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There was a sense of certainty that a marshal would need to reach for a red flag at some point during Baku’s Friday practice sessions, and it duly arrived within the first 15 minutes of FP1. Carlos Sainz<\/a> ran over the exit kerb at Turn 16 and appeared to leave a shard of debris behind but, as the marshals inspected the culprit, it turned out to be a piece of rubber-like bonding within the kerb that had sprung free.<\/p>\n

Indeed, a marshal yanked at the rubbery mass like a cartoon character attempting to rid a garden of a particularly difficult weed, and the subsequent checks enforced a 25-minute layoff in proceedings. It’s not the first time that the circuit infrastructure has caused a red flag during the Baku weekend; Valtteri Bottas<\/a> hit a drain cover in 2016’s FP3 session, and George Russell<\/a> did likewise in 2019’s FP1 and tore up the chassis of his Williams<\/a> on the run to Turn 3. If one was feeling uncharitable, you could suggest that the FW42 was improved by such widespread damage…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a sense of certainty that a marshal would need to reach for a red flag at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[64622,64745,1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55,67998],"class_list":["post-147661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-azerbaijan-gp","tag-baku-city-circuit","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-what-we-learned-in-friday-practice-for-the-2025-f1-azerbaijan-gp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}