The best tweets from a breathtaking Azerbaijan GP qualifying session

Well, after a thrilling F2 race in the morning, all eyes were on the F1 boys to keep up the Baku excitement and they did not fail to deliver.

No sooner had the flag dropped, than Romain Grosjean was out with a wonky gearbox then not long after, Pierre Gasly avoided contact with teammate Brendon Hartley (are these two magnetised?) at 320kph. If they had made contact, well, we are just glad they didn't.

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Williams, by their current standards had a reasonable day, their drivers ending up with Lance Stroll in 11th and Sergey Sirotkin in 12th. Points possible...

Sebastian Vettel grabbed pole, ahead of Mercedes pair Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas with last years winner here, Daniel Ricciardo in fourth.

Here then, is how it all played out on Twitter...

1 - Max blotted his copybook (again) in practice. A decent 5th in qualy though.

2 - It was windy when qualifying started, very windy...

3 - At least they have a sense of humour at Haas. They certainly need it.

4 - To be fair, blink and you'd have missed Romain Grosjean's participation.

5 - New underpants for Monsieur Gasly...

A ghastly moment for Gasly.

A ghastly moment for Gasly.

6 - Epic work by Charles Leclerc and Salfa to get out of Q1.

7 - And then the popcorn gets spat out as he promptly runs wide.

8 - Every cloud has a silver lining...

9 - First time in 2018 with both cars in Q3, so Force India up their GIF game.

10 - The popcorn GIF's are popular today.

11 - Kimi, so near to pole...

12 - Until Vettel pulls that mystery third paddle...

13 - Vettel nails it...

14 - BRING IT ON!

And your Azerbaijan Grand Prix grid is...

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