The Azerbaijan Grand Prix proved to be a dramatic weekend in terms of the Drivers\u2019 Championship, with leader Oscar Piastri crashing out of the race on Lap 1 while McLaren team mate Lando Norris crossed the line down in seventh.<\/p>\n
Max Verstappen<\/a>, meanwhile, sealed a dominant victory at the Baku City Circuit, marking back-to-back wins after his triumph at the Italian Grand Prix two weeks earlier.<\/p>\n This strong run of form \u2013 coupled with a tougher outing for McLaren<\/a> \u2013 has seen Verstappen bring the gap down in the Drivers\u2019 Standings<\/a> to 69 points from Piastri<\/a> with seven Grands Prix and three Sprints remaining.<\/p>\n So is Verstappen now back in the championship fight? Or can his rivals keep the four-time World Champion at bay through the rest of the campaign? Have your say in our poll below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Azerbaijan Grand Prix proved to be a dramatic weekend in terms of the Drivers\u2019 Championship, with leader…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-174731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}