George Russell survived late pressure from Max Verstappen to win the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, marking his third victory of the year.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Briton converted pole position into the win, managing two safety car restarts following a chaotic period late in the race at the Baku City Circuit.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Verstappen did his utmost to try and secure a first victory of 2026, but had to settle for second ahead of Isack Hadjar in third for a double Red Bull podium.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
After the race, some penalties were applied – including for Franco Colapinto, whose unserved 10-second time penalty has been converted to a five-place grid drop for Sepang.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Gabriel Bortoleto picked up a 10-second time penalty for overtaking under yellow flags during the race, dropping him from 13th to 15th.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Check out the full results below!\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell survived late pressure from Max Verstappen to win the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, marking his third victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-612854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}