“Not an ideal qualifying,” Sergio Perez unsatisfied as Charles Leclerc takes pole

“Not an ideal qualifying,” Sergio Perez unsatisfied as Charles Leclerc takes pole

Sergio Perez in the post qualifying interview

Sergio Perez is starting on P2 for the Sunday race at Azerbaijan, with a gap of +0.282 to Charles Leclerc, on his third pole of the season. Red Bull still looked strong on the Baku streets with an advantage of 9 km/s of raw speed over the Ferrari’s power unit. But things are not right with the Engines the RBPT provides the team since the team is suffering from reliability issues for all this time now.

All races have one instant when the RBPT gives up on the driver causing them some struggles, either on Practice or Qualifying days or on the Race days. And so did it on the final of Q3 qualifying for Sergio. “Not an ideal qualifying because at the end we just had a problem with the engine, we couldn’t turn it on,” said Perez in the post-qualifying interview.

But things could still be optimistic for the Red Bulls as the 2km straight to Turn 1 in Sector of the Baku circuit could immensely affect the likes of struggling Ferrari’s straight-line speed. If the Bulls manage to keep it up with the Ferrari of Leclerc at the start it would be easy to overtake the red team into turn 1.

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Qualifying Results of the Baku Grand Prix

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Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc and Sergio Perez top three after the Baku Grand Prix qualifying.

Charles Leclerc managed to take yet another pole on the streets of Baku, with Sergio Perez and Max Verstappen just behind him on P2 and P3 respectively, with the Mexican managing to out-qualify his teammate the second time in a row. Carlos Sainz had yet another difficult start to his weekend and is on P4 after the mistake he committed with the extra margins. George Russell is on yet another top 5 finishing streak with a P5 start tomorrow, with Pierre Gasly in on astonishing P6 after blazing over the likes of Lewis Hamilton.

Lewis Hamilton with yet another disappointing P7 was suffering from severe porpoising, Yuki managed to get his Alpha Tauri on good P8 getting both the Alphas in the top 10. Sebastian Vettel managed to get into the Q3 for the second time in a row and Fernando Alonso after a decent practice run is on P10.

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