Azerbaijan GP final practice and qualifying
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By: Geoff Creighton
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Here's our report from that session. We'll see you tomorrow for what is shaping up to be a fascinating race! 
Bottas: "We can [fight Ferrari]. We are there with both cars now, we are starting very close. The race here can be very crazy. We have a good starting point."
Vettel: "In the last segment in qualifying I knew I had the car that does what I want. The first lap I was really happy, maybe two tiny bits where it wasn't perfect. Then I locked up, it caught me by surprise for Turn 3. I tried to hang onto it, fortunately [the first lap] was enough."
Hamilton: "That was close. We did the best job we could. I think I lost a little bit in the final sector, but great lap from Sebastian. We're in the mix, and I'm going to try to give Sebastian a hard time tomorrow. "
Big celebrations for Vettel, while Mercedes must be pretty happy with second and third as Hamilton and Bottas pull up on the start/finish straight for their interviews.
Rest of the field: 11 Stroll; 12 Sirotkin; 13 Alonso; 14 Leclerc; 15 Magnussen; 16 Vandoorne; 17 Gasly; 18 Ericsson; 19 Hartley; 20 Grosjean
Q3 result: 1 Vettel; 2 Hamilton; 3 Bottas; 4 Ricciardo; 5 Verstappen; 6 Raikkonen; 7 Ocon; 8 Perez; 9 Hulkenberg; 10 Sainz
Raikkonen does the best first sector of anyone so far, is he team-mate Vettel's big pole challenge now?
The Force Indias are both improving - they have a shot at jumping Ricciardo and Raikkonen on current times.
Bottas's first sector isn't an improvement over his previous effort, but Hamilton is up on Vettel's provisional pole time there.
Scary moment for Raikkonen, who got his car too wide over the Turn 16 exit kerb and had to work very hard to avoid the wall.
Order after first laps: 1 Vettel; 2 Hamilton; 3 Bottas; 4 Verstappen; 5 Ricciardo; 6 Raikkonen; 7 Ocon; 8 Perez; 9 Hulkenberg; 10 Sainz
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