Friday 13th September Practice 1 - 10.30 - 11.30 Practice 2 - 14.00 - 15.00 Saturday 14th September Practice 3 - 09.30- 10.30 Qualifying - 13.00 - 14.00 Sunday 15th September Race - 12.00
Bearman out qualifying Hulk was impressive stuff too. Brilliant from Colapinto.
The sky lads are making it sound like the Lando poor qualifying is like the kennedy footage.
Poor Ted sounded like there was a death in the family talking to Norris
Maybe they can transfer the heat in Hamilton's seat into the tyres.
That is mental
disaster for Williams.
Ted being dramatic.
great lap by Leclerc
Colapinto, take a bow son! Leclerc could possibly jump Norris in the standings if he wins and Norris doesn’t score any points
No need for team orders for McLaren tomorrow at least
Red flag or safety car could change all that
Maybe, but Norris would have to clear the slower teams quickly, which I think he will at the long straight. I expect him to be in the points anyway, not sure how high.
Sky Sports viewers might have been wondering why Ted had to rush back and forth from the pits to the media pen to conduct interviews, well it turns out Rachel Brooks got appendicitis and had to get surgery. She's gone home to recover.
Gasly disqualified
what did actually happen to norris?
yellow flag on his final run
He was caught by a yellow (or white) flag on his last fast attempt.
Yellow flag as he came down the hill before turning towards the straight. He had to slow down briefly, and the lap was gone at that point.
Has it been shown that there was a yellow flag, I didn't watch any of the post qualifying analysis, but the one clip I saw he went wide out of the corner, which didn't indicate he was slowing for a yellow.
That’s zero craic.
Norris talked about a yellow flag in his interview. Karun at Sky said something about a white flag - a quick google suggests this is for a slow moving car and I think at the time there was an Alpine (possibly Ocon) crawling around.
The marshal was waving a white flag at Ocon, as Norris got to turn 15 the light board was flashing yellow but he also ran wide on the exit of turn 16
Just watched quali now.
Lando very disappointing. I get that he may or may not have had a yellow flag on his final run (sky didn't clarify during qualifying coverage, maybe they did afterwards?), but very poor that he hadn't a better banker in.
Any questions about his suitability for a championship tilt will be confirmed tomorrow. The true competitors make their way back through the pack, will be do same?
I assume somebody in Williams is getting fired too?
Seems harsh but them are the rules.
Not the greatest or most exciting of quali sessions I must say. A pity as Baku us normally good. I think if Calapinto does well tomorrow he might get Driver of the day. He has done well so far.
Great lap from Charles. I hope he wins tomorrow.
Meant to add, a particularly poor bit of coverage from sky too. Harry Benjamin is, in my mind anyway, crap. He has an over the top fake voice and stuff, but whatever. But himself and Karun seemed to not work particularly well together. And they seemed to be missing stuff too.
Bernie Collins was there and she can do no wrong, but it still felt like very much a 3rd string set up from sky.
I think you are spot on that the 2 of them don't combine well. I don't mind Benjamin when he commentates at F2, but that could be down to having Alex Brundle next to him who I really like as a commentator.
This has to be my favourite thing about Baku, they marked the spot where Hamilton went straight on in 2021
I wonder how Logan Sargeant feels watching Colapinto. I know this track suits the car but that was a very impressive quali from a complete F1 rookie. He looks a bit like a young Senna which doesn't hurt either.
Lewis Hamilton starting from pits today, he's taking a new engine…
Eventful start to the race in F2. Kush Maini's car didn't get off the line and 2 of the back markers drove into him. Red flagged, waiting for the restart now.
