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Azerbaijan Grand Prix: Race team notes - Red Bull

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21/09/2025

Max Verstappen: "It was an incredible weekend and today we had really good pace and it ended up being quite a straightforward race.

"Starting out in front today was key for us and we managed our tyres well. We were going well on the first stint and executed everything how we wanted to. Our strategy was to go from Hard tyres and then on to Mediums and luckily there were no safety cars in the middle of the race which might have messed this up. This is a tough track to be consistent at, with the challenging layout and also very hard winds so you have to keep reminding yourself to keep out of the walls! I was happy with the car and we really managed our pace and had quite a big gap to the Mercedes. It has been a great weekend overall and the last two weekends for sure have been amazing. Both are tracks where we have low downforce so we will see how we go on other circuits. Hopefully we can continue forward with this form, but we are just enjoying the moment right now. We are really happy with what we are doing: the relationship that I have with the Team is really good and when the car goes well, everything comes together."

Yuki Tsunoda: "We've put together a strong weekend here in Azerbaijan, where we showed the performance that we've wanted to for a long time. So, scoring my best result with the Team feels deserved. We put ourselves in a great position yesterday in Qualifying and we wanted to capitalise on that with the good promise that we showed in the long runs in practice. There wasn't a lot of tyre degradation on either the Medium or Hard tyre, so no one was particularly falling away, which made it tricky to pass but still, I am happy with P6. I've received massive support from the Team, so it's nice to repay that with some solid points. The changes that we've made to the car have really worked this weekend and it allowed us to be more competitive than we have been on race days previously. I came into Baku having put in a lot of hard work off track to extract as much performance as possible and today was a step in the right direction. I feel like I have unlocked something that I can take into future races. Also, a huge congratulations to Max as it was a classic drive from him. The Team has been operating at a very sharp level, and we want to continue this momentum. We are not giving up anything until the end of the season."

Laurent Mekies: "This win started with a Max masterclass in Qualifying yesterday. We didn't know what race pace would be like as nobody really got any long runs on Friday, but he just pulled away lap after lap, another Grand Chelem, Pole, in the lead from start to finish and setting the fastest lap. The win is down to everyone in Milton Keynes pushing so hard to make the car faster. There is no silver bullet, but no one has ever given up on this season in terms of understanding why we were not reaching the level we wanted and, little by little, the work that Max and Yuki have been doing with the whole Team has been paying off and at least, here and in Monza we were back in the game. We are not leaving any stone unturned in this 2025 campaign. We are fighting to get more and more learning, to unlock more and more understanding because even if the 2026 regulations are completely different there is always a lot we can carry over from this season. Yuki had a very strong race, keeping the McLaren and Ferrari behind him. He needed a clean weekend and he performed really well scoring important points for the Team in what is his best result of the season."

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