Everything you need to know about the Baku GP; there are important news

Next week, Formula 1 travels to the narrow streets of the city of Baku to speed up and end up grazing the walls near the curve of the castle. The twenty-two drivers will have to strengthen their confidence as the weekend progresses in order to be able to extract the maximum points for the championship.

This weekend Formula 1 varies its schedules in order to respect local festivities. The city of Baku celebrates the memory of those who died in combat in the second Nagorno-Karabakh war.

Free Training 1: Thursday, September 24: 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Free Training 2: Thursday, September 24: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Free Training 3: Friday, September 25: 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Baku Qualifying: Friday, September 25: 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Race (54 laps): Saturday, September 26: 1:00 p.m. – ?

Formula 1 reaches the streets of Baku for the Grand Prix of Azerbaijan this year, just when the season enters its decisive phase. The fifteenth round of the championship comes with an interesting classification of drivers and teams.

Kimi Antonelliwho leads the drivers’ classification, increased his advantage after obtaining his eighth victory of the season at the new circuit of Madring during the most recent race.

After his abandonment in Spain, Lewis Hamilton has fallen behind in the championship race. For its part, George Russellhis teammate, surpasses him by 81 points.

This is the Formula 1 classification so far.

Baku It stands out as one of the most exclusive urban circuits of the season, after the European period of the calendar, which is distinguished by its most classic circuits.

While the long straight stretch, located next to the coast of Bakuallows cars to exceed 354 km/h and is the best place to overtake, the section that includes turns 8, 9 and 10 is located near the walls of the attractive old town of the city.

The high speeds and the narrowness of the circuit, which is surrounded by walls, can lead to a chaotic race or, on the contrary, a smooth competition. During the race, there is a 57% chance that the safety car will come out.

In June of last year, the last race was run on a street circuit: it was in Monaco. Since then, several leading teams have made improvements to their cars without having yet competed on street circuits. But now it’s time to Baku.

On the high speed straights in Bakuit is expected that mercedes be swift; However, sharp and winding curves could benefit more Ferrari and McLaren. One of the main objectives will be to prevent the car from colliding with the wall, because if we don’t avoid it, the course of the race could be radically altered in an instant.

Norris is approaching the leading positions, although Antonelli He has had an exceptional performance in the last two competitions.

The current world champion has achieved two victories, one in Zandvoort and another in Hungarybut he also experienced an unfortunate episode in Madrid due to the departure of the safety car, which made him lose the opportunity to win there.