F1 Mexico

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc fears a “nightmare” Sunday at the Formula 1 Mexico City Grand Prix after experiencing engine and DRS issues in qualifying.

OPIONION: Max Verstappen hunted down and defeated Lewis Hamilton in last weekend’s US Grand Prix at Austin – in scenes that were very 2021 after Red Bull botched his second stop. With Red Bull at the top, Ferrari losing its edge, and Mercedes still in recovery, hopes of a two- or three-way battle for 2023 look increasingly slim No Mexican driver since has had the potential to win their home grand prix, but Sergio Perez aims to change that - as OLEG KARPOV discovers.

Red Bull's Max Verstappen grabbed his sixth pole position of the season by putting together a rapid final qualifying run to pull clear of the Mercedes ...

With little to separate the front-runners after Q2 and the first Q3 runs, Verstappen went on to deliver a 1m 17.775s with his final effort – putting him three-tenths ahead of George Russell and Lewis Hamilton. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen grabbed his sixth pole position of the season at the Mexico City Grand Prix by putting together a rapid final qualifying run to pull clear of the Mercedes drivers. WATCH: Ride onboard with Max Verstappen for his spectacular pole lap in Mexico

Follow the action live as Max Verstappen aims to make more history at the Formula One Mexican Grand Prix 2022.

Miami Grand Prix Time (BST) Bahrain Grand Prix Time (ET) GMT (2 p.m. 5 mins until lights out: Verstappen starts on soft tyres. Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull are all yet to pit. Then Verstappen pits successfully, returning ahead of Sainz in third. Lