Just when you thought Max Verstappen was out of the title picture, McLaren gonna McLaren. Again.
Dre and RJ are back to review the 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix from Baku, and with it, a weekend that had McLaren score the least amount of points in a weekend since Las Vegas 2023.
There was a qualifying session with no less than SIX red flags, lasting 118 minutes as Alex Albon, Nico Hulkenberg, Franco Colapinto, Ollie Bearman, Charles Leclerc and Championship leader Oscar Piastri all crashing into a wall across the session. And with it, gift-wrapping Max Verstappen pole position by nearly half a second over Carlos Sainz (!!) and Liam Lawson.
In the race itself, a mach calmer affair. Piastri hits the anti-stall on a jumped start, and then goes into the Turn 5 wall to crash his second car of the weekend, and Max Verstappen goes onto to take a Grand Slam victory by 15 seconds over George Russell and Carlos Sainz, Williams first podium in over four years. With Max now just 69 points off the lead of the standings… he couldn’t, could he?
There’s also more on Ferrari’s latest screwup, botching a position swap on the final lap, whether Yuki Tsunoda hitting form might have come at just the wrong time, and Lando Norris failing to capitalise on a golden chance to slice into what’s now a 25-point deficit in the standings.
