Formula 1 is back for the third grand prix of the season, after a long — and unexpected — break due to the cancellation of the Chinese Grand Prix. The grid heads to Azerbaijan for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, taking on one of the most fascinating courses of the season.
How to Watch the Azerbaijan Grand Prix
F1 is back and sprinting this week with the Azerbaijan Grand Prix
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In addition, things will look a bit different this week, as Azerbaijan is now one of F1’s sprint races. That means just one practice session on Friday before the qualifying session for Sunday’s Grand Prix. Then on Saturday the teams will have another qualifying session before the Sprint Race, which will have no bearing on the starting order for the Grand Prix, a departure from previous seasons.
It all gets underway this week. Here is how to watch, and what to watch for.
How To Watch (all times Eastern):
- Practice 1 - Friday April 28 - 5:25 a.m. - ESPN2/ESPN Deportes/WatchESPN
- Qualifying (Grand Prix Race) - Friday April 28 - 8:55 a.m. - ESPNU/ESPN Deportes/WatchESPN
- Qualifying (Sprint Race) - Saturday April 29 - 5:25 a.m. - ESPN2/ESPN Deportes/WatchESPN
- Sprint Race - Saturday April 29 - 9:25 a.m. - ESPN/ESPN Deportes/WatchESPN
- Grand Prix Sunday (Pre-race Show) - Sunday April 30 - 5:30 a.m. - ESPN/ESPN Deportes/WatchESPN
- Grand Prix Race - Sunday April 30 - 6:55 a.m. - ESPN/ESPN Deportes/WatchESPN
- Grand Prix Race (Replay) - Sunday April 30 - 10:00 a.m. - ESPN2/WatchESPN
What to Watch:
Welcome to the Baku City Circuit, a street circuit that is one of the more fascinating courses on the grid. Baku provides a mixture of tight, narrow turns and some wide-open straights, forcing teams to decide between downforce for the tighter turns, and removing drag so they can make up ground on the straights.
For more on this circuit take a ride with Max Verstappen:
Here are some of the major storylines heading into the fourth race of the season.
- What is the biggest question facing each team heading into Azerbaijan?
- What upgrades are Mercedes bringing to Baku?
- How will the teams and drivers handle the new sprint schedule that debuts this week?
- Is Fernando Alonso really dating Taylor Swift!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
- All the F1 terms you need to know before Sunday’s Grand Prix
2024 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix (odds as of March 5)
Driver | Winner | Top 6 | Top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Max Verstappen | -450 | -900 | -1200 |
| Sergio Pérez | +900 | -650 | -800 |
| Charles Leclerc | +1200 | -550 | -800 |
| Carlos Sainz Jr. | +1800 | -550 | -800 |
| Lewis Hamilton | +2000 | -450 | -700 |
| Lando Norris | +2800 | -350 | -650 |
| George Russell | +3500 | -330 | -600 |
| Oscar Piastri | +5000 | +135 | -450 |
| Fernando Alonso | +8000 | +225 | -400 |
| Lance Stroll | +20000 | +900 | -165 |
| Yuki Tsunoda | +30000 | +1100 | +135 |
| Valtteri Bottas | +30000 | +4000 | +350 |
| Zhou Guanyu | +30000 | +4000 | +550 |
| Daniel Ricciardo | +30000 | +1100 | +125 |
| Alexander Albon | +30000 | +2800 | +175 |
| Pierre Gasly | +40000 | +6500 | +650 |
| Kevin Magnussen | +40000 | +3500 | +300 |
| Esteban Ocon | +40000 | +6500 | +650 |
| Nico Hülkenberg | +40000 | +3500 | +185 |
| Logan Sargeant | +50000 | +6500 | +800 |
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