F1 2022 results: Azerbaijan Grand Prix Qualifying session

Here are the results from the qualifying session in Azerbaijan, where Charles Leclerc made it back-to-back poles in Baku.

After the first round of push laps, it was Carlos Sainz on provisional pole with a 1:41.814, his Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc going P2. Sergio Perez headed a provisional all-Red Bull second row in front of Max Verstappen.

But Leclerc absolutely stormed his second lap, clocking a 1:41.3 to take pole for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix for the second year in a row. A delayed refuel for Perez meant he was late out of the garage for his second run, but that did not stop him from improving to the front row.

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On a Saturday where Ferrari and Red Bull were in a class of their own, Verstappen claimed P3 on the grid, with Sainz set to start P4.

The drivers eliminated in the opening part of qualifying were Haas’ Mick Schumacher and Kevin Magnussen, Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll and the Williams duo of Nicholas Latifi and Alex Albon.

Stroll was the first driver to find the wall in qualifying. He got away with his first misstep as he locked-up and was a passenger as his Aston Martin trundled into the barrier at Turn 8, fortunately escaping damage.

But mere minutes later, he clattered the wall at Turn 2, the AMR22 this time very much broken, triggering the red flags and sealing his Q1 elimination.

The drivers eliminated in Q2 were Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu, the McLarens of Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris and Alpine’s Esteban Ocon.

Sebastian