Piastri secures his second Grand Prix win, Leclerc fails to convert pole to a win for the 20th time and Colapinto scores points for the first time in his career. Here are the facts and statistics from the 2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
PIASTRI WINS THE 2024 AZERBAIJAN GRAND PRIX
Oscar Piastri won the 2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, taking the second Grand Prix win of his Formula 1 career. It made the driver of car number 81 the 81st driver to have won multiple rounds of the World Championship since it began in 1950.
Piastri is the seventh different driver to have won at Baku City Circuit in eight Formula 1 races to date at the track. This was the first time Piastri has scored a point in Azerbaijan.
McLaren become the third team, after Mercedes and Red Bull, to have won at Baku City Circuit. They are also the eighth different constructor (and seventh different team) to have finished on the podium at the track.
Piastri’s win made the 2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix the 13th consecutive race in which a McLaren driver has finished on the podium. It equals the team’s second-longest podium streak in their history.
Piastri was voted Driver of the Day for the fourth time in his Formula 1 career.
ON THE PODIUM
Charles Leclerc and George Russell joined Oscar Piastri on the 2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix podium. While Piastri became the 13th different podium finisher at the track, Leclerc and Russell became the sixth and seventh drivers to take multiple top three results in Baku.
This was the first Formula 1 podium made up entirely of F2 champions – and the third to be made up exclusively of GP2 and F2 champions, after the 2015 and 2024 Belgian Grands Prix.
For the fourth year in a row, Charles Leclerc failed to convert Azerbaijan Grand Prix pole position into a win. This was the 20th time that Leclerc has taken pole and not won the race, seeing him move ahead of Nelson Piquet to fifth on the list of drivers who’ve had the most failed pole to win conversions in Formula 1.
Leclerc finished on the podium for the fourth consecutive race. This is the first time since 2022 that he has finished on the podium in four successive races.
Scoring his 39th podium finish, Leclerc equalled Sergio Perez for 24th on the all-time list of most Formula 1 podium finishes.
Leclerc equalled Ferrari’s best result in Azerbaijan, with the team previously finishing second in both 2016 and 2018.
With both Ferrari drivers leading laps in the race, the 2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix was the 500th Grand Prix which Ferrari have led.
George Russell’s third place finish at the 2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix saw Mercedes move ahead of Red Bull as the team with the most podium finishes at Baku City Circuit. This was the team’s seventh podium finish in Azerbaijan.
McLAREN LEAD THE CONSTRUCTORS’ CHAMPIONSHIP
McLaren had never finished in the top four at Baku City Circuit prior to 2024. With Oscar Piastri winning and Lando Norris finishing fourth, McLaren finished with both cars in the top four.
Norris set the fastest lap for the tenth time in his career – and did so for a third consecutive race. It is the 35th time in Formula 1 that a driver has set the fastest lap at three consecutive races.
Norris made up 11 places in the race – the most he’s gained in a single race since moving up 12 positions in the 2023 Mexico City Grand Prix.
As a result of the 2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, McLaren lead the Constructors’ Championship for the first time in over ten years, since the 2014 Australian Grand Prix. Ths is the first time in 55 races – since the 2022 Miami Grand Prix – that Red Bull do not lead the Constructors’ Championship.
McLaren lead the Constructors’ Championship by 20 points – their largest lead since leading by 24 points after the 2012 Chinese Grand Prix.
IN THE POINTS
Max Verstappen finished fifth in the 2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, making this the 60th consecutive race weekend in which Red Bull have scored a point. They are only the fourth constructor, after McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes, to have scored points in 60 successive Grands Prix.
Having finished sixth at the Italian Grand Prix, this is the first time that Verstappen has finished outside of the top four at two races in a row since the 2021 British and Hungarian Grands Prix.
Fernando Alonso finished sixth in the 2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, recording his first top six result since the Canadian Grand Prix.
