Turbocharged in Baku: Unleashing the Thrilling Facts and Stats of the 2024 F1 Azerbaijan GP

The thrilling race of the F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2024 produced some interesting numbers.

McLaren finally overtook Red Bull to take the lead in the standings, with Haas replacement Ollie Bearman becoming the first driver to score points for two different teams in his first two grands prix.

■Today’s race ended with the Virtual Safety Car (VSC) still at the wheel for the second time this season. The same thing happened in Australia.

■McLaren’s Oscar Piastri wins his 100th race of the 2020s.

■This was his second career win, both coming from second place on the grid (he also won in Hungary).

■McLaren had never finished in the top five in Baku.

■Piastri has been the top scorer in the world championship in the last seven Grands Prix.

■McLaren last led the constructors’ championship at the 2014 Australian Grand Prix, the first race of the hybrid era.

It was a pleasant surprise for Franco Colapinto, who scored points in his second F1 appearance.

■Red Bull has led the constructors’ championship consecutively from Spain in 2022 to Azerbaijan in 2024. This equates to 55 races and 847 days.

■For Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, second place was his best result in Baku.

■Leclerc failed to win from pole position in Baku for the fourth consecutive year.

■ Of the last 15 times Leclerc has started from pole position, he has won only once (Monaco 2024).

■Mercedes’ George Russell finished third, earning his third podium of the season.

McLaren’s Lando Norris finished fourth, closing the championship gap to Max Verstappen to 59 points with seven grands prix and three sprints remaining.

■Red Bull’s Verstappen finished fifth, meaning he has only finished on the podium once in the last five races.

■Fernando Alonso’s sixth place was his and Aston Martin’s best result since Canada, eight races ago.

■Alex Albon achieved Williams’ best result of the season with seventh place.

■And teammate Franco Colapinto finished eighth, scoring his first career points in just his second start.

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■Colapinto surpassed by two races (4 points) the number of points (1 point) won by former Williams driver Logan Sargent in the 2023/2024 season.

■This is the second time in the last three seasons that both Williams have scored points (the last time was at the 2023 United States Grand Prix).

■Colapinto became the first Argentine driver to score points since his Williams teammate Carlos Reutemann in the 1982 South African Grand Prix.

■ Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton took ninth place, his 16th points finish from 17 races this season.

■Hamilton has covered more than 100,000 km in his Grand Prix career. He is the second player to achieve this record after Fernando Alonso.

■Oliver Bearman finished 10th with Haas, becoming the first driver in F1 history to score points in his first race with two different manufacturers (7th in Saudi Arabia with Ferrari).

■In the second Haas, Nico Hulkenberg finished 11th for the seventh time this season, breaking the record for the most times he dropped one place outside the points in a single season (Michele Alboreto, 1992).

Category: Formula 1 / F1 Azerbaijan GP