AZERBAIJAN GRAND PRIX 2021

THE DRAMA from this Baku city circuit will live on in infamy. This was the time when Lance Stroll's tire blew up inexplicably, and then, shortly after, Max had lead a beautiful grand prix, doing nothing wrong the whole time, when suddenly, Max's tires inexplicably blew up WHILE HE WAS IN THE LEAD THE WHOLE RACE and he crashed out. Everyone is furious at Pirelli tires.

But JUST when it looked like all hope was lost, Hamilton completely blew it on the restart and went straight off all by himself and Perez won!!! Hallelujah!

THIS WAS CRAZY.

Free Practice 1

• They are already showing the time Charles crashed into that tiny corner in the beginning replays like I knew they would

• Yuki Tsunoda has a horrifyingly embarrassing off which results in a five minute fifteen point turn which takes forever to correct and it’s quite embarrassing and he needs a good weekend desperately

• Ocon got in Max and George’s way

• Lando puts in an amazing lap but has a really scary slide in the last sector that spins him all the way around but he kept it out of the wall

• Mazepin doesn’t get out of the way for Max and Max is furious, wow what is Mazepin doing

• Mazepin in the wall with two minutes left. At least he brings it back to the garage himself

• Little Schumacher and also Sainz have harmless offs into the extra roads

• The wind picks up at the end of the session and literally everyone starts going off

• Bottas does a spin turn in an access road and almost spins into Lando but no harm done in the end

Free Practice 2

• Mazepin just blocks Sainz on a fast lap and gets on the radio enraged and Sainz complained about him too being like “this guy”

• Latifi’s engine dies after an off and he’s on a straight so they pull a red flag

• Charles crashed straight into a barrier while on a push lap and but was able to reverse out, leave the front wing behind and go back to the pits

FP3

• Max crashed into the same place that Charles crashed into the barrier yesterday but Max crashed harder into the barrier and could not reverse out and had to sit sad being photographed and then the medical car took him back to the garage and he’s fine but it does throw a red flag to clean it up

• The Mercedes are doing real bad and Lewis is mad

• No power, no gears for George Russell at the end of the session and there’s oil in the track

• Mazepin brushes the wall and has to take the the Haas back to the garage to repair

• This is such an interrupted session with yellow flags everywhere and barely any flying laps

• Gasly up to the top of the times at the end?! This is really unpredictable and seems like qualifying could be exciting

• Something bad is happening to Bot’s car

• Mercedes have GOT to get a tow cause it improved them sixth tenths but otherwise they are slow

Qualifying

• George Russell’s mechanics are desperately trying to repair his car in time for qualifying to get a lap in before the end of Q1

• Red flag in Q1 when Lance Stroll turns into turn 15 where Max and Charles crashed earlier in the weekend and mangles his right tire and he is out of qualifying

• Lance’s crash buys George’s team time to repair GR’s car in time to get out for Q1 hopefully

• a couple other people get fast laps in Q1 BUT THEN Gio crashes into the SAME corner as Lance did earlier in the session and caused a SECOND red flag in Q1

• Geez this turn 15 has crashed four drivers thus far this weekend and we still have most of qualifying to go

• Lando Norris under investigation for not following red flag procedures which we don’t know what part yet. Oh it’s cause he couldn’t slow fast enough to get into the pit lane his first pass during the red

• Out in Q1: Latifi, Schumacher, Mazepin, Gio and Stroll

• Investigating unsafe releases at the beginning of Q2 from Aston Martin and another team getting in the way of the Red Bull’s and Max and Perez complain on the radio about it

• Ocon brushes the wall in Q2

• Q2 ends early because DANIEL crashed in turn 3 and causes a red flag with a minute and half left so session not restarted

• Out in Q2: Vettel, ocon, ricciardo, Kimi and Russell

• FOURTH RED FLAG for YUKI crashing and ending the session early and THEN Sainz has a violent slide into a wall behind him possibly because Yuki distracted him

• Then Charles was in the interview “I thought it was kind of a sh*t lap”

• Max says it was a dumb qualifying which is true

Race

• Lando got a penalty for ignoring red flags and now starts 9th

• oh look Charles is actually starting on pole this time, WHAT A TREAT

• Charles keeps the lead!!

• Perez makes up places in the first lap so he’s behind Max

• No crashes in first lap and I can’t believe it

• Small contact between Stroll and Schumacher but no crashes

• A branch falls in front of Charles and it surprises him and he’s leading so he’s the first to encounter it and it causes people behind him to go around it and it gives Hamilton more ground

• Hamilton gets past Charles on lap 2 or 3

• Early George Russell pit stop to go to hard tires and go tot he rest of the race

• Ocon loses power and retires but takes it back to the pit so no safety car or anything. Bye ocon

• Uh Yuki just told his engineer to shut up so he’s obviously freaking out he’s in such a good position

• Hamilton has a slow stop of 4 seconds! Because he has to wait for Pierre Gasly to go by and I LOVE Pierre right now

• Sainz locks up and has to go to an escape road and it’s obvious that nobody has reason to say Sainz Is equal to Charles

• FAST STOP FOR MAX and he gets ahead of Hamilton for the lead!!!

