George Russell endured a troublesome begin to the Baku weekend with energy unit issues that hampered his operating in apply. He overcame these nicely to guide the Mercedes cost in qualifying, inserting fifth to workforce mate Lewis Hamilton’s seventh – previous to the latter taking an engine penalty. Russell spent a bit of his race dicing with Verstappen, earlier than breaking clear and being in the correct place on the proper time to seize a podium after the Perez/Sainz conflict.
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Lacking out
Pierre Gasly was near the highest 10 minimize after recovering from an engine penalty of his personal to complete twelfth for Alpine, adopted by Hulkenberg, who was unlucky to not rating factors, and Verstappen, who spent qualifying and the race battling stability points after modifications despatched his set-up “over the sting”.
