00:00It's lights out, away we go, George Russell gets away ahead of Charles Leclerc and already Oscar Piastri making a
00:06good start
00:06He's ahead of Charles Leclerc, he's got that inside line, round the first corner we go
00:11and Isaac Hadjar has dropped a place to Lando Norris, defensive mode there from Charles Leclerc
00:16as round the corner goes Lando Norris trying to put pressure on him, George Russell is away
00:20but that was a super start there in second place from Oscar Piastri
00:231.2 seconds the advantage for Russell, that's a really good first lap
00:27Isaac Hadjar under pressure from Lando Norris, Lando Norris scooting round there and he is in 4th place
00:34and Albon moves up to 11th and here comes Max Verstappen on Lewis Hamilton, down the inside, through the leaves
00:39Lewis Hamilton under pressure and conceding that place, Verstappen up to 6th
00:44We shall see Lando Norris though, under pressure from Isaac Hadjar who thinks no, not about Max, thinks about gaining
00:50a place and does
00:52and easily breezed past Lando Norris there into turn 1
00:56so Leclerc stays in the top 3 as Antonelli gets past Hülkenberg and he's up to 16th
01:02we ride on board with Hadjar, he's got the pace behind Charles Leclerc
01:05if he couldn't make the move at turn 1, he's definitely done it at turn 3
01:08and Isaac Hadjar now up into the top 3
01:10and that is exactly what Max Verstappen is doing here as we see from the helicopter on board
01:17a great example of the speed that the slipstream can give you down the straight
01:22Verstappen blast past Charles Leclerc, here comes Max Verstappen then on Isaac Hadjar
01:28and let's see overtake mode and slipstream what that does for him
01:31remember race time is priority here
01:35race time is priority is code for just don't make it hard for Max
01:40and Lando, race picture updates
01:43Perez is in 319, he is 21.8, the field is very tight
01:50Isaac, if you had 3 air, how much faster could you go?
01:532, 3 tenths suddenly, but I'm happy to stay here honestly, otherwise we're just going to lose time
01:59Playing the team game whilst Lewis Hamilton, no need for that in his battle with Lando Norris
02:04Hamilton down the straight up into 6th place
02:08What happened with Lando Norris, bit hot you said Karun, going into this corner here
02:13Yeah, the left-hander just locked up, the left front you could see
02:17ended up going a bit deep, I mean that's a corner where his teammate crashed wasn't it?
02:21Yeah, so we saw that radio message from Hadjar to his engineer
02:25How quickly, more quickly could you go?
02:27But is it, here we go, are we going to have a swap?
02:29I think this is a good idea, Red Bull should let Hadjar go
02:33See if Hadjar can worry Piastri into an issue
02:36Tell him to keep pushing
02:40Is he struggling now or what?
02:42Yeah, he's going through a bad phase of these tyres, he's going through a bad phase of these tyres
02:46He's hoping to drive through that phase
02:48I think maybe the benefit of free air, I don't know
02:50Here goes Antonelli on Franco Colopinto, said he was catching him
02:53Now that was a lot easier than some of his overtakes
02:56Didn't have to wait too long for that, and he is up into 9th place
03:00So this is what George was maybe talking about here at 15
03:05It's just on the outside
03:07That's a glance
03:10In fact, he might not actually have touched it
03:12Yeah, I've got no problem, so
03:14Go and turn the car, show me
03:17Now Lewis Hamilton, the first of the soft tyre runners to really complain
03:20Here comes Isaac Hadjar on Max Verstappen
03:23Verstappen's defending this one
03:25Into turn 1
03:26Passing and re-passing and passing and re-passing
03:28Can I go for 8 or what?
03:29You've got to keep it clean
03:31It's not enough, is it?
03:32It's not enough, is it?
03:35I understand Max, but it's trap position and risk
03:38Just be patient
03:40And this is Max Verstappen down at turn 15
03:45How close to the wall did he get?
03:48Super close, 9cm
03:50There's a margin there, surely
03:52Anyway, in that situation
03:54Massive lock-up from Lando Norris
03:56Sorry to butt in, Jacques
03:57At the end of the straight, Lando Norris put his brakes on
04:00His tyre's locked up
04:02And he has lost places
04:03There are a place to Pierre Ghazi
04:05And to Kimi Antonelli as well
04:07Change around in an instance here in Baku
04:10Yeah, he got down into the braking zone
04:12Just snatched the front left tyre
04:14That's completely flat-spotted
04:16And unsurprisingly, the McLaren mechanics
04:18Opposite our commentary box
04:20They pull their helmets on
04:21And are getting ready
04:22Because I think they need to get rid of that tyre
04:24Before his fillings fall on his teeth
04:26He's got a car in the wall
04:27And it is Alex Albon in the Williams
04:30Now this could change things around
04:33George Russell has passed the pit entry
04:37Albon's okay, which is great
04:40Moving down the straight
04:41Piastri, Verstappen, Hajar
04:43Have all passed the pit entry
04:45Now they'll be looking here
04:47And focusing on that Williams
04:49To think, can it be easily recovered?
04:52We've got a safety car
04:53That's not a surprise
04:55But are we going to get a red flag?
04:57Oscar Piastri is going to pit
04:59Red Bull are going to pit too
05:01Verstappen they are pitting for
05:03But what about Isaac Hajar?
05:05Do they double stack?
