Q1 report:
Hamilton takes pole by going thru the small chicane without sliding out and keeping the car straight for the best grip.
Cars lining up behind Verstappen to try and get the 2 last laps in before the end of Qualifying.
Red flagged due to Ricciardo Crashing, runining fast laps of raikkonen, Vettel, Massa and Hamilton. Clock stopped at 3.33 minutes Verstappen manneged to jsut cross the start finish line before the sutarts brought out the red flags.
Drivers going on a warm up lap before there first flying lap trying to put heat in the tires. All of the drivers now can put the power down in the small shicane now having removed the curb due to yesturdays accident .
Stroll Doing an mazing job qualifying in 7th in front of his teammate Massa down in 8th.
Vettel hiting troubles in the last dash lap down in 4th
Unofficial positions for the start tomorrow:
1st.Hamilton
2nd.Bottas
3rd.Raikkonen
Vettel
Verstappen
Perez
Ocon
Stroll
Massa
Ricciardo
Q2 report:
Last year’s pole time was 1:42.758 by Rosberg, these new cars are well past that now with Hamilton’s 1:41.275
Lance stroll in 7th, surprises by beating his teammate Massa down in 9th with a very lucky lap managing to just kiss the wall and saving the car .
Alonso not to sure about the performance and reliability of the version 3 motor of Honda Having not seen an improvement but pointing out that the crashes and accidents can change the hole race here in Baku.
The drivers that did not makes in to Q3 are:
Kvyat
Sainz
Magnussen
Hulkenberg
Wehrlein
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Q1 drop outs are:
Grosjean feeling a bit off not being able to go in to Q2
Alonso
Grosjean
Ericsson
Vandoorne
Palmer
Full results :
1. Lewis Hamilton GBR Mercedes – Mercedes 1m 40.593s
2. Valtteri Bottas FIN Mercedes – Mercedes 1m 41.027s
3. Kimi Raikkonen FIN Ferrari – Ferrari 1m 41.693s
4. Sebastian Vettel GER Ferrari – Ferrari 1m 41.841s
5. Max Verstappen NED Red Bull – TAG 1m 41.879s
6. Sergio Perez MEX Force India-Mercedes 1m 42.111s
7. Esteban Ocon FRA Force India-Mercedes 1m 42.186s
8. Lance Stroll CAN Williams – Mercedes 1m 42.753s
9. Felipe Massa BRA Williams – Mercedes 1m 42.798s
10. Daniel Ricciardo AUS Red Bull – TAG 1m 43.414s
11. Daniil Kvyat RUS Toro Rosso-Renault 1m 43.186s
12. Carlos Sainz ESP Toro Rosso-Renault 1m 43.347s
13. Kevin Magnussen DEN Haas-Ferrari 1m 44.796s
14. Nico Hulkenberg GER Renault – Renault 1m 44.267s
15. Pascal Wehrlein GER Sauber – Ferrari 1m 44.603s
16. Fernando Alonso ESP McLaren-Honda 1m 44.334s
17. Romain Grosjean FRA Haas-Ferrari 1m 44.468s
18. Marcus Ericsson SWE Sauber – Ferrari 1m 44.795s
19. Stoffel Vandoorne BEL McLaren-Honda 1m 45.030s
20. Jolyon Palmer GBR Renault – Renault No Time
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