FACTS AND STATS: Sainz emulates Prost with podium for third different team

As he did last time out in Monza, Max Verstappen again proved imperious in Azerbaijan, with the Red Bull driver recording a second-consecutive grand slam result. But he wasn’t the only driver generating some fascinating figures in Baku. Here’s our round-up of all the numbers you need to know…

• Today was Verstappen’s sixth grand slam (win / pole / fastest lap / led every lap) of his F1 career. He is now tied with Lewis Hamilton for second on the all-time list behind only Jim Clark (eight).

• Verstappen is only the third driver to win from pole in Baku.

• With his victory last time out at Monza, Verstappen has won consecutive races for the first time since Canada and Spain 2024.

• Verstappen has reduced his championship deficit to 69 points behind leader Oscar Piastri.

• Verstappen has now led more laps this season (282) than Lando Norris (241).

• Verstappen finished 1m12s behind the race winner only three races ago in Hungary.

• Verstappen’s win is the second Red Bull victory for Laurent Mekies as Team Principal.

• George Russell’s P2 for Mercedes was his seventh podium finish this season.

• It was Mercedes’ best finish in Baku since 2019.

• Russell previously finished third in the 2022 and 2024 Azerbaijan Grands Prix.

• Carlos Sainz, with P3, becomes the second driver after Alain Prost to finish on the podium for McLaren, Ferrari and Williams.

• Williams' last podium in a full-length race was Azerbaijan 2017 (Lance Stroll, P3). Russell was second for the team in the one-lap Belgian Grand Prix in 2021.

• Sainz scored 15 points today. He had only scored 16 points all season before today.

• Sainz gained six positions in the Drivers’ Championship today.

• Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli finished in P4, having only scored three points in the previous six Grands Prix.

• Mercedes’ 30-point haul from Baku means they remain alive in the Teams’ Championship.

• A career-best P5 for Liam Lawson moves Racing Bulls into sixth in the Teams’ Championship.

• Yuki Tsunoda’s P6 result was the first top-eight finish for the second Red Bull driver since Austin 2024.

• With Norris in P7 and Oscar Piastri failing to finish, McLaren scored their fewest points in a race (six) since Las Vegas 2023 (two).

• It means McLaren missed an opportunity to clinch the Teams’ Championship today.

• With P8, Hamilton beat Ferrari team mate Charles Leclerc in a race for the first time since Silverstone.

• With Leclerc finishing in P9 behind Hamilton, Ferrari remain alive in the Teams’ Championship.

• Racing Bulls’ Isack Hadjar finished 10th for the second consecutive race.

• Haas driver Oliver Bearman finished 12th for the second consecutive race.

• Williams’ Alex Albon finished 11th on the road before a 10-second time penalty for causing a collision dropped him to 13th.

• With Pierre Gasly in P18 and Franco Colapinto in P19, Alpine were the last two classified cars for the second time this season (the other was Hungary).

• Piastri’s retirement ended a 34-race scoring streak and 44 consecutive race finishes (the second-longest streak in history).

• Piastri’s only previous first-lap retirement was Belgium 2023.