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“Trouble, engine”: the two words that extended the treadmill to Verstappen (and left Leclerc on foot in Azerbaijan)

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“Trouble, engine”: the two words that extended the treadmill to Verstappen (and left Leclerc on foot in Azerbaijan)

Max Verstappen was still in front, Sergio Pérez set the best time, Charles Leclerc was back with him pole position, in this case becoming the first driver to be the fastest in qualifying in more than a year in Baku in what was his fourth consecutive victory on a Saturday after Miami, Spain and Monaco. However, being the fastest has not exactly translated into a direct victory in the race and that was the trend that the Monegasque wanted to avoid on an urban circuit in Azerbaijan where the pole not a guarantee of a smooth test unlike other tracks.

A Ferrari with even more wings than two Red Bulls: Leclerc takes fourth consecutive pole position at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix

“All poles I know it well but this one was not expected because Red Bull was strong. I had a good last lap. Tire management will be key and the race will also be interesting for that aspect”, stressed Leclerc. “I had an engine problem that forced me to leave the garage later, but it’s going to be a long race and you can make a lot of mistakes,” said Perez, second on the grid in Baku. “I made small mistakes, it wasn’t the result I wanted, but our car should be fine for many laps,” said Verstappen, who started third. Everything was open in the eighth race of the year, everything changed before reaching the first corner with Red Bull confirming that they were much better.

Leclerc didn’t even have a bad start, but Pérez was quicker, taking the lead at turn 1 and took the lead in the Grand Prix with Max Verstappen still trying to take advantage of a more abrupt braking of the Ferrari to sign up for second position. He did not arrive there, he did so shortly after: Carlos Sainz went back into a corner with car reliability problems (becoming the first retirement), Leclerc took three seconds longer than expected when he saw that the jack got stuck in the From the front of the car, the two Red Bulls had a clear path to consolidate their lead.

Now the same dilemmas arose that had existed in Monaco for the team that leads the Constructors’ World Championship, with Max Verstappen’s father, former driver Jos, pointing the finger at the Austrian team for an alleged favor to Pérez’s victory and the director Chris Horner defending that there are no drivers with special status within Red Bull and that they have to think first about what the team asks for and not what they want for themselves. Is it really so? Some consider not and round 15 brought the dutchman jumping to the front of the race down the straight with requests in the communication so that Pérez does not resist.

The passage of Red Bull through the pits for the first tire change put Leclerc in first position and with a strong pace with the new hard tires he had put on, but evil never comes alone and Ferrari once again had another weekend to forget which begins to seriously risk not only the chances of having a driver fighting for the title but also the chances of fighting for the Constructors’ World Championship: as had already happened in the Spanish Grand Prix, there with the Monegasque in front and dominating completely, the car had problems again, smoke from behind, lost power and stalled on lap 20. The crosswalk was widened for the two Red Bulls, already a long way from George Russell’s Mercedes.

Two words rewrote Leclerc’s career: “Trouble, engine…”. And it was these words that would take away second place in the World Championship (which could be first), lengthening the treadmill for another double for Red Bull with the positions stabilized further back for Russell, Pierre Gasly and Lewis Hamilton in the top 5 after of having surpassed Tsunoda. Vettel, Fernando Alonso, the two McLarens of Ricciardo and Lando Norris and Ocon rolled in the following positions in a race that, in addition to the two Ferraris, had also lost Zhou (Alfa Romeo) and Kevin Magnussen (Haas), in this case with more of the pilots to take advantage of car insurance virtual tour to go through the pits during the last third of the race.

The only substantive change to finish would be Hamilton’s promotion to fourth place in a swap with Gasly, in what was the former world champion’s best result since Australia. Up front, Verstappen confirmed the saga at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, becoming the fifth different winner after Ricciardo, Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Pérez and giving Red Bull its third victory against two from Mercedes. Russell claimed his third podium finish and eighth top-five in as many races held in 2022.

With that, the Dutchman already has 150 points, 21 more than Pérez and 34 more than Leclerc, who has the British George Russell just 17 points behind in fourth place. However, the main note at the end of the race was the way Lewis Hamilton got out of the car, with visible back pain in further proof that the wobbles in cars that drivers are complaining about are leaving marks…

Source: Observadora

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