{"id":150146,"date":"2025-09-20T23:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/150146\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T23:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:45:09","slug":"underdogs-chasing-the-podium-and-more-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/150146\/","title":{"rendered":"Underdogs chasing the podium and more chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">From Max Verstappen going for a second consecutive victory to some unexpected podium contenders, and from the championship rivals trying to recover to the potential for a repeat of the chaos seen in qualifying, here are five things to keep an eye on when the lights go out on race day in Baku\u2026<\/p>\n<p>1. Verstappen\u2019s chance of back-to-back victories<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Heading into qualifying in Azerbaijan, there was a run of 10 races without a driver taking consecutive pole positions \u2013 the longest such streak in F1 for more than 40 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\"><a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoiTWF4IFZlcnN0YXBwZW5fbGlua19jbGlja2VkIiwiY2xpY2tUZXh0Ijp0cnVlLCJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZm9ybXVsYTEuY29tL2VuL2xhdGVzdC90YWdzL21heC12ZXJzdGFwcGVuLjM1TFdtUkVncjYyMEkyNEVJY01lRzIiLCJwYXRoVHlwZSI6ImludGVybmFsIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/tags\/max-verstappen.35LWmREgr620I24EIcMeG2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Verstappen<\/a> ensured the number didn\u2019t grow to 11, with a stunning lap at the end of Q3 to secure his sixth pole of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Max Verstappen going for a second consecutive victory to some unexpected podium contenders, and from the championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-150146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150146","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=150146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}