2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix - Baku, Sep 19-21

[pantherxxx]

I predict a Verstappen victory, since RB21 works well with low DF setup, especially after the Monza update. At Monza, Red Bull showed they can trim their wings right down, run very low drag, and still keep the car stable and fast in braking/traction zones.

In Baku most of the middle-sector corners are slow 90° turns. At low speed, downforce doesn’t contribute as much (mechanical grip from the tyres is more important). So trimming wing levels doesn’t hurt lap time as badly as it would at a track full of fast corners. The run from Turn 16 all the way down to Turn 1 is over 2 km flat-out, nearly 20+ seconds at full throttle. A car with lower drag gains a big chunk of time here.

[Lasssept]

[Vettel165]

My prediction
Q3
1. Max
2. Leclerc
3. Piastri
4. Norris
5. Russel

Race
1. Max
2. Norris
3. Leclerc
4. Piastri
5. Russel

[venkyhere]

My prediction
Q3
1. Max
2. Leclerc
3. Piastri
4. Norris
5. Russel

Race
1. Max
2. Norris
3. Leclerc
4. Piastri
5. Russel

Let's just say I will not predict the Q or R order as I have a 100% failure rate from doing so previously. Despite that, I will go out on a limb and predict that there will be :
1. Two safety cars in the Race, one from someone putting it in the wall, and one from either Ocon or Lawson (junior Kmag) running into the side of someone else
2. Colapinto will continue to maintain his 100% record of blocking someone on a fast lap by hugging the racing line while on a slow lap himself, during FP1/2/3/Q. Either he or his race engineer are 'thick', never seen such a person before, not even Mazepin was this disruptive.