Scuderia Ferrari HP leave the Azerbaijan Grand Prix with 20 points to consolidate its second place in the Constructors' Championship, courtesy of Charles Leclerc finishing fourth and Lewis Hamilton sixth.

Charles and Lewis both started on Soft tyres. When the lights went out, Leclerc suffered wheelspin and was passed by Oscar Piastri, which dropped him to third place. In the early stages, both SF-26s struggled for grip and were overtaken by Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar, while Lewis also had to cede a place to Lando Norris. After around ten laps, the pace of the SF-26s improved and on lap 17, Hamilton managed to retake sixth place ahead of the McLaren driver. The team took advantage of the Safety Car triggered by Alex Albon's accident on lap 30 to stage a double pit stop, putting both drivers on Medium tyres. Ten laps later, Piastri ran wide at Turn 1, allowing Charles and Lewis to move up to fourth and fifth respectively. On lap 43, Hamilton was passed by Andrea Kimi Antonelli, dropping to sixth, a position he held until the chequered flag.

Scuderia Ferrari HP now focuses on preparation for the next round of the championship, the Bahrain Grand Prix, which takes place next Sunday at the Sepang circuit in Malaysia.

Charles Leclerc: We maximised our result, today we simply lacked pace compared to our main competitors who have been very strong all weekend. There were some phases of the race in which the pace of those ahead fluctuated a bit more, and even though my lap times were consistent throughout, we couldn't get in a real fight for the podium today.

As we saw this weekend, things can swing pretty quickly, so we all have to stay on top of that. I look forward to being back in the car in Sepang.

Lewis Hamilton: Overall, it wasn't the weekend we were aiming for and there are a few areas we need to look into. Throughout the race, we struggled to get the tyres consistently into the right operating window, which made it difficult to extract the performance we wanted. We'll go through the data, particularly around energy management, and see where we can improve. Sepang will be a different challenge, so our focus now is on regrouping and making sure we come back stronger next week.

Fred Vasseur: We knew before coming to Baku that this could be a difficult weekend for us, particularly because of our expected performance deficit on the long straights. Of course, starting from P2 with Charles, we wanted a better result. Our single-lap pace was good yesterday, but today we were missing a couple of tenths per lap compared to our competitors, which was too much.

There are certainly things we could have done better this weekend, and we need to understand them and improve.

On the positive side, in terms of the Constructors' championship, we extended our advantage over McLaren, but we need to keep pushing and focus on doing a better job at the next race.