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Bottas claims dramatic Baku pole as Leclerc crashes out

Valtteri Bottas claimed pole position for Formula 1’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix during an incident-filled qualifying session that was heavily disrupted as Charles Leclerc crashed out. Despite appearing well off the pace of Ferrari all weekend, the Mercedes duo took advantage of Leclerc’s error in Q2 to lock-out the front-row of the grid in Baku, with Bottas edging Hamilton by just 0.059s in what was a thrilling end to qualifying. Hamilton had sat on provisional pole following the opening salvo of runs, but Bottas left it late to turn in a 1m40.495s on his final flying effort to pip his teammate to a second consecutive pole. Sebastian Vettel was unable to challenge as he ended up third and...
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