The opening 12 laps of Sunday’s Azerbaijan GP were run incident-free. The next 10 laps featured three Safety Car periods.
The first was deployed when the Toro Rosso of Daniil Kvyat stopped on track with a mechanical issue. The leaders all came into the pits to change tires while the Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas was waved around the pace car after dropping a lap back early on.
The race was restarted and, thanks to the lengthy frontstraight, there were some frantic battles entering the first turn as Sebastian Vettel and Sergio Perez went side-by-side for second while there was a three-wide situation between Kimi Raikkonen, Felipe Massa and Esteban Ocon for fourth.