{"id":157227,"date":"2025-09-20T19:43:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/157227\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T19:43:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:43:03","slug":"f1-2025-azerbaijan-grand-prix-qualifying-results-with-one-car-excluded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/157227\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix qualifying results with one car excluded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defending Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen took pole position in one of the wildest qualifying sessions in the series&#8217; history, as the three segments of qualifying for the 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku featured six red-flag stoppages and rain interference.<\/p>\n<p>Championship leader Oscar Piastri and Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc were among those causing the red flags &#8211; but Piastri&#8217;s title rival Norris struggled to capitalise on Piastri&#8217;s crash in a rain-affected Q3.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Sainz put a Williams on the front row, with Liam Lawson third for Racing Bulls.<\/p>\n<p>Esteban Ocon had qualified 18th, but was excluded from qualifying results <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/formula-1\/ocon-set-for-baku-f1-qualifying-exclusion-over-rear-wing-flex\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">due to excessive rear wing flex.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Provisional starting grid<\/p>\n<p>1 Max Verstappen (Red Bull)<br \/>2 Carlos Sainz (Williams)<br \/>3 Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls)<br \/>4 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes)<br \/>5 George Russell (Mercedes)<br \/>6 Yuki Tsunoda (Red Bull)<br \/>7 Lando Norris (McLaren)<br \/>8 Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls)<br \/>9 Oscar Piastri (McLaren)<br \/>10 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)<br \/>11 Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)<br \/>12 Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari)<br \/>13 Gabriel Bortoleto (Sauber)<br \/>14 Lance Stroll (Aston Martin)<br \/>15 Ollie Bearman (Haas)<br \/>16 Franco Colapinto (Williams)<br \/>17 Nico Hulkenberg (Sauber)<br \/>18 Pierre Gasly (Alpine)<br \/>19 Alex Albon (Williams)<br \/>20 Esteban Ocon (Haas)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defending Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen took pole position in one of the wildest qualifying sessions in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-157227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}