NOT SWAPPING Verstappen-Hadjar was correct | NERVOUS but in control George Russell | Baku F1 classic

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Soumil Arora (1:00)

A late night episode on the Inside Line F1 Podcast because we have to dissect the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, which was a snooze fest or not, is what we need your help in deciding. Make sure you comment live on the Inside Line F1 Podcast. Welcome along everyone, because we want to chat with you and we want to discuss this race with you. Soumil Arora here. I commentate on the Hindi F1 broadcast for Fan Code, just like Kunal Shah does as well. Today Kunal was in the Viplay studio, analyzing the race. I was commentating live and I am genuinely conflicted, Kunal, because on paper, if anyone looks back at this race, it's going to show second closest finish in Formula 1 history, a tenth separating the top two, another photo finish between Arvid Lindblad and Esteban Ocon, a safety car, a few big crashes, Alpines being taken out by themselves, Lando Norris being taken out, Alex Albon thumping it into the wall. But the race didn't really feel exciting at any point.

Kunal Shah (1:55)

And whatever happened to Yo-Yo Racing? Whatever. We will get to why we didn't see Yo-Yo Racing, even though we predicted we might just. But very interesting point you said, because what you are going to read in the race report versus when you actually sit back and watch every second of the highlights without, or I wouldn't say highlights, because highlights usually is just the highlights of the race, which would then mean the second half of the race, because still Alex Albon crashed and decided to bring the safety car out, where that's why we are saying Albon saved the race in Baku. So till he crashed, it was a snooze fest.

And we were constantly trying to wonder in the Wireplace studio as well that what's with the yo-yo racing? Aren't we supposed to run out of breath doing commentary on it? But yeah, it was one of those races where you just need some interruption and then it leads to another interruption and then it just race turns on its head.

Soumil Arora (2:46)

And it just wasn't fun. At any point, it didn't feel like Verstappen would be able to get past George Russell.

This is where a lot of people who made reels afterwards, Kunal, were like so close. We thought Verstappen would be able to get past. It was a dramatic finish. I didn't feel it was that dramatic. I'll be honest. I never felt that George had a chance.

Kunal Shah (3:09)

You mean Max had a chance on George?

Soumil Arora (3:11)

George, Max had a chance. My apologies. Yeah.

Kunal Shah (3:13)

You know, I'll put it this way. This is vintage George Russell because when he nails it, it looks beautiful.

And that's what we saw on track today. This was George Russell proving that he's worked hard to come back from the summer break and score the number of points that he has. Even if the World Championship may not go his way, he is back to being where he belongs, which is the second best driver last season, if you remember. It was not Lando Norris. It was not Oscar Piazri. After Max Verstappen, everyone said, George Russell, what a season he's been putting in. So to me, George Russell made it look like Max could overtake him. Max could pressurize him. And it did seem for a very brief period when Valtteri Bottas' car was crashed and lying there and George went on to the throttle, the turbo didn't respond and everyone thought, oh my God, that's it. Max is going to pip him to the line.

But apart from that moment, he looked like he was in absolute control of the race.