![]() ![]() The anger was clear as Verstappen emerged from the cockpit as he went to kick that deflated tyre, while the red flags were brought out to halt the race. “It was exactly the same tyre that failed on Stroll, so I think it is a tyre issue,” Red Bull boss Christian Horner was heard telling Helmut Marko, their driver programme boss, on the pit wall. It looks like an issue with his left rear tyre has caused his dramatic exit #AzerbaijanGP □□ #F1 /2LMONjC1qJĭisaster struck though on Lap 47 of 51 as Verstappen’s left-rear hard tyre failed in the exact same fashion as Stroll’s, causing him to smash nose-first into the wall down the start/finish straight. On Lap 30 Lance Stroll triggered a Safety Car when his rear-left hard tyre failed, causing a huge shunt for the Aston Martin driver down the main straight, which he thankfully emerged from unhurt.īy this stage Verstappen was running P1, and once released by the Safety Car began to re-establish a gap over team-mate Sergio Perez behind. Verstappen was able to pass Leclerc on-track, and aided by a slow pit stop for Hamilton, he then completed the overcut on the Briton, picking up the de facto lead. The Dutchman had joined pole-sitter Charles Leclerc, Lewis Hamilton and Sergio Perez in a battle at the front during the opening stint in Baku. "He was fully committed the whole way round.Max Verstappen was well on his way to victory at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, that was until his left-rear tyre failed in dramatic fashion. "It's very difficult when you've committed as much as Max clearly had on that last lap to just just go, 'I'll go a bit gentle'," said Hill. Sky F1's Damon Hill and Paul Di Resta agreed. I still tried to rescue the lap but I hit the wall and really quickly broke the rear." I thought I braked at a similar point and I just got a lock up. "But then of course I still wanted to do a good last corner. ![]() "Arriving at the first corner I was three tenths under my lap time. "I knew that I was at the time second behind Lewis," Verstappen told Sky F1. Could he have taken the last corner less aggressively given the dash on the steering wheel was telling him how much faster he was? ![]() He was two tenths up on Hamilton, who had long completed his last lap, at that stage. ![]() Verstappen's lap was indeed a cracker before Turn 27, finding the limits of the street circuit - he even clipped the wall in the first sector - and he had posted the best two sectors of qualifying before the final turns. Sky F1's Anthony Davidson analyses the Lewis Hamilton's and Max Verstappen's fastest laps from a dramatic qualifying session in Jeddah Verstappen locked up at his final braking point of the day, tried to stay on the power on the exit of the corner, and the rear of his Red Bull hit the wall. Saudi Arabian GP: When to watch race live on Sky F1.Hamilton's 'intense' pole journey creates big chance.Report: Max Verstappen's last-lap crash gives Lewis Hamilton crucial pole.Title leader Verstappen, in majestic form through 26 of the 27 tricky turns of Jeddah's new street track and on what Red Bull branded the "lap of the year", looked set to land a huge blow to rival Lewis Hamilton by taking pole position for 2021's penultimate race - before disaster struck. Max Verstappen admitted his last-lap, last-corner crash in Saudi Arabian GP qualifying was "terrible" and "extremely disappointing" as the Red Bull driver rued the dramatic error that could prove to be a defining moment in his championship battle against Lewis Hamilton. Max Verstappen hits the wall at the last corner of his final qualifying lap, costing him pole position for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix ![]()
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