Sebastian Vettel claimed Pole position for tomorrow's Azerbaijan Grand Prix ahead of Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas. It's the first time anyone other than Mercedes have claimed Pole position at the Baku street circuit and will go a long way towards claiming a potential third win of the season for the four time world champion.

The closest challengers to Vettel on Sunday should be the Mercedes cars of Hamilton and Bottas but it was a case of what could have been for Vettel's Ferrari teammate Kimi Raikkonen. The Finn made two high profile errors, first in Q2 where he flat spotted his tyres on his only run on super soft tyres, meaning he will be the only car in the top six starting on the ultra softs.

He then threw away a potential pole position, having gone quickest through the first two sectors on his final lap he made a mistake in the final sector, handing pole position to his teammate and leaving himself in a lowly sixth position.

The Red Bulls of Ricciardo and Verstappen claimed fourth and fifth respectively, showing they still don't quite have the pace to challenge the Mercedes and Ferrari's in qualifying but on a heavily power dependent track to have both cars less than half a second away is a good effort from the Milton Keynes marque and will be hoping to challenge for race victory tomorrow.

It was a better session than most this season for Force India who managed to have the fastest car of the midfield today grabbing seventh and eighth on the grid in an impressive performance to beat both Renaults who locked out the fifth row of the grid before Nico Hulkenberg's grid penalty which will relegate him down to 14th.

Another team who had an impressive session were Williams, managing to qualify 11th and 12th with Lance Stroll a whisker away from getting into the top 10 shootout but with both drivers bumped up a position thanks to Nico Hulkenberg's penalty, the team will be optimistic to score their first points of the season.

It was a bad session for Haas and Toro Rosso however, with Romain Grosjean unable to set a lap time owing to a gearbox issue and Magnussen unable to get any higher than 15th, whilst Toro Rosso almost spectacularly came together which ruined both drivers chances of getting out of Q1 and capping a difficult weekend thus far.

Sam Gale