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2023 FIA Formula One World Championship
2023 Azerbaijan Grand Prix
Baku City Circuit
Baku, Azerbaijan
Sunday, 30 April 2023
Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton will be hoping to build on his first podium of the season as he looks to win the
Azerbaijan Grand Prix for the second time in his career on Sunday, April 30.
The record seven-time former World Champion emerged unscathed from an incident-packed Australian Grand Prix to finish just 0.179 seconds behind Max Verstappen in P2.
Hamilton had briefly led the race after both he and Mercedes team-mate George Russell had passed Verstappen on lap 1 but was overtaken by the Dutchman following the second restart.
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The Brit is fourth in the World Drivers' Championship standings, 31 points behind current leader Verstappen, having secured back-to-back P5 finishes in the opening two races of 2023.
Hamilton conquered the Baku City Circuit for the first time in 2018 and followed it up with a P2 in 2019, while he just missed out on a third podium last year after taking P4.
The 38-year-old has been linked with rival F1 teams as his Mercedes contract enters its final year but he suggested he wants to stay until his "last days".
"I think, for me personally, just as long as I can continue to help the team, as long as I can continue to help drive the team forwards and really contribute, then that's why I want to stay," Hamilton said.
"If there's ever going to be a point where I feel like I'm not able to do that, then it's time for a youngster to come in to take my seat. But I'm still pretty young, in pretty decent shape.
"I continue to feel very much at home. It's family. I see myself being with Mercedes till my last days, to be honest. If you look at the legends, Sir Stirling Moss was with Mercedes till the end of days.
"So, that's been the dream for me to one day have that... well I have that, so I mean just continue on with that and continue to build with the brand."
2023 Australian Grand Prix results:
Winner: Max Verstappen - Red Bull Racing
Second Place: Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes
Third Place: Fernando Alonso - Aston Martin
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