{"id":151891,"date":"2025-09-21T21:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T21:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/151891\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T21:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T21:32:12","slug":"azerbaijan-grand-prix-result-max-verstappen-wins-after-oscar-piastri-crashes-out-on-first-lap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/151891\/","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan Grand Prix result: Max Verstappen wins after Oscar Piastri crashes out on first lap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russell, who has been poorly all weekend, drove an outstanding race to jump ahead of his team-mate Kimi Antonelli, who led him in the first stint, with his different strategy of running long on the hard tyres before switching to the mediums.<\/p>\n

And Sainz consolidated his excellent qualifying performance with a strong race to take the final podium place, confirming the progress Williams have made this season.<\/p>\n

Russell said: “Congrats to Carlos and Williams – amazing result for them. For us. we’re happy to be back on the podium. It’s been a bit of a rough weekend for me personally but the car was great, so happy with that.<\/p>\n

“I was pretty glad when I saw the chequered flag. Fortunately, I felt much better than I did on Friday and Saturday. Looking forward to a bit of rest now.”<\/p>\n

Sainz, who joined Williams this year after being replaced by Hamilton at Ferrari, said: “Honestly can’t describe how happy I am and how good this feels. It’s even better than my first ever podium that I had.<\/p>\n

“Everything comes together and we can do some amazing things together and today we nailed the race, not one mistake, and we managed to beat a lot of cars that yesterday I wasn’t expecting to beat.”<\/p>\n

Antonelli took fourth after the sort of clean weekend his team boss Toto Wolff had asked him for after a difficult period,<\/a> while Hamilton took eighth, the last car in the train behind Lawson.<\/p>\n

Ferrari ordered Leclerc to let the seven-time champion by in the closing stages because Hamilton had much fresher tyres, while Hadjar took the final point for Racing Bulls.<\/p>\n

Hamilton was asked to return the favour on the last lap because he had not made any progress. But he misjudged it, in the context of a late request from his engineer, and although he braked on the straight, he crossed the line 0.4secs ahead of Leclerc.<\/p>\n

Hamilton apologised afterwards, but Leclerc said he didn’t care about eighth or ninth place, that the bigger concern was Ferrari’s lack of pace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russell, who has been poorly all weekend, drove an outstanding race to jump ahead of his team-mate Kimi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-151891","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\/151891","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=151891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}