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ROUND 17: πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ώ 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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Omg omg omg omg omg omg

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Piastri will be competing for the WDC next year

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

This year! My prediction is he wins p2

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Traditionally, this is when either a Ferrari engine or a red bull tire lets go

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Well a Ferrari and a Red Bull did come to end up in the wall

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I don't think you can blame that crash on engine or tires.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

They planned on Piastri playing the team game for Norris and now Norris did it for Piastri by holding Perez back lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Piastri is defending excellently. Not the smallest error so far, no matter how close Leclerc comes with DRS

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Champions drive

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Man what a crazy race

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Norris looks to be going fast enough

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Crazy that there are actual battles in the last few laps! Norris-Verstappen and Leclerc-Perez battles basically determine who will lead the WCC after this round

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I have to say, Norris kind of spanked Max today.

Norris has been eating away at Max's win but today he started 15 (I think) and Max 6. Norris ended up ahead of Max who only gained a spot after the Checco/Sainz crash.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wonder how Stroll's puncture happened.

Edit: Contact with Tsunoda.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

And breathe

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Excellent racing so far.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My guess is Carlos was blinded by the light after the turn and couldn't properly see he was inching to the left.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Perez could have avoided that and got his best result for a long time. Hell he could still have overtaken sainz there if he just moved left slightly

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

My guess is that both were trying to catch Leclerc's slipstream and were focused on Leclerc and not each other. That said if I had to assign blame I think it's more on Perez than Sainz.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

It's kind of irresponsible to be racing at that time of day if drivers end up going down a straight blind like that. They should probably move the start to a bit earlier in the day.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Perez was driving a straight line, wasn't he? Carlos was driving ever so lightly left

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I thought he was drifting slightly right to go towards the racing line. Sainz was drifting more though. Still I think perez was much better placed to prevent that crash

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I would need to watch their cameras at that point to be sure, but from the replay on the fixed camera that's the impression I got.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But ahead of Perez, who could have adjusted but didn't for some reason

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

We'll see what they say but I guess the low sun could be an explanation

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looked like a puncture back left for Sainz?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This feels like the most likely explanation to me, it looked like SAI got almost sucked into the inside of PER's car...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just had another look at Sergio's on board. He touched the back left of Carloz who was slowly drifting towards him. Could have been avoided by Sergio.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Ah thank you, that explains it.