Summary

  • Rosberg wins, Vettel 2nd, Perez 3rd

  • Hamilton started 10th, finishes fifth after loss of power

  • Hamilton spends much of race trying to adjust incorrect steering wheel setting

  • Kvyat, Sainz, Wehrlein & Alonso out

Live Reporting

Chris Osborne

  1. Lap 27/51

    Right. Not wanting to wish harm on anyone - but a safety car would sure liven things up.

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  2. Lap 27/51

    Button takes his second stop - so differing strategies across the teams.

  3. Get Involved #bbcf1

    Rachel T: Unless we have a safety car, ROS might lap the entire field.

    Nathan Marzan: For such an interesting track this race is turning out to be quite boring. 

    Amit Mandalia: This race is proving quite sedate after the carnage of GP2

  4. Lap 26/51

    So many gorgeous medieval balconies overlook this track and there's plenty of people having a casual coffee to accompany the smell of motor oil and the thunder of rubber hooves.

    Not a bad life

  5. 'As others have improved, Hamilton's got worse'

    Tom Clarkson
    BBC Radio 5 live commentator in Baku

    It has been a weekend of two halves for Lewis Hamilton. When he came out on the track on Friday he was so much quicker. But with the twists and turns of the middle section, that is a lot for a driver to get his head around. Hamilton seemed to shine at first, but as the others have got better he has got worse.

  6. Lap 25/51

    What of Jenson Button I hear you ask?

    He's just been eaten up by Ricciardo and drops to P11. Glad you asked.

  7. Lap 25/51

    Halfway - here's the top 10:

    ROS, RAI, VET, PER, HAM, MAS, BOT, SAI, ALO, HUL

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  8. F1F1

  9. Team radio - Pascal Wehrlein

    "Please be careful on turn eight we have a warning," says his mechanics.

    Pascal Wehrlein responds: "I'm not cutting the corners."

  10. Lap 24/51

    Amid that, Verstappen made his second stop and emerges on... mediums. Funny. Maybe they picked up the wrong ones?

    Nope. Ricciardo makes the same change right now.

  11. Is he right?

    Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel questions the team's pit stop strategy.

  13. Get Involved #bbcf1

    Ollie Underwood: I bet Red Bull are laughing that @Dany_Kvyat has not had the rub off the green since being relegated to Toro Rosso.

  14. Lap 23/51

    Hamilton and Perez have become a tag team as fluid as the Bushwackers, completing their overtakes in tandem.

    The pair go past Ricciardo - P4 for Perez, P5 for Hamilton.

  15. Lap 22/51

    And now it's Rosberg's turn to head in for new shoes.

    But his 20-second lead means he can saunter back out in the lead.

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  16. Lap 21/51

    Vettel pits. Super softs off, softs on.

    He drops just the one place and comes out ahead of Ricciardo in P3. Raikkonen finds himself up in second.

  17. Lap 21/51

    Perez and Hamilton make the most of their fresh tyres and gobble up Massa, going into P6 and P7 respectively.

    Bottas boxes and comes back out just in front of Verstappen in P9.

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  18. Lap 20/51

    None of the wall-kissing drama of the first two days - but Felipe Nasr provides a few sparks as he caresses the wall down in P14.

  19. Lap 20/51

    Raikkonen has decided he is a racing driver today. He goes past Ricciardo before Turn One. The Australian tries to hit straight back - no dice. Kimi up to P4.

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