Verstappen Takes Baku, a Williams Podium, and the Weirdest Qualifying Ever
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🗓️ 21 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Ringer F1 show, part of the Ringer podcast network. |
| 0:11.1 | I am your host, Megan Schuster, and we are here to talk about the 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix. |
| 0:16.7 | Max Rassapin wins the race his fourth victory of the season and second win in a row. |
| 0:21.1 | George Russell takes second, and Carlos Sines finishes third. |
| 0:25.5 | Rounding out the rest of the top ten are Kimmy Antonelli, Liam Lawson, Yuki Sonoda, |
| 0:29.6 | Lando Norris, Lewis Hamilton, Charles Leclair, and Isaac Hajar. |
| 0:33.0 | We've got a lot to talk about today from perhaps the wildest qualifying of all time to some |
| 0:38.6 | uncharacteristic Oscar Piastri mistakes, to Landon Norris failing to take advantage of his |
| 0:43.7 | teammates' struggles. |
| 0:45.5 | But Spanors, should we start with what's really most important here? |
| 0:49.3 | A Williams podium for the first time since 2017. Can you believe we're here? Can you believe we really did it? |
| 0:57.8 | I would like to take some credit for this personally. I don't feel like this is a safe place for me, Meg. |
| 1:02.9 | And also, yeah, all our predictions about that, all important battle for fifth place. All of my |
| 1:08.6 | predictions are in the trash with kicks out in eighth place. And |
| 1:13.0 | Williams looking quite clear. Now, what a fantastic weekend for Williams. And all my predictions |
| 1:17.7 | about Williams were always just things I reckon, all from love. I would say Williams |
| 1:22.3 | are the thing that I've supported most, you know, from the 80s through till now. And that's why |
| 1:26.5 | when Carlos Seine said, yeah, I'm really hoping to get Williams their first podium and through till now. And that's why when Carlos Sine said, yeah, |
| 1:27.7 | I'm really hoping to get Williams their first podium and then walked off and it's like, no, Carlos, there's been, never mind. No, no, no, no, good luck. Go go get the podium. Godspeed, man. We can get more into Williams in a minute, but we can start with what was, you know, probably the most pivotal moment of this race. And that was the Oscar Piastri first lap crash. That dictated a lot of what happened |
| 1:48.8 | across the rest of the day and obviously had some pretty big impact on the driver's championship |
| 1:54.0 | standings. This was the last of three bad incidents for Piastri on the weekend. The first was |
| 1:59.4 | Saturday he crashed out with just under four |
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