Lewis, starting on Hards, overtook Alonso on lap 1 and moved up to 10th place. On the same lap the Safety Car was deployed following Oscar Piastri's accident.

At the restart, Charles, on Mediums, passed Lando Norris and then Isack Hadjar, for 7th position. On lap 7 Lewis passed Hadjar for ninth making good use of his DRS. On lap 20 Charles pitted for Hards to undercut Norris, and rejoined the race in 12th, after which he got stuck behind Lawson for a long time, also hampered slightly by a minor PU issue. On lap 37 Lewis pitted for Mediums and came out behind Charles. With 10 laps to go Norris overtook Charles who was eighth at that point, Charles and Lewis swapped position as Lewis had more in his tyres to go after Norris but he was unable to mount an attack so the team plan was to swap back on the last lap, however in the end there was insufficient time to do this and at the chequered flag, Lewis was eighth, with Charles right behind him in ninth.

Lewis Hamilton: It's not the result we were aiming for and of course it's disappointing. I felt more comfortable in the car today and the balance was much better, but it was difficult to close on the cars ahead as they had strong pace.

Qualifying is always key and we didn't maximise it this weekend. Our setup choice and execution in quali weren't ideal, and that left us further back than we should have been. Fighting for eighth and ninth doesn't reflect the potential we had if everything had come together.

We're going to be focused on how we can improve our qualifying performance over the coming weeks. The team and the pit crew did a great job today and I'm thankful for their hard work. We'll regroup and come back stronger in Singapore.

Charles Leclerc: Today, what mattered was being on the right strategy, in the sense that some cars started on Hards and others on Mediums, and the most important thing was to find yourself in the faster group of cars who were on the same tyres as you, in order to be able to fight your way forward. I was stuck behind Liam (Lawson) for most of the second stint. He was on a different strategy with the Mediums and I was on Hards at that point, so I couldn't overtake him. I also had a small issue on my PU, which affected my pace for a few laps.

At the end of the day, what had the biggest impact on our race was our qualifying result. I made a mistake in Q3 and ended up starting from P10. Going for a P8 or P9 in a race is not my target, and these are not positions I am interested in fighting for. We have to reset and come back stronger in the upcoming races. The temperatures were colder than ever before in Baku this time around, which has impacted our performance in the way we were able to work our tyres. Things should look better in warmer temperatures, so I'm looking forward to Singapore and hope we will be in better shape there.

Congratulations to Carlos (Sainz) for his first podium with Williams, he had a strong weekend and I'm happy for him.

Fred Vasseur, Team Principal: We cannot be satisfied with eighth and ninth. We started behind Norris and we finished behind him, which is the reality of this track. We had an issue with Charles' engine which we will now investigate and, even if it was marginal, it was enough to prevent him from being able to overtake in a straight line, which explains why we were stuck behind Lawson. The main regret is for yesterday, because we had the pace to do a much better job in qualifying and that's where the weekend got away from us. It's encouraging that the pace was there, but frustrating that we did not capitalise on it because you have two parts of the job: one is pure performance and the other is your execution. In terms of performance we made a step forward after Spa, but to be P10 and P12 yesterday was not what we expected. Now we need to understand what we could have done better, because we made some mistake, some poor choices. I know Charles is accepting the responsibility for qualifying, but we need to work on our execution to come back stronger.

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