Azerbaijan 2023: Race analysis

At a glance

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap
1	Leclerc	Ferrari	1:41.269	1:41.037	1:40.203
2	Verstappen	Red Bull	1:41.398	1:40.822	1:40.391	+0.188
3	Pérez	Red Bull	1:41.756	1:41.131	1:40.495	+0.292
4	Sainz Jr.	Ferrari	1:42.197	1:41.369	1:41.016	+0.813
5	Hamilton	Mercedes	1:42.113	1:41.650	1:41.177	+0.974
6	Alonso	Aston Martin	1:41.720	1:41.370	1:41.253	+1.050
7	Norris	McLaren	1:42.154	1:41.485	1:41.281	+1.078
8	Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	1:42.234	1:41.569	1:41.581	+1.378
9	Stroll	Aston Martin	1:42.524	1:41.576	1:41.611	+1.408
10	Piastri	McLaren	1:42.455	1:41.636	1:41.611	+1.408
11	Russell	Mercedes	1:42.073	1:41.654		+0.832
12	Ocon	Alpine	1:42.622	1:41.798		+0.976
13	Albon	Williams	1:42.171	1:41.818		+0.996
14	Bottas	Alfa Romeo	1:42.582	1:42.259		+1.437
15	Sargeant	Williams	1:42.242	1:42.395		+1.573
16	Zhou	Alfa Romeo	1:42.642			+1.373
17	Hülkenberg	Haas	1:42.755			+1.486
18	Magnussen	Haas	1:43.417			+2.148
19	Gasly	Alpine	1:44.853			+3.584
NC	De Vries	AlphaTauri	1:55.282			+14.013

Gap to the fastest time in the last session the driver took part in. Yellow: fastest time of the session.

Pos	Driver	Team	SQ1	SQ2	SQ3	Gap
1	Leclerc	Ferrari	1:42.820	1:42.500	1:41.697
2	Pérez	Red Bull	1:43.858	1:42.925	1:41.844	+0.147
3	Verstappen	Red Bull	1:43.288	1:42.417	1:41.987	+0.290
4	Russell	Mercedes	1:43.763	1:43.112	1:42.252	+0.555
5	Sainz Jr.	Ferrari	1:43.622	1:42.909	1:42.287	+0.590
6	Hamilton	Mercedes	1:43.561	1:43.061	1:42.502	+0.805
7	Albon	Williams	1:43.987	1:43.376	1:42.846	+1.149
8	Alonso	Aston Martin	1:43.789	1:42.976	1:43.010	+1.313
9	Stroll	Aston Martin	1:43.879	1:43.375	1:43.064	+1.367
10	Norris	McLaren	1:43.938	1:43.395		+0.978
11	Piastri	McLaren	1:44.179	1:43.427		+1.010
12	Hülkenberg	Haas	1:44.843	1:43.806		+1.389
13	Ocon	Alpine	1:44.433	1:44.088		+1.671
14	Magnussen	Haas	1:44.101	1:44.332		+1.915
15	Sargeant	Williams	1:44.042			+1.222
16	Zhou	Alfa Romeo	1:45.177			+2.357
17	Bottas	Alfa Romeo	1:45.352			+2.532
18	Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	1:45.436			+2.616
19	Gasly	Alpine	1:46.951			+4.131
20	De Vries	AlphaTauri	1:48.180			+5.360

Gap to the fastest time in the last session the driver took part in. Yellow: fastest time of the session.

