F1: Ferrari power fails in Baku as Red Bull trolls Verstappen lead 1-2

Max Verstappen took advantage of another Ferrari’s credibility issue when both Leclerc and Sainz retired from the race in Baku to secure their fifth win of the 2022 season.

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Sahil Gupta
, Published: 12-Jun-22 06:32 PM IST

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Ferrari again failed to capitalize on Leclerc’s 6th pole of the season in Baku as both scarlet cars retired giving Red Bull a commanding 1–2 lead under defending world champion Verstappen. Leclerc had lost the lead to Pérez at the start of the race and was struggling to keep up with Red Bull, but was relegated to a hydraulic problem thanks to the retirement of his teammate Carlos Sainz Jr. was erected under. Started catching the safety car and Red Bull fast. In this period, Verstappen overtook Perez, but they overtook him when the Red Bull duo overtook Ferrari, but fatality struck Ferrari as Monegasque had another power unit failure.

Perez overtook Leclerc at the start of the race

Even for Ferrari’s customers, it was a terrible race as both Guanue Zhou and Kevin Magnussen ended with engine failures for Alfa Romeo and Haas. Of the 6 Ferrari-powered cars, only 2 survived the race, with Lance Stroll having additional retirement at the end of the race. In the chaos, George Russell at Mercedes delivered in another solid drive for P3, significantly again, ahead of his 7-time world champion teammate Lewis Hamilton, who managed a fine P4.

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Pierre Gasly had the best race of the season at Alphatauri on P5, ahead of a resurgent Sebastian Vettel, who managed P6 for Aston Martin. Fernando Alonso gave a stellar performance for the P7 in the alpine going straight up to speeds of up to 347 km/h in Baku. He was followed in P8 and P9 by the McLaren pair of Ricciardo and Norris. Esteban Ocon was the P10 in the second alpine.

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Bottas finished outside points ahead of Albon in P12 for Williams in P11 for Alfa Romeo. Yuki Tsunoda managed P13 at AlphaTauri just ahead of Mick Schumacher at Alone Haas and Nicolas Latifi at Williams.

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