It was Bottas’s first pole in Baku and the eighth of his career. For Mercedes, it was a fourth consecutive one-two in qualifying.
In treacherous cooling conditions on the demanding Baku street circuit, the Finn produced an outright record lap in one minute and 40.495 seconds to outpace the championship leader and defending world champion by 0.059 seconds.
Max Verstappen was fourth for Red Bull ahead of Sergio Perez of Racing Point, Daniil Kvyat of Toro Rosso and British rookie Lando Norris of McLaren. Kubica’s accident was further bad news for the luckless Williams team. On Friday their British rookie driver George Russell escaped unhurt when his car was wrecked after running over a loose drain cover at high speed in opening practice, which was abandoned and cancelled.
It was a heavy impact, but he was unhurt and apologised to the team. This accident resulted in a 15-minutes delay, which meant drivers faced running into a falling sun and colder temperatures.
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