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Gap	Points
1	Pérez	Red Bull	2	33:17.667	8
2	Leclerc	Ferrari	1	+4.463	7
3	Verstappen	Red Bull	3	+5.065	6
4	Russell	Mercedes	4	+8.532	5
5	Sainz Jr.	Ferrari	5	+10.388	4
6	Alonso	Aston Martin	8	+11.613	3
7	Hamilton	Mercedes	6	+16.503	2
8	Stroll	Aston Martin	9	+18.417	1
9	Albon	Williams	7	+21.757
10	Piastri	McLaren	11	+22.851
11	Magnussen	Haas	13	+27.990
12	Zhou	Alfa Romeo	14	+34.602
13	Gasly	Alpine	17	+36.918
14	De Vries	AlphaTauri	18	+41.626
15	Hülkenberg	Haas	12	+48.587
16	Bottas	Alfa Romeo	15	+49.917
17	Norris	McLaren	10	+51.104
18	Ocon	Alpine	-	+1:00.621
DNF	Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	16	Collision damage
DNS	Sargeant	Williams	-	Car damaged in qualifying

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Laps	Gap	Stops	Engine
1	Sergio PérezDriver of the Day	Red Bull	3	51	1:32:42.436	1	Honda RBPT
2	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	2	51	+2.137	1	Honda RBPT
3	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1	51	+21.217	1	Ferrari
4	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	6	51	+22.024	1	Mercedes
5	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Ferrari	4	51	+45.491	1	Ferrari
6	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	5	51	+46.145	1	Mercedes
7	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	9	51	+51.617	1	Mercedes
8	George RussellFastest lap	Mercedes	11	51	+1:14.240	2	Mercedes
9	Lando Norris	McLaren	7	51	+1:20.376	1	Mercedes
10	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	8	51	+1:23.862	1	Honda RBPT
11	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	10	51	+1:26.501	1	Mercedes
12	Alexander Albon	Williams	12	51	+1:28.623	1	Mercedes
13	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	16	51	+1:29.729	1	Ferrari
14	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	17	51	+1:31.332	2	Renault
15	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	PL	51	+1:37.794	1	Renault
16	Logan Sargeant	Williams	14	51	+1:40.943	1	Mercedes
17	Nico Hülkenberg	Haas	PL	50	+1 lap	1	Ferrari
18	Valtteri Bottas	Alfa Romeo	13	50	+1 lap	3	Ferrari
DNF	Guanyu Zhou	Alfa Romeo	15	36	Overheating	1	Ferrari
DNF	Nyck de Vries	AlphaTauri	18	9	Accident	0	Honda RBPT

Starting grid vs qualifying

Ocon Qualified 12, started PL
Hülkenberg Qualified 17, started PL

Penalties and pit lane starts. Everyone else moves up accordingly.

Race

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Places gained

OconPL→15+4
Russell11→8+3
Magnussen16→13+3
Gasly17→14+3
HülkenbergPL→17+3
Pérez3→1+2
Alonso6→4+2
Stroll9→7+2
Verstappen2→20
Albon12→120
Sainz Jr.4→5-1
Hamilton5→6-1
Piastri10→11-1
Leclerc1→3-2
Norris7→9-2
Tsunoda8→10-2
Sargeant14→16-2
Bottas13→18-5

PL: started from the pit lane. Retired drivers are listed below.

Fastest pit stops

1Gasly20.235R5
2Hamilton20.324R9
3Norris20.346R9
4Ocon20.367R50
5Pérez20.389R11
6Russell20.459R11
7Tsunoda20.497R8
8Verstappen20.707R10
9Piastri20.902R8
10Bottas20.967R6

Time in the pit lane from entry to exit, in seconds.

Stints of the top 10

Pérez11401 stop
Verstappen10411 stop
Leclerc11401 stop
Alonso11401 stop
Sainz Jr.11401 stop
Hamilton9421 stop
Stroll11401 stop
Russell113822 stops
Norris9421 stop
Tsunoda8431 stop

Stint length in laps, worked out from the pit stops. Which tyre compound was used per stint needs a licence for timing data, so it is not shown here. Lapped drivers covered fewer laps, so their bar ends earlier.

Retirements

ZhouOverheatingAlfa Romeo
De VriesAccidentAlphaTauri

This race in history

6 races here since 2016Won from pole: 2 of 6

Win from furthest back (P10): Daniel Ricciardo 2017

Previous winners here

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Statistics: F1DB by Marcel Overdijk and contributors, licence CC BY 4.0, prepared by Hotlap Delta.

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