Formula One statistics for Saturday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku, round 15 of the championship:
Lap distance: 6.003 km
Total distance: 306.049 km (51 laps)
2025 pole position: Max Verstappen (Netherlands), Red Bull, 1:41.117
2025 winner: Max Verstappen
Race lap record: Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), 1:43.009, 2019
Start time: 1100 GMT (1500 local)
AZERBAIJAN
This year’s race will be held on Saturday because Sunday is Azerbaijan’s Remembrance Day, shifting the weekend schedule forward by one day. Practice will take place on Thursday and qualifying on Friday.
The race is the first of three on successive weekends, followed by the Bahrain Grand Prix and Singapore Grand Prix.
The challenging Baku street circuit features fast, wide straights and a winding, narrow section through the old town. It made its debut in 2016 as the European Grand Prix and has 20 corners.
The event was renamed the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in 2017. There was no race in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Max Verstappen, who won in 2022 and 2025, and Sergio Perez, victorious in 2021 and 2023, are the only two-time winners in Baku, with both drivers taking their victories for Red Bull.
Other active drivers to have won in Baku are Oscar Piastri (2024), Valtteri Bottas (2019) and Lewis Hamilton (2018). Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc has taken pole four times without winning the race.
There have been seven different winners in nine Azerbaijan Grands Prix. Red Bull have won five times, Mercedes three times, including the 2016 European Grand Prix, and McLaren once.
Only three races have been won from pole position: Nico Rosberg in 2016, Bottas in 2019 and Verstappen last year. Four winners have started from the front row.
Daniel Ricciardo won for Red Bull from 10th on the grid in 2017, while Perez triumphed from sixth in 2021.
Safety cars have been a regular feature of races in Baku.
CHAMPIONSHIP
Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli leads team mate George Russell by 81 points after winning the Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid.
Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton is third, 101 points behind Antonelli, while McLaren’s reigning champion Lando Norris is another five points adrift.
Mercedes lead Ferrari by 145 points in the constructors’ standings.
RACE WINS
Antonelli has won eight races this season, including five in a row early in the campaign and the most recent two.
Russell and Norris have two wins each, while Hamilton and Leclerc have one apiece.
Hamilton ended a winless run dating to 2024 with victory in Barcelona, while Leclerc won in Britain. Russell won in Australia and Austria, Antonelli triumphed in China, Japan, Miami, Canada, Monaco, Belgium, Italy and Spain, and Norris won in Hungary and the Netherlands.
Mercedes have won 10 of the 14 races so far.
Hamilton has a record 106 career victories from 394 starts with three teams.
Verstappen has 71 Grand Prix wins and is third on the all-time list behind Hamilton and Michael Schumacher, who has 91.
POLE POSITION
Mercedes have taken pole in all but four Grands Prix this season.
Russell started from pole in Australia, Canada, Barcelona and Austria, while Antonelli took pole in China, Japan, Miami, Monaco, Britain and Belgium.
Norris was on pole in Hungary, the Netherlands and Spain, while Alpine’s Pierre Gasly took pole in Italy.
Hamilton holds the record with 104 career pole positions, with his most recent coming in Hungary in 2023.
