F1 Azerbaijan GP Live Commentary and Updates - Race day
Live commentary and updates from Formula 1's Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku
By: Jake Boxall-Legge, Megan White, Stefan Mackley
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Here's the race report if you fancy reliving that little slice of madness! https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/azerbaijan-gp-race-report/6541151/
Perez: "I'm so, so happy for today. Normally, Baku's pretty crazy...first of all, I have to say I'm sorry for Max, he had a great race. We were close to retiring the car but luckily we managed to finish."
Vettel: "It means a great deal. It's been a tough start, but it's been a great race and we had good pace. The restart worked brilliantly for me, got another two positions there. Great day, I'm over the moon."
Gasly: "Incredibly, honestly I don't know what to say! The car's been incredible all weekend, we've been there in every session [...] We had to get the elbows out!"
Perez now rocks up, fashionably late to the post-race celebrations. Big hugs from Helmut Marko and Christian Horner.
"Hahahahahaaaa! Yes, yes yes yes - great job! That's a podium man, that's a WRAP!" - this is a Vettel we've not seen in some time.
The rest of the order is as follows: LEC, NOR, ALO, TSU, SAI, RIC, RAI, GIO, BOT, SCH, MAZ, HAM, LAT
Leclerc breezes past Gasly for third, but Gasly gets past again! This is a stunning battle between the two for the final podium place - with Norris in this mix!
And we're away once again! Hamilton locks up and goes straight on at the start - and that helps Perez to keep the lead!
Latifi will have to serve a 10 second stop/go penalty after the race restarts for failing to drive through the pitlane when the race was red-flagged.
"You gotta remember this is a marathon, not a sprint," Hamilton says. "Totally agree, Lewis," Toto Wolff says.
So it'll be Perez and Hamilton on the front row, ahead of Vettel and Gasly. Latifi has to move back to P15 on the grid.
McLaren's Paul James asked FIA boss Michael Masi to complain that Tsunoda didn't slow down for the initial double-yellows. Masi retorts that none of the drivers slowed down for them.
Pictures on the screen of Stroll's tyre, where the sidewall has just given up the ghost. Pirelli will have two post-mortems to conduct after the race.
"Michael, I know you're busy, but we had zero warning on that tyre" - Red Bull's Jonathan Wheatley told Michael Masi. "Consider throwing a red flag so everyone can change tyres".
The track is apparently now clear, and the teams should be able to change tyres under this red flag.
"I think it's a tyre failure," Christian Horner tells Helmut Marko. "They were at the end of their life."
Absolutely galling for Verstappen, who had done absolutely everything right today. Heartbreak in the Red Bull garage - on his side of the garage at least.
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