The team comes first... Is it? 🥇❤️🏎

It's never too late to jump on track under the safety car, innit? Hellooo, I missed you so much! My racing blogs are back so am I. Here's my first post in a while on the best race in the season I believe but who knows? Enjoy!

1. Crucial puncture for Valtteri and unexpected win for Lewis

Am I happy? Well, it is hard to say. As you might know I am a huge Mercedes fan and I wasn't quite into first three races this season so I didn't see all Lewis' losses. This race gave me hope from the very beginning firstly because I knew it is a motor track, secondly because I knew it is a crazy track. The whole race was a mess and when the last safety car stayed on track after absolutely unexpected crush for Roman (which I am honestly sad about since he had tough times in quali with his gearbox) and Valtteri managed to pit not only changing the tyres to ultrasofts but also coming in front of Seb you can imagine how happy I was. Later on everything happened in a perfect way - Seb blocked his front rears and lost 3 places not to Valtteri only but to Lewis and Kimi so we expected a one-two for Mercedes. But lady luck decided in other way. Some kind of debris and the puncture. This. Was. Crucial.

Lewis was lost during the interview and right after that he went to Valtteri to say that he had the amazing race. So the champ was late to the podium. The team comes first.

2. Red Bulls on fire

The team comes first but probably not for everyone. Red Bull lost huge points and possible podium because of how stupid their pilots was. I am sure you have seen the crush in details already. It was an amazing fight where one overtook another for a few times in this race.  In my opinion (I might be totally wrong) the blame is 50% on each. Dani saw that Max changes his way constantly and he should have understand that he would keep doing this not to let him in front so why speeding so much? Max also knew that Dani would fight so he should have left the space just in case Dani is irresponsible for a moment. What happened - happened. Both drivers went to Milton Keynes to apologize for the team. Smart decision from Christian.

3. Safety car leads the race

Apart from two main dramas in this race (I mean Valtteri puncture and Red Bull clash) we also had a few collisions called safety car. The start of the race was predictable. I mean - it is Baku, the most epic track of the season. The first ones to prove it were Kimi and Esteban. French ended in the wall whilst Finn on the podium. This is amazing how Kimi managed not only bring the damaged car to the pits, come back under the safety car but to climb on top and even beat Seb. Amazing job. Alonso was as good as Kimi in bringing car to the pits after becoming a part of a sandwich alongside Sergey (unfortunately retired) and Carlos but not so good in climbing on top.

4. Not to mention

Not to mention the driver of the day - Charles who brought his first career points to Zauber and was just great. He was congratulated by his mate Pierre who also had a great start making it to P7 in the first laps after having a little accident with Marcus. Marcus finished P13 and was the last one not to retire as Nico joined the company from mentioned above. Also not to mention Checo who got his second podium in Baku after overtaking Seb in the very end and Carlos showing a nice drive after overtaking both Red Bulls in the beginning.

5. What have you expected?

Overall after quite a calm qualifying with Seb on pole I expected anything but what happened. Before the start I knew just one thing - as Kimi was so fast but didn't make it to the pole after his mistake in Q3 Lewis need to win the start but he didn't. The times were lower than last year because of the season and all the teams struggled to find the temperature window. Winds and dust caused many mistakes, we saw a few wall-crushes in FPs and almost a clash between Pierre and Brendon in Q1 when the last one struggled a puncture. The weekend was interesting enough to write more but I'll stop.

Baku is always great and it is still a big dream of mine to write this blog from Azerbaijan GP paddock which I am sure I will do one day! Thank you for your attention and stay with me. Until Spain in two weeks :)