Baku: Lewis Hamilton got off the mark for 2018 and took the championship lead from Sebastian Vettel when the Mercedes driver emerged a fortuitous winner of an incident-laden Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Sunday.
The Briton's teammate Valtteri Bottas was destined to take the chequered flag only for the Finn's car to puncture with only a handful of laps on the streets of Baku remaining.
Hamilton won from Kimi Raikkonen for Ferrari with Sergio Perez's Force India in third. Raikkonen's teammate Vettel took fourth.
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