Race · Round 4 of 22 · 30 April 2023

2023 Azerbaijan Grand Prix

Sergio Perez won for Red Bull Racing from 3rd on the grid at Baku City Circuit. 2 of the starters were not classified.

Dry, with cloud · High of 22 °C, 0.1 mm of rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Baku City CircuitBaku, Azerbaijan
Winner: Sergio PerezRed Bull Racing
Pole: Charles Leclerc
Fastest lap: George Russell
Entries: 2018 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	RB19	3	51	Finished	25
2	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	RB19	2	51	Finished	18
3	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	SF-23	1	51	Finished	15
4	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	AMR23	6	51	Finished	12
5	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	SF-23	4	51	Finished	10
6	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	F1 W14	5	51	Finished	8
7	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	AMR23	9	51	Finished	6
8	George Russell	Mercedes	F1 W14	11	51	Finished	5	fastest lap
9	Lando Norris	McLaren	MCL60	7	51	Finished	2
10	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	AT04	8	51	Finished	1
11	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	MCL60	10	51	Finished	0
12	Alexander Albon	Williams	FW45	12	51	Finished	0
13	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	VF-23	16	51	Finished	0
14	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	A523	17	51	Finished	0
15	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	A523	PL	51	Finished	0
16	Logan Sargeant	Williams	FW45	14	51	Finished	0
17	Nico Hulkenberg	Haas F1 Team	VF-23	PL	50	Finished	0
18	Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	C43	13	50	Finished	0
DNF	Zhou Guanyu	Sauber	C43	15	36	Overheating	0
DNF	Nyck de Vries	Scuderia AlphaTauri	AT04	18	9	Accident	0

F1DB layout baku-1 · 6.003 km · 20 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Sergio Perez	3	1	51
Max Verstappen	2	2	51
Charles Leclerc	1	3	51
Fernando Alonso	6	4	51
Carlos Sainz	4	5	51
Sir Lewis Hamilton	5	6	51
Lance Stroll	9	7	51
George Russell	11	8	51
Lando Norris	7	9	51
Yuki Tsunoda	8	10	51
Oscar Piastri	10	11	51
Alexander Albon	12	12	51
Kevin Magnussen	16	13	51
Pierre Gasly	17	14	51
Esteban Ocon	PL	15	51
Logan Sargeant	14	16	51
Nico Hulkenberg	PL	17	50
Valtteri Bottas	13	18	50
Zhou Guanyu	15	DNF	36
Nyck de Vries	18	DNF	9

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:41.269	1:41.037	1:40.203	—	0 m	—
2	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	1	1:41.398	1:40.822	1:40.391	+0.188	11 m	+0.188
3	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	11	1:41.756	1:41.131	1:40.495	+0.292	17 m	+0.104
4	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	55	1:42.197	1:41.369	1:41.016	+0.813	49 m	+0.521
5	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:42.113	1:41.650	1:41.177	+0.974	58 m	+0.161
6	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	14	1:41.720	1:41.370	1:41.253	+1.050	63 m	+0.076
7	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:42.154	1:41.485	1:41.281	+1.078	65 m	+0.028
8	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	22	1:42.234	1:41.569	1:41.581	+1.378	83 m	+0.300
9	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:42.524	1:41.576	1:41.611	+1.408	84 m	+0.030
10	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	81	1:42.455	1:41.636	1:41.611	+1.408	84 m	+0.000
11	George Russell	Mercedes	63	1:42.073	1:41.654	—	—	50 m	—
12	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	31	1:42.622	1:41.798	—	—	58 m	—
13	Alexander Albon	Williams	23	1:42.171	1:41.818	—	—	59 m	—
14	Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	77	1:42.582	1:42.259	—	—	86 m	—
15	Logan Sargeant	Williams	2	1:42.242	1:42.395	—	—	94 m	—
16	Zhou Guanyu	Sauber	24	1:42.642	—	—	—	81 m	—
17	Nico Hulkenberg	Haas F1 Team	27	1:42.755	—	—	—	88 m	—
18	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:43.417	—	—	—	127 m	—
19	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	10	1:44.853	—	—	—	212 m	—
NC	Nyck de Vries	Scuderia AlphaTauri	21	1:55.282	—	—	—	831 m	—

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year. Each driver is measured against the fastest lap of the last part they set a time in.

