Azerbaijan

Baku delivered drama and a championship swing. Dürksen won the Sprint ahead of Crawford and Minì, with Miyata crashing out late and Goethe penalised for contact with Cordeel. The Feature was thrown into chaos on the opening lap: pole-sitter Maini failed to pull away at lights-out, and Goethe and Martí had nowhere to go, crashing into the stationary car and triggering a roughly half-hour red flag. The race was shortened from twenty-nine to seventeen laps with reduced points. What followed was a slipstream duel down Baku's long straight: Martins used DRS to take the lead, but Verschoor responded with a quicker pit stop, retook the front and absorbed the pressure to win ahead of Martins and Antonelli, the top finishers packed within a few seconds. A late safety car for a Minì crash let Verschoor coast home. The decisive story was Bortoleto's fourth place, backed by the fastest lap: with Hadjar mired down the order and out of the points, it lifted Bortoleto to the championship lead for the first time, completing a stunning swing from the Frenchman's earlier dominance with two rounds left to run.