Piastri takes Azerbaijan GP win as McLaren takes championship lead
15th September 2024McLaren have taken the championship lead after their driver Oscar Piastri took the Formula 1 victory at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
Feature image credit: McLaren Racing
Piastri has taken his second career victory at the Baku city street circuit as he described the race as ‘stressful’ following multiple failed attacks by Ferrari’s fierce Monegasque driver, Charles Leclerc.
With his second win in the bag, following the Hungarian Grand Prix, plus Norris’s fourth-place finish – after Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz and Red Bull’s Sergio Perez crashed out – means McLaren now leads the world championship by 20 points.
Despite numerous attempts to regain the race lead, Charles Leclerc could not find a way past the McLaren of Piastri. In the dying laps, it looked as if the Monegasque would fall out of podium contention as his tyres fell off the cliff.
However, on lap 50, Sainz and Perez came together down the straight in between turns two and three. Comprimised by Leclerc’s retaliation into turn 1, when Perez tried to make a move, the Mexican lost out to Sainz to fall from third to fourth.
Sainz and Perez soon locked tyres, Sainz’s rear-left with Perez’s front-right, and collided with the barrier.
In turn, this promoted Mercedes’ George Russell into third place with championship contenders, McLaren’s Lando Norris and Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen finishing fourth and fifth.
Aston Martin’s sole driver, Fernando Alonso, finished sixth after his teammate Lance Stroll retired with brake issues.
Williams had a double finish with Alexander Albon and Franco Colapinto in seventh and eighth. It gives the latter his first championship points (4) of his F1 career, in his second grand prix outing.
British drivers of Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton and Haas’ Oliver Bearman completed the top 10 in ninth and 10th respectively.
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