F1 2022 Round 8 - AZERBAIJAN GP
Eventfull race last year with tire fails and Brake magic and Aston Poduims
will it be more of the same ? , Will the Really really long straight show more bouncing than previous races .
Start times :
Literally all the challengers hit a wall at least once. It’s quali on a street circuit and they’re going for it. Makes the spectacle even more impressive.
At least one red flag tomorrow surely.
Did Leclerc just smoke Herbert at the end of his interview there? Haha
It really is red bull ferrari and then the rest this year, they're a mile ahead of the rest. Toto seems absolutely dejected everytime he gives an interview about the car.
Should be an interesting race tomorrow with safety cars/ red flags a possibility, midfield seems on top of eachother so hopefully some good racing there. If Perez and Verstappen can get past leclerc it will be interesting to see if team orders come into play, I can't envisage checo being too keen to be a team player this time around.
Checo shouldn't be keen, quicker than Max again all this weekend.
perez is defo in the hunt for the championship.
Alpine look like they prepared for Just one section of the track .
No Further action against Hamilton & Norris , both were still on the lap Delta
Let’s have some perspective. In every single race they’ve finished this year prior to Monaco Max finished 10+ seconds ahead of Perez. Without the DRS issue in Spain he’d have probably finished 30 seconds ahead in that one. At Monaco Max couldn’t get a final Q3 run because Perez crashed, while in the race Perez was never able to pull away at all and Max looked to have the pace to comfortably keep up, but it’s impossible to overtake in Monaco and the team gave Checo priority in the pitstops.
They’ve been teammates for 29 races and Monaco was the first time Perez finished ahead where Max wasn’t taken out by reliability or a crash. Baku is Sergio’s best track by far so if he’s going to do well anywhere it’s here, but it’s a long race tomorrow and there’s a mountain of evidence pointing to Verstappen being comfortably the faster driver over a season.
I really hope RB don't gift a position for Max at the expense of Checo. He's legitimately in there for a Championship challenge.
Leclerc is an outstanding qualifier. His ability to dig deep and pull out a huge lap is unparalleled on the grid.
Doesn't really matter if he's quicker. He's the no.2. He has been decent in quali this year (much improved on last year). But he can be pretty far off Max's pace in races.
If red bull has an opportunity to swap the cars or even give max an advantage, they'll do it. Max is in the title battle, checo isn't.
I wouldn't be surprised to see them put Checo on a longer first stint to hold up the Ferraris after their first stop.
The sympathy vote championship. Not the WDC.
In not sure about that. He has had much better reliability than Max this year and red bull can't afford to prioritize a driver who isn't finishing races.
Yes, they can. It's their only option. Perez can't usually beat Charles, on pace. So they can't prioritise him over their faster driver who can beat Charles, on pace. Verstappen, with his poor reliability, is 15 points ahead or perez. Max would want to go on a run of 5 races without finishing (or break a leg like Schumacher in 99) to even make red bull consider perez their main championship option.
I don't believe Perez will win this season but he has to believe this is his chance . New cars means it's not fully developed towards Max yet like last year's car . So this year he is closer and Redbull have not picked a direction yet . He needs favours ,he needs Sainz to get into the mix as well , steal points form others . He currently is doing what he needs to do . Faster all this weekend again .
It makes better viewing for us .the more races he can string good weekends together the more confident he will get .
Leclerc needs to convert those poles to wins, he has 14 poles but only 4 wins
And yet, you can be certain they will.
I think he's driving really well and seems to have less issues with his car than Max which has helped.
I don't think he will win the championship but he can certainly challenge for it just like Leclerc.
Red Bull had multiple opportunities to swap them in Monaco and chose not to and gave Checo priority in the pitstops when they could easily have pit Max first and he would have won the race.
They have a long and consistent history of never ever favouring one driver over the other, even when they had a four time WDC in the car he was never given number one status.
Perez has been beaten by Max in 99% of the races they’ve been teammates because he’s been slower, not because of some imaginary team decision.
I think what happened in Spain had a lot to do with Checo winning in Monaco. Verstappen is Redbulls prized pony, he's going to be favoured. Checo is there to get podiums and help RB win the constructors
"They have a long and consistent history of never ever favouring one driver over the othe"
Ah come on, like just come on, you can't actually be serious!!!!
They used team orders a few races ago. Twice in thst race. Once when petez was on a different strategy and was faster but was told not to attack max. The second time he was told to move over for Max.
Hard to argue RB never favour one driver when we all discuss Perez as a no.2 driver, and they treated him as the no.2 driver a few races ago.
It's Sergio. Not giving out to you put it really annoys me when the commentators says and Checo Perez is on the front row. It's stupid and immature. What's so hard about saying Sergio Perez that is his name not Checo.
Great quali session by the way. Carlos seems to be in good form here. A pity he did not get pole but his time will come hopefully.
Well done to Charles Leclerc.
not giving out to me yet you picked my post to have a go when there are more then myself who referred to him as checo. I’m well aware his name is Sergio Perez btw. I take it you’ll be issuing a strongly worded email to sky sports F1 and channel four who several are long time friends of Sergios and call him checo ?
you could have Easily made the same point without quoting my post btw.
No need to get your knickers in a twist. I do not watch Sky F1 so no idea if they do it or not but yes it was very bad today. It just annoyed me today and your post was just the first one I read today with it that's why I picked it. I was not complaining about you saying it I was just using it as an example.
Don’t worry I’m not but you saying I’m not picking on you and then quoting my post bugged me. I’m not the only poster on this forum nor the only broadcaster to call him checo. If you watched channel 4 today then you saw Lee Mackenzie host those highlights and given she’s a 15 year friend of Sergio Perez it not surprising she might call him checo.
Race gets underway at midday Irish.
That might catch a few people out since qualifying was scheduled for 3pm Irish (15 minutes delayed) so people might have been expecting a similar race start time.
i had to do a double take yesterday when I saw the start time.
In 2013, Sergio Perez answered the question as to why his nickname is “Checo”.
He said: “It’s not really that complicated or interesting.
“In Mexico, where I come from, all Sergios are automatically given the nickname ‘Checo’.
“Sorry, there’s no story behind it!”
In the same way Jim is short for James in English, “Checo” is the short of Sergio in “Mexican” Spanish."
