(Reuters) – Formula One statistics for Sunday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku, the 17th round of the 24 race championship:
Lap distance: 6.003 km. Total distance: 306.049km (51 laps)
2023 pole position: Charles Leclerc (Monaco) Ferrari one minute 40.203 seconds
2023 winner: Sergio Perez (Mexico) Red Bull
Race lap record: Leclerc, 1:43.009. Ferrari, 2019
Start time: 1100GMT (1500 local)
AZERBAIJAN
The street circuit, with fast straights and a winding section through the old town, made its debut in 2016 as the European Grand Prix.
The name changed in 2017, when the race was held in June. There was no race in 2020 due to COVID-19.
Red Bull’s Sergio Perez is the only repeat winner in seven races in Baku and Mercedes and Red Bull are the only teams to have won there, with Red Bull the most successful.
Perez won in 2021 and 2023, was second in 2022 and also finished third for Force India in 2016 and 2018.
Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas, Daniel Ricciardo and Perez are the only current drivers to have won there.
Only two of the races have been won from pole (Nico Rosberg in 2016 and Bottas in 2019) and three from the front row. Ricciardo won for Red Bull from 10th on the grid in 2017 and Perez from sixth in 2021.
CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS
Verstappen leads McLaren’s Lando Norris by 62 points after 16 races.
Red Bull are eight ahead of McLaren in the constructors’ championship.
WINS
Seven times world champion Hamilton has a record 105 career victories from 348 starts, Verstappen has 61 from 201.
Four teams — Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes — have won this season, the most since 2021 when Red Bull, Mercedes, Alpine and McLaren won.
Seven different drivers have triumphed, the most in a single season since 2012 when there were eight.
Red Bull have gone six races without a win — Verstappen’s longest losing streak since 2020.
Mercedes, McLaren and Ferrari have all won three times this season while Red Bull’s Verstappen has won seven.
Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz was triumphant in Melbourne, Norris in Miami and the Netherlands, Leclerc in Monaco and Italy, Mercedes’s George Russell in Spain, Hamilton in Britain and Belgium and McLaren’s Oscar Piastri in Hungary.
Red Bull have won 120 races and are fourth in the all-time list. Ferrari lead with 246, McLaren have 186 and Mercedes 128.
POLE POSITION
Leclerc has had three poles in Baku (2021, 2022, 2023), the most by any driver.
Verstappen has had eight poles so far this year. That includes the first seven of the season, equalling Alain Prost’s 1993 record, and eight in a row including the last race of 2023 — equalling Ayrton Senna’s 1988-89 record.
The Dutch driver was last on pole in Austria in June.
Leclerc took pole in Monaco and Belgium, Russell was fastest in Canada and Britain. Norris took the top spot in Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands and Italy.
Norris has been on pole in three of the last four races.
Hamilton has a record 104 career poles, his most recent in Hungary in July 2023.
PODIUMS
Verstappen has 108 career podiums, Hamilton a record 201.
Verstappen and Norris have both been on the podium 10 times this season, Leclerc eight, Sainz and Piastri five.
MILESTONE
McLaren can take the lead in the constructors’ championship this weekend.
Oliver Bearman stands in for the second time this season, on this occasion with Haas as replacement for the suspended Kevin Magnussen. Magnussen is the first driver to be banned since Romain Grosjean in 2012.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Toby Davis)
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