Azerbaijan GP Qualifying Results: Russell on Pole, Antonelli 16th
George Russell did not just take pole position in Baku.
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George Russell did not just take pole position in Baku.
Kimi Antonelli has made mistakes before, just never one this expensive.
Fifty places. That is not a typo, and it is not a translation error from a stewards' bulletin nobody bothered to proofread.
George Russell had the fastest car on track in Baku on Thursday.
Baku's castle section has claimed its first victim of the weekend, and it took less than half an hour of FP2 to do it.
George Russell got the tow, George Russell got the time, and George Russell got to watch both title protagonists' garages descend into minor chaos while he did it.
Kimi Antonelli's charmed run of a season picked a strange moment to develop a smell of burning hydraulic fluid.
Isack Hadjar is back in a Red Bull cockpit this week, and Liam Lawson can start clearing out his locker. Again.
Alpine has gone shopping in Mercedes' old coat pockets again, this time pulling out Mike Elliott.
Max Verstappen signed a new Red Bull deal through 2030.
Fred Vasseur says Ferrari will investigate Lewis Hamilton's brake failure thoroughly. Fine.
Zak Brown wants you to feel sorry for Lando Norris. Maybe you should.
Kimi Antonelli did not need to be the fastest man in Madrid on Sunday.
Max Verstappen did exactly what a four-time champion fighting for relevance should do at the start of a street race nobody has raced before: he attacked.
Lewis Hamilton had precisely one thing going right for him in an otherwise miserable title defence: he'd finished every single racing lap of the 2026 season.
Carlos Sainz came to Madrid hoping for a home hero's welcome.
Lance Stroll will start the Spanish Grand Prix from the back of the grid, and not because he did anything wrong on track.
Lando Norris has pole position for the first-ever Spanish Grand Prix at Madring, and he took it by a margin so small it barely qualifies as a margin at all.
Oliver Bearman will spend qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix watching from the garage.
Ollie Bearman ended Free Practice 3 in a heap of carbon fibre at Turn 10, and Haas now has considerably less than an hour to work out whether he even has a car to qualify.