Sprint

Sprint
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Grid	Laps	Out	Gap	Points
1	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	2	17	Finished	—	8
2	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1	17	Finished	+4.463	7
3	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	3	17	Finished	+5.065	6
4	George Russell	Mercedes	4	17	Finished	+8.532	5
5	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	5	17	Finished	+10.388	4
6	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	8	17	Finished	+11.613	3
7	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	6	17	Finished	+16.503	2
8	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	9	17	Finished	+18.417	1
9	Alexander Albon	Williams	7	17	Finished	+21.757	0
10	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	11	17	Finished	+22.851	0
11	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	13	17	Finished	+27.990	0
12	Zhou Guanyu	Sauber	14	17	Finished	+34.602	0
13	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	17	17	Finished	+36.918	0
14	Nyck de Vries	Scuderia AlphaTauri	18	17	Finished	+41.626	0
15	Nico Hulkenberg	Haas F1 Team	12	17	Finished	+48.587	0
16	Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	15	17	Finished	+49.917	0
17	Lando Norris	McLaren	10	17	Finished	+51.104	0
18	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	—	17	Finished	+1:00.621	0
DNF	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	16	2	Collision damage	—	0
DNS	Logan Sargeant	Williams	—	—	Car damaged in qualifying	—	0

A sprint is a separate, shorter race held on the grand prix weekend, with its own grid and its own points — and those points count towards the championship. The grid column is the sprint grid, not the grand prix one.

Sprint qualifying

Sprint qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	SQ1	SQ2	SQ3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:42.820	1:42.500	1:41.697	—	0 m	—
2	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	11	1:43.858	1:42.925	1:41.844	+0.147	9 m	+0.147
3	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	1	1:43.288	1:42.417	1:41.987	+0.290	17 m	+0.143
4	George Russell	Mercedes	63	1:43.763	1:43.112	1:42.252	+0.555	33 m	+0.265
5	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	55	1:43.622	1:42.909	1:42.287	+0.590	35 m	+0.035
6	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:43.561	1:43.061	1:42.502	+0.805	48 m	+0.215
7	Alexander Albon	Williams	23	1:43.987	1:43.376	1:42.846	+1.149	68 m	+0.344
8	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	14	1:43.789	1:42.976	1:43.010	+1.313	78 m	+0.164
9	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:43.879	1:43.375	1:43.064	+1.367	81 m	+0.054
10	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:43.938	1:43.395	—	—	57 m	—
11	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	81	1:44.179	1:43.427	—	—	59 m	—
12	Nico Hulkenberg	Haas F1 Team	27	1:44.843	1:43.806	—	—	81 m	—
13	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	31	1:44.433	1:44.088	—	—	98 m	—
14	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:44.101	1:44.332	—	—	112 m	—
15	Logan Sargeant	Williams	2	1:44.042	—	—	—	71 m	—
16	Zhou Guanyu	Sauber	24	1:45.177	—	—	—	138 m	—
17	Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	77	1:45.352	—	—	—	148 m	—
18	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	22	1:45.436	—	—	—	153 m	—
19	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	10	1:46.951	—	—	—	241 m	—
20	Nyck de Vries	Scuderia AlphaTauri	21	1:48.180	—	—	—	313 m	—

The session that sets the sprint grid: the sprint shootout in 2023, sprint qualifying since, with the best lap of each of its three parts.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year. Each driver is measured against the fastest lap of the last part they set a time in.

Pit stops

Bars run in finishing order, ticked at each stop. An unticked bar may hide a stop: F1DB’s record has gaps. A cross is a driver not classified. Ticks and strip mark the lap, not cause, tyres or gain; the table gives times.

Pit stops
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap	Pit-lane time (s)
Sergio Perez	1	51	1	11	20.4
Max Verstappen	2	51	1	10	20.7
Charles Leclerc	3	51	1	11	21.1
Fernando Alonso	4	51	1	11	23.1
Carlos Sainz	5	51	1	11	22.0
Sir Lewis Hamilton	6	51	1	9	20.3
Lance Stroll	7	51	1	11	23.2
George Russell	8	51	2	11, 49	20.5, 21.4
Lando Norris	9	51	1	9	20.3
Yuki Tsunoda	10	51	1	8	20.5
Oscar Piastri	11	51	1	8	20.9
Alexander Albon	12	51	1	7	21.1
Kevin Magnussen	13	51	1	10	31.0
Pierre Gasly	14	51	2	5, 23	20.2, 21.2
Esteban Ocon	15	51	1	50	20.4
Logan Sargeant	16	51	1	8	21.0
Nico Hulkenberg	17	50	1	49	24.7
Valtteri Bottas	18	50	3	6, 12, 34	21.0, 22.4, 21.0
Zhou Guanyu	DNF	36	1	11	22.2
Nyck de Vries	DNF	9	0	None recorded	—

A pit-lane time is all of a stop’s time in the pit lane, any wait or repair there included.

