Reigning F1 world champion Verstappen saw his championship lead get whittled down to just six points after he finished second to Red Bull teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Perez in Baku on Sunday. 

Verstappen had led early on after passing polesitter 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc but was called into the pits by Red Bull shortly after AlphaTauri’s168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Nyck de Vries hit the wall. 

Fellow Dutchman de Vries suffered race-ending damage as was left stranded in the run-off area, prompting Race Control to throw a full Safety Car just as Verstappen was leaving theඣ pits. 

Versta꧙ppen was jumped by Perez and Leclerc who both pitted under the Safety Car. 

"I saw that there was a car stopped, I thought he maybe 🅷jus🗹t locked up," Verstappen said.

"In hindsight, I mean, I can't see that, ꦡbut it's something to review. I mean, clearly, you could see there was one wheel damaged and it looked like he was not going to drive 🗹that anyway back to the pits, even if he would've reversed.

"So something to look at, because of course that then did🤪 hurt my race after that.

"You see it on the screen, but you cannot look into detail if the wheel is connected to the car properly. I mean, of course the team has 🍎a bit more overview to that. But like I said, you know, we'll look into that if there was anything we could have done different.

"I also don't know when the exacꦑt call came to pit, so it's a bit difficult to say at the moment.”

Red Bull 'didn't expect Safety Car'

Explaining the thought process behind Red Bull’s decision, team principal Chri🌳stian Horner admitted his side would have kept Verstappen out for another lap with the benefit of hindsight. 

“Unfortunate thing was the Safety Car, 20/20 hindꦯsight♈ you’d have left them another lap,” he said. 

“At the time from what we could see we decided 🍬to pit Max, who was starting to struggle a little bit with the rear of his car an𒈔d Checo was obviously right up behind him.

“So we decided from a strategy🉐 point of view it w💯as the optimum time to take the stop.

ཧ“Then De Vries, fꦺrom the glimpse that we got, all four wheels are on the car, he hadn’t hit the barrier and the engine was running. It looked like he’d reverse and carry on.

“Never expected t🧸hat to go to a Safetꦆy Car. With 20/20 vision we’d have done one more lap and gone from there.

“Youꦏ just don’t know at that point if Charles is going to pit then sudde🐲nly he jumps both of them.

“The problem is we 🍌🌠didn’t have the visibility of De Vries, [we got a] quick shot of him, black set of lines made it looked like he’d outbraked himself and gone straight on and hadn’t hit the barrier.

“So usually if you see a car in the barriers it’s a Safety Car but there was no sign of him having hit the barrier so… yeah,♚ it was only subsequently on the replays that you saw the 🐲track rod was broken [from an earlier contact].”

'Max's misfortune was Checo's good fortune' 

Following the chequ♏ered flag, Horner told Verstappen over team radio: “Well done Max. Checo got a little lucky with the Safety Car but it’s a long season and very good point🗹s today. Great team result.” 

Speaking later to Sky Sports, Horner hailed ܫPerez’s performance across the weekend as “sensational”. 

“♋He [Perez] has had a sensational weekend," Horner said. 

"He has♌ always been amazing at this track, I don't know what it is about Azerbaijan.

"He 𝐆absolutely excels here and he got a little lucky with a Safety Car today but he converted that and pulled a gap🐷 and had the pace. 

"He really controlled the race so a phenomenal dr☂ive by him all weekend.

"We had already committed to the stop [for Verstappen]….  but sometimes things lik🌌e that don't go your way.

"His misfortune was Checo's good fortune."