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Checo Pérez seeks to be the first driver to win the Azerbaijan Grand Prix twice, which since 2016 has had different winners

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GANA MAX VERSTAPPENwins in Baku for the first time and continues the trend of different winners since 2016.

1. VERSTAPPEN

2. Czech Perez

3. George Russell

Fernando Alonso vs. Daniel Ricciardo for P7… and Lando Norris is slowly approaching this battle… Alonso managed to defend himself and finished P7.

Finally Lewis Hamilton passed Pierre Gasly and the British multi-champion is fourth, 23 seconds behind his teammate, Russell.

Hamilton vs Pierre Gasly for P4 of the French driver. Ahead the first three navigate without problems: Verstappen, Pérez and Russell.

Checo Pérez with the fastest lap: 1.46.046. He is 12.6 seconds behind Verstappen. There will be no movements between the Red Bulls. The only thing that can change the positions would be a failure of the RB18.

Lewis Hamilton passes Yuki Tsunoda and the Mercedes is fifth. Vettel now attacks the AlphaTauri of the young Japanese.

Race reset: Verstappen P1, Pérez P2 and Russell P3.

Daniel Ricciardo He has been the great beneficiary of this VSC: he makes his first pit stop and goes from hard to medium (the regulations require the use of at least two compounds in the race unless there is rain) and he is P9 ahead of Lando Norris.

Magnussen out of the race. He brings up the virtual Safety Car and Red Bull for his two cars. They go from tough to tough.

Radio Mercedes: “My back is killing me,” he says Lewis Hamilton. The porpoising, which for lack of a better translation would be ‘jumping’ the car, is being very hard in Baku. In Spain and Monaco the effect was controlled, but it has returned and in Baku it is considerable. Now the problem with porpoising, in a technical sense and not a physical one for the pilot, is that it conditions the set-up; the teams are forced to lift the car with the consequence that ground effect (downforce) is lost.

George Russell is P3. The young Briton has dominated Lewis Hamilton inside the Mercedes team which, by the way, has not suffered a single abandonment due to car problems. The W13 may not be the fastest, but it is proving to be a reliable single-seater.

The midfield is a pitch: the last pass was from Sebastian Vettel to Esteban Ocon for eighth position. Before the AlphaTauri fought for position once morest the French driver who has an important top speed and that is why it is so difficult to pass.

With the abandonment of Charles Leclerc and if Checo Pérez finishes second, the Mexican will be placed second in the world championship. Verstappen will extend his advantage in the lead. A Sunday disaster for Ferrari.

ABANDONMENT OF CHARLES LECLERC. A lot of smoke, it seems that it is something in the engine that has broken. Abandonment of Ferrari and now it will be a walk for Red Bull. Two cars out due to technical problems.

Leclerc manages to get his car back to the pits

That’s a double DNF for Ferrari ????#AzerbaijanGP # F1 pic.twitter.com/I7se2tuTO3

— Formula 1 (@F1) June 12, 2022

Lap 19/51: Max Verstappen pits. He puts on a hard tire while on the track Checo Pérez made the fastest lap. The same Verstappen rejoins P2.

Vuelta 17: Checo Pérez a pits and take the hard tire. There are 34 laps to go. Now the Mexican will work on this stint in clean air, since he managed to rejoin the track ahead of George Russel’s Mercedes, which is fourth. Time to be very fast for the Mexican driver if he wants to win in Baku.

Radio Red Bull: Hugh Bird, Checo Pérez’s engineer, asked him not to fight for the position. The Mexican has very degraded rear tires and the car’s traction is compromised. He quickly lost three seconds to Verstappen, who escaped in the lead.

Vuelta 15/51: MAX VERSTAPPEN He takes the lead by passing Checo Pérez who did not put up much opposition to his teammate.

Max Verstappen is already within range of Checo Pérez’s DRS. Will there be a fight at Red Bull or team order?

Charles Leclerc speeds up and approaches the Red Bulls. Checo Pérez is 1.4 seconds ahead of Verstappen.

Race restart: Checo Pérez P1, Max Verstappen P2 and Charles Leclerc in P3, already with a hard tire.

Red Bull Radio: Verstappen asked how many laps were left, worried that Leclerc would go all the way to the end of the race. He will most likely have to do one last short stint, as the tires won’t last as long.

Lap 10/51: Ferrari calls Charles Leclerc to the pits and they go from media to benches. Ferrari strategically attacks Red Bull with this move, although it was a bad save because they lost some time with the device that lifts the car.

LAP 9/51

???? “Something has failed” Sainz reports

The Spaniard has run off at Turn 4 and is out of the race ????#AzerbaijanGP # F1 pic.twitter.com/9bjGGd2Xr8

— Formula 1 (@F1) June 12, 2022

Lap 9/51: Carlos Sainz is out of the race. The Ferrari was stopped at an exit in sector one. VIRTUAL SAFETY CAR, to take out the single-seater.

