He baku street circuit seems to have brought good feelings to charles leclerc, although now you will have to confirm everything done in the practice and qualifying sessions. the pilot of Ferrari will start the Azerbaijan GP from the top of the grid in the race on Sunday but also in the sprint of 17 laps of this Saturday.
The Monegasque dominated Friday’s normal qualifying session to secure a first-place ticket for tomorrow’s race. However, Baku will host the first of six sprints of the 2023 calendar (Austria, Belgium, Qatar, the United States and Sao Paulo, will be the others) and Leclerc once again struck a blow during the Sprint Shootoutanother premiere format.
The session is shorter (12 minutes in Q1, 10 in Q2 and 8 in Q3), new tires are mandatory in each qualy and five riders are also eliminated in each batch. Charles signed first place ahead of the Red Bull men Sergio Czech perez (2nd) and Max Verstappen (3rd).
Although he had a crash late on, that window of space didn’t give his rivals time to take the top spot from him. A detail: the American logan sergeant You will not be able to be on board your Williams due to the damage the vehicle suffered in qualifying.
“So far, especially the Red Bulls seem to be one step ahead. I hope we have a surprise. I think we improved the car quite a bit, but today we will have more answers to see where we are compared to them. I will do everything for victory. We are here for that in the end. Ferrari needs to be at the top and I will do absolutely everything to win”, declared the driver of the Prancing Horse.
The sprint will distribute between 8 and 1 point to the first eight on the grid. With four races carried out so far, Verstappen monopolizes the drivers’ table with 69 units followed by his partner Czech Pérez (54) and with a good distance over Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso (45).
SCHEDULE: Argentina-Brazil-Uruguay: 10.30 / Chile-Bolivia-Paraguay-United States (Miami): 9.30 / Ecuador-Colombia-Mexico: 8.30
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THE STARTING GRID
1. charles leclerc
2. Sergio Perez
3. max verstappen
4. George Russell
5. Carlos Sainz
6. lewis hamilton
7. Alex Albón
8. Fernando Alonso
9. Lance Stroll
10. Lando Norris
eleven. Oscar Piastri
12. Nico Hulkenberg
13. Esteban Ocon
14. Kevin Magnussen
fifteen. guanyu zhou
16. Valtteri Bottas
17. Yuki Tsunoda
18. Pierre Gasley
19. nick de vries
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