My analysis of the Azerbaijan GP: Another Grand Chelem for Max Verstappen!🇳🇱 A well deserved and dominant win after a tough weekend for both McLarens The first thing to notice is the almost nonexistent tyre wear, especially when noticing some stints (like NOR on mediums)
And it can also be observed in the first picture, where Verstappen had a very consistent laptime when on the Hard tyre, as did Russell after overtaking Antonelli and gaining some clear air Now we can look at the other two pictures about McLaren and Ferrari
Norris put himself in a tough situation after the horrendous SC restart, giving an easy pass to Leclerc and, when the Ferrari got into Tsunoda's DRS range, recover the lost position became impossible
After Leclerc pitted for Hards, Lando cleared him but entered a similar situation as before, but now got stuck behind Tsunoda. This continued until pitting for the Hard tyre on lap 38, where a slow pitstop that costed him a position
On the red side, Lawson covered Leclerc's pit stop so the number 16 was once again in a frustrating situation where he was frequently in DRS range but unable to pass (Ferrari lated explained that Charles had an ERS problem that costed him some top speed)
This meant that he couldn't exctract enough of the new Hards to gain an advantage over Norris, who was experiencing almost no tyre wear on the faster Medium tyres (shown in pictures 2 and 3)
The result of this was practically no advantage against McLaren. And he was only still ahead due to the slow pitstop on the papaya side Finally Norris, with fresher tyres, overtook Leclerc and the Ferrari swapped positions, and that was the end of the action on track
My conclusion is that Lando threw everything in the bin after a basic mistake at the restart. Without that, I'm inclined to think that he could've have possibly achieved P4 or P5 with the correct strategy. This might be crucial for the championship
And Ferrari had another weekend to forget. They have a car that doesn't excel anywhere, preventing them from winning when McLaren have a bad day Also the poor strategy costed them an opportunity to fight for P5 or P6, however it would be hard to avoid a DRS train in Baku anyway
All data taken from http://f1insightshub.com







