Champion Max Verstappen of Red Bull topped the timesheets within the sole apply session for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Friday, narrowly beating the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc.
The championship chief clocked 1 minute 42.315 seconds round 6.003-kilometre Baku City Circuit to take the lead in his final flying lap and beat Leclerc by mere 0.037 second. Sergio Perez within the different Red Bull was third.
Friday’s apply session would be the just one for the Azerbaijan GP, which can host the primary dash race of the season and beneath a brand new format, through which the beginning grid for the dash will likely be decided by a brand new standalone qualifying session on Saturday morning.
Friday qualifying, which beforehand set the grid for the dash race, will now decide the beginning order for Sunday’s Grand Prix, as per standard on non-sprint race weekends.
The extra qualifying session on Saturday will likely be referred to as the ‘dash shootout’ and is shorter than the same old format.
Fridays normally see two apply periods with a 3rd one on Saturdays forward of qualifying in non-sprint weekends, and the only session has already confirmed to be a problem for the groups.
Alpine should work exhausting to get Pierre Gasly’s automobile prepared for qualifying later after it caught hearth early into the session. The incident introduced out a pink flag, which meant groups did not have a full hour on observe.
Haas is also in bother after Kevin Magnussen’s automobile had a lack of gas stress, whereas Alpha Tauri’s Yuki Tsunoda was left with a variety of injury after hitting the wall and Fernando Alonso had points together with his Aston Martin.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
