After three weeks off, Formula 1 is finally starting again! We fly to Baku, Azerbaijan, for the fourth round of the season.
Let's start with them
After Australia, which has given many twists and turns, the engines are restarting in Baku. She starts again as always from Red Bull. The Milton Keynes team he started out great with Max Verstappen who is increasingly leading the world standings. In Azerbaijan, of course, Max will be the man to beat, just as we will have to pay attention to Sergio Perez. However, there is particular attention on him to understand if in the end the problems he had in Australia on his RB19 have been completely resolved.
Ferrari, the first updates are coming
Whoever wants to try to get up will be there Ferrari. The start of the season Maranello stable it wasn't the best, to put it mildly. Australia's race speaks for itself: zero points taken home. The SF-23 will restart from a series of updates initials that will concern the wings and the rear area. From Baku therefore begins, in an official manner, the real Ferrari season and will change from Grand Prix to Grand Prix more and more to try to get closer to Red Bull. Will these be the decisive updates? Only the trail at the end will tell us the truth.
The Sprint makes its debut!
Baku will be a stage in which there will be updates from the teams, which in any case will not be numerous. The reason? The weekend format. In fact, for the first time of the season, the Sprint which will be characterized by the replacement of the second free practice session on Saturday with the qualifying which will decide the starting grid of the Sprint. There is still no official announcement that, barring surprises, it should arrive tomorrow. It will of course be possible to follow everything live and exclusively on Sky Sport F1 and streaming on NOW.
GP Azerbaijan, the appointments
Friday April 28th
11:30 Free Practice 1
15 pm Qualifications
Saturday April 29th
11:30 Free Practice 2 (waiting for the format change with Qualifche Sprint NDR)
15 pm Sprints
Sunday April 30
13:00 Race
