Mercedes' George Russell took his archetypal triumph since June by holding disconnected Max Verstappen to triumph the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
Verstappen's Red Bull team-mate Isack Hadjar completed the podium connected his instrumentality aft missing 3 races with a breached wrist.
Championship person Kimi Antonelli finished 5th successful Baku, meaning his vantage implicit team-mate Russell has narrowed to 66 points.
This weekend, Formula 1 heads to Malaysia, the big of the Bahrain Grand Prix - an lawsuit primitively owed to instrumentality spot successful April but which was postponed due to the fact that of the warfare successful the Middle East.
Before the contention successful Sepang, BBC F1 analogous Andrew Benson answers your latest questions.
Does Christian Horner truly privation the squad main occupation astatine Ferrari, oregon adjacent person a changeable astatine it? - Ben
This taxable has go a taxable for speech successful caller days pursuing an interrogation Horner did with the Times, external arsenic helium promotes his caller book.
Horner said: "At this signifier successful my life, there's lone 1 squad for which I would judge non-participation successful ownership."
Asked whether helium would instrumentality a occupation there, helium replied: "Would I see Ferrari? I mean, Ferrari is the biggest marque successful Formula 1. It's the dream. And arguably it's the sleeping elephantine of Formula 1."
Ferrari squad main Frederic Vasseur made his views astir Horner's involution beauteous plain aft the Azerbaijan Grand Prix erstwhile helium said: "Mr Horner is looking for a occupation - that, everybody knows - everywhere."
Vasseur said the speculation surrounding the squad meant Ferrari were "not moving successful the cleanable serenity".
Horner's comments look to marque it wide that helium would see a occupation connection from Ferrari. But the cardinal questions are nether what conditions helium mightiness judge it, and whether helium would beryllium offered it successful the archetypal place.
Horner has made it precise wide implicit the years that helium believes an F1 squad needs 1 idiosyncratic successful complaint and successful wide control.
It's highly improbable helium would get that astatine Ferrari, wherever president John Elkann and main enforcement serviceman Benedetto Vigna volition ever person much authorization than immoderate squad principal.
Even astatine Red Bull, wherever Horner had theoretical enactment astatine the F1 team, helium was yet answerable to office successful Austria and that is what led to his removal successful the end.
It's hard to ideate however Elkann and Vigna could oregon would countenance immoderate concern wherever they were removed from immoderate input into the F1 team.
And it's adjacent harder to ideate a concern wherever that was not the de facto presumption adjacent if a squad brag had been fixed assurances they would beryllium near alone.
Then determination is the question of whether Ferrari would privation Horner.
Horner comes with baggage. All of the supra for a start, and connected apical of that determination is the unreality nether which he near Red Bull.
There is nary uncertainty that helium was a remarkably palmy squad main there, the squad winning 8 drivers' titles, six constructors' championships and 124 grands prix successful his two-decade tenure.
However, the squad unravelled successful his last 18 months successful charge, successful the aftermath of the accusations of intersexual harassment and coercive, controlling behaviour that were made against him by a pistillate employee.
Red Bull dismissed those allegations aft 2 interior investigations led by outer lawyers.
But they were a cardinal origin successful Adrian Newey leaving his presumption arsenic main method serviceman - on with interior authorities successful which Newey felt his relation had been diminished by Horner.
Newey was followed retired of the doorway by long-time sporting manager Jonathan Wheatley and caput of strategy Will Courtenay.
Horner was yet dismissed pursuing a slump successful signifier which Red Bull bosses concluded the squad did not look to beryllium susceptible of arresting nether his leadership.
In the Times interview, Horner says that the lone justification helium was fixed by Red Bull for his sacking was "it was much Christian Horner Racing than Red Bull Racing".
He adds astatine different points successful the interview: "I americium a spot of a Marmite character. I cognize I'm not everybody's cupful of tea. It's intolerable to be." And: "I'm the cure and the problem."
Clearly, immoderate determination arsenic to whether Horner is the idiosyncratic you privation to pb your F1 squad would request cautious consideration.
It's besides worthy mentioning that Ferrari operator Lewis Hamilton has made it beauteous wide implicit the past fewer years that helium has small clip for Horner.
Why hasn't the FIA made a determination connected the last 2 races of the season? They've cancelled the last rounds of the World Rally Championship and World Endurance Championship due to the fact that of the Middle East conflict. Surely they should beryllium confirming the changes successful the calendar now? - Nigel
To commencement with a constituent of order, it is Formula 1 that decides the calendar - arsenic in, the commercialized rights holder - not the FIA, the governing body. The FIA's relation is efficaciously lone to rubber-stamp F1's decision.
As things stand, F1 is readying to extremity the play arsenic the calendar was primitively scheduled - with Las Vegas followed by Qatar and past Abu Dhabi, external implicit the past 2 weekends successful November and the archetypal successful December.
Although the warfare continues betwixt the US/Israel and Iran, the proposal F1 has been getting is that the concern successful those 2 countries is stable, and determination is not a precocious hazard of attacks connected civilian infrastructure.
The UK Foreign Office, for example, does not counsel against question to Qatar and Abu Dhabi., external It simply says the concern determination "remains unpredictable" and that "there is simply a hazard of much attacks and unforeseen escalation successful the region".
And the 2 countries see themselves unfastened for business.
However, F1 has a contingency plan.
Imola successful Italy is preparing to big a contention connected the play of Abu Dhabi.
If the 2 Middle Eastern races cannot hap arsenic a effect of an escalation of the concern successful the Gulf, Imola would measurement successful and clasp the play finale connected 4-6 December.
But unless and until that happens, determination is nary confirmation of changes to make, arsenic determination are presently nary changes.
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