Official tests erase the optimism of the Friday of the Red: English outside Q2. Many accidents on the Baku circuit and in the end Verstappen conquers the pole-post, Mc Laren badly with Norris Settimo and Plastri Nono
Another nightmare Saturday for Ferrari. After the illusions of Friday when Hamilton and Leclerc had made the best times on the Baku circuit in Azerbaijan, The reds have disappointed in the official tests who established the starting grid of the Sunday Grand Prix. It was a session characterized by many accidents and long suspensions. In the end the acute winning was of Max Verstappen who made pole position And he will start in front of everyone with his Red Bull. An abnormal starting grid since MC Laren, dominator of the season, also had major problems so much so that Norris made the seventh time and plate the ninth. Behind Verstappen names that usually do not occupy the first rows such as Sainz and Lawson then the Mercedes of Antonelli and Russell.
The Hamilton crisis
A gash of light had opened on Friday in the sky of Lewis Hamilton who had made the best time in free practice, but the Saturday returned all black. English was eliminated at the end of Q2 realizing only the twelfth time. It will start in the sixth row with very few possibilities of being the protagonist. Yet he reiterated that the signs that came from the car were positive: “After Friday’s performance I thought I could get pole position”.
And wall -mounted Leclerc
Absolute disappointment also for Charles Leclerc, that in Baku he had always obtained pole-post in the past four years and who finished his test session against the wall, probably betrayed by the asphalt which at that moment was becoming slimy For a slight drizzle fell on the Baku circuit. It was a crazy qualification, with six red flags, but in the end Ferrari always finds itself far from the best both in normal conditions and in exceptional cases such as Azerbaijan. The cursed season continues and every minimum positive signal is deleted immediately after by scorching disappointments.
