drivers championship, when he starts this afternoon s azerbaijan grand prix from pole. the ferrari driver put in an impressive lap in qualifying, to beat red bull s sergio perez by more than a quarter of a second. championship leader verstappen will start from third in the other red bull. george russell is the best placed briton in fifth, two places ahead of his mercedes team mate lewis hamilton. this one i probably did not expect because i thought red bull was strong, especially in q1 and q2. we were faster but then in the last lap everything came together and managed to do a good lap so extremely happy. in the women s triathlon event in leeds, britain s double olympic medallist georgia taylor brown finished second. fellow brit sophie coldwell was third. they both narrowly lost out to cassandre beaugrand of france, who won gold despite picking up a 10 second penalty along the way. in the men s race, the hopes of british pair jonathan brownlee and alex yee were ended after a crash on t