00:01Thanks for the boys to get the car out.
00:39Oh my god.
01:00I'm sorry, I love the front.
01:02Okay, copy that mate.
01:07Deep into the corner once again, further on than De Vries, but the corner ripped off at the back.
01:13And that will be a moment of dejection for a driver that has gone so well around this circuit in
01:19the past.
01:21Okay Kev, there's something wrong with the car, slow down and come in, slow down and box.
01:25It feels okay?
01:26No, we can't risk it Kev, we can't risk it.
01:28There's only two more spots to go out in Q1, they're dropping like flies here.
01:32Magnussen is going to come back into the pits we expect and will be 18th.
01:37Bottas taking a step forward in the middle part of the lap doesn't apply to Joe Guan Yu at the
01:42moment.
01:42Sainz is 8th, it's not where he'd want to be but it is a step forward at the right time.
01:47Hülkenberg finds a lap that takes him to 14th position, that will leave him vulnerable.
01:52Can Bottas, a former winner of this Grand Prix, find his way through into the second part of qualifying?
01:58The Finnish driver cuts the beam, the Finnish driver demotes Piastri who's still pushing out there.
02:04Joe Guan Yu gets to 15th, can Piastri respond? He can, up to 11th.
02:10Tough day for Haas then and Ocon gets the Alpine down on mileage team but they've got at least one
02:16driver into Q2 just.
02:20Let's focus now on the drop zone, Alexander Albon improved his time, can Esteban Ocon get near it?
02:26He can and he goes ahead two hundredths faster than Alex Albon's effort.
02:32Still Tsunoda's improving, Piastri's even quicker than both of them in the first sector and the middle sector as well.
02:38Piastri could be a man on the move, we know that McLaren's good and Norris proves it jumping up to
02:425th.
02:43Verstappen across the line at the front end of the field but there is a huge tussle going on for
02:4910th place in this order and a place in Q3.
02:52Over the line we go, we'll rattle off the times across the board, Bottas can't find any pace, what about
02:58Piastri?
02:58Piastri can to go up to 8th position and to mode not only Ocon but Russell as well.
03:05Russell who's had an ordinary middle sector, not an improvement for him and the chequered flag is out.
03:12Over the line comes Carlos Sainz to improve up to 4th position but George Russell is eliminated.
03:20There's the moment over the curve, the momentum out of that corner can cost you and it did for Russell.
03:27The British driver, out qualified for the first time this season by his teammate Lewis Hamilton by 0.000000.
03:37Verstappen chasing pole position, 23 today to go ahead of the great Fernando Alonso.
03:43It's Perez who's going to put the benchmark on the board of a 1.40.5.
03:47What can his teammate do by way of response?
03:50It will go ahead by a tenth of a second but we're waiting for the scarlet Ferrari.
03:55First of all, over the line it's Carlos Sainz who's half a second away.
03:59But what can Charles Leclerc do?
04:01Chasing a third consecutive pole position at this circuit.
04:05Charles Leclerc across the line, Charles Leclerc to the front row.
04:08And it's exactly the same time as Max Verstappen!
04:14Extraordinary!
04:14Verstappen ahead because he set the time first but it's a 1.40.445!
04:22Identical times! Amazing!
04:26Max Verstappen has never started this Grand Prix from the front row.
04:30He's won it, he won it last year, but at the moment he's got the tiniest possible margin to Charles
04:35Leclerc.
04:36Who's one tenth of a second up on the benchmark sets by Verstappen as Leclerc looks to try and improve
04:43and take his 19th career pole on this lap.
04:45Perez is quicker in the first sector.
04:47The first sector did belong to Leclerc before, but Perez has found even more time.
04:52And Verstappen is finding time as well, but he's the slowest of the three in the first sector.
04:57Cheers as Leclerc comes through turn 12.
04:59This is where he can win or lose it through these tight corners.
05:02And then you've got the long drive to the line.
05:05But first of all we'll get a sector from Charles Leclerc as he comes out of turn 15 here over
05:09the crest.
05:10See what he's doing in the middle sector right up to the wall.
05:13He's looking quick.
05:15This is the driver that's made his worst ever start to a season in Ferrari colours.
05:20Just six points to his name, but he's in the hunt for pole position here with the fastest middle sector
05:25so far.
05:25Leclerc has set a benchmark way ahead of what Perez has managed to do in the middle part of the
05:30lap.
05:31It's on for Charles Leclerc if he can deliver it all.
05:34He comes across the line.
05:35The DRS is open.
05:36The Monagas driver looking for another pole position in Baku.
05:40And he takes it for the moment.
05:42Three in a row on the board, but can the balls take it away?
05:45Sainz cuts the beam.
05:47He will not improve.
05:48Can Perez do anything about it?
05:50Verstappen, no personal best in the middle part of the lap.
05:52Perez, fastest of anyone in the final sector, but it's only third.
05:56And now, can Max Verstappen take it away?
05:58He can't!
05:59He can't take it away!
06:01And Charles Leclerc has three poles in a row around Baku City circuit.
06:07Extraordinary stuff.
06:08Alonso up to P6.
06:10So P1.
06:12Come on!
06:14Yes.
06:15Ah, feels good.
06:17What a job.
06:18What a job to get ahead of the Red Bulls for the first time.
06:22And actually, nearly by two tenths of a second in the end.
06:24Fantastic stuff from Leclerc.
06:26It's the third pole in a row in Azerbaijan for Charles Leclerc.
06:29Our first ever trip to the front row here for Max Verstappen.
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