Monday, 1 May 2023

2023 Azerbaijan Grand Prix Review

Review of the fourth round of the 2023 F1 season at Baku City Circuit in the the centre of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

The race will be the race that Current Formula 1 Champion Max Verstappen should have won. Leclerc was on pole for Sunday's race ahead of Max Verstappen and Sergio Pérez. Leclerc took the lead at the start ahead of Verstappen and Pérez. By the start of lap four, Verstappen took the lead from Leclerc.

Until lap ten concluded, Verstappen went into the pit lane to switch tyres, exiting in third position, but he would lose first as Nyck de Vries stopped at turn six cause a safety car to deployed; during the safety car period, Pérez changed into a fresh hard compound and subsequently took the lead of the race. Just like Saturday's Sprint race it was Pérez race to win in this seasons Azerbaijan Grand Prix for Sergio Pérez's second race win of the season.



While, Current Formula 1 World Champion Max Verstappen finished in second place in the other Red Bull to complete a third Red Bull one-two finish of the season, Verstappen was two seconds behind Pérez at the end.

Meanwhile, Charles Leclerc finished in third place in the Ferrari to complete the podium, Leclerc was twenty-two seconds behind Pérez at the end of the fifty-one lap race.

Highlights of the race below, enjoy.



Rate the Teams and Drivers

Red Bull Racing - 8
Max Verstappen - 8 (finished second)
Sergio Pérez - 9 (race win)

Ferrari - 7
Charles Leclerc - 8 (pole, finished third)
Carlos Sainz Jr. - 7 (finished fifth)

Mercedes - 6
Lewis Hamilton - 7 (finished sixth)
George Russell - 6 (finished eighth, fastest lap)

Alpine - 5
Esteban Ocon - 6 (finished fifteenth)
Pierre Gasly - 5 (finished fourteenth)

McLaren - 6
Lando Norris - 6 (finished ninth)
Oscar Piastri - 6 (finished eleventh)

Alfa Romeo - 5
Valtteri Bottas - 5 (finished eighthteen, lap down)
Guanyu Zhou - 5 (DNF, Overheating)

Aston Martin - 8
Fernando Alonso - 9 (finished fourth)
Lance Stroll - 7 (finished seventh)

Haas - 5
Kevin Magnussen - 5 (finished thirteenth)
Nico Hülkenberg - 5 (finished seventeenth, lap down)

AlphaTauri - 6
Yuki Tsunoda - 7 (finished tenth)
Nyck de Vries - 5 (DNF, Accident)

Williams - 5
Alexander Albon - 6 (finished twelfth)
Logan Sargeant - 5 (finished sixteenth)


Next stop the Miami International Autodrome, at Miami, U.S.A., for the Miami Grand Prix in a weeks time.

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