Nyck de Vries has been given permission to take part in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix despite falling foul of Formula 1's 107 per cent rule.
A hectic qualifying session was promised and Friday's event certainly didn't disappoint. Q1 in particular was incident-hit with two separate red flag periods caused by crashes in that first part of the session.
The first was caused by De Vries, who wanted to stay out of trouble but couldn't manage it. He came into turn three too hot and didn't bail out into the run-off area – resulting in the nose of his AlphaTauri being buried in the Tec-pro barrier and a sizeable repair job required overnight.