Radio Ferrari: Leclerc is told that Checo suffers with traction, however the Mexican driver keeps his distance and Verstappen, on the other hand, follows the attack on the Monegasque’s Ferrari.

After 5 laps, Checo Pérez is 2 seconds ahead of Charles Lelcerc who is attacked by Max Verstappen. Carlos Sainz is still late with respect to this trio.

START: Checo Pérez takes the lead by passing Charles Leclerc, a great start for the Mexican driver… Max Verstappen remains third, but attacking Leclerc while Sainz remains fourth.

Is he Azerbaijan Grand Prix in the city of Bakueighth date of the season of formula 1 and where Czech Perez will seek his second victory of the season and the lead in the drivers’ championship.

Czech Perez will start 2nd, behind the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc and ahead of his partner in Red Bull, Max Verstappen –Carlos Sainz with the other Ferrari complete the second row.

The city circuit Baku It is a 6,003-kilometre track, one of the longest on the calendar with an enormous 2.2-kilometer straight that, together with China they have the longest acceleration zone in the campaign. However, it’s 20 laps and you need a tune-up with enough charge to help bring the car to a stop and spin it as fast and balanced as possible to spin one by one. As is usually the case in the firm’s circuits Tilke, the second sector is the most mixed -it is where the narrow chicane 8-9 is located that leads to the castle area, the narrowest area in the entire calendar-. Yes Mexico It has the highest circuit at sea level, Baku It has areas below sea level, a curiosity.

Azerbaijan began his life in F1 in 2016 as European Grand Prixbut in 2017 it changed its official name to Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Since then it has had different winners and Czech Perez aims to be the first competitor with two wins in Baku.

Pirelli has brought the softest compound in its range. Ferrari y Red Bullthe two great contenders are strategically equal, as shown by the plate of the official tire supplier of the category, which expects a two-stop race plan as the ideal: start with a medium tire and then, between lap 18 to 23 stop for the hard compound until the end of the competition agreed to 51 laps to complete the Grand Prix distance of 306,049 kilometres.

How will the available sets feed into the race strategies? ????# F1 #AzerbaijanGP #Fit4F1 # Formula1 #Pirelli #Pirelli150 @ F1 pic.twitter.com/jhubdynehp

— Pirelli Motorsport (@pirellisport) June 12, 2022

This is the starting grid:

Sunday’s starting line-up ????#AzerbaijanGP # F1 pic.twitter.com/mLkC3pERe1

— Formula 1 (@F1) June 11, 2022

Checo Pérez has shown speed in practice sessions and is emerging as a serious candidate to achieve the privileged position for the Azerbaijan GP

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POLE for Charles Leclerc. Checo Pérez will start P2. It is the front row for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Exciting qualifying in Baku. Sainz kissed the wall and lost P1; Max Verstappen had the best sector three but it was not enough, he will start P3 and Carlos P4.

First pass through the goal and Carlos Sainz takes the first position, then LeclercCzech Perez P3 and Max Verstappen P4. Ferrari has a good advantage in sector one. It is a sector that opens with a lot of top speed, because it comes from sector three, and then you have to have good balance to brake at the last moment in the 90-degree turns and good traction to get out of those curves and do the short straights that they join them.

Q3, 12 minutes from pole: Checo Pérez and Charles Leclerc are favourites, but Max Verstappen is perhaps the most clutch driver in F1. As for Sainz, impossible to rule him out, in the end he is on a Ferrari. It’s another classification: Ferrari vs Red Bull.

Q2 ended, eliminated:

• Norris

• Ricciardo

• Ocon

• Zhou

• Bottas

Czech Perez is put first in Q2. Leclerc brushed the wall to take the apex of a corner. They really are on the edge.

Sebastian Vettel strike. He went head-on, but he hit the tech-pro wall soft and maybe the Aston Martin can do another lap. Vettel was fighting to be in Q3 and usually does well in Baku.

First pass through the finish line: Ferrari 1-2 closely followed by the Red Bulls. One second away from that battle is Pierre Gasly’s AlphaTauri. Temporarily out: Hamilton, Ocon, Ricciardo Zhou and Bottas.

Q2 is coming. And F1 is once morest time, as the sun is regarding to go down in Baku. The drivers will have 15 minutes to make the cut; top 10 advance.

Q1 is over. It was crazy because of the traffic. Those eliminated are:

• Magunussen

• Albon

• Latifi

• Stroll

• Schumacher

Session reset: 2 minutes 30 seconds left. Almost all the cars leave, the Ferrari and Red Bull are firm for Q2.

