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Perez wins, Verstappen and Hamilton scoreless

by Zane Shackleton
June 7, 2021
in Formula 1, International, News
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Sergio Perez won a wild Azerbaijan Formula 1 Grand Prix where both championship protagonists failed to score a point.

Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton were running first and third coming into the final five laps.

However, a left-rear puncture along the main straight sent Verstappen careening into the concrete barrier at over 300 kph.

A similar accident occurred earlier when Lance Stroll suffered a tyre failure on the straight and crashed heavily.

F1 tyre supplier Pirelli says an investigation into why these tyres failed is currently ongoing.

“I believe I can exclude that the failures were due to tyre wear,” Pirelli’s F1 boss Mario Isola said.

“For Max, it could be debris from Lance’s car,” said Isola. “For Lance, honestly I don’t know because there were no incidents before his crash.”

Verstappen’s accident triggered the red flag, and a sure victory slipped from his grasp.

The full-grid restart then took place with two laps remaining, with Perez and Hamilton on the front row.

Hamilton got the better start but then violently locked his front brakes and shot down the escape road, dropping him to dead last.

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The defending world champion had accidentally changed a brake bias preset on his steering wheel before the start.

“I no idea I’d even touched it,” Hamilton said post-race.

That left Perez to romp home to his first win with Red Bull, while Sebastian Vettel emerged from the chaos to snare second for Aston Martin.

“I’m very sorry for Max because he did a tremendous race and he really deserved the win,” Perez said.

“It would have been incredible to get that one-two for the team, but at the end, it is a fantastic day for us.”

Pierre Gasly and pole-sitter Charles Leclerc had a ding-dong battle over the two-lap restart.

Leclerc snuck the Ferrari ahead of Gasly at turn one at the start of the final lap before the AlphaTauri driver immediately retaliated and re-claimed the position.

Gasly clung on to the finish third, with Leclerc the highest-placed Ferrari in fourth.

Lando Norris was a big mover in the restart, and he climbed to fifth, ahead of Fernando Alonso.

Yuki Tsunoda put both AlphaTauri cars in the top ten with an seventh-place finish.

Meanwhile, Carlos Sainz recovered from a venture down an escape road to finish eighth and add to his points tally.

Completer the scorers were Daniel Ricciardo and Kimi Raikkonen.

Championship-wise, Verstappen still leads Hamilton by four points as Perez leapfrogs Norris to move into third.

The next round of the world championship will be the French Grand Prix on June 21.

PosNameGap
1Sergio Pérez2h13m36.41s
2Sebastian Vettel+1.385s
3Pierre Gasly+2.762s
4Charles Leclerc+3.828s
5Lando Norris+4.754s
6Fernando Alonso+6.382s
7Yuki Tsunoda+6.624s
8Carlos Sainz Jr.+7.709s
9Daniel Ricciardo+8.874s
10Kimi Räikkönen+9.576s
11Antonio Giovinazzi+10.254s
12Valtteri Bottas+11.264s
13Mick Schumacher+14.241s
14Nikita Mazepin+14.315s
15Lewis Hamilton+17.668s
16Nicholas Latifi+42.379s
George RussellDNF
Max VerstappenDNF
Lance StrollDNF
Esteban OconDNF

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