#F1 race results driver#
#F1 race results free#

#F1 race results driver#

Perez came out on top of a pedestrian race on the streets of Baku, with the Mexican driver benefitting from a Safety Car intervention that took Max Verstappen out of the lead. Russell wasn’t in the mood to give up fourth to Hamilton, despite their tyre difference, and the Ferraris didn’t have much pace on the hards and proved to be no threat from behind.Red Bull have claimed a 1-2 in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, with Sergio Perez leading home teammate Max Verstappen. Alonso finished 15s behind, ahead of the Mercedes duo. But having closed the gap to 4.5s, Verstappen began to complain about a driveshaft problem, while Perez reported a long brake pedal.ĭespite those complaints, the Red Bulls kept up their pace with Perez holding Verstappen at bay. Verstappen DRS-ed past Alonso as the race ticked into its second half, with Perez 5.6s clear – and they began to trade fastest laps.

Verstappen breezed past Russell into the final corner, so had just Alonso between him and Perez, who was 5s up the road. Hamilton used his fresh mediums to outdrag Sainz from the exit of Turn 1 to pick up fifth. Perez led those who hadn’t yet stopped into the pits, with Alonso taking his 5s penalty but rejoining ahead of Russell.Īt the rolling restart on lap 21, Perez led Alonso, Russell, Verstappen, Sainz, Hamilton (who switched to mediums with almost everyone else on hards) and Leclerc, who was the big loser in the shuffle. Stroll was then told to stop out on track, causing a safety car on lap 18 even though his car had pulled into a gap in the barrier that the FIA were unable to spot.

#F1 race results free#

Leclerc pitted on lap 17, allowing Verstappen free passage to fourth, and rejoined ahead of Stroll too, who’d struggled to get back up to speed. Sainz pitted two laps later, also taking hards but overcutting Stroll. Verstappen jumped to sixth as he DRS-ed past Ocon and Stroll pitted on lap 14. Verstappen DRS-ed past Hamilton on lap 12 to take eighth, two seconds behind Leclerc, who then put Esteban Ocon’s Alpine between them a tour later. Leclerc and Verstappen were up to seventh and ninth respectively by lap 10. Verstappen gained two spots on the opening lap, aided by Oscar Piastri needing a new front wing on his McLaren after a first corner clash with an Alpine.Īlonso led until Perez passed him at Turn 1 at the start of lap four, and the Mexican pulled clear by over 3s. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc had started 12 th after taking a 10-place grid penalty for changing his engine control electronics, and used soft tyres to gain three places on the first tour. Lewis Hamilton, the only driver in the top 10 to start on hard tyres, dropped to seventh in his Mercedes. George Russell ran third for Mercedes, ahead of Carlos Sainz ( Ferrari) and Stroll, with the latter pulling a great move around the outside of the Ferrari at Turn 13. Perez was unable to hold his pole position advantage off the startline, as Alonso – who was given a 5s penalty for lining up too far left in his grid slot correctly – streaked past him into the first corner. How the 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix unfolded