F1 2024 - Round 17 - Azerbaijan - Baku

Delighted for Piastri, really unbelievable drive to maintain that focus for 20 odd laps!

I don't think so, would have been a 3 point difference if they'd have finished as it was prior to it. (2 for position + 1 for fastest lap)

Norris needs a couple wins as I think Verstappen has just about enough of a cushion

Franco Colapinto has more F1 points than Logan Sargent over his whole F1 career

Can you decide to hold back like that in reality? I feel like you have to take the chance to overtake when it's there, in case a mistake puts you out of range next lap.

The on board showed no change in steering direction I think. I thought he went left after getting rubbed by perez.

I dint think he should have tried to overtake le clerc tbh.

They were both heading towards each other before the tyres touched and made it look like Sainz made a hard left.

No Perez front wheel caught his left rear causing him to spin left.

Thought Perez was far too cautious with Leclerc, was way ahead but braked too early letting Leclerc back through, should have forced Leclerc to back out of it.

Sainz tried to squeeze Perez and both paid the price. Great drive from Piastri.

Guess it costs Sainz 15 or 12 directly and gave Norris an extra 4 so quite costly.

There’s a performance gap to McClaren on average I think so they might struggle to win the constructors but have a really good chance to overtake Red Bull soon.

I am a massive Sainz fan but looking at it honestly I think Perez turned more right than he turned left.

Sainz does move in and therefore towards Perez as his wheel is well outside the whiteline at first but he is back in by the time of the collision. He had to move to avoid the wall but he still moves in.

I wonder how f sainz wasn't getting the boot from Ferrari if he'd have pulled in behind le clerc rather than try overtake and thus compromise his own exit when it didn't work, and put perez back in position to try overtake.

If he’d waited and then the VSC came out he’d have scored fewer points than Max. You’ve got to take the chances when they come.

I don’t think either driver did anything egregious between Perez and Sainz, but as the driver behind it was probably more on Checo to see they were close to coming together and take evasive action.

The cost of repairs from that crash will hurt both Red Bull and Ferrari in the development race with McLaren.

He didn't really eat enough into Max's lead in my view. You really need at least 1 race of Max not scoring to really see a fight brewing.

Mind you, I didn't think he'd catch Max today and he did.