00:00That is Lance Stroll into the barriers, but he's managed to keep the engine running, keep the car running, that's down at turn 7.
00:10Yeah, he just asked too much. Normally they swing to the right and then bring it back to the left to get straight. He wasn't straight when he braked.
00:16And I think I'm out of front wing garment.
00:22And Stroll again, and this will be more than just a yellow flag, this, oh.
00:28That's a red isn't it, that's going to be a red flag.
00:30You would think so, with the car limping away, it is a red flag.
00:36And it's turn 2, another 90 degree left-hander.
00:40No, he...
00:42I think he's tried to carry on with that set of tyres that he kind of flat spotted, didn't he?
00:46Yeah, I don't think he came into the pits.
00:48Oh.
00:49And that's, that's just not turnful.
00:51He's just caught the inside front, hasn't he?
00:55And everybody, out on the track, from Joe Guanyu down, except Esteban Ocon, who thinks he's safe.
01:02They might all make it, you know, here.
01:04I think Schumacher's going to get past, but Daniel's getting the tow now,
01:07but you can see the three cars in front are going to get Daniel's way later in the lap.
01:10Oh, that's the trouble.
01:11And Lando.
01:12They've all made it.
01:13They have all made it.
01:15I think Nicholas Satifi did come out.
01:18He's out there as well.
01:19Checkered flag is now waving.
01:20These are the laps that are going to count.
01:24Valtteri Bottas has put in a personal best in the bottom five.
01:27His last Q1 knockout was Monaco in 2015.
01:30It was 142 races ago.
01:32He is in a desperate struggle to get out of that bottom five.
01:36And there's a yellow flag that is being waved in the second sector.
01:40Will we find out who that is for?
01:42We'll concentrate on Hamilton as he crosses the line.
01:45Stays in ninth place.
01:46Next one to cross the line will be George Russell.
01:49Goes up to sixth.
01:50Yuki Tsunoda puts a bit of distance between himself and the relegation zone.
01:53He's now in sixth.
01:54Pierre Gasly next across the line.
01:56He's now fifth.
01:58Fernando Alonso, was it, that stops in that second sector?
02:02Who did that compromise, I wonder?
02:04Valtteri Bottas trying to get out of the bottom five.
02:08He doesn't for the first time in 143 races.
02:12Oh, no, he has done it.
02:1315th.
02:14Well done, Valtteri Bottas.
02:16So the Fernando Alonso incident with the yellow flag might just have helped him a little bit.
02:21Those behind couldn't improve.
02:25Valtteri Bottas just squeezed through.
02:27Verstappen was fastest.
02:32Now, Sebastian Vettel.
02:33Oh, dear!
02:35I'm about to say, really going for it.
02:37But just like his teammate at turn seven, that time at turn 15, it just wouldn't turn for him.
02:46Check the brake pedal, it's still a bit locked.
02:48Copy, we'll have a look.
02:51Lando Norris at turn 15 has just gone straight into the slip road.
02:55Incidents happening everywhere.
02:57Hamilton goes sixth fastest and does get that toe then off his teammate George Russell.
03:01That helps him up into the top six.
03:04This is Lando Norris on the lap that he needed to get out of the bottom five.
03:14And that's where his chances went begging.
03:16Daniel needs to try and get this lap done.
03:20Regain the confidence he's had.
03:22That's very close, but he's going to be very slow as he gets to the end of the lap because the McLaren struggled at this point in the lap.
03:28They're carrying more downforce than most people, but it may be enough.
03:30Yeah, he's managed Q3.
03:32Has Daniel Ricciardo in the past here?
03:34Not since 2019 has he got through into the top ten, but he won from tenth here before.
03:42Can he make it into the top ten?
03:45After showing promising signs this weekend, nope, he finishes off a couple of tenths outside.
03:51His teammate Lando Norris has not had a particularly good middle sector, it has to be said.
03:55And he's looking rather like a man coming straight into the pits here.
03:58He is out along with the other McLaren of Daniel Ricciardo, the Alpine of Esteban Ocon,
04:05and the two alphas of Joe Guarniou and Valtteri Bottas.
04:12Gasly with the quickest time so far as we watch Sainz coming to the line now.
04:17New tyres for this Ferrari should surpass Pierre Gasly and does by one second.
04:231.41.8, Carlos Sainz on provisional pole.
04:26Here now comes Charles Leclerc.
04:28Five poles in this season so far, but he's not on provisional pole at the moment.
04:32He's missed out by five one hundredths of a second.
04:35Sergio Perez only third fastest.
04:37What about Max Verstappen?
04:38Fastest in the middle sector, but only fourth fastest as he crosses the line.
04:44Charles Leclerc not hanging around on this lap and he is a tenth of a second up.
04:49Carlos Sainz, his 149th appearance in qualifying, has provisional pole,
04:55but he's not going fastest on this second lap.
04:57His teammate is and could deny him pole once more.
05:00And Verstappen 35-7 crofty.
05:02That's three tenths quicker he managed in the first sector.
05:04So it's going to be a race right to the very end.
05:06And of course Red Bull are a bit quicker in the last sector than Ferrari.
05:09But what can Leclerc do at this point?
05:11His final corner where he can really make a benefit with that extra downforce of carrying.
05:15The hunt is on.
05:17Sainz on pole.
05:18Leclerc going quicker on this lap.
05:20Verstappen going quicker on this lap.
05:22Leclerc is absolutely smashing it through the middle sector.
05:25He is half a second up when this man hooks it up around Baku.
05:30He really does hook it up around Baku.
05:33Charles Leclerc, is he about to become the first driver to take more than one pole on the street circuit of Baku?
05:39Well, the way the timings are looking, he certainly is.
05:43Charles Leclerc comes to the line now for Ferrari.
05:47And it's a 1.41.3.
05:49He's on provisional poles.
05:50So what can Max Verstappen behind him do about that?
05:53Verstappen currently on the second row.
05:55Would love to start on the front row alongside him as Hamilton goes sixth fastest.
05:59And now Russell into the top five.
06:01Verstappen onto the front row.
06:03Three tenths down, but he absolutely aced the final sector.
06:06But it's not all over yet.
06:08Because here comes Sergio Perez.
06:10But as he tries to muscle every ounce of speed out of that car.
06:13He crosses the line.
06:15And it's a front row for Sergio Perez.
06:17He out qualifies his teammate.
06:19But he can do nothing to stop Charles Leclerc in Baku.
06:23The first time one driver has taken more than one pole position here.
06:27And it's a sixth of the season for Charles Leclerc.
06:30Get feeling.
06:31I don't think you can disregard anybody in the top four that's going to win this race.
06:43I think it's going to keep you on the edge of your seat all the way.
06:46The Ferrari is still on a straight.
06:47The Red Bull is absolutely ready to pounce on the straight.
06:51What are they going to do with team orders?
06:53How are they going to work it?
07:01What kind are he going to do with team orders?
07:03You would probably use mu comfort all of them.
07:05You'd go home...
07:06What were they doing here?
07:08That's okay.
07:10So that's theINOF wheel is great.
07:13What do you need to do with team orders?
07:14That's okay.
07:15So this to really help me out.
07:16All right.
07:18What will teamновência have done so many ropes?