05:06That's a question
05:07We know Russell's in
05:08We need to see
05:09And they have said box box to Hajar as well
05:11So Red Bull are going to double stack the cars
05:14So into the pits will come the McLaren of Oscar Piastri
05:21Big lock up there from I think the Red Bull behind
05:25As they now stop and Hajar comes in for his double stack too
05:30The Marshalls are out on track to repair the barriers
05:332.6 seconds for Verstappen
05:35Hajar little slower than 2.6
05:393.4 seconds
05:40Leclerc pits as well from fourth
05:42The fact that Gasly had stopped allowed that gap to open up
05:47So that now the top four
05:49Top five
05:50Top six for Hamilton
05:51Could all come in and not lose track
05:53We can watch what happened to Alex Albon
05:56It's about 60 mile an hour
05:58The entry here
06:00But he's gone in quite deep
06:01Into the barrier
06:04Yeah
06:05This is where we saw Lando
06:06Have that lock up and go wide
06:08This is where we saw Piastri crash last year
06:11And just got way too much speed
06:13It's almost
06:13I don't know
06:14Like he didn't get enough retardation from the
06:16The recovery systems or something
06:19You know, he snatched the front brakes
06:20And slid forward
06:21But
06:22It's
06:23It's unusual
06:24The rate of knots he went in there
06:26Esteban Ocon
06:27Who
06:27Has been
06:28Into the pits
06:29He saw
06:30What happened there to Alex Albon
06:32If Max can't get the win
06:34I'm gonna need his help
06:36With gesture
06:37All understood mate
06:38All understood
06:38When's George Russell gonna go?
06:43Roundabout now
06:44Race is on
06:45And Max Verstappen gets the jump on Oscar Piastri
06:48And Verstappen's putting pressure on Piastri into Turn 1
06:51And he's dispatched to McLaren driver straight away
06:53And the two Alpines make contact
06:55And there's a right-hulk kerfuffle
06:57Going on at Turn 1 with about five cars
06:59All involved including
07:01Lando Norris
07:02Max Verstappen made use of that soft rider
07:04Jump ahead straight away
07:06And now
07:06Is the safety car
07:07Is the safety car
07:07Yeah there were double yellows being waved
07:09Where there shouldn't be double yellows being waved
07:11Because there was no danger there
07:13But the safety car
07:14Should have been called if that is what was intended
07:17And all cars will go through the pit lane here
07:19Because there's a lot of debris
07:21Down at Turn 1
07:22Here we go
07:23Look at the top of the picture
07:24Forget the cars at the bottom
07:26The top
07:26That's where we're focusing
07:56So there's an Alpine making a move on Lewis Hamilton
07:57Inside of his then teammate Alex Albon in Singapore a few years ago
08:00And he got away with that one
08:02But not this one today
08:03Wow
08:04Penny for the thoughts of Flavio Briatore
08:06But as you said
08:07Arvid Lindblad as well
08:08Locked up and went into the side of his teammate
08:10So a lot of chaos down there
08:13Poor Lando is stuck on the outside
08:15He had a bit of a lockup himself
08:17Just tried to get away
08:18Antonelli
08:20Completely managed to get away with that
08:21Composure from Kimi Antonelli
08:23To keep out of the way of any trouble
08:25This is Arvid Lindblad
08:27And he just had nowhere to go
08:28Because he had a house in front of him
08:29And sadly
08:30Moving to the right
08:31Made contact with his teammate
08:32Man I love getting taken up on my teammate
08:33That's pretty sick
08:36Red ball with the active aero open
08:38As behind Hajar and Piastri
08:40Piastri locks up
08:41Goes straight on at Turn 1
08:43And drops right out of the podium places
08:46Oh no
08:47Let's see what happened to Oscar Piastri
08:49He's defending
08:50He wants to leave it as late as possible
08:52And there's just no grip there under braking
08:55Yeah he was looking in his mirrors wasn't he
08:57As he came down the straight
08:58Keeping an eye for Hajar
08:59And just snatched the front
09:01Off the racing line
09:02Then has to wait, wait, wait
09:04And it's an agonising feeling
09:05Six tenths the gap
09:06As they cross the line
09:07Another fastest lap
09:08For Max Verstappen
09:09And it's wheel to wheel
09:10Behind these two
09:12Hajar in third place
09:13Leclerc in fourth
09:14And then Kimi Antonelli
09:16Ahead of Lewis Hamilton
09:18He has picked his moments well
09:20And he is up into fifth place
09:21Did Max Verstappen
09:22Bang the wall here
09:23At Turn 15?
09:26Glancing low
09:29Lightest of touches
09:30Oh, he's on the entry to 16
09:32That's where it was
09:32It was actually
09:33He was looking left
09:35At the apex of 16
09:36He is into the barriers
09:37So there will be no chance of an overtake down there
09:40The green flag waves because it's past the incident
09:44But Bottas has gone into the barriers at that corner
09:47He's not won a race since Austria
09:50He wants to close down the championship lead to his teammate
09:52He dearly wants another Grand Prix victory here today
09:55He's got the power down the straight
09:58George Russell for the first time in his career
10:00Leads from start to finish
10:02George Russell wins
10:03The Azerbaijan Grand Prix
10:05By one tenth
10:07One tenth of a second
10:09From Max Verstappen
10:11Great job this weekend mate
10:13Really good
10:14Woo!
10:15Oh, that was a fast last in
10:17He was er...
10:19Fushing
10:21Made you work for your money
10:22I lost er...
10:23After that double yellow
10:24I lost a boost
10:25I had no power
10:26Er... pemmier
10:27I thought you were gonna get us
10:282-3
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