The race was overshadowed by a pair of major tyre blowouts t🎐hat will leave serious questions for Pirelli to answer, after both Lance Stroll and Verstappen were eliminated by sudden left-rear delaminations.

Verstappen had looked on course to ♌take a well-deserved victory in Baku but crashed out at high-speed along the main straight just four 🧔laps from the end.

The Dutc💃hman had dominated the race up until his accident, having jumped Lewis Hamilton in the pits and pulled clear of his main rivals when the race restarted following a mid-race Safety Car that was thrown when Stroll crashed out due to his o❀wn tyre woes.

Following a l🧸engthy red flag suspension to clear the significant amount of debris strewn across the track, the race resumed with a standing start restart for a two-lap sprint to the finish to determine the victor.

The drama continued at the restart as Lewis Hamilton overshot Turn 1 and ran straight down the escape road with his bra꧟kes almost on fire in🧸 his bid to snatch the lead from Perez.

Hamilton ultimately finished 15th as he missed an open goaꦜl to retake the championship lead from Verstappen.

Hamilton’s rare eܫrror opened the door for Sebastian Vettel to claim his ꦆfirst podium for Aston Martin, while AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly completed the podium in third.

Gasly came out on top of a huge late scrap with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc for the final place on the rostrum, with the pole sitter left to settle with fourth place at the cheque♔red flag.

Lando Norris finished fifth for McLaren, ahead of Alpine's Fernando Alonso 🔯and AlphaTauri F1 rookie Yuki Tsunoda, who scored his first points since the Bahrain season-opener. 

Carl🐠os Sainz, Daniel Ricciardo and Kimi Raikkonen c👍ompleted the rest of the top-10 order for Ferrari, McLaren and Alfa Romeo. 

It proved to be a disastrous day f🔯or Mercedes as neither driver scored points, wi൩th Valtteri Bottas struggling to 12th in what was a dire performance from the Finn. 

Full race results from the 2021 F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix.