F1 Azerbaijan GP: Verstappen denies Sainz pole in chaotic qualifying as Piastri crashes

Lando Norris assesses qualifying only seventh in Baku.

     2      Carlos Sainz (Williams) 1  Max Verstappen (Red Bull)       4      Andrea Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) 3  Liam Lawson (Racing ...Keep reading

"We didn’t have the right tyre on at the end."That was a downcast Lewis Hamilton’s bald assessment of why he was eliminated from qualifying for the F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix. The reasons for him being on the wrong tyre are mysterious.For this weekend, Pirelli has brought tyre compounds a step softer than last year, including the new C6 it introduced in Imola. But, given the small ...Keep reading

"We didn’t have the right tyre on at the end."That was a downcast Lewis Hamilton’s assessment of why he was eliminated from qualifying for the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix. The reasons for him being on the wrong tyre are mysterious.For this weekend, Pirelli has brought tyre compounds a step softer than last year, including the new C6 it introduced in Imola. But, given the small ...Keep reading

The starting grid for the 2025 F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix

Christopher Bell is pleased to have won last week at Bristol Motor Speedway but there wasn’t a lot to take out of it to indicate anything meaningful about his chances the rest of the season.For one, Bell thinks he was kind of lucky to have a won a race that featured a ton of intended tire cording, which came down to who had enough fresh right sides at the end of the race.They did and the ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri holds up hands for qualifying crash in Baku.

“I wanted to do but they said that the warm-up was too long or something like that so we ran out of time and out of fuel, so not great.”

Reigning world champion Max Verstappen has taken a dramatic pole position for Formula 1's Azerbaijan Grand Prix in a chaotic qualifying in Baku, ahead of Carlos Sainz and Liam Lawson.Sainz looked set for pole after being one of the only drivers to get a dry lap in during Q3 session affected by crashes and rain, but in the dying seconds Verstappen denied the Williams driver a shock ...Keep reading

After every F1 qualifying session, Motorsport publishes each team's qualifying record in terms of team-mate battles.This record is based exclusively on qualifying results so that grid penalties don't alter the statistics.When a driver can't put in a representative lap time due to a technical issue or an incident, this will be mentioned in the table.McLarenOscar ...Keep reading

Full results from qualifying at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Round 17 of the 2025 F1 world championship.

Could this be a decisive moment in this year's F1 title race?

A chaotic qualifying session at the 2025 F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix

A chaotic qualifying session at the 2025 F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix

British Touring Car Championship veteran Adam Morgan led the way in free practice for the penultimate round of the 2025 season at Silverstone.The red-headed Lancastrian completed two laps quicker than the best managed by anyone else to plant his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N Fastback clear of the opposition to the tune of 0.070 seconds.Weather permitting, the signs are that the ...Keep reading

Live text coverage of the 2025 F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku.

A recap of a crazy and chaotic qualifying at the 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

Perception is all in Formula 1 and Max Verstappen has been very careful to distance himself from the political shenanigans which have threatened to tear the Red Bull enterprise apart over the past 18 months.In public he has kept any criticism focused on the car itself: both the RB20 (post-Miami 2024) and RB21 have been lamentably inconsistent, and difficult to drive. The spinning in the ...Keep reading