With seventh place, Alex Albon recorded his best result since finishing seventh in the 2023 Italian Grand Prix. Having finished ninth last time out in Monza, this is the first time Albon has scored points at consecutive races since the 2023 United States and Mexico City Grands Prix.
Finishing ninth, Lewis Hamilton became the first driver to score points at Baku City Circuit on seven occasions, moving ahead of both Sebastian Vettel and Sergio Perez on the list of drivers with the most points-scoring appearances at the track.
This was the first time Hamilton has gained ten or more positions in a Grand Prix since gaining 14 places in the 2022 Italian Grand Prix.
Ninth place is Hamilton’s worst result since the Chinese Grand Prix, where he also finished ninth.
Hamilton maintained his record of being the only driver who has completed every racing lap to date at Baku City Circuit.
Hamilton also maintained his record of scoring points each time he has started a race from the pit lane. He finished third from the pit lane at the 2014 Hungarian Grand Prix and finished fourth from the pit lane at the 2017 Brazilian Grand Prix. He is the first driver to score a point having started in the pit lane since Lance Stroll finished seventh from the pits in the 2023 United States Grand Prix.
ROOKIES SCORE POINTS
In their second Formula 1 starts, Franco Colapinto and Ollie Bearman both picked up points.
For Bearman, this was his second points-scoring appearance, having scored at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix with Ferrari. Bearman becomes the first driver in Formula 1 history to score points with two different constructors in his first two Formula 1 starts.
Bearman scored Haas’ first points in Azerbaijan since 2017, when Kevin Magnussen finished seventh.
Colapinto is the first Argentine driver to finish in the top eight since Gaston Mazzacane at the 2000 European Grand Prix and is the first Argentine driver to score a point since Carlos Reutemann at the 1982 South African Grand Prix.
Colapinto has now scored more points in two races than Logan Sargeant did in the previous 37 races and has scored more points in two races than Sargeant and Nicholas Latifi did between them in the previous 69 Grands Prix.
Scoring 10 points in total, this was Williams’ largest points haul since the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix, where the team also scored 10 points in the rain-shortened race. The last time Williams scored more than 10 points in a single race was at the 2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
This was the first time in their history that Williams finished with both cars in the top eight in Baku. The 2016 European Grand Prix is the only other time that both Williams drivers have scored in Azerbaijan.
Colapinto is the third driver to record the first points of his career in Azerbaijan after Charles Leclerc and Brendon Hartley both did so in 2018.
THE OTHER FINISHERS
Nico Hulkenberg was running tenth until being overtaken by his team-mate just before the race-ending Virtual Safety Car was called. He finished 11th for the seventh time this season.
With Daniel Ricciardo finishing 13th and Yuki Tsunoda retiring, this was the first time since 2019 that the Red Bull junior team failed to score a point at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
For the first time in his career, Zhou Guanyu reached the chequered flag at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
Finishing 15th, Esteban Ocon was the only driver to record the same result in the 2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix as he did at the track in 2023.
THE RETIREES
Yuki Tsunoda was the first driver to retire from the 2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, retiring for the second race weekend in a row. The retirement brought an end to Tsunoda’s 100% finish rate at Baku City Circuit.
Lance Stroll was the second driver to retire from the race, recording his first DNF since crashing out of the 2024 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
The race came to a dramatic conclusion as Sergio Perez and Carlos Sainz collided on the penultimate lap. Perez recorded his third DNF of the 2024 season – his first since the Canadian Grand Prix. Meanwhile, Sainz recorded his second DNF of the year, also his first since Canada.
This was the first race in which two of the top four starters failed to finish since the 2022 Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
Stroll and Sainz’s retirements saw them equal Daniil Kvyat and Max Verstappen as the drivers with the most retirements in Baku. This was Stroll’s third DNF in the last four races at the track.
Sainz’s DNF was the first for the driver starting third on the grid so far this season. Fifth is now the only grid slot to score points at every Grand Prix to date in 2024.
