The Baku city circuit is famous for causing a lot of drama, and today it has also produced some pretty amazing numbers, helped in large part by Max Verstappen and Red Bull race winners. There were a lot of fascinating figures up and down the grid, but …
• Verstappen became the sixth different winner in six F1 races in Baku.
• Today’s victory means that Red Bull has won five races in a row for the third time in its history (Sebastian Vettel won nine in a row in 2013; Verstappen and Sergio Pérez won five in a row in 2021).
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• Verstappen had never been on the podium in Baku before.
• It is the 66th Verstappen podium for Red Bull, beating Vettel’s team record.
• Verstappen’s 25th career victory unites him with Jim Clark and Niki Lauda to ninth on the all-time list.
• Red Bull’s 81st F1 victory draws them to Lotus in fifth place on the all-time list.
• Baku was one of the only two tracks on the 2022 calendar where Verstappen failed to get the podium of his career: the other is Monza.
• Verstappen has now scored 100 points as a Red Bull driver (not including the F1 Sprints).
George Russell maintained his top 5 for Mercedes with another podium
• With Perez in second place, Red Bull finished 20th in one-two of its history and third in one-two in the last five races, after only one in eight previous seasons (Malaysia 2016).
• With his fourth podium in Baku, Pérez is now the most successful rider in the history of this facility.
• Pérez finished in all the podiums in Baku (first in 2021, third in 2016/2018, second in 2022)
• With P3, George Russell of Mercedes has maintained his record as the only driver he has set in all races this season. He also finished in the top five in each race and is the only rider to have completed all the laps in 2022.
• For Russell it was his third podium of the year (he was also third in Australia and Spain).
• His teammate Lewis Hamilton finished 4th, his first place in the top four from Australia, five races ago. He is now 37 points behind Russell in the championship.
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• In 5th place, Pierre Gasly scored his first points from Australia (five races ago), and the best AlphaTauri result of 2022. The team now has the top five in a row in Baku.
• Aston Martin’s Sebastian Vettel was sixth, finishing in the top six in all Baku F1 races ever held.
• With Vettel’s P6, the Silverstone-based team holds its record for finishing with a car in the top six in all Baku F1 races, be it Force India, Racing Point or Aston Martin.
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• Fernando Alonso of Alpine was seventh, finishing in the same position for the second consecutive race on the day he set a new F1 longevity record, 7,771 days since his debut.
• With P8, McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo has only finished second in this year’s Grand Prix (he was sixth in the Australian Grand Prix as well as sixth in the Imola F1 Sprint).
• His teammate, Lando Norris, in 9th place, reached his 50th final of his career (not including the F1 Sprints).
• The 10th place of the Alpine Esteban Ocon was his first arrival in Baku since 2017.
• In 11th place, Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas has lost points only for the second time this season (he didn’t finish in Saudi Arabia).
• Today has been Ferrari’s first double withdrawal since Monza 2020.
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• Charles Leclerc has retired from leadership in two of the last three races.
• Ferrari is now 80 points behind Red Bull in the constructors’ championship, having been the leader at the start of the Spanish Grand Prix.