The Monegasque Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), who will start first this Sunday at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, the fourth of the Formula One World Championship, which takes place at the street circuit of Baku, the capital of the country, will also do so this Saturday in the sprint; in which the Mexican Sergio Pérez (Red Bull) will start second and the Spaniards Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) and Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) will do so from fourth and ninth place, respectively.
Leclerc, who ended up hitting the wall – without physical consequences or qualifying – in his last attempt, was the best in the reduced qualification ('sprint shoot-out') for the first of the six sprints that will be this year; by covering the 6,003 meters of the track of the Azerbaijani capital in one minute, 41 seconds and 697 thousandths, 179 less than 'Checo'.
The Dutchman Max Verstappen (Red Bull), leader of the World Championship – with fifteen points ahead of 'Checo', who is second – and who aspires to achieve a third consecutive title, stayed 443 thousandths of Leclerc and will be third, next to Sainz, from the second row.
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Alonso, third in the World Championship, will start ninth in the sprint. The double Asturian world champion, who finished on the podium his first three races with Aston Martin and already has 101 'drawers' in F1, was three and a half seconds behind Leclerc's time and will start from ninth place, one place behind his new teammate, Canadian Lance Stroll; who, like him, again hinted at problems with the DRS of his car.
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