2022 Azerbaijan Grand Prix

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2022 Azerbaijan Grand Prix
Race 8 of 22 in the 2022 Formula One World Championship
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Baku Formula One circuit map.svg
Layout of the Baku City Circuit
Race details
Date 12 June 2022
Official name Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2022
Location Baku City Circuit
Baku, Azerbaijan
Course Street circuit
Course length 6.003 km (3.730 miles)
Distance 51 laps, 306.049 km (190.170 miles)
Weather Sunny
Pole position
Driver Ferrari
Time 1:41.359
Fastest lap
Driver Flag of Mexico.svg Sergio Pérez Red Bull Racing-RBPT
Time 1:46.046 on lap 36
Podium
First Red Bull Racing-RBPT
Second Red Bull Racing-RBPT
Third Mercedes
Lap leaders
  • 2022 Azerbaijan Grand Prix

The 2022 Azerbaijan Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2022) was the eighth round of the 2022 Formula One World Championship at the Baku City Circuit in Baku on 12 June 2022. The 51-lap race was won by Max Verstappen. [1] Charles Leclerc, who was second in the championship standings prior to the race, retired on lap 21 due to power unit issues, and fell to third in the standings behind Sergio Pérez. With the win, Verstappen extended his lead to 21 points.

Contents

Background

Championship standings before the race

In the Drivers' Championship, Max Verstappen led with 125 points, nine points ahead of Charles Leclerc in second, and fifteen points ahead of Sergio Pérez in third position. Red Bull Racing led Ferrari by 36 points, and Mercedes by 101 points in the Constructors' Championship. [2]

Entrants

The drivers and teams were the same as the season entry list with no additional stand-in drivers for the race. [3]

Tyre choices

Tyre supplier Pirelli brought the C3, C4, and C5 tyre compounds (designated hard, medium, and soft, respectively) for teams to use at the event. [4]

Practice

The first two free practices took place on 10 June 2022, at 15:00–16:00 and 18:00–19:00 local time (UTC+04:00) respectively and the third practice was initially scheduled to take place on 11 June 2022, at 15:00 local time, but was postponed to 15:15 local time, to allow for barrier repairs following a crash in the Formula 2 support race that had taken place around 13:30. [5] [6]

Qualifying

Qualifying was due to start at 18:00 local time on 11 June, but the session start was delayed to 18:15 as a consequence of delaying the final practice session. [6]

With about four minutes to go in the first segment of qualifying, Lance Stroll locked up and hit the barrier, at low speed, at turn 7. He reversed and carried on, and hit the barrier again, this time at turn 2 and with a lot more speed. He broke his front wing and front right suspension and was forced to leave his car on track. [7] This resulted in a red flag. Once the session restarted, all the drivers who wanted to set another lap managed to get to the start line on time, but on his last flying lap, Fernando Alonso went straight on at turn 15 and caused yellow flags, meaning the drivers behind could not complete their laps at full speed. Alexander Albon accused Alonso of going off on purpose, [8] Alonso later denied the claims. [9] Kevin Magnussen, Albon, Nicholas Latifi, Stroll and Mick Schumacher were all knocked out from qualifying after the first session. [10]

With just under seven and a half minutes to go in the second qualifying session, Sebastian Vettel locked up at turn 15 and hit the barrier at low speed. His car was undamaged, so he reversed and carried on. [11] Similarly to Vettel, Lando Norris also went straight on at turn 15, however he was able to avoid the barriers. Norris spun his car around and carried on, but ultimately, the mistake cost him his lap and he was eliminated. Norris, Daniel Ricciardo, Esteban Ocon, Zhou Guanyu and Valtteri Bottas were all knocked out from qualifying in the second session. [10]

As everyone completed their first laps in the top-10 shootout for pole, Carlos Sainz Jr. took provisional pole, with his Ferrari teammate, Charles Leclerc, just 4 hundredths off of Sainz's time. As everyone completed their final laps, Leclerc, Sergio Pérez and Max Verstappen all improved above Sainz, who finished his qualifying in fourth. Leclerc took pole by three tenths from Perez, Verstappen, Sainz, George Russell, Pierre Gasly, Lewis Hamilton, Yuki Tsunoda, Vettel and Alonso. [10]

