By claiming pole position, Lewis Hamilton put himself in a great position to match Michael Schumacher's all-time record of 91 wins on Sunday.
But due to the dramatic events which took place over qualifying, the route to that record-equaling result is not as straightforward as you might assume.
What went wrong for Hamilton in Q2?
Mistakes by Lewis Hamilton are rare, but what looked like a relatively innocuous slide beyond the track limits at Turn 18 on his first run in the second session of qualifying could be decisive in determining the outcome of the Russian Grand Prix.