The Azerbaijan Grand Prix, like the rest of the 2022 F1 season (except the Spanish GP, which Mediaset gave openly), can only be seen in Spain by paying and having DAZN F1 contracted watching it either through the platform or by Movistar.
The price of DAZN this year, not only for F1 and MotoGP but for many sports, is 12.99 euros per month or 129.99 per year, always with no commitment to stay.
The Baku street circuit, designed (of course) by Hermann Tilke, is not a typical street track and, in fact, always leaves exciting races combining the proximity of the walls with long straights.
There is an area with many narrow curves, that of the old part of the city of Baku (the castle always leaves excellent images), and another part where highly high speeds are reached.
Baku came to F1 in 2016, and its first race was called the European GP. And then, from 2017 to 2021 (in 2020, there was no race there), it was the venue for the Azerbaijan GP. It is a 6,003-kilometre long route, and the pilots travel in an anti-clockwise direction. Baku has 20 corners and is considered low-medium downforce.
The Baku race lasts 51 laps, covering 306.049 kilometres.
The Baku circuit is at a lower altitude compared to sea level than most world circuits, at 28 meters below sea level, and has left great moments in the history of F1 despite its short life.
There we lived the remembered accident between Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo when they were teammates at Red Bull, the terrible controversy between Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton when the German rammed his rival after considering that he had stopped him behind the Safety Car, or the jug of water cold to Verstappen when he was leading in 2021 and the subsequent failure of Hamilton that allowed Sergio Perez to win in a "sprint" race after a red flag.
As we have already mentioned, we must distinguish between the Azerbaijan GP (four editions) and the races in Baku, which have been five. Nico Rosberg won that first European GP, and the rest of the victories have been for active drivers: Ricciardo in 2017, Hamilton in 2018, Bottas in 2019 and Pérez in 2021. None of the big favourites for the title this year know which is imposed there.
As for pole position, no one has repeated it either, and while Rosberg achieved the first in Baku, he was followed by Hamilton, Vettel, Bottas and Leclerc (in 2020, there was no grand Prix there due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
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