![]() ![]() We gave it our all today and a small error caused the brakes to switch off. We worked so hard to put ourselves back in the top 10 today after a rocky week here in Baku. In a tweet, he said: "Today was a humbling experience. Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton also suffered a crash in the race. The car, pit stops and strategy were amazing again, thanks to Not much more to say at this time other than we'll keep pushing until the end #AzerbaijanGP," tweeted Verstappen. But happy for the team and a huge congrats to on the win. Verstappen also congratulated teammate Sergio Perez for winning the Azerbaijan GP. Fingers crossed for another cracker.Baku, June 6 (ANI): After witnessing a heartbreaking crash in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Red Bull Racing's Max Verstappen on Sunday said that he will keep pushing until the end to come up with better results. Strategy, as ever, will be crucial but there could be a lot of luck with today's winner, too – if the four red flags in qualifying are anything to go by, we could well end up with a couple of safety car periods, and we all know how they sometimes pan out.Īs ever, I'll be here for all the build-up, latest updates and reaction from the race, which gets going at 1pm BST. ![]() Lando Norris well out-qualified team-mate Daniel Ricciardo again (who shoved it into the wall in Q2.), but will take a three place grid drop. Could we see another wheel-to-wheel battle between the two championship contenders?Įlsewhere, Pierre Gasly had another standout performance for AlphaTauri and Fernando Alonso made it into Q3, too, in an encouraging showing. ![]() For Verstappen and a few others the mercy is that this is a track where overtaking is possible. Five different cars in the top six shows how close it now is at the very top. We should be all set for an intriguing race, though pole-sitter Leclerc was not all that confident that he will be able to hang onto his lead to the chequered flag, citing Mercedes and Red Bull's superior race pace. While Verstappen remained unchallenged at the front, Hamilton hustled Perez, but despite being faster than the Mexican in the final sector he was unable to find a way past. Hamilton's slow stop also enabled Perez to leapfrog him. The Mercedes driver's pit-stop took 4.6 seconds, paving the way for Verstappen to take the lead of the race when he pitted for fresh rubber on the following lap. Hamilton then made his sole stop on lap 11, but with Gasly pitting at the same time, the seven-time world champion's release was delayed. Verstappen and team-mate Perez followed suit on laps seven and eight to put the pressure on Hamilton, who had been unable to build a gap in a Mercedes which has largely been off the pace this weekend. Hamilton started from second before taking the lead at the beginning of the third lap when he roared past pole-sitter Charles Leclerc on the start-finish straight. Hamilton's late mistake means Verstappen remains four points ahead of the British driver after the opening six rounds. Sebastian Vettel rolled back the years to drive from 11th to second to claim Aston Martin's best result of their return with Pierre Gasly third for AlphaTauri. "I am so sorry, guys," said the world champion. ![]() The drivers were permitted to take on fresh rubber for what was effectively a two-lap race before Hamilton launched a gung-ho move on Perez for the win only to run down the escape road at the opening corner in a plume of tyre smoke. Max Verstappen F1 crash: How it happened, what has been said and why are the tyres a problem? ![]()
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