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2021 FIA Formula One World Championship
2021 Azerbaijan Grand Prix
Baku City Circuit
Baku, Azerbaijan
Sunday, 6 June
Fernando Alonso is looking forward to the challenge of racing around the Baku City Circuit.
The
Azerbaijan Grand Prix is undoubtedly one of the most difficult on the calendar, but the Spanish racer relishes that challenge and can't wait for Sunday's race.
The two-time Formula One World Champion, who will celebrate his 40th birthday later this year, has endured a difficult start to his Alpine Renault career but is excited by what is to come this weekend.
“I think Baku is an extreme circuit,” Alonso said in an Alpine video preview.
“It’s a layout that has a lot of slow-speed corners and then the longest straight of the championship, so that combination is very difficult to set up the car.
“And [it’s] very difficult as a driver to completely change your way of perceiving things. For two minutes of the lap, you’re seeing all these buildings, all these walls at 50, 60kph then suddenly you’re at 350kph in the middle of a city.
“So those emotions are quite extreme and I think it’s one of the circuits that probably produces more adrenaline as a driver, so it’s challenging," Alonso added.
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Alpine-Renault currently occupy seventh spot on the Constructors' Championship standings with neither Alonso or teammate Esteban Ocon having managed to finish higher than seventh after five rounds of racing.
Azerbaijan Grand Prix, previous winners:
2019: Valtteri Bottas - Mercedes
2018: Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes
2017: Daniel Ricciardo - Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer
2016: Nico Rosberg - Mercedes (*held as European Grand Prix)
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