THE AZERBAIJAN GP IN 5 KEY MOMENTS

1 Pérez becomes Baku’s first repeat winner The first six Formula 1 grands prix in Azerbaijan had produced six different winners – but, after the seventh edition, the Baku promoters will find it much harder to lean into their ‘expect the unexpected’ tagline, since there was little surprise in Sergio Pérez winning yet another street circuit race. Since joining Red Bull just over two years ago, the Mexican has won in Baku, Monaco, Singapore and Jeddah; owing to the relative scarcity of other street circuits on the calendar he has inevitably started to repeat himself. In fact, his victory on Sunday was Pérez’s third in Baku since he had also won the sprint the day before, on the first weekend F1 trialled a new format in which the Saturday race is effectively…

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