RED FLAG: Lance Stroll hits the wall following turn two, which he entered past and lacked a track to exit the turn, what he found was the wall. It was all for the Canadian driver, he is fine but not the Aston Martin.

Chinese rookie pilot, Guanyu Zhou, placed fifth with the Alfa Romeo. That Alfa has proven to be a tough mid-platoon tool, with a Ferrari which gives them the top speed to fight Alpine and sometimes Mercedes. Good return of the young Chinese.

After a first pass through the goal, Verstappen has the reference. The midfield is really close: Mercedes, Alpine, AlphaTauri, McLaren, Aston Martinall those teams have at least one driver who is going really strong in search of a place for Q3.

STARTED Q1: 18 minutes to pass the cut. Fastest 15 advance…

The start of qualifying was delayed by 15 minutes. It will start at 9:15 am in central Mexico. Since the third free practice still took a few minutes.

Czech Perez and his Red Bull position themselves as candidates to achieve pole position in qualifying for the Azerbaijan Grand Prixeighth calendar date of the Formula 1.

Czech Perez he has been the fastest in two of the three previous practice sessions, with a good balance in the car, which has a fearsome top speed, but also stability and maneuverability to face braking and cornering, with good torque to go out of the same with thrust, as it should be done in a circuit with the characteristics of Baku.

The urban circuits require a great commitment in the set-up of the car and that the pilot fully trusts it, since the walls are usually very close –Monaco, Jeddah, Australia-, any mistake means the abandonment of the competition or worse.

Checo Pérez achieved in another urban circuit, Jeddahhis first pole of the season and his first in the F1; Then in Monacohis first victory of 2022. It is no coincidence that it happens on street tracks, the Mexican driver is good at these types of tracks and he is one of the most experienced drivers in F1, so he knows how to put a car for these situations and feel comfortable in the RB18, enough to push to the limit and ‘kiss’ the walls, just as the canon demands to go fast between the streets.

Ferrari and his partner Max Verstappen They are the logical threats and they will be very strong. Any other car or driver would be a big surprise. The pole, if something extraordinary does not happen, will remain between Ferrari o Red Bullbut it is not clear which pilot –Czech and Charles Leclercfollowing three trials, are the favorites-.

The classification of F1 It is divided into three rounds:

• Q1: 18 minutes / the five slowest cars are eliminated

• Q2: 15 minutes/ slowest five cars eliminated

• Q3: 12 minutes / 10 cars for pole

Checo Pérez overtook the Mercedes and held his podium with rhythm at the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne

The Mexican Czech Perez He achieved his first podium of the season by finishing second in the Australian Grand Prixin the midst of a race dominated by Charles Leclerc and a bitter taste from the withdrawal of Max Verstappen.

Czech Perez did not have the best start in the race, because at the moment of seeing the green lights the Guadalajara accelerated in a good way, but was ahead Max Verstappen, who did not have a good start and blocked his partner. The action created a space in the middle of the track that was used by Lewis Hamiltonwho came back two positions and surpassed the man from Guadalajara.

Czech Perez stayed close to Mercedes and it was on lap 10 that he regained third position on lap ten by going through the third corner and through the inside

Czech Perez complained regarding the left front tire causing him to lose speed and following imposing conditions on Lewis Hamiltonthe Englishman was able to compete with him and overtake him on lap 20.

Checo had to pit on lap 21 and two laps later Hamilton did the same and came out ahead of the driver from Red Bull. The advantage went to the Mexican in the duel for fourth place, because with two laps on the track he had hot rubber and it was ideal to overtake the Englishman at turn 9 to take fifth place.

On the same lap 23 the yellow flags appeared, because Sebastian Vettel crashed and was out of the race causing Checo and Hamilton to fall behind George Russell and Fernando Alonso.

The restart of the race brought exciting battles in the first half of the grid. Checo struggled and following two laps pressing he overtook Fernando Alonso on lap 30 and work to go by George Russellwho was in third position.

The fight for third position turned into a duel between Checo and Russell, who tried to defend the position once morest the RB18, but Mercedes he pointed out to the Englishman that there was no point in defending the position and it would cause further tire degradation. George folded his hands and let the Mexican pass.

The race took a turn in favor of the Mexican, but a serious blow for Red Bullbecause on lap 39 Max Verstappen stopped at the side of the track with a fireball in smoke and fire, causing him to give up second place to Czech Perez.

Pérez headed for a solid podium, rolling without setbacks and despite the fact that Russell got close to 2.9 seconds, he was not able to cause any problems. Checo accelerated and finally had time to joke with his engineer, who asked him if he was still awake.

In the end Checo adds 18 points and was placed above Max Verstappen in the drivers’ championship.