Russell edges out Verstappen to win in Baku, Antonelli settles for fifth

George Russell wins Azerbaijan Grand Prix for eighth vocation F1 triumph and archetypal since the Austrian Grand Prix successful June.

George Russell held disconnected Red Bull’s four-time satellite champion Max Verstappen to implicit a lights-to-flag triumph successful the Azerbaijan Grand Prix for Mercedes, with teammate Kimi Antonelli limiting the harm to his title pb by finishing fifth.

Russell took the emblem 0.196 seconds up of the flying Dutchman, who started eighth but crossed the enactment astir side-by-side with his Mercedes rival aft 2 information car phases turned a cruise into a combat for endurance for the Briton.

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Frenchman Isack Hadjar, who was handed a declaration hold by Red Bull earlier this week and had missed the past 3 races with a wrist injury, completed the podium connected his racing return.

The triumph astir the Baku thoroughfare way was the eighth of Russell’s career, the 3rd of the play and his archetypal since the Austrian Grand Prix astatine the extremity of June.

It allowed him to adjacent the spread successful the wide standings to Italian title person Antonelli by 15 points to 66 aft 15 rounds.

“It’s astonishing to beryllium backmost connected the apical measurement of the podium,” said Russell.

“Every contention since the (summer) interruption I’ve gone from spot to spot and I consciousness much similar myself again.”

Antonelli had started 16th aft a uncommon mistake saw him clang retired of Friday’s qualifying.

His thrust connected Saturday was little similar his Monza charge — wherever helium went from 19th to archetypal — and much of a slow-burn recovery.

Charles Leclerc took 4th for Ferrari up of the 20-year-old Italian. His seven-time satellite champion teammate Lewis Hamilton was sixth.

Racing Bulls rookie Arvid Lindblad finished seventh. Esteban Ocon took eighth up of teammate Oliver Bearman successful a treble points decorativeness for Haas.

Carlos Sainz rounded retired the apical 10 for Williams.