How Piastri Weathered The Storm - F1 2024 Azerbaijan GP Analysis

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🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Round 17 of the 2024 F1 World Championship had the sport head back to the streets of Baku for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. And despite Charles Leclerc's early breakaway, it was Oscar Piastri who stunned the Monegasque driver with a brilliant pass into Turn 1 and then held off Leclerc's attacks to take his second career victory. Ben Hunt and Filip Cleeren join Bryn Lucas on this edition of the Autosport Podcast to discuss the epic battle for the win and the difficulty that Piastri's victory places on McLaren's driver management after their soft commitment to team orders for the rest of the season. Is it too quick for a U-turn now that Piastri's just 32 points behind Lando Norris in the standings? There's also a deep dive into the penultimate lap crash between Sergio Perez and Carlos Sainz and whether either driver could have done more to avoid the incident, the strong rookie drives of Franco Colapinto and Ollie Bearman, and how Red Bull's new floor upgrade will fair with their Singapore struggles of 2023 still fresh in the memory as F1 heads back there this weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Bryn Lucas and you're listening to the Autosport Podcast.
0:07.0	Well, round 17 of the 2024 Formula One season was a thrilling affair with Charlerc and Oscar Piastri
0:18.3	having an incredible race-long battle with the Australian
0:22.3	finally breaking away at the end to take his second career victory.
0:26.6	Leclair avoided a huge late crash in the penultimate lap between Carlos Seitz's teammate
0:32.1	and Sergio Perez to finish second and George Russell picked up the pieces to finish third. Well, before we get
0:38.7	cracking, here's a quick look at the result. And as we say, Oscar Piastri took the victory
0:44.0	ahead of Charlotte Clert and George Russell. Lando Norris bringing it home fourth, starting 15th,
0:48.8	not a bad result for the McLaren driver. Max Verstappen, the championship leader, finished fifth overall.
0:54.9	Fernando Alonso, sixth, and a great weekend for Williams.
0:57.9	Alex Albon and Colopinto, only his second career start in seventh and eighth, respectively.
1:04.0	Lewis Hamilton, ninth, and Oliver Berman, yes, another person starting their second Grand Prix in the points, finishing 10th for Hass.
1:10.9	Then it was Holkenberg, Ghazli, Ricardo, Guanyu, Svan Okon, Valtteri Bottas,
1:16.3	and finally, Sergio Perez, Carlos Sines, Lance Stroll and Yuki Sonoda, all with DNFs.
1:22.0	Well, joining me to discuss what was an epic battle.
1:24.9	I'm delighted to have Philip Clearing and Ben Hunt with me. Jens,
1:28.5	how are you doing? First of all, Phil, how are you getting on? Very good. Thank you.
1:32.3	Yeah, and I'm doing very good too. Off to Singapore shortly. Yeah, of course, for you then, Ben,
1:37.0	it's a short hop. It's never a short hop, is it, from Azerbaijan to Singapore, but you've got that to contend with. So we'll whistle through this as quickly as we can.
1:44.7	But Phil, let's start with you.
1:46.1	We witnessed an epic battle between Chardacler and Oscar Piastri.
1:50.3	What was it that led to the overtake, though, that allowed Piastri to go through?
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