Qualifying classification

Pos.No.DriverConstructorQualifying timesFinal
grid
Q1Q2Q3
116 Flag of Monaco.svg Charles Leclerc Ferrari 1:42.8651:42.0461:41.3591
211 Flag of Mexico.svg Sergio Pérez Red Bull Racing-RBPT 1:42.7331:41.9551:41.6412
31 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing-RBPT 1:42.7221:42.2271:41.7063
455 Flag of Spain.svg Carlos Sainz Jr. Ferrari 1:42.9571:42.0881:41.8144
563 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg George Russell Mercedes 1:43.7541:43.2811:42.7125
610 Flag of France.svg Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri-RBPT 1:43.2681:43.1291:42.8456
744 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:43.9391:43.1821:42.9247
822 Flag of Japan.svg Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri-RBPT 1:43.5951:43.3761:43.0568
95 Flag of Germany.svg Sebastian Vettel Aston Martin Aramco-Mercedes 1:43.2791:43.2681:43.0919
1014 Flag of Spain.svg Fernando Alonso Alpine-Renault 1:44.0831:43.3601:43.17310
114 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Lando Norris McLaren-Mercedes 1:44.2371:43.398N/A11
123 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Daniel Ricciardo McLaren-Mercedes 1:44.4371:43.574N/A12
1331 Flag of France.svg Esteban Ocon Alpine-Renault 1:43.9031:43.585N/A13
1424 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhou Guanyu Alfa Romeo-Ferrari 1:43.7771:43.790N/A14
1577 Flag of Finland.svg Valtteri Bottas Alfa Romeo-Ferrari 1:44.4781:44.444N/A15
1620 Flag of Denmark.svg Kevin Magnussen Haas-Ferrari 1:44.643N/AN/A16
1723 Flag of Thailand.svg Alexander Albon Williams-Mercedes 1:44.719N/AN/A17
186 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Nicholas Latifi Williams-Mercedes 1:45.367N/AN/A18
1918 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Lance Stroll Aston Martin Aramco-Mercedes 1:45.371N/AN/A19
2047 Flag of Germany.svg Mick Schumacher Haas-Ferrari 1:45.775N/AN/A20
107% time: 1:49.912
Source: [12] [13]

Race

The race started at 15:00 local time on 12 June. [6] Sergio Pérez took the lead heading into turn 1 on lap 1, after polesitter Charles Leclerc locked up his front left tyre. [14] On Lap 9, Carlos Sainz Jr. pulled over in the run-off area of turn 4 after suffering a hydraulics issue with his car. [15] This resulted in the virtual safety car, in which most of the grid, including Leclerc, chose to pit with the Red Bulls of Max Verstappen and Pérez choosing not to. On lap 15, Verstappen overtook Pérez into turn 1. Pérez pitted on lap 17 for new hards, a slow stop meant that when he exited the pits, Leclerc had passed him, and Verstappen, who pitted two laps later, was able to overcut his team-mate. On lap 21, Leclerc's car started billowing smoke with an engine problem on the main straight causing his retirement, [16] with Zhou Guanyu retiring on lap 23 with a hydraulics issue. [17] On lap 31, Kevin Magnussen's car also had an engine issue resulting in smoke. [18] He pulled over just before turn 15 off the racing line, but it still resulted in a second virtual safety car. Most of the grid chose to pit for fresher tyres. Tsunoda was shown the black-and-orange flag for a DRS failure, which was fixed with speed tape, and him dropped to 13th. [19] Williams's Latifi received a ten-second stop and go penalty after for a grid infringement and was later given a five-second time penalty for ignoring blue flags. [20] On lap 45, Lewis Hamilton overtook Pierre Gasly for fourth. On lap 48, Lance Stroll was called in to retire due to high oscillations. [21] [22] Verstappen won the race, and Pérez finished second. George Russell finished third for Mercedes, with Hamilton in fourth, and Gasly fifth. Sebastian Vettel, Fernando Alonso, Daniel Ricciardo, Lando Norris and Esteban Ocon completed the top 10. [21]

Race classification

Pos.No.DriverConstructorLapsTime/RetiredGridPoints
11 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing-RBPT 511:34:05.941325
211 Flag of Mexico.svg Sergio Pérez Red Bull Racing-RBPT 51+20.823219 1
363 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg George Russell Mercedes 51+45.995515
444 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 51+1:11.679712
510 Flag of France.svg Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri-RBPT 51+1:17.299610
65 Flag of Germany.svg Sebastian Vettel Aston Martin Aramco-Mercedes 51+1:24.09998
714 Flag of Spain.svg Fernando Alonso Alpine-Renault 51+1:28.596106
83 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Daniel Ricciardo McLaren-Mercedes 51+1:32.207124
94 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Lando Norris McLaren-Mercedes 51+1:32.556112
1031 Flag of France.svg Esteban Ocon Alpine-Renault 51+1:48.184131
1177 Flag of Finland.svg Valtteri Bottas Alfa Romeo-Ferrari 50+1 lap15
1223 Flag of Thailand.svg Alexander Albon Williams-Mercedes 50+1 lap17
1322 Flag of Japan.svg Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri-RBPT 50+1 lap8
1447 Flag of Germany.svg Mick Schumacher Haas-Ferrari 50+1 lap20
156 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Nicholas Latifi Williams-Mercedes 50+1 lap 2 18
16 3 18 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Lance Stroll Aston Martin Aramco-Mercedes 46Vibration19
Ret20 Flag of Denmark.svg Kevin Magnussen Haas-Ferrari 31Power unit16
Ret24 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhou Guanyu Alfa Romeo-Ferrari 23Hydraulics14
Ret16 Flag of Monaco.svg Charles Leclerc Ferrari 21Power unit1
Ret55 Flag of Spain.svg Carlos Sainz Jr. Ferrari 8Hydraulics4
Fastest lap: Flag of Mexico.svg Sergio Pérez (Red Bull Racing-RBPT) – 1:46.046 (lap 36)
Source: [13] [23] [24] [ failed verification ]

Notes

Championship standings after the race

See also

References

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