Max Verstappen showed that Red Bull could be a contender in Baku by topping the times on Friday, although his afternoon ended with a heavy crash right at the end of FP2.
The Dutchman slid into the barrier at Turn One, breaking the gearbox off the back of the car. As it is a Friday gearbox there will be no penalty, with the race version always scheduled to be fitted on Saturday.
“I think the whole day has been really positive, apart from the last lap,” said the Dutchman. “Everything else was working really good, from lap one I felt really good in the car, even though in the short runs in practice I could not take the maximum out of it because of traffic and yellow flags and stuff, so we can be quite happy with this.