Williams team principal James Vowles was effusive in his praised for the team's second-race rookie Franco Colapinto after the Argentine recovered from a Friday practice crash to earn the first top-10 qualifying berth of his career. Colapinto, who has never raced in Baku before, got his weekend off to a rough start when he clouted the barriers at Turn 4 during FP1. It cost him around half of the hour-long session and the team its lunch break, with repairs lasting all the way into he first quarter-hour of FP2. The 21-year-old then came alarmingly close to smashing his car again late on Friday afternoon through the castle section but was able to continue unscathed. Despite the lack of track...
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