The 2018 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season continues this weekend with the Azerbaijan Grand Prix at the 6.003-kilometer (3.730-mile) Baku City Circuit. Twenty cars are entered, including one for defending race winner Daniel Ricciardo.
Here’s a look at some interesting statistics and tidbits heading into race day.
Azerbaijan Grand Prix – Track/Event (Overall)
- The 2018 race is the second running of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on the Formula 1 World Championship calendar. Daniel Ricciardo won the inaugural running of the race in 2017.
- Nico Rosberg won the 2016 European Grand Prix, the inaugural Formula 1 race at the track.
- Between the two races, two drivers have won races, representing two nations (Germany and Australia).
Azerbaijan Grand Prix – As Part of the Formula 1 World Championship
- The Azerbaijan Grand Prix was the eighth race on the 2017 Formula 1 schedule.
- Daniel Ricciardo is the lone winner of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Ricciardo finished fifth in the points standings.
- Ricciardo started 10th en route to winning the 2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
- A total of three drivers have led the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton led a race-high 30 laps in the 2017 race, with Ricciardo having led 18 laps and Sebastian Vettel a total of three.
- Lewis Hamilton is the lone driver to win a pole position in Azerbaijan, at a time of 1 minute, 40.593 seconds.
- Ricciardo averaged 148.176 kilometers per hour in his victory in 2017.
- Ricciardo’s margin of victory over Valtteri Bottas in 2017 was 3.904 seconds.
- There were three cautions for 12 laps in the 2017 race.
- There were two lead changes between three drivers in the 2017 race.
- Twenty drivers competed in the 2017 race, with 13 of them finishing the race and 14 marked as classified.
Azerbaijan Grand Prix – 2018 Entry List
- Fourteen countries/nationalities are represented in this weekend’s race: France (4), Germany (2), Spain (2), Finland (2), Great Britain (1), Australia (1), Netherlands (1), Mexico (1), Canada (1), Russia (1), New Zealand (1), Denmark (1), Belgium (1) and Sweden (1).
Formula 1 Random Statistics – Current Drivers
- Sebastian Vettel is the most recent driver to win back-to-back in Formula 1 competition, having won both the Australian and Bahrain Grand Prix this season.
- The Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport team is the only team to lead laps in each of the last five Formula 1 grand prix.
- Max Verstappen is the last driver to lead every lap of an F1 grand prix, doing so in the 2017 Grand Prix of Mexico at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.
Upcoming Milestones
- Fernando Alonso is six races away from 300 Formula 1 grand prix and three podiums away from 100.
- Lewis Hamilton is two pole positions away from 75 in his career.
- Valtteri Bottas is one podium away from 25 in his career.
- Sebastien Vettel is one victory away from 50 in his career.
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