Lewis Hamilton finished a chaotic qualifying session at the Grand Prix of Europe with an accident, crushed suspension and tenth on the framework.
The best on the planet ruled practice however a series of mistakes finished with contact with within divider at Turn 11 as team-mate Nico Rosberg took post.
Hamilton confronts a battle in the race to confine the harm to his title offer.
Power India’s Sergio Perez took second in front of Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo however begins seventh after a punishment.
The Mexican’s gearbox must be changed after an accident at Turn 15 in definite practice.
Ricciardo pipped Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel with his last lap – enhancing by 1.3 seconds over his first keep running in Q3. Vettel set precisely the same as the Australian, yet will begin behind him since he posted it later. Hamilton had looked brilliant from the minute he took to the testing new road track in the Azerbaijani capital Baku, quickest in each practice session until the begin of qualifying.
Be that as it may, he never entirely made some kind of breakthrough when it mattered.
He went wide at Turn 15 in the main session and wound up 0.6secs behind Rosberg, then did a poor first lap in the second session before locking up and going straight on at Turn Seven late in Q2 when on a lap that was at that stage 0.2secs speedier than Rosberg’s.
It implied Hamilton needed to do a last lap on harmed tires just to make it into Q3, yet such was the prevalence of the Mercedes that regardless he set the second quickest time. Hamilton was then quicker than Rosberg by 0.4secs in the principal area of his first lap in Q3, just to bolt up again and go straight on at Turn 15, an error that likewise crushed Rosberg’s first lap as he needed to back off for the yellow alert banners.
At that point, as Rosberg recorded that speediest time, Hamilton strangely misinterpreted his entrance to one of the corners around the medieval range of the city and crushed into within divider.
His mistake went ahead a weekend on which Mercedes were maybe more prevailing than any other time in recent memory this season – Rosberg was about 0.8secs speedier than Perez regardless of just doing one flying lap in the last session.
