

Net als in Saoedi-Arabië won Sergio Pérez voor teamgenoot Max Verstappen.Het topresultaat voor de constructeurskampioen betekende de 25e keer dat het Red Bull lukte om de bovenste twee plekken op het podium te bemachtigen. Perez and Verstappen then began to trade blows, and a tug of war over the fastest lap ensued - but the gap began to slowly open in Perez's favour, particularly when Verstappen started to complain of a lack of balance between his differential and engine braking.īy the end of lap 36, Perez was clocking in with laps in the 1m44s, with Verstappen still mired in the 1m45s to help the Guadalajara-born driver's lead grow to 2.5s - which broke the three-second mark two laps later as Perez continued his impressive pace. Red Bull Racing wist vandaag voor de derde keer in vier races tijd een één-twee-finish veilig gesteld. This gave Perez and Leclerc the chance to take cheaper pitstops under the safety car, allowing them to emerge from the pitlane in front of Verstappen once they'd collected their fresh hard tyres.Īlthough Leclerc tried to take a look at Perez on the restart, sticking with the leader, he could not keep Verstappen from blasting past at Turn 3 to assume second place.īut Perez had broken clear of DRS range, crucially ensuring that Verstappen could not employ the powerful rear wing against his own team-mate. Verstappen pitted in response, but the emergence of a lap 11 safety car as the marshals tried to clear de Vries' stranded AlphaTauri ensured that his side of the garage had somewhat mistimed the call - the safety car emerging when Verstappen was exiting the pitlane. Red Bull launch the second car of F1 2022, with Max Verstappen, Sergio Perez and Christian Horner all at RB18 unveiling new car built to F1's revolutionary new rules team also confirm new. Perez had homed to within DRS range of Verstappen, but the race was interrupted to pause the sprint race winner's progress when Nyck de Vries crunched his front-left wheel against the inside wall at Turn 6, and stopped on track. Red Bull Racing, also simply known as Red Bull or RBR and currently competing as Oracle Red Bull Racing, is a Formula One racing team, racing under an. Leclerc quickly fell out of range and was soon easy pickings for Perez, who then immediately began to chase after Verstappen in his efforts to secure a second career victory at the Baku circuit. Race winner Sergio Perez of Mexico and Oracle Red Bull Racing celebrates on the podium after winning the F1 Grand Prix of Azerbaijan at Baku City Circuit on Apin Baku, Azerbaijan.
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Leclerc led away at the start line from Verstappen and, without DRS being made available in the opening series of laps, was able to hold a scant lead over the two-time champion.īut at the end of the third lap, Verstappen breezed past the Ferrari driver thanks to the great speed advantage of his Red Bull with DRS active, and led into the first corner of the fourth lap.
