| 2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 17 of 24 in the2024 Formula One World Championship
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 Layout of the Baku City Circuit | |||||
| Race details[1] | |||||
| Date | 15 September 2024 (2024-09-15) | ||||
| Official name | Formula 1 Qatar AirwaysAzerbaijan Grand Prix 2024 | ||||
| Location | Baku City Circuit Baku, Azerbaijan | ||||
| Course | Street circuit | ||||
| Course length | 6.003 km (3.730 miles) | ||||
| Distance | 51 laps, 306.049 km (190.170 miles) | ||||
| Weather | Sunny | ||||
| Attendance | 76,000[2] | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver | Ferrari | ||||
| Time | 1:41.365 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver |  Lando Norris | McLaren-Mercedes | |||
| Time | 1:45.255 on lap 42 | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First | McLaren-Mercedes | ||||
| Second | Ferrari | ||||
| Third | Mercedes | ||||
Lap leaders | |||||
The2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix (officially known as theFormula 1 Qatar Airways Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2024) was aFormula One motor race held on 15 September 2024 at theBaku City Circuit inBaku,Azerbaijan. It was the seventeenth round of the2024 Formula One World Championship.
Charles Leclerc ofFerrari took pole position for the event for the fourth year in a row, but lost out toOscar Piastri ofMcLaren for the win and finished second, as Piastri took his second win in Formula One.George Russell inherited the final podium slot after Leclerc's teammateCarlos Sainz Jr. andRed Bull Racing'sSergio Pérez both crashed out on the penultimate lap while fighting for third and took themselves out of the race.Lando Norris recovered from a fifteenth-place start to finish fourth and take the fastest lap, one position over championship rivalMax Verstappen.
The event was held at theBaku City Circuit inBaku for the eighth time in the circuit's history, having previously held one edition of theEuropean Grand Prix in2016, across the weekend of 13–15 September.[3] Including the aforementioned European Grand Prix, which was held in June, this was the first Azerbaijan Grand Prix to be run in September, taking the place of theJapanese Grand Prix which moved to April from its traditional schedule between September and November; previous editions of the race ran during the first half of the season, between April and June. The move was part of Formula One's regionalisation efforts, scheduling the Azerbaijan Grand Prix as the first round after the European races.[4][5] The Grand Prix was the seventeenth round of the2024 Formula One World Championship and the seventh running of theAzerbaijan Grand Prix.[6]
Going into the weekend,Max Verstappen led theDrivers' Championship with 303 points, 62 points ahead ofLando Norris in second, and 86 ahead ofCharles Leclerc in third.Red Bull Racing, with 446 points, led theConstructors' Championship fromMcLaren andFerrari, who are second and third with 438 and 407 points, respectively.[7]
The drivers and teams were the same as the season entry list with two exceptions:[8]Franco Colapinto replacedLogan Sargeant atWilliams from the precedingItalian Grand Prix onwards,[9] whileKevin Magnussen ofHaas was given a one-race ban at the previous round, having caused a collision that put him over the limit of twelve penalty points within twelve months.[10] Magnussen was replaced by reserve driverOliver Bearman, who had last competed at theSaudi Arabian Grand Prix earlier in the season when he was substituted in forFerrari.[11]
Sole tyre supplierPirelli brought the C3, C4, and C5 tyre compounds (the three softest in their range) designated hard, medium, and soft, respectively, for teams to use at this event.[12]
TheDRS zone leading in to turn 1 was extended by 100 metres (330 ft).[13]
Threefree practice sessions were held for the event. The first free practice session was held on 13 September 2024, at 13:30 local time (UTC+4),[1] and was topped byMax Verstappen ofRed Bull Racing ahead ofLewis Hamilton ofMercedes and Verstappen's teammateSergio Pérez. The session saw three red flags be flown, the first for debris, the second for an accident involvingCharles Leclerc ofFerrari at turn 15, and the third for a crash involvingFranco Colapinto ofWilliams at turn 4.[14] The second free practice session was held on the same day, at 17:00 local time,[1] and was topped by Leclerc ahead of Pérez and Hamilton.[15]
The third practice session was held on 14 September 2024, at 12:30 local time,[1] and was topped byGeorge Russell of Mercedes ahead of Leclerc andLando Norris ofMcLaren. The session was red-flagged twice; firstly forEsteban Ocon ofAlpine stopping on track due to an engine issue, secondly forOliver Bearman ofHaas crashing at turn 1.[16]
Qualifying was held on 14 September 2024, at 16:00 local time (UTC+4).[1]
Notes
The race was held on 15 September 2024, at 15:00 local time (UTC+4), and was run for 51 laps.[1]
The race was won byMcLaren'sOscar Piastri, who took his second career win.Ferrari'sCharles Leclerc andGeorge Russell, driving forMercedes, rounded out the podium. McLaren's other driver,Lando Norris, obtained the fastest lap point and recovered from his fifteenth place start to finish fourth. WithRed Bull driverMax Verstappen finishing fifth, and his teammateSergio Pérez retiring, Red Bull lost the lead of the Constructors' championship to McLaren, marking the first time since the2022 Miami Grand Prix that Red Bull did not lead the Constructors' Championship, and the first time that McLaren led the Constructors' Championship since the2014 Australian Grand Prix. BothWilliams drivers scored a season-best finish of seventh and eighth, respectively, marking their best finish since the2021 Hungarian Grand Prix, andFranco Colapinto's four points made him the firstArgentine driver to score a point sinceCarlos Reutemann at the1982 South African Grand Prix. The race was neutralised on lap 50 after a collision, later deemed a shared-fault racing incident by the stewards,[22] betweenCarlos Sainz Jr. andSergio Pérez, causing both to retire and the race to end under the virtual safety car.[23]
Notes
The result saw McLaren take the lead in the Constructors' Championship ahead ofRed Bull Racing by 20 points, the first time they had led the Constructors' Championship since the2014 Australian Grand Prix, while Norris reduced his points deficit to Verstappen to 59 points.
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