Ferrari Power Fails In Baku As Red Bull Trounces To Verstappen Led 1-2-share market daily

Max Verstappen took advantage of another Ferrari reliability issue when Leclerc and Sainz both retired from the race at Baku to take a commanding 5th win of the 2022 season

Mercedes has also closed the gap on Ferrari in the constructors championship

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Mercedes has also closed the gap on Ferrari in the constructors championship

Ferrari again failed to capitalise on Leclerc’s 6th pole of the season at Baku as both the scarlet cars retired giving Red Bull a commanding 1-2 led by the defending world champion Verstappen. Leclerc lost the lead at the start of the race to Perez and was struggling to keep up with the Red Bull but he was handed back an advantage thanks to the retirement of his teammate Carlos Sainz Jr due to a hydraulic issue as he pitted under the virtual safety car and started catching the Red Bulls rapidly. In this period, Verstappen overtook Perez but when the Red Bull duo pitted the Ferrari was back ahead of them but calamity struck Ferrari as the Monegasque had another power unit failure. 

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Perez overtook Leclerc at the start of the race

Even for Ferrari’s customers, this was a terrible race as both Guanyu Zhou and Kevin Magnussen ended up with engine failures for Alfa Romeo and Haas. Only 2 of the 6 Ferrari-powered cars survived the race with Lance Stroll being the additional retirement at the fag end of the race. In the chaos, George Russell in the Mercedes gave in another solid drive for P3, importantly again, ahead of his 7-time world champion teammate Lewis Hamilton who managed a decent P4. 

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Alonso broke Rubéns Barrichello’s record of the longest F1 career at Baku

Pierre Gasly had the best race of the season in the AlphaTauri at P5 ahead of a resurgent Sebastian Vettel who managed P6 for the Aston Martin. Fernando Alonso delivered a brilliant performance for P7 in the Alpine which was surging to speeds up to 347 km/h in the straight at Baku. He was tailed by the McLaren duo of Ricciardo and Norris in P8 and P9. Esteban Ocon was P10 in the second Alpine. 

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Bottas finished outside of the points in P11 for Alfa Romeo ahead of Albon in P12 for Williams. Yuki Tsunoda managed P13 in the AlphaTauri just ahead of Mick Schumacher in the lone Haas and Nicholas Latifi in the Williams. 

Round 8 2022 Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix Race Result
























Pos.Car No.DriverTeamTimePoints
11Max VerstappenRed Bull1:34:0625
211Sergio PerezRed Bull+20.823s19 (18+1 point for fastest lap)
363George RussellMercedes+45.995s15
444Lewis HamiltonMercedes+71.679s12
510Pierre GaslyAlphaTauri+77.299s10
65Sebastian VettelAston Martin+84.099s8
714Fernando AlonsoAlpine Renault+88.596s6
83Daniel RicciardoMcLaren+92.207s4
94Lando NorrisMcLaren+92.556s2
1031Esteban OconAlpine Renault+108.184s1
1177Valtteri BottasAlfa Romeo+1 lap0
1223Alexander AlbonWilliams+1 lap0
1322Yuki TsunodaAlphaTauri+1 lap0
1447Mick SchumacherHaas+1 lap0
156Nicholas LatifiWilliams+1 lap0
1618Lance StrollAston MartinDNF0
NC20Kevin MagnussenHaasDNF0
NC24Zhou GuanyuAlfa RomeoDNF0
NC16Charles LeclercFerrariDNF0
NC55Carlos SainzFerrariDNF0

Championship Standings After Round 8 – 2022 Azerbaijan GP

























Pos.DriverTeamPoints
1Max VerstappenRed Bull150
2Sergio PerezRed Bull129
3Charles LeclercFerrari116
4George RussellMercedes99
5Carlos SainzFerrari83
6Lewis HamiltonMercedes62
7Lando NorrisMcLaren50
8Valtteri BottasAlfa Romeo40
9Esteban OconAlpine Renault31
10Pierre GaslyAlphaTauri16
11Fernando AlonsoAlpine Renault16
12Kevin MagnussenHaas15
13Daniel RicciardoMcLaren15
14Sebastian VettelAston Martin13
15Yuki TsunodaAlphaTauri11
16Alexander AlbonWilliams3
17Lance StrollAston Martin2
18Zhou GuanyuAlfa Romeo1
19Mick SchumacherHaas0
20Nico HulkenbergAston Martin0
21Nicholas LatifiWilliams0

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