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The race is on, and while Max Vestappen led home team mate Sergio Perez for a Red Bull 1-2 in the

Azerbaijan Grand Prix, it was disaster for Ferrari, with both Charles LeCler and Carlos Sites retiring.

That gives Verstappard a 21-point lead in the Drivers' Championship, and Red Bull a massive

80-point advantage in the constructors. So is Red Bull now firm favourite, and can Ferrari fix its

problems? I'm Ed Straw and joined me to answer those questions, and more, are Scott Mitchell

and Mark Hughes.

Mark, how are you? A relatively sensible Azerbaijan Grand Prix by this circuit standard, you'd have to say?

Yeah, not actually that chaotic, was it? No safety cars, just a couple of VSCs.

And yeah, but the tension was sort of taken out of it wasn't it once the um once the two ferraris

were out so um yeah it ended up quite a routine sort of event and uh it's very much against

the character of the race although the very first race was a bit like that but that was i think

after the grumprey, it just watched a truly terrifying

Formula 2 race. And I think I probably calmed everybody down on that occasion. But yeah,

it had some intrigue. There was some questions that posed, and we'll get into those.

But yeah, I'll take it as it comes.

Yeah, F2 drivers again this year,

trouble the barriers a bit more often than the F1 drivers,

but not quite as bad as that first weekend here.

Scott, Baku, we're sort of just away from the circuit.

We can just see it in the distance,

but it's a nice place to be, Baku, for isn't it yeah so it is an interesting city it's a little

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