Discover Azerbaijan's Automotive Experiences

Azerbaijan is the world's most unlikely F1 destination — a country that didn't exist as an independent state until 1991 and now hosts one of the most chaotic, fast street races on the calendar. The Baku circuit cuts through the old city walls and the modern waterfront in the same lap, and it's the country's main pull for international visitors.

Off the race weekend, Azerbaijan is a country in transition. Soviet-era Ladas, Volgas, and Moskvitches still work as daily transport alongside German luxury imports and modern Japanese hatchbacks — a generational layering you don't see anywhere else. The tuning scene in Baku is rebuilding from a low base. The roads inland toward the Caucasus and along the Caspian coast have opened up to road trippers in the last few years, particularly motorcyclists looking for terrain that hasn't been over-mapped yet.