The Monegasque Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), will start first this Sunday at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, the eighth of the Formula 1 World Championship, which takes place on the Baku urban circuit, where he will be accompanied in the first row by the Mexican Sergio Pérez (Red Bull).
Leclerc, 24, signed his fifteenth ‘pole’ in F1 – the sixth of the year – by dominating qualifying this Saturday, in which he covered, in his best lap, the 6,003 meters of the track in the Azerbaijani capital in one minute, 41 seconds and 359 thousandths, 282 less
that ‘Czech’ .
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Spoke ‘Czech’
The Dutchman Max Verstappen (Red Bull), leader of the World Championship, who set the third qualifying time, and the Spanish Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) -fourth- will start from the second row of the grid this Sunday in Baku; where the other Spaniard, the double Asturian world champion Fernando Alonso (Alpine), will start tenth.
“When you go to Q3 (third round of qualifying), on the first try you go all out. And I went a little long; and I touched the wall a little; but I managed to survive, which is key here,” said Pérez.
‘Checo’, 32 years old, third in the World Cup (15 points behind the leader, his Dutch teammate Max Verstappen) and who has just won the most iconic race of the season two Sundays ago in the streets of Monaco.
“It wasn’t an ideal ‘quali’ at the end, because of that engine problem we had and I couldn’t take the slipstream, which made me lose a few tenths”, explained ‘Checo’, who in Monaco signed his third victory since racing in F1, in which he has 19 podiums.
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