Qualifying Highlights | 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix

And Alex Alburn has tagged the wall and his qualifying session. Huge on promise will come to an end. He’s the first driver to tap the barriers. Sorry. And the red flag is out because of Nico Hulenberg going off at what looks to be turn four. So turned it in, realized then he wasn’t going to make it. Tried to turn back out. He’s found a soft tech pro barrier and he’s hit it fairly square on so I think he’ll get away with that. Lock on now in the drop zone along with Stroll Alban who’s already out and the two Salas Hajar is on a personal best. Ordinary middle sector though for the Frenchman and Bman following over the line as well. First of all, Bman improves up to 11th position on the soft. It’s not a great deal for a driver that’s been very quick so far this weekend. He’s done then for qualifying. Colinto and Aon driving up to the line. Hon goes to 14th. Hajar in the drop zone. He’d never been knocked out in Q1 until the last Grand Prix in Italy facing back-to- back eliminations, but this is a good lap and it needs to be. So, there are improvements coming. Bilelettto’s going quickly. Stroll’s going quickly. Hajar’s going quickly. Hulkerberg’s up to 13th. Is that going to be good enough? I’m not sure. Lawson goes up to P8. Currently in the drop zone, Isaac Hajar vaults up to P5. Crucial lap under pressure. And Okon is back down to the drop zone. And Gazzley’s there as well. Alonzo’s there at the moment because Bortletto has gone up to 11th position. Stroll now cuts the beam and goes up to eighth place. Hulenberg back to the drop zone. Alonzo in 17th. We’re on board with a twotime world champion. Does he escape? The answer is yes. P9 for Fernando Alonzo. And the checkered flag is waving. The red flag is out. And off the road we go with the Alpine. And that will bring out our third red flag. And that’s it. Chance blown out in the first part of qualifying. And that’s one Alpine to another at the exact time his teammate was deep. Franco Colipinto sees one Alpine in the runoff. Loses the car and hits the wall hard. It’s Colinto, Hulenberg, Okon Gazzley, and Alburn out in the first part of qualifying. Is that out of Kilter? That pass is out of kilter. Oliver Bman has clearly struck the wall. Let’s have a look at what happened to Bareman then. This into turn two. So, it’s just an sort of nothing left-hander. I have to say it’s a pretty nothingy crash as he just finds it out wide. Not a massive blow, is it, to the right rear, but it’s enough just to do the suspension. Check the timing page for Lewis Hamilton trying to make the top 10 shootout. needs an improvement now and he finds himself in 10th position still. Alonso moves up to eighth position. Hamilton into the bottom five. Shaolair across the line in a few moments time to compare his time to Norris and Versappen and Russell cuz he’s fourth. Bilelettto is going to struggle on this run to the line. Hamilton is just coming through 16 now and can get another time on the board. Just about I’d say he can cross the line and and go again. Bortletto on the medium tires, skimming over the bumps of the main straight. The roar of the engine, but the over steering moment told you he was going to be struggling. 13th fastest. Hamilton is still fighting to get this time in. He’s not going to do it. He pits. He’s peeling in. There’s nothing left. Yuki Cenoda trying to leap into Q3. He’ll do so and he gets up to 10th. Hamilton failing to reach Q3 for the fifth time in 2025. It’s definitely too submitted. It’s raining for Stappen saying it’s raining. We weren’t out there immediately. He’s gone. He’s left the pit lane. He’s out there, but it’s a great day to be first over the line. If you’re Liam Lawson, it’s a 142560. Carlos signs behind for Williams. Goes ahead by 9/10 of a second. Soft versus medium, racing ball versus Williams. Vstappen says that it’s getting more slippery. He’s feeling that on an outlap. Just starting a flying lap now, Max. But you can see Pastry’s miles off it in the middle sector. Another yellow flags out. Well, this was definitely a in the wall. Charlotte into the barriers at turn 15 to bring out the red flag. This is the moment Charlair found the barriers. He’s just got no grip. He’s got no grip. He’s having to lean on it. The first lap could be everything with the rain coming down. And he locks the left front, but he’s just not got the grip he’s expecting. The grip is there, allowing the drivers to improve, but we’ve seen laps come undone at turn 15 at turn 16. And Lando Norris is setting a scorching pace. Yellow flag is out behind him. The yellow flag is out. Max Stapen is sending his car. Pastry is in the wall. Oscar Pastri, the championship leader, hits the barriers and will play no further part of the qualifying session. He brings out the red flag and Pastri, who has been mighty impressive all season long. A worst starting position of fourth all campaign, ends in the barriers and the championship leader is in the wall. The battle for pole position is wide open, but Lando Norris is squirming all over the road. The grip is changing corner by corner, though. Some corners are wetter than others, and Lando is just having to feel it on the fly here. The castle section narrow. Oh my word. This is absolutely epic from Lando Norris. Brilliant. Brilliant from Norris. Full commitment. He is not going cautious at all with this. Everyone else now starting lap times behind. This is all on the line. Norris scraping into the barrier. Will get away with it because that was Tech Pro, not Concrete. Norris will fight it through turn 15. He’ll get out of 16. He’s got a great chance, but he’s half a second down on Carlos Science. Vappen might be the only man who can beat Science now. If he can get through the middle sector, they should radio him and say 15, by the way, is slippery. That’s where Norris has somehow got away with this and drives to the line. His rival is out. Norris to the line and he improves to second position. 6/10 of a second away. Russell goes over the line ahead of Lando Norris. He’s 4/10en of a second away. Crucial corner for Max Stafen. He got through it. We go on board with the reigning world champion trying to break Williams heart. Lawson returns to the front row. This is absolutely incredible. Max Vstappen. Antonyelli ahead of Russell. Norris is down to fifth. Where can Max Vstappen go? Signs or Vstappen? Wait for your answer. Is the long wait over for Williams or is it another masterful lap from Max Vstappen? He delivers under pressure. Backto back pole positions in Formula 1. He found the grip. He found the time. And he’s broken the Williams hearts. He’s on pole by 4/10 of a second. Yes. Yes, guys. Unbelievable. Very, very lovely that it’s such a difficult qualifying for the red flags. Woo! Well done. What did we just watch? Incredible. unpredictable crashes, spins, strike the techro, strike the concrete, and your top three is Lawson in third, signs in second, and Max for Stappen has a 46th career pole position. And you bet he’s pleased with that one.

Catch all the biggest moments from an unforgettable qualifying session – SIX red flags (the most ever), shock results throughout the grid, and championship contenders in the wall!

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23 Comments

  1. Commentators can not hide how happy they are that Oscar is out, and then proceed to to get hyped over norris for no reason… Absolute cinema

  2. "F1's boring, it's always the same ones winning" – stick that in your pipe & smoke it 🙄 🤷‍♂️

  3. How they managed it under 8 minutes?? It was a better cinema than F1 movie, how tf they cut it into 8 minutes?

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