Winners
Nine races, seven different winners and not a single driver who has won here three times.
Who has won
Mercedes. European Grand Prix: pole, victory, fastest lap and the lead on every lap — the second grand slam of his career.
Red Bull. His fifth career win, in a race with two restarts; eighteen-year-old Lance Stroll shared the podium.
Mercedes. A win after a puncture for the leading Bottas within sight of the flag.
Mercedes. Victory from pole and a team one-two; Leclerc set the lap record in the same race.
Red Bull. His first win for the team — after Verstappen's tyre failure and Hamilton's error at the restart.
Red Bull. Victory in a race where Leclerc took pole; Pérez second, Russell third.
Red Bull. Wins in both the sprint and the race — the first two-time winner of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
McLaren. A win over Leclerc and the day McLaren led the Constructors' Championship for the first time in 55 rounds.
Red Bull. A grand slam and a second Baku win; Sainz brings Williams their first podium in four years.
Track records
- Race lap record
- 1:43.009 — Charles Leclerc, Ferrari, 2019
- Most wins
- two each — Sergio Pérez (2021, 2023) and Max Verstappen (2022, 2025)
- Consecutive poles
- four — Charles Leclerc, 2021–2024
- Highest speed
- 378 km/h — Williams data on Bottas's lap in 2016 qualifying
- Grand slams
- two — Rosberg (2016) and Verstappen (2025)
- First sprint
- 2023, won by Sergio Pérez
- Race distance
- 51 laps
Why favourites rarely win here
The long straight and the slipstream keep the chasers in play until the final lap, and the walls forgive nothing. In Baku the winner is regularly not the fastest driver in qualifying.
2017 and 2021 are the clearest examples: in both cases the win went to a driver who did not look like a contender at half distance, while the leaders lost everything within a few laps of the flag.
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Sources
Facts were checked against Wikipedia articles on the Baku City Circuit, the Azerbaijan Grand Prix and the individual races (2016–2025), and against the 2026 season calendar. Results and records are current as of 18 August 2026.