• Slower stop for Perez but he still gets past Hamilton!! So Sergio can keep hamilton behind

• Now Seb is leading this race somehow and he needs to get out of the way for the Red Bull’s

• Sainz is having to battle Gio because of his off and he’s down in 13th while Charles is in 6th and nobody every points out these things but this is my new mission. Sainz is not Charles. Charles is a star

• Ohhh noo Bot has a small off but keeps it going. This is another brutal weekend for him

• Mazepin has an off and causes a yellow flag but keeps going

• Hamilton is playing mind games trying to pretend he’s losing pace to mess with the Red Bull’s while he’s making up pace but I know the Red Bull’s KNOW this tactic

• Mazepin as a back marker held up Perez but let Hamilton right past of course because villains stick together

• 30/51 WOAH LANCE STROLL has a giant high speed crash that leaves debris all over the track and he is shaken up by it on the radio calling for a red flag because it was so violent and it triggers a safety car but the pit lane is closed because it was on the pit straight so no one can pit and it’s likely a very long safety car period to get rid of the crashed Aston Martin and it turns out it was a rear left tire failure

• They seem to have just left lance stroll back in his garage without checking him medically even though there was a huge impact but apparently he’s fine and his dad checks on him as soon as he gets into the garage

• Ugh Hamilton on the radio constantly during the safety car

• Pit lane open again before end of safety car

• Little Schumacher goes into the pits and they release him with a wiggly tire and he has to stop before he leaves the pits and they wheel him back to redo his tire

• WOAH CRAZY RESTART and Vettel is passing lots of people and Max and Perez stay ahead of Hamilton and Charles has a big lockup but doesn’t hit anyone thank God

• SEB gets past Gasly into 4th!! Like properly! It’s because of tire stuff but when he does pass him Gasly is like “that’s not possible!” And he’s right this is crazy

• Geeeez Bottas getting passed by Gio for 13th and it’s like what is happening there

• There’s an actual chance Seb could get Hamilton for third here and I love that PLEASE SEB

• 49/51 OHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MAX’s REAR LEFT TIRE FAILED AND CRASHED HIS CAR ON THE MAIN STRAIGHT AT LIKE 200 MPH JUST LIKE LANCE STROLL BEFORE

• MAX IS SO UPSET, I AM DEVASTATED. THIS IS DEVASTATING

• AHHHHHHHHHH

• TURNS OUT THAT MAX DID NOTHING WRONG AND HIS TIRE EXPLODED AND IT IS ENTIRELY PIRELLI’S FAULT AND THERE WAS NO WARNING AND RED BULL TOLD THE FIA THEY HAD NO WARNING OF THIS AT ALL FROM DATA SO THEN THEY RED FLAGGED THE RACE

• No red flag for stroll but red flag for Max

• Talk of if the race ends now then Max would win because it’s 49/51 but then they are gonna restart

• McLaren tried to get Michael Massey to penalize Tsunoda because he’s right behind Lando and he ignored yellow flags but then Michael roasted them and said everyone was infringing

• Bottas must just want this day to be over since he’s down in 14th

• It’s going to be a standing start on 49/51 and Max is out, I am completely shell shocked like everyone

• I can’t believe Max isn’t winning this when he hasn’t put a foot wrong all race and everyone knows it

• Of course everyone changes tires and they’re allowed to change damaged parts so Hamilton gets to change his front wing and it’s just incredible how obvious this always goes towards Mercedes

• Pirelli is completely screwed and I will never buy a Pirelli tire again

• The only word for all of this is ridiculous

• So they’re gridding up and everything for 49/51

• Latifi’s team tells him to stay out and it’s unbelievable because what a mistake during the red flag and it gets him a ten second penalty and it all seems like a footnote in comparison to the rest of this incredible drama

• HOLY CRAP HAMILTON GOES STRAIGHT OFF AT THE FIRST TURN OF THE RESTART HALLELUJAH THIS IS THE ONLY THING THAT COULD HAVE REDEEMED THIS DAY AND I AM SO HAPPY

• Charles and Pierre are scrapping for third for the entire last two laps!! Wow!

• PEREZ WINS WITH SEB IN SECOND AND GASLY IN THIRD WHAAAAAATT!!! This was WILD STUFF

• Max did go to the podium to support Perez so very happy for that! It’s so so nice to see new faces at the podium wow and Seb can interview and everything like he never left

• I just love Perez