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2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix - [QUALIFYING] discussion thread ⏱️

ROUND 17: 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan

FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS AZERBAIJAN GRAND PRIX 2025

Circuit stats

Circuit name: Baku City Circuit
First Grand Prix: 2016
Number of laps: 51
Circuit Length: 6.003 km
Race Distance: 306.049 km
Lap record: 1:43.009 Charles Leclerc (2019)
2024 winner: Oscar Piastri

Track Map

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So exciting. What a session. What an upset. I do wish Verstappen wasn't such a spoiler in qualifying, but nobody can deny his talent - an amazing driver who works hard for P1 of course, but a Sainz pole would've been fantastic lol
Classic Lando bottle job.
Williams in P2!!
Ferrari 🤡
I hope F1TV's "advertisements" for the Paddock Club during qualification session won't be a recurring thing.
- Probably because tickets aren’t selling well for the rest of the season.
- Holy shit. I was so glad I watched a few hours late so I could skip. Hinch is annoying at the best of times but those adverts were fucking awful.
"Lando, Oscar has bottled his lap, it's only fair if you bottle it too."
- the call of the wall
Oof, that was the longest qualification I ever watched. It holds the record of red flags, but that was epic nonetheless.
so much drama in the last 5 min
- Really thought Sainz had it there, then Max did Max things
CAN'T BELIEVE I OVERSLEPT AND MISSED IT LIVE.
Good grief. What a mad quali.
Ferrari started well until....
Q2
48 minutes in until Q2, damn man. I am loving the Ferrari pace so far, I think Charles has a real chance of pole
Oh fuck Sainz pole
- for that short moment
- damn with that red flag that might be final
- This could be amazing. Didn't have this on my bingo card
Damn 3 red flags and it's only q1. They seem to be struggling with the wind
- Another one, gonna be some kind of a record of this keeps going.
  
  No 5. Now it's starting to get wet
- yeah brutal
gedək /let’s go
Missed opportunity for Mercedes and Norris.
wow Hamilton out in q2
- My stream dropped for 10 minutes, what happened?
  
  he just interviewed and said the wrong tires
  
  too late to push basically
wow piastri out!
surprise rain for Q3
putting my fake internet reputation point on Max and Isack in Q1
Turn 4 is a killer today
Far out, barely even started Q2 and another red.
Lawson and Hadjar did really well
max is a beast. very impressive how he deliver the performance.
Something that came into my head: I wonder if its actually a good thing for Yuki that he didnt have all the simulator experience that Liam had when jumping into the RBR? That way he learned the cars difficulties on track, not on a computer that might not properly translate.

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