00:00Okay, five lights on ahead of the drivers, it's lights out, and away we go, and Leclerc gets away well, ahead of Hamilton and Verstappen, and then beyond Sainz and Gasly, scrapping away behind them, but it's Charles Leclerc with a clear lead going through turn one, he's got the start, he's got the pole, and he's gone away from Lewis Hamilton, and they're looking up, Sainz, Gasly ahead, Sergio Perez making up places as well, the two McLarens getting bogged down in the midfield, it's Hamilton right behind him, and Leclerc's been leading throughout this race, but not for long,
00:29because Hamilton's got the toe, he's got the slipstream, he doesn't need it, and he makes the pass to take the lead of this race, Leclerc's going to try and fight him back, going into turn one, and it's Hamilton now ahead of Leclerc with Verstappen in third, yeah, and I think Leclerc's had a bit of a moment up in turn 15, he's cut the chicane earlier on the lap, and that's getting Hamilton a chance to bounce on now, what Max needs to do, he needs to push his way through, let's see what happened, with Charles Leclerc going into turn 15, that's Max Verstappen on the inside,
00:58so I wonder, is there a bit of debris on the track, that might be a fallen branch or something, that's on the track, I just wonder if that damage was from Schlappen's front wing, because he was the victim of it, Hamilton also went through it, but you could,
01:10with balance, he was reportedly being on the nose, so basically Hamilton's saying, I can live with it, but I'm on a knife edge here, yeah, but what he'd be tip on the team is, he needs to take a bit of wing out, and the calculations for me, look at Sergio Perez, straight there for protection, this is exactly what Red Bull need, isn't it, up to third place, what a drive so far,
01:28in the space of a single lap, Charles Leclerc is now out of the podium at places, as Sebastian Vettel gets past Fernando Alonso, and moves up into eighth, and Valtteri Bottas gets past Fernando Alonso,
01:40who's got awful lot closer to the Italian, than he has been for the last few laps, and this is a battle, that Sainz wouldn't really have wanted, because it's the 13th place,
01:48but he's going to give it everything, and down towards term three, has he got clear enough, just, to slide round the outside, of Antonio Giovinazzi, but that could easily, have been contact between the two cars,
02:00some of the Ferrari drivers, of course, V Hobanazzi, placed in Alfa Rio, has been a Ferrari Junior, a wise decision,
02:07I think, to back out of that, and that Ferrari's a bit quicker, but Carlos Sainz, obviously,
02:10trying to get back from that mistake he made up in Tourney, I think, on an out-lap, on a hard tyre, just over-cooked it,
02:16yeah, Antonio Giovinazzi likes this place, he won the GPT feature race,
02:21Here, and that charge he put on the last lap has probably been well worth it.
02:26So this is where Mazepit does, again, out of the lane.
02:29And had he have not stopped that, Hamilton then got to put up with...
02:33Okay, it's back now. We are nursing an issue.
02:37He's feeling a loss of power now.
02:40I wonder if that's clicking.
02:42Oh, no, and that is an accident, and it is last stroll in the Aston Martin.
02:47And as I said, here in Baku, you are only a few centimetres away from a big accident,
02:54and Lance Stroll, who might well have been coming into the pits,
02:57the only driver who hadn't pitted in this race so far,
03:00has left a huge amount of debris on the track,
03:03and a safety car, you would imagine, is inevitable.
03:07The barriers are damaged. I wouldn't expect we'd need a red flag,
03:10because there are concrete walls around here,
03:12but while the pit's shut, that is going to punch the field up, then it is not...
03:16Hopefully not going to make too much of a difference to how the order is at the moment.
03:20Well, this is where, if you've got fresher tyres, you might just benefit at the restart.
03:25Let's have a look and see what happened to Lance Stroll.
03:28And yeah, absolutely no chance of avoiding the accidents.
03:37I said, potentially coming into the pits.
03:40He was the only one who hadn't pitted so far 30 laps into this race.
03:45Oh, that is a... that's an impact, isn't it?
03:48Of course, what we don't know if it was debris, but there was a puncture.
04:05Compared to Hamilton, but of course, this is a slipstream game.
04:08This is what the V-Stars all about, and Sebastian Vettel getting a nice one up here.
04:11Gasly's gonna get it done.
04:12He's got the toe, he's got the fresher tyres, he's got the pace.
