Charles Leclerc put his Ferrari on pole position for the Azerbaijan F1 GP ahead of the Red Bulls of Sergio Pérez and Max Verstappen
locking out the front two rows of the grid for the sixth time. But it is not Verstappen who shares the front row of the grid with Leclerc, but his teammate Sergio Pérez, who out-qualified the Dutchman for the third time this season.
Leclerc, too, is dynamite around the challenging 3.7 miles, and is the first man to take more than one pole position at the track. A feature of the season has been Ferrari’s superiority over a single lap but Red Bull’s advantage in race trim, with stronger straight-line speed and more benign tyre usage often allowing Verstappen to overhaul Leclerc.
Baku, with its long front straight, is one of F1’s easier tracks on which to overtake and the close proximity of walls and barriers means a race with much jeopardy and often multiple safety car interventions and restarts. Stewards investigated Hamilton for driving unnecessarily slowly and delaying Lando Norris at the end of Q2, the McLaren driver missing out on the top 10, but the FIA decided against taking action.
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