Perez Summit in Azerbaijan

Mexican Red Bull team driver Sergio Perez came first in the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, which was contested over 51 laps on the 6-kilometre Baku City Circuit in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc from Monaco, who started the race in first place, kept his place for the first 3 laps. Red Bull driver Max Verstappen on the 4th lap of the match, and his teammate Sergio Pérez on the 6th lap, leaving Leclerc behind, situated in the top two.

When AlphaTauri driver Nyck De Vries’ car came to a stop on lap 11, a caution was raised in the race and many drivers entered the pit stop. Returning to third in the race after the pitstop, Verstappen passed Leclerc for the second time without difficulty, but remained behind the leader Perez.

Pérez, who managed to maintain his lead in the remaining division, took the checkered flag first with a time of 1:32:42.436 in the race for the top, which was the scene of much contention between the two drivers, and moved up to the top of the podium for the second time this season and the sixth time in his career.

The Mexican driver, who reduced the point difference between Vestappen and Vestappen to 8 in the fight for the championship in the drivers’ standings, also became the first driver to win the Azerbaijan Grand Prix twice.

Verstappen, who came to the finish 2.137sec behind his teammate, was on the podium in second and Leclerc, 21.217sec off the leader, was on the podium in third. The 41-year-old Spanish driver for the Aston Martin team, Fernando Alonso, who has attracted attention with his stable performance this season, finished the race in fourth place.

The fifth race of the season, the Miami Grand Prix, will take place on Sunday, May 7.

After the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, the top 5 places in the driver and team standings were as follows:

pilots:

one. Max Verstappen (Holland): 87 points

2. Sergio Perez (Mexico): 79

3. Fernando Alonso (Spain): 57

4. Lewis Hamilton (Great Britain): 46

5. Carlos Sainz (Spain): 30

Equipment:

one. red bull: 166

2. Aston Martin: 83

3. mercedes: 69

4. Ferrari: 51

5. McLaren: 14 (AA)