The brutal 8th turn of Baku destroyed Formula 1 cars during a ridiculously long qualifying session

The narrow, narrow streets of Baku, Azerbaijan, claimed their share of the broken carbon fiber Saturday with an extremely long qualifying session, suspended twice with delays in the recovery of cars and the replacement of the security fence turn 8. Finally, this and surprising session because of that. The track itself is perhaps not the best of the season, but the drivers are trying to make it interesting, at least

First, after a time Q1 when his time had earned him the last place on the grid, Robert Kubica was trying to gain time after the checkered flag had fallen and scraped the inside wall of the T8 before bouncing back against the outside wall at the top of the right the master. It took more than half an hour to remove and repair.

Then, Ferrari's Charles Leclerc, a promising man for pole position this weekend, ended up suffering from the anger of turn 8. Ferrari's strategy put Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel on compound tires, which do not have to be used. were not good enough. to get them out of relegation time. After opposing a softer compound, Leclerc blocked his cold front tires to go into 8 and broke the same wall that had just been cleaned and replaced. Q2 had the red flag and was still delaying half an hour.

During Friday's training sessions, Mercedes was concerned about the pace of cars and was affecting repairs to Lewis Hamilton's car late Friday night. Hamilton was reportedly not thinking that the team could find the pace to beat the Ferrari over the weekend, while they were down more than seven tenths in the red car test.

Leclerc being totally out of the T3 with a crushed car and Vettel struggling with difficulties, it seemed that Lewis Hamilton would have pole position buckled with some good tricks. Then, on the very last lap, his teammate Lewis, Valtteri Bottas, was up and curled in a lap of a few hundredths of less than Hamilton's best time.

Bottas Hamilton Vettel, Leclerc starting in 10th place. It should be an interesting first turn, at least. The street circuits are generally disappointing from the point of view of the passersby, but there are many possibilities for these drivers to make their own choice … Well, in short, here is a good Grand Prix of Azerbaijan tomorrow morning.