Formula 1 technical heads will meet with the FIA before the British Grand Prix to try to find answers to the sport's porpoising crisis.
The Alpine driver was 0.646s behind Red Bull's Max Verstappen who will start from pole on Sunday.
Charles Lerlerc has been forced to suffer a 10-place grid penalty as Ferrari will be replacing the control electronics of Ferrari F1-75.
As he prepared to travel to Montreal, Leclerc would have want to put his recent issues behind him, however, missing a flight certainly cannot help.
Red Bull will look to keep their winning run going in Montreal and widen the gap at the top of the Constructor's Championship table.
Leclerc retired due to engine failure while leading the race, while Carlos Sainz was out due to a hydraulic issue at Baku.
Baku weekend's slot for Saturday's F1 qualifying session overlaps with the Le Mans 24 Hours event which also starts at the same time.
Still relatively unknown, the Brit made his presence felt across the racing community when he shocked the world in Montreal.
With 21 years having passed since the day of the Canadian GP 1998, let us look back at a race that saw two big accidents on the same corner.