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Oscar Piastri starts the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix from third on the grid, with Mercedes' George Russell on pole.
World championship leader Kimi Antonelli starts 16th after a crash in qualifying.
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His Aston Martin has developed an issue and he's told to stop the car.
There is a yellow flag shown at Turn Three, just as Max Verstappen thinks about having a look at Oscar Piastri into the left hander.
Stroll has got quite good at parking the cars this season, to be fair…
This is good stuff from Oscar Piastri, Max Verstappen is just being held at just over a second behind the Australian as things stand.
In other years, four different manufacturers in the first four grid slots would have been cause for note, now it’s merely business-as-usual in an exceptionally competitive 2026 season. One thing that did raise eyebrows, however, is the margin of George Russell’s eventual pole position.
Mercedes have looked rapid all weekend, but with championship leader Kimi Antonelli clipping a wall in Q1, Russell’s run to fifth pole of the season was serene – but his eight-tenths of a second margin to second-placed Charles Leclerc was exceptional.
But what do we have in store on Saturday? Almost certainly a one-stop race, but myriad possibilities within that. All three tyre compounds are in contention, the pit windows are wide, and, while it’s never particularly easy to pass in Baku, the combination of active aero and greater energy deployment options suggest we’re going to see something a bit different…
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Find out what happened during FP3 and Qualifying in Azerbaijan, and get the thoughts of McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Drivers Oscar Piastri, Lando Norris and Team Principal Andrea Stella.
The McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team secured a decent Qualifying result at the 2026 Azerbaijan Grand Prix this afternoon, with Oscar third and Lando fifth after a complicated opening two days of running around the Baku City Circuit.
With the upgrades introduced this weekend performing as expected, the characteristics of the circuit have not played to the strengths of the MCL40. Despite this, Oscar delivered a strong performance throughout the session to secure a place on the second row, missing the first row by just one thousandth of a second. Lando was also in contention near the front but left some performance on the table in Q3, with his final run aborted following a small lock-up resulting in him being unable to improve his lap time.
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