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F1 Azerbaijan GP Live Commentary and Updates - FP3 & Qualifying
Saturday's action, including qualifying, ahead of the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku.
F1 returns to the unique Baku Street Circuit for the eighth round of the 2022 championship, the second street event in a row following the Monaco GP.
Sergio Perez was the winner last time out, and now sits only 15 points behind championship leader and team-mate Max Verstappen - as Charles Leclerc remains between them in second in the drivers' standings.
Verstappen will be looking for retribution after his spectacular tyre blowout at last year's Baku race, which cost him victory in Azerbaijan's capital city.
Charles Leclerc topped Friday’s second practice for Ferrari ahead of Perez and Verstappen.
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Verstappen tops Q1 from Perez, Leclerc, Sainz, Gasly, Vettel, Tsunoda, Russell, Zhou and Ocon.
So, Magnussen is eliminated from the Q1 along with the Williams drivers of Albon and Latifi. They are joined by Stroll and Schumacher. Albon is not happy as he complains about traffic on the radio.
It appears Alonso caused the yellow flag and is limping back to the pits.
Yellow flag
Yellow flag in the second sector.
Bottas jumps out of the drop zone to move into P15.
Checkered flag
Chequered flag is out for Q1.
It looks like Schumacher has made it with seconds to spare.
Schumacher is told to "push like hell" to get a timed lap in.
Green flag
Session is back underway. Mercedes back out on old tyres. It will be tight for those at the back of the queue to get a flying lap in.
Ricciardo and Magnussen are currently on the bubble in in P14 and P15. Ricciardo has a 0.3s gap to Albon in P16. Magnussen is in a more precarious position, less than tenth ahead of Albon.
At the top, Verstappen heads Perez, Leclerc, Sainz and Vettel, who has sneaked into P5 for Aston Martin before his team-mate's crash.
Albon, Bottas, Latifi and Schumacher are currently in the drop zone with Stroll, who obviously won't rejoin the session.
Stroll was sitting in the bottom five in P19 when he crashed.
The clock has stopped with 2m30s remaining.
Stroll has damage to the front of his car. The Aston Martin driver has stopped on track after clouting the wall with his front right at Turn 2.
Red flag
Red flag.
Crash
Stroll has nudged the barriers at Turn 7 with the nose of his Aston Martin. He keeps the engine going and continues.
Albon, Bottas, Latifi, Stroll and Schumacher still in the bottom five. Albon is just over tenth from safety.
Stopwatch
Verstappen back to the top now ahead of Perez. Verstappen lowers the benchmark to a 1m42.722s.
A pitlane incident involving the Haas drivers Magnussen and Schumacher will be investigated after the session.
Leclerc heads Verstappen, Sainz and Perez. Zhou now moves into P5 for Alfa Romeo.
Stopwatch
Leclerc goes fastest as he posts a 1m42.865s
Albon, Latifi, Stroll, Schumacher and Bottas in the elimination zone with eight minutes of Q1 remaining.
Hamilton has logged one timed lap and returns to the pits in P13.
Stopwatch
Russell now pops in a time for P4 with a 1m43.781s.
Russell had caught up to the back of Verstappen which prompted the radio call.
Russell says Verstappen is driving in an "erratic manner".
Verstappen heads Perez, Leclerc and Sainz. Ocon is best of the rest in P5.
Stopwatch
Verstappen to the top now for Red Bull with a 1m42.938s.
Norris fires in the first timed lap which is beaten by the Alpines of Ocon and Alonso.
Hamilton reports that his bake pedal is feeling a "bit soft" on the radio.
Everyone is out on track now.
Expect plenty of comments from drivers about traffic as the majority of the field rolls out of the pits.
Green flag
Qualifying is go!
The battle for the best-of-the-rest behind Red Bull and Ferrari could be an interesting one with Mercedes, AlphaTauri, McLaren, Aston Martin and Alpine split by 0.3s in FP3.
Drivers are climbing into their cars now so we are not far away from the green flag here.
Ferrari has however had the measure of Red Bull largely in the qualifying stakes this year, with five poles from seven races to date. Leclerc has all five of those, while the other two have been shared by Red Bull's of Max Verstappen (Imola) and Sergio Perez (Jeddah).
It looks like we are set for another Red Bull versus Ferrari battle for pole. Red Bull had the edge in FP3 with Sergio Perez pipping Ferrari's Charles Leclerc by 0.070s.
Drivers are getting ready to jump into the cockpit of their cars.
The qualifying session has been delayed and is not due to start for another 15 minutes. The delay has been caused by lengthy barrier repairs at Turn 1 following a multi car crash in the earlier F2 sprint race. This pushed the start of FP3 back and as a consequence qualifying has been delayed as teams are required to have a two hour gap between FP3 and qualifying.
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