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Gasly leads scrappy final practice as Verstappen crashes

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Gasly leads scrappy final practice as Verstappen crashes

Pierre Gasly (FRA) AlphaTauri AT02. Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Friday 4th June 2021. Baku City Circuit, Azerbaijan.

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AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly emerged as a surprise leader of the final practice session for Formula 1’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Saturday afternoon.

Gasly set a time of 1:42.251s to finish 0.344s clear of Red Bull’s Sergio Perez, who led the way on Friday at the Baku City Circuit.

Gasly’s rapid lap time came during a session in which Max Verstappen crashed, Mercedes’ struggles continued, while Ferrari’s drivers also made mistakes.

Verstappen hits the wall

Verstappen enters this weekend’s round as championship leader for the first time in his career but compromised his preparation with a slow-speed off.

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Verstappen locked up his left-front into the tricky downhill left-hander at Turn 15 and slid helplessly into the barriers.

The right-front of Verstappen’s RB16B sustained damage and the points leader was forced to abandon the car in the run-off.

The session was halted while the car was removed.

The crash brought Verstappen’s session to a premature end at the halfway mark of the hour and meant he was unable to carry out a representative qualifying simulation on Soft tyres.

Max Verstappen (NLD) Red Bull Racing RB16B crashes in the third practice session.

Mercedes’ struggles continue

Mercedes finished outside of the top 10 during Friday practice, leaving the team with a substantial workload overnight as it sought to address its deficiencies.

Lewis Hamilton rose to third place with a Soft tyre effort late on – though received a substantial tow from Perez along the full-throttle section that leads to the finish line.

Team-mate Valtteri Bottas was only 13th, having not picked up any slipstream on his lap, and radioed to confirm his position was “as far as this car goes without a tow.”

Ferrari emerged as Red Bull’s nearest challenger on Friday but both Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz were compromised in FP3.

Leclerc had to back off his first Soft tyre push lap when Williams’ Nicholas Latifi went into the run-off and brought out the yellow flags.

Sainz, meanwhile, carried too much speed into Turn 15 and had to take to the run-off, abandoning his lap.

The pair nonetheless classified an encouraging fourth and fifth, ahead of McLaren’s Lando Norris and Alpine’s Fernando Alonso.

Yuki Tsunoda, Esteban Ocon and Daniel Ricciardo rounded out the top 10.

George Russell was another driver to encounter issues as he stopped his Mercedes-powered Williams FW43B at Turn 1 late on owing to an engine problem.

Qualifying for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix is scheduled for 16:00 local time

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