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Analysis: How Ricciardo navigated Baku chaos to win from 17th
A lowly grid position and early-race issues should have ruined Daniel Ricciardo's Azerbaijan GP, but he and Red Bull persevered anyway. Adam Cooper analyses one of the most remarkable comebacks in recent Formula 1 history. Daniel Ricciardo wasn’t supposed to win the Azerbaijan GP. A crash in Q3 demoted him to the bottom of the top 10 on the grid, and then just five laps into the race debris caught in a brake duct forced him into a premature pitstop. He emerged on the lesser-fancied soft tyres in 17th place, with 46 laps to run. Things were looking pretty dire. And yet, when the chequered flag fell at the end of an astonishing and unpredictable race, the Australian was in front, logging...
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