As he did last time out in Monza, Max Verstappen again proved imperious in Azerbaijan, with the Red Bull driver recording a second-consecutive grand slam result. But he wasn\u2019t the only driver generating some fascinating figures in Baku. Here\u2019s our round-up of all the numbers you need to know\u2026<\/p>\n
\u2022\tToday was Verstappen\u2019s sixth grand slam (win \/ pole \/ fastest lap \/ led every lap) of his F1 career. He is now tied with Lewis Hamilton for second on the all-time list behind only Jim Clark (eight).<\/p>\n
\u2022\tVerstappen is only the third driver to win from pole in Baku.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tWith his victory last time out at Monza, Verstappen has won consecutive races for the first time since Canada and Spain 2024.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tVerstappen has reduced his championship deficit to 69 points behind leader Oscar Piastri.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tVerstappen has now led more laps this season (282) than Lando Norris (241).<\/p>\n
\u2022\tVerstappen finished 1m12s behind the race winner only three races ago in Hungary.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tVerstappen\u2019s win is the second Red Bull victory for Laurent Mekies as Team Principal.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tGeorge Russell\u2019s P2 for Mercedes was his seventh podium finish this season.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tIt was Mercedes\u2019 best finish in Baku since 2019.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tRussell previously finished third in the 2022 and 2024 Azerbaijan Grands Prix.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tCarlos Sainz, with P3, becomes the second driver after Alain Prost to finish on the podium for McLaren, Ferrari and Williams.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tWilliams’ last podium in a full-length race was Azerbaijan 2017 (Lance Stroll, P3). Russell was second for the team in the one-lap Belgian Grand Prix in 2021.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tSainz scored 15 points today. He had only scored 16 points all season before today.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tSainz gained six positions in the Drivers\u2019 Championship today.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tMercedes\u2019 Kimi Antonelli finished in P4, having only scored three points in the previous six Grands Prix.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tMercedes\u2019 30-point haul from Baku means they remain alive in the Teams\u2019 Championship.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tA career-best P5 for Liam Lawson moves Racing Bulls into sixth in the Teams\u2019 Championship.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tYuki Tsunoda\u2019s P6 result was the first top-eight finish for the second Red Bull driver since Austin 2024.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tWith Norris in P7 and Oscar Piastri failing to finish, McLaren scored their fewest points in a race (six) since Las Vegas 2023 (two).<\/p>\n
\u2022\tIt means McLaren missed an opportunity to clinch the Teams\u2019 Championship today.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tWith P8, Hamilton beat Ferrari team mate Charles Leclerc in a race for the first time since Silverstone.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tWith Leclerc finishing in P9 behind Hamilton, Ferrari remain alive in the Teams\u2019 Championship.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tRacing Bulls\u2019 Isack Hadjar finished 10th for the second consecutive race.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tHaas driver Oliver Bearman finished 12th for the second consecutive race.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tWilliams\u2019 Alex Albon finished 11th on the road before a 10-second time penalty for causing a collision dropped him to 13th.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tWith Pierre Gasly in P18 and Franco Colapinto in P19, Alpine were the last two classified cars for the second time this season (the other was Hungary).<\/p>\n
\u2022\tPiastri\u2019s retirement ended a 34-race scoring streak and 44 consecutive race finishes (the second-longest streak in history).<\/p>\n
\u2022\tPiastri\u2019s only previous first-lap retirement was Belgium 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As he did last time out in Monza, Max Verstappen again proved imperious in Azerbaijan, with the Red…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-151713","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\/151713","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=151713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}