04:15Sebastian Vettel's got fourth place here at Baku.
04:18He loves this track start in the top four.
04:21And it...
04:22Metal shocked me.
04:23That's not possible.
04:27Sadly, Pierre, it was.
04:29He's punching a big hole in the air, Pierre.
04:31You know, he didn't have a slipstream from Hamilton in front.
04:33Meanwhile, Valtteri Bottas, who said, was having problems,
04:36and he got overtaken by Fernando Alonso.
04:37And this is where Kenny Raikkonen, two fins,
04:41going into the slowest corner.
04:4317, I think it was, for second place.
04:45It can go right down to the chequered flag.
04:48And look at...
04:49Oh!
04:50And it's Max Verstappen!
04:51Max Verstappen on the main straight.
04:54Leading this race, now out of this race.
04:57Sergio Perez leads from Lewis Hamilton.
05:00Sebastian Vettel up into the podium places.
05:03We saw Valtteri Bottas back in 2018 lose the Azerbaijan.
05:09We have officially deployed Max Verstappen checks to see if the coast...
05:13And let's have a look, Paul, at what has happened here.
05:15Yeah, actually, I just want to see what happens.
05:17It's not acceptable.
05:18It's not acceptable, Crofty.
05:19Pirelli have gone one step softer with the tight compounds for this year's race.
05:24Have they gone too soft or...?
05:26It's horrible when you see cars do that when they're at that speed.
05:27I mean, luckily he went that side and not the pit lane side because it was...
05:29...slightly more...
05:30It's not acceptable.
05:31It's not acceptable.
05:32It's not acceptable, Crofty.
05:33It's not acceptable.
05:34It's not acceptable, Crofty.
05:35Pirelli have gone one step softer with the tight compounds for this year's race.
05:39Have they gone too...
05:42soft or...?
05:44It's horrible when you see cars do that when they're at that speed.
05:49Luckily he went that side and not the pit lane side because the Wolves Sleidman did win this, but here's Blanche Stoll coming up, who we've seen the tyre failure earlier on.
06:03There's going to be some seriously big questions from the teams.
06:06He's on the grid waiting for the five lights.
06:10Perez on pole, Hamilton alongside him on the front row, Perez gets on the bar, Hamilton will spin, Sebastian Vettel is coming at him as well, Perez trying to come off Hamilton.
06:19Oh, so it goes straight off, Perez leads from Sebastian Vettel and then comes Pierre Gasly and she's coming to the podium places.
06:26He started on pole but yet finished on the podium, Gasly's going to come back at him again though.
06:31The Alpha Terry goes a bit deep and gets past Charles Leclerc.
06:36Out in front, Perez from Vettel, this strap's still going on.
06:39Gasly's still ahead of the Ferrari, behind the round of Perez.
06:42Perez moved teams over the winter, went to Red Bull in his sixth race for his new team.
06:49Sergio Perez wins the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Sebastian Vettel moved teams.
06:54He picks up his first podium for Aston Martin and their first podium.
06:59On the podium for the first time then, since Italy last year.
07:03Let's celebrate.
07:04Rounding off the smiles on the podium.
07:06What a Baku race it once.
07:08What an Azamajan Grand Prix.
07:10Perez picks up the points for Stamford and Hamilton.
07:14The championship contenders both fail to finish.
07:18To Baku to the drawing board for them.
07:20It's celebrations for Perez tonight.
07:22Okay, if anybody could have guessed this podium, I'd be so interested to see who it was going to be.
07:36It's Sergio Perez there with his second win.
07:38He brought in his maiden win in Saki last year, which very much allowed him to get into this seat over at Red Bull.
07:45And he is delivering.
07:47And then we have Sebastian Vettel.
07:50Aston Martin.
07:51Aston Martin, the other.
07:52I'm sorry.
07:53He's wearing a blue blue blue blue.
07:54In the air.
07:55We have a blue blue.
07:56A black blue blue.
07:57He went to the blue blue.
07:58And he went to the blue blue.
07:59And they made beautiful blue.
08:00It's his last year.
08:01And they have a blue blue blue.
08:02The blue blue blue blue.
08:03And they're beneath the blue blue.
08:04And they're definitely coming to suit.
08:06Where the blue blue.
08:07And they're headed.
08:08When there's aidentified blue blue.
08:09And they're even wondering what the blue blue.
