Track
Baku City Circuit (Azerbaijan Grand Prix)
Answer
The Baku City Circuit is a 6.003 km street track in the Azerbaijani capital, host of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. It pairs one of the longest flat-out runs in F1, around two kilometres along the seafront, with a tight, twisting medieval-castle section, a contradiction that makes wing level a gamble and produces dramatic, safety-car-heavy races.
At a glance
- Location: Baku, Azerbaijan
- Length: 6.003 km
- Corners: 20
- Layout: temporary street circuit, run anti-clockwise
The character
Strategy and overtaking
The colossal main straight with DRS is one of the easiest places to pass on the calendar, which keeps cars bunched and overtaking realistic deep into a stint[1]. The flip side is a very high safety-car probability from wall contact, so strategists weight Baku heavily toward reacting to cautions rather than a fixed plan.
Related
Related reading
Sources
- [1]Baku City Circuit (Wikipedia) (wikipedia-en). Accessed 2026-06-18.
Published 2026-06-18