Oscar Piastri’s second profession victory in final weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix means McLaren have achieved a novel file this yr.
Each the staff’s drivers have scored the primary two world championship grand prix wins of their profession in the identical season. This has by no means beforehand occurred, except the distinctive circumstances of the primary ever world championship, when the probabilities of it occuring have been inevitably far larger.
Piastri is the 81st driver in F1 historical past to win a couple of grand prix – a becoming achievement given his race quantity. He turned the seventh completely different driver to win in Baku and the sixth completely different winner of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix (the primary race at this monitor was known as the European Grand Prix). Sergio Perez stays the one driver to have received this occasion twice, beneath any title.
Lando Norris set the quickest lap, the tenth time he has carried out so in his profession, placing him stage with a trio of world champions: Graham Hill, John Surtees and Mario Andretti.
Norris’ 11-place climb to fourth was one of the best enchancment any driver has made on their beginning place all yr, one higher than Lewis Hamilton managed in the identical race (having successfully began nineteenth within the pits forward of Esteban Ocon). Norris additionally gained locations on the primary lap, one thing he hasn’t managed in some other grand prix up to now this season.
After the primary 10 rounds of the yr, when Pink Bull had received seven occasions and Mercedes have been win-less, it regarded very very like the Milton Keynes staff would equal the wins tally of their Brackley rivals someday quickly. At that stage Pink Bull had received 120 rounds to Mercedes’ 125. Nonetheless Pink Bull can now not catch them this yr, having taken no additional victories since then whereas Mercedes have triumphed 3 times.
For the fourth yr in a row Charles Leclerc took pole place in Azerbaijan however was denied victory. This was the twenty second time he’s didn’t win from pole place: His strike fee is simply 15.3%. He has as many pole positions as Mika Hakkinen, who transformed 10 of his.
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Even when Perez hadn’t tangled with Carlos Sainz Jnr on the penultimate lap, placing each out, McLaren have been already on track to take the constructors’ championship lead off Pink Bull. Thus ended Pink Bull’s 833-day reign on the high of the standings.
Simply as when Verstappen and Norris collided in Austria, the best-placed driver to profit was George Russell. His third place moved him as much as seventh within the championship. Perez, who was as excessive as second within the standings six rounds in, has fallen to eighth, with every of the McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes drivers separating him from his points-leading staff mate – a grim consequence from a race wherein he’d spent each lap forward of Verstappen.
The crash led to a factors windfall for Williams, who scored 10 factors, their greatest haul for the reason that 2021 Belgian Grand Prix. Their drivers Russell and Nicholas Latifi completed second and ninth respectively on that event, however scored solely half factors because the race was drastically shortened. Nonetheless the pair additionally scored 10 factors within the previous spherical on the Hungaroring, Latifi taking seventh forward of Russell.
Franco Colapinto subsequently turned the primary driver from Argentina to attain factors since Carlos Reutemann completed second within the 1982 South African Grand Prix. This does a disservice to a couple different Argentinian drivers, nevertheless: Esteban Tuero and Gaston Mazzacane additionally achieved eighth-place finishes, in 1998 and 2000, each for Minardi, however solely the highest six drivers scored factors on the time. That was additionally the case when Norberto Fontana took two ninth-place finishes in 1997.
Ninth place for Hamilton meant he had little to have a good time on the event of his 349th grand prix begin. He has now entered as many races as Kimi Raikkonen, turning into the joint-second-most skilled driver in F1 historical past.
Lastly, Oliver Bearman achieved the distinctive distinction of not merely scoring factors in his first two grands prix, however doing up to now two completely different groups: Ferrari in Jeddah and Haas final weekend.
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