As he did final day trip in Monza, Max Verstappen once more proved imperious in Azerbaijan, with the Crimson Bull driver recording a second-consecutive grand slam outcome. However he wasn’t the one driver producing some fascinating figures in Baku. Right here’s our round-up of all of the numbers you’ll want to know…
• In the present day was Verstappen’s sixth grand slam (win / pole / quickest lap / led each lap) of his F1 profession. He’s now tied with Lewis Hamilton for second on the all-time listing behind solely Jim Clark (eight).
• Verstappen is simply the third driver to win from pole in Baku.
• Together with his victory final day trip at Monza, Verstappen has gained consecutive races for the primary time since Canada and Spain 2024.
• Verstappen has decreased his championship deficit to 69 factors behind chief Oscar Piastri.
• Verstappen has now led extra laps this season (282) than Lando Norris (241).
• Verstappen completed 1m12s behind the race winner solely three races in the past in Hungary.
• Verstappen’s win is the second Crimson Bull victory for Laurent Mekies as Crew Principal.
• George Russell’s P2 for Mercedes was his seventh podium end this season.
• It was Mercedes’ finest end in Baku since 2019.
• Russell beforehand completed third within the 2022 and 2024 Azerbaijan Grands Prix.
• Carlos Sainz, with P3, turns into the second driver after Alain Prost to complete on the rostrum for McLaren, Ferrari and Williams.
• Williams’ final podium in a full-length race was Azerbaijan 2017 (Lance Stroll, P3). Russell was second for the crew within the one-lap Belgian Grand Prix in 2021.
• Sainz scored 15 factors right this moment. He had solely scored 16 factors all season earlier than right this moment.
• Sainz gained six positions within the Drivers’ Championship right this moment.
• Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli completed in P4, having solely scored three factors within the earlier six Grands Prix.
• Mercedes’ 30-point haul from Baku means they continue to be alive within the Groups’ Championship.
• A career-best P5 for Liam Lawson strikes Racing Bulls into sixth within the Groups’ Championship.
• Yuki Tsunoda’s P6 outcome was the primary top-eight end for the second Crimson Bull driver since Austin 2024.
• With Norris in P7 and Oscar Piastri failing to complete, McLaren scored their fewest factors in a race (six) since Las Vegas 2023 (two).
• It means McLaren missed a possibility to clinch the Groups’ Championship right this moment.
• With P8, Hamilton beat Ferrari crew mate Charles Leclerc in a race for the primary time since Silverstone.
• With Leclerc ending in P9 behind Hamilton, Ferrari stay alive within the Groups’ Championship.
• Racing Bulls’ Isack Hadjar completed tenth for the second consecutive race.
• Haas driver Oliver Bearman completed twelfth for the second consecutive race.
• Williams’ Alex Albon completed eleventh on the highway earlier than a 10-second time penalty for inflicting a collision dropped him to thirteenth.
• With Pierre Gasly in P18 and Franco Colapinto in P19, Alpine have been the final two categorised automobiles for the second time this season (the opposite was Hungary).
• Piastri’s retirement ended a 34-race scoring streak and 44 consecutive race finishes (the second-longest streak in historical past).
• Piastri’s solely earlier first-lap retirement was Belgium 2023.
