FACTS AND STATS: Red Bull lose constructors’ lead after 55 races and Bearman makes rookie history

A thrilling race in Azerbaijan has given us some fascinating figures to mull over. McLaren finally toppled Red Bull at the top of the standings, while Haas stand-in Ollie Bearman became the first driver to score points with two different teams in his first two Grands Prix. Want more? Take your pick…

• Today’s race was the second this season to finish under the Virtual Safety Car (VSC). It also happened in Australia.

• McLaren’s Oscar Piastri won what was the 100th race of the 2020s decade.

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• It was his second career win, both of them from second on the grid (he also won in Hungary).

• McLaren had never previously finished in the top five in Baku.

• Piastri has been the top scorer in the world championship over the last seven Grands Prix.

• McLaren last led the constructors’ championship after the first race of the hybrid era, the 2014 Australian Grand Prix.

• Red Bull had led the constructors’ championship continuously from Spain 2022 to Azerbaijan 2024. That’s 55 races or 847 days.

• P2 for Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was his best-ever result in Baku.

• Leclerc failed to win from pole in Baku for the fourth consecutive year.

• Leclerc has only won one of his last 15 starts from pole (Monaco 2024).

RACE START: Watch the getaway in Baku as Leclerc cleanly clings onto P1 while Perez jumps Sainz

• George Russell’s P3 for Mercedes was his third podium finish of the season.

• With P4 for McLaren, Lando Norris closed the championship gap to Max Verstappen to 59 points with seven Grands Prix and three Sprints remaining.

• Verstappen’s P5 finish for Red Bull means he has just one podium finish from the last five races.

• P6 for Fernando Alonso was his and Aston Martin's best result since Canada, eight races ago.

• With P7, Alex Albon secured Williams' best result of the season.

• And with P8, his team mate Franco Colapinto scored his first career points in only his second start.

• Colapinto has scored more points in two races (four) than his Williams predecessor Logan Sargeant scored in the 2023/2024 seasons (one).

• Williams scored with both cars for only the second time in the last three seasons (the last time was USA 2023).

• Colapinto is the first Argentine to score points since Carlos Reutemann, also for Williams, at the 1982 South African Grand Prix.

• Lewis Hamilton’s P9 for Mercedes was his 16th points finish in 17 Grands Prix this year.

HIGHLIGHTS: Relive the action from Baku as Piastri takes exhilarating victory in dramatic fight for the win

• Hamilton today surpassed 100,000 kilometres raced in his Grand Prix career. He is the second driver to do so after Fernando Alonso.

• Oliver Bearman took P10 for Haas and became the first driver in F1 history to score for two different constructors in his first two Grands Prix (he finished seventh for Ferrari in Saudi Arabia).

• In the second Haas, Nico Hulkenberg finished 11th for the seventh time this season, breaking the record for most times finishing one place outside the points in a single season (Michele Alboreto, 1992).

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