00:00It's the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in 2022 and it's lights out and away we go and Charles Leclerc gets
00:06away well as does Sergio Perez and he's coming right at him now as in the turn one Leclerc locks
00:12up, Perez goes into the lead, Verstappen holds off Carlos Sainz and it's Sergio Perez winner last
00:17time out who leads here, Verstappen thinks about a challenge on Leclerc into turn two but then
00:21thinks against it, Perez with a brilliant start was told to get his elbows out, he did just that.
00:27Sainz put a dummy on Verstappen, Verstappen looked like he was going to get the run on Leclerc but had
00:31to
00:31defend for it and again Sainz is having another go at Verstappen down into turn three.
00:37There's a yellow flag in sector one, Carlos Sainz looks like he stopped at turn four. It is Carlos Sainz
00:42who stopped at turn four and there is Carlos Sainz in the Ferrari was running in fourth place
00:48and he's gone on sadly into the runoff area at turn four now has he kept the engine running.
00:57Something fake. Yeah we just listen on board.
01:03Oh, now is that power unit or gearbox? I'm not so sure that's BBW that sounded like it was power
01:09unit in some way didn't it just cut out and definitely hydraulic in some way but it was a
01:13virtual safety car deployed. And Charles Leclerc comes into the pits so an immediate strategy gamble
01:20here and an early gamble by the Ferrari team who fit the hard tyres onto Charles Leclerc's Ferrari and he's
01:26a little bit slow away it has to be said. Now you'll save yourself 10 seconds by having a pit
01:32stop
01:32behind a virtual safety car as opposed to the normal race but he was in the pits there for about
01:36two and
01:37a half seconds longer than you would have wanted. And Sebastian Vettel has he got ahead of Lewis Hamilton in
01:42the pits there. I think he was well Hamilton had to queue probably behind Russell so I would say yes
01:47he has he's in front. He's going to be aggressive here and he's only got a couple of car lengths
01:53at
01:53the start of this DRS zone to try and get past that Alpine and look how that DRS is giving
01:58Sebastian
01:58Vettel an advantage as into turn three we go and Sebastian Vettel was ahead but goes straight on spins
02:04rounds but he's definitely lost that place that he tried to get on Esteban Ocon and he gets
02:10passed by Yuki Tsunoda as well that could have been Hiro sadly for Vettel it was zero.
02:17Here come the two Red Bulls free to fight out in front Perez Verstappen closing up on him we've seen
02:23this before haven't we? One Red Bull gaining on another it ended in tears all those years ago but
02:28this time around Verstappen makes the move makes it clean and overtakes Sergio Perez and into the lead
02:34of the race Max Verstappen past Sergio Perez it's one two still for Red Bull but the order has been
02:40swapped around and out in front Max Verstappen has a 7.6 second gap and here goes Lewis Hamilton down
02:49the inside on Esteban Ocon and it's been brewing for about five laps now and finally Hamilton has
02:55managed to make the pass and he's put himself up in the ninth place. Verstappen in the pits here's Karun.
03:01He should still come out ahead of Perez Leclerc though should take over the lead of the Grand Prix
03:07this is where it gets interesting isn't it? Verstappen on a new set of hard tires Leclerc on hard
03:13tires that are now nine laps old and what is the gap going to be? Oh oh no and there
03:20we have a blowout
03:21coming down the straight and that is Charles Leclerc whose teammate is out of the race and Leclerc has an
03:26engine
03:27failure that is showering plumes of smoke onto the track and Ferrari have a double DNF here in
03:36Baku and it is game over for the scooter rear. Problem, problem, engine. It's a second retirement in three
03:48races for Charles Leclerc out of this race and limping back to the pits and boy does that change
03:55the complexion of this race. George Russell is up in the third Daniel Ricciardo fourth but for how much
04:02longer not any longer at all Pierre Gasly has uh tucked in shall we say uh to the uh eventual
04:10meal
04:10goes up in the fourth Ricciardo fifth here comes Sebastian Vettel former Red Bull driver former
04:17Red Bull world champion trying now for Aston Martin to get up into eighth place and he did it and
04:24it's
04:24taken him a long long while to get past Esteban Ocon but now he has and now he can try
04:29and chase
04:29after Yuki Tsunoda. As here comes Lewis Hamilton on Daniel Ricciardo breezes down the inside as
04:39Lewis Hamilton on uh Daniel Ricciardo and he's up into fifth place.
04:45Oh the DRS has broke the rear wings broke on the back of that car. On Yuki Tsunoda's
04:49Alpha Tauri it's it's just the Alpha. Oh there's the there it comes back again.
04:57Oh you can't tape a wing like that look at the difference.
05:00So that they're getting out with the uh with the gaffer tape. What is this?
05:05It's reliability. No DRS from now onwards. No DRS.
05:10Now has Hamilton got the speed and the pace down the main straight or does he need to
05:14make the move into turn three once again? He's gaining on Gasly. He's gaining on Gasly. He nearly
05:20goes wheel to wheel into turn one with Gasly but he can't quite manage it but gets a great exit
05:26out of
05:26turn one. He's got the inside line down into turn two but thinks against uh taking the inside line to
05:32try and make the move on that occasion. Now with DRS he'll be hoping to get this move done before
05:37they
05:38hit the braking zone for turn three and Gasly tries to defend but this time by the time he tries
05:42to defend
05:42Hamilton is alongside him and as they head into the corner Hamilton is ahead and up into fourth place.
05:50For Max Verstappen he becomes the sixth different winner to take victory here on the streets in
05:57Azerbaijan's capital. It's Baku and it's back to the top step of the podium for Max Verstappen who wins
06:03the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on once again another perfect day and a very happy Sunday for Red Bull. His teammate
06:11Sergio Perez is going to come home to take second place and the fastest lap point as well in his
06:17maximum
06:18points for Red Bull. It's maximum victory for Max. A 66 podium in Formula One. Red Bull's most successful
06:27driver in terms of podiums. It's Mercedes and Red Bull on the podium. Where were Ferrari? Hydraulics issue.
06:36Power unit failure destroying their Sunday hopes. It's been another bad day for the Scuderia. It's been another
06:42perfect day for Red Bull. They win, they take second and maximum points in Baku.
06:47moves away.
06:50That was theัะตัะตัoner. It's been another bad day for me.
06:55That was for you three years.
06:57logic
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