Three-time defending champion Max Verstappen topped the timesheets in the first practice for the Formula One Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Friday as the session had three red flags. The Red Bull driver clocked 1 minute 45.546 seconds around the narrow street circuit in Baku in his last flying lap to beat Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes by 0.313 seconds. Sergio Perez in the second Red Bull was third. Verstappen still tops the drivers’ standings, 62 points ahead of Lando Norris of McLaren, but the Dutchman hasn’t won in six races and failed to make it to the podium in four of them. Norris finished the ses…