Who stopped first, between neighbours

Who stopped first, between neighbours
Drivers, in grid order	Grid	Result	First recorded stop, lap	Stopped first	Grid to flag
Max Verstappen · Sergio Perez	2 · 3	2 · 1	10 · 11	Max Verstappen	Swapped places
Sergio Perez · Carlos Sainz	3 · 4	1 · 5	11 · 11	Same lap	Kept their order
Charles Leclerc · Max Verstappen	1 · 2	3 · 2	11 · 10	Max Verstappen	Swapped places
Charles Leclerc · Fernando Alonso	1 · 6	3 · 4	11 · 11	Same lap	Kept their order
Carlos Sainz · Fernando Alonso	4 · 6	5 · 4	11 · 11	Same lap	Swapped places
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Fernando Alonso	5 · 6	6 · 4	9 · 11	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Swapped places
Fernando Alonso · Lando Norris	6 · 7	4 · 9	11 · 9	Lando Norris	Kept their order
Carlos Sainz · Sir Lewis Hamilton	4 · 5	5 · 6	11 · 9	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Kept their order
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Lance Stroll	5 · 9	6 · 7	9 · 11	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Kept their order
Yuki Tsunoda · Lance Stroll	8 · 9	10 · 7	8 · 11	Yuki Tsunoda	Swapped places
Lance Stroll · George Russell	9 · 11	7 · 8	11 · 11	Same lap	Kept their order
Lance Stroll · Oscar Piastri	9 · 10	7 · 11	11 · 8	Oscar Piastri	Kept their order
Lando Norris · George Russell	7 · 11	9 · 8	9 · 11	Lando Norris	Swapped places
Oscar Piastri · George Russell	10 · 11	11 · 8	8 · 11	Oscar Piastri	Swapped places
George Russell · Alexander Albon	11 · 12	8 · 12	11 · 7	Alexander Albon	Kept their order
Lando Norris · Yuki Tsunoda	7 · 8	9 · 10	9 · 8	Yuki Tsunoda	Kept their order
Yuki Tsunoda · Oscar Piastri	8 · 10	10 · 11	8 · 8	Same lap	Kept their order
Oscar Piastri · Alexander Albon	10 · 12	11 · 12	8 · 7	Alexander Albon	Kept their order
Alexander Albon · Kevin Magnussen	12 · 16	12 · 13	7 · 10	Alexander Albon	Kept their order
Alexander Albon · Valtteri Bottas	12 · 13	12 · 18	7 · 6	Valtteri Bottas	Kept their order
Kevin Magnussen · Pierre Gasly	16 · 17	13 · 14	10 · 5	Pierre Gasly	Kept their order
Valtteri Bottas · Logan Sargeant	13 · 14	18 · 16	6 · 8	Valtteri Bottas	Swapped places

Pairs of classified drivers who started or finished next to each other, each with a stop recorded; the two names in a row are in grid order. Both are read from the stops F1DB records, which has gaps. It is the order things happened in and no more: with no lap times, the record cannot say whether stopping first won or lost a place.

Practice sessions Practice 1

Practice 1

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	1	1:42.315	—	0 m	—	22
2	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:42.352	+0.037	2 m	+0.037	21
3	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	11	1:42.454	+0.139	8 m	+0.102	22
4	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	55	1:42.899	+0.584	34 m	+0.445	23
5	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:43.125	+0.810	48 m	+0.226	22
6	Nyck de Vries	Scuderia AlphaTauri	21	1:43.414	+1.099	64 m	+0.289	24
7	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:43.455	+1.140	67 m	+0.041	23
8	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	14	1:43.560	+1.245	73 m	+0.105	20
9	Alexander Albon	Williams	23	1:43.628	+1.313	77 m	+0.068	25
10	Zhou Guanyu	Sauber	24	1:43.748	+1.433	84 m	+0.120	23
11	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:43.798	+1.483	87 m	+0.050	21
12	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	81	1:43.980	+1.665	98 m	+0.182	23
13	Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	77	1:44.010	+1.695	99 m	+0.030	23
14	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	22	1:44.137	+1.822	107 m	+0.127	18
15	Nico Hulkenberg	Haas F1 Team	27	1:44.323	+2.008	118 m	+0.186	21
16	Logan Sargeant	Williams	2	1:44.900	+2.585	152 m	+0.577	16
17	George Russell	Mercedes	63	1:45.082	+2.767	162 m	+0.182	20
18	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	31	1:45.955	+3.640	214 m	+0.873	8
19	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	10	1:46.321	+4.006	235 m	+0.366	7
20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:47.498	+5.183	304 m	+1.177	8

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

1 more photograph

Where this comes from

Round: 4 of 2023
Grand Prix: Azerbaijan Grand Prix
Dates: 30 Apr 2023
Layout raced: —
Format: Sprint weekend
Constructor: Red Bull Racing
Entrant: Red Bull-Honda RBPT
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.