Azerbaijan Grand Prix: Leclerc takes sprint race pole position

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Ferrari's Charles Leclerc made it 2 rod positions successful arsenic galore days by starring the caller sprint shootout astatine the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

He bushed Red Bull's Sergio Perez and Max Verstappen, with Mercedes operator George Russell successful 4th and Lewis Hamilton sixth down Ferrari's Carlos Sainz.

Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso was eighth aft issues with his DRS.

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There whitethorn beryllium contention aft Leclerc's crash, arsenic determination is an ongoing statement successful F1 arsenic to whether a operator who crashes connected his last qualifying tally should beryllium penalised for doing so, arsenic it perchance tin impact different drivers.

In this case, the lone operator compromised by Leclerc's clang was Sainz, who was moving down him astatine the time. Everyone other was capable to implicit their lap.

Leclerc said: "With the brushed tyre was a small spot tricky. You get into Q3 and we haven't driven connected these tyres since yesterday. It's not truthful agelong and the conditions were precise antithetic and the rears overheated a spot connected the archetypal lap.

"[On my last lap] I was down compared to my archetypal thigh and was pushing a spot ,but I overdid it successful Turn Five."

He said helium expected to conflict to enactment successful beforehand of the Red Bulls successful the sprint, which starts astatine 14:30 UK time.

Leclerc said: "We volition spell for it but we request to beryllium realistic - until present we person been connected the backmost ft successful the contention compared to the Red Bull."

His borderline implicit Perez was 0.147 seconds, Verstappen was 0.143secs down his team-mate.

Russell atoned for missing retired connected the last qualifying league connected Friday with a beardown show to instrumentality fourth.

Aston Martin's problems provided an accidental for Williams operator Alex Albon, who was seventh.

The British-born Thai was disappointed to miss retired connected Q3 for the expansive prix connected Friday, feeling helium would person done truthful had helium not been held up by Sainz.

Aston Martin person had ongoing problems making the DRS overtaking assistance enactment this weekend.

A spokesperson said: "The DRS cognition contented remains unresolved crossed some cars during that shoot-out."

The assistance worked much connected Lance Stroll's car than connected Alonso's, helium said, but was not moving each the time. The squad are "working to resoluteness it up of the sprint".