Bottas at the end.

Meanwhile, Sebastian Vettel finished in third place in the Ferrari to complete the podium, Vettel was twelve seconds behind Bottas at the end of the fifty-one lap race.

Highlights of the race below, enjoy.



Rate the Teams and Drivers

Mercedes - 9
Lewis Hamilton - 8 (finished second)
Valtteri Bottas - 10 (pole, race win)

Ferrari - 7
Sebastian Vettel - 8 (finished third)
Charles Leclerc - 7 (finished fifth, fastest lap)

Red Bull Racing - 7
Max Verstappen - 8 (finished fourth)
Pierre Gasly - 7 (DNF, Transmission)

Renault - 4
Daniel Ricciardo - 5 (DNF, Collision damage with Kvyat)
Nico Hülkenberg - 4 (finished fourteenth, lap down)

Haas - 5
Romain Grosjean - 5 (DNF, Brakes)
Kevin Magnussen - 5 (finished thirteenth, lap down)

McLaren - 8
Carlos Sainz Jr. - 9 (finished seventh)
Lando Norris - 8 (finished eighth)

Racing Point - 8
Sergio Pérez- 9 (finished sixth)
Lance Stroll - 7 (finished ninth)

Alfa Romeo - 7
Kimi Räikkönen - 9 (finished tenth, lap down)
Antonio Giovinazzi - 6 (finished twelfth, lap down)

Toro Rosso - 6
Daniil Kvyat - 7 (DNF, Collision damage with Ricciardo)
Alexander Albon - 6 (finished eleventh, lap down)

Williams - 4
George Russell - 4 (finished fifteenth, two laps down)
Robert Kubica - 4 (finished sixteenth, two laps down)


Next stop Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Barcelona in two weeks time for the Spanish Grand Prix.