Max Verstappen 勝利，勝つs Azerbaijan Grand Prix to 延長する his 選手権 lead
Max Verstappen 延長するd his 選手権 lead by racing to victory at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
Sergio Perez took second to 完全にする a 命令（する）ing one-two finish for Red Bull after both Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz failed to make it to the chequered 旗 with mechanical gremlins on a desperate afternoon for Ferrari in Baku.
Verstappen’s 肩書を与える advantage over Leclerc has 増加するd from nine points to 34 に引き続いて what could 証明する a pivotal race in this season’s 選手権 戦う／戦い.
Perez is now the closest 挑戦者 to Verstappen after leapfrogging Leclerc in the standings. The Mexican, who took a 特別手当 point for the fastest （競技場の）トラック一周, is 21 points 流浪して of his Red Bull team-mate.
George Russell finished behind the Red Bulls to （人命などを）奪う，主張する his third podium in Mercedes colours, while team-mate 吊りくさび Hamilton, who complained of 支援する 苦痛 during the race, was fourth.
Leclerc 配達するd an impressive （競技場の）トラック一周 in qualifying to put his Ferra ri at the 前線 of the field only to lose out to Perez on the short 殺到 to the 開始 corner.
Max Verstappen celebrates on the podium after winning the Azerbaijan Grand Prix (Sergei Grits/AP)
Perez soon moved two seconds （疑いを）晴らす of Leclerc, with Verstappen 占領するing the Monegasque’s mirrors. On （競技場の）トラック一周 nine, Sainz, who was in fourth place, parked his scarlet machine に引き続いて a hydraulic 失敗.
The 事実上の safety car was （軍隊を）展開する，配備するd, and in （機の）カム Leclerc for a change of rubber. He was 静止している for five seconds with the 前線 jack jammed underneath his car.
にもかかわらず the VSC, both Perez and Verstappen stayed out before the Red Bull drivers 貿易（する）d positions on （競技場の）トラック一周 15.
Verstappen took the lead into the 開始 bend with Perez 申し込む／申し出ing little 抵抗. “No fighting,” was the order from the Red Bull 炭坑，オーケストラ席 塀で囲む in a （疑いを）晴らす 調印する that Verstappen is the team’s number one man.
On （競技場の）トラック一周 18, Verstappen stopped for new tyres, 促進するing Leclerc into the lead. But just two （競技場の）トラック一周s later, Leclerc’s race was over, and with it, かもしれない his 選手権 dreams, too.
Leclerc’s Ferrari engine 劇的な 満了する／死ぬd and in a plume of white smoke, the 24-year-old limped 支援する to the 炭坑，オーケストラ席s. The 苦痛d 表現 on Ferrari team 主要な／長／主犯 Mattia Binotto’s 直面する spoke 容積／容量s.
Leclerc was 否定するd victory in Monaco a fortnight ago に引き続いて Ferrari’s 疑わしい 戦略 in the wet-乾燥した，日照りの race, and he was also 軍隊d to park his car in Spain last month with engine problems. He has now retired from two of the last three races.
With Perez 申し込む／申し出ing no challenge, Verstappen 巡航するd to the 旗, （人命などを）奪う，主張するing the fifth 勝利，勝つ of his 選手権 defence.
Hamilton, the seven-time world 支持する／優勝者, ended the day a staggering 71 seconds behind his former 競争相手.
Mercedes are still 戦う／戦いing with porpoising and the bouncing problems led to Hamilton complaining about 支援する 苦痛.
“Argh, my 支援する is 殺人，大当り me, man,” he yelled with 22 （競技場の）トラック一周s still to run.
にもかかわらず, it 示すd Hamilton’s best result since the 開始 grand prix in Bahrain, albeit another afternoon where he 追跡するd Russell. Hamilton has finished behind Russell at every 一連の会議、交渉／完成する since the first race.
Pierre Gasly took fifth for AlphaTauri, one place ahead of Aston ツバメ’s Sebastian Vettel. Fernando Alonso was seventh, with Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris eighth and ninth それぞれ for McLaren.
“Today we had incredible pace in the car and we looked after the tyres and chipped away with it,” said Verstappen.
“We are a tiny bit lucky with the 退職 [of Leclerc] but 全体にわたる I am pleased with how the balance of the car was.”
Russell said: “You have got to be there at the end to 選ぶ up the pieces.
“The cars are going through a torrid time with the bouncing and I am pleased to bring it home in third.”
一方／合間, Hamilton was seen having trouble getting out of his Mercedes 操縦室 as he struggled with 支援する 苦痛.
Mercedes team 主要な／長／主犯 Toto Wolff said over the 無線で通信する: “吊りくさび we all know this is a bit of a s*** box to 運動 and sorry for the 支援する. We will sort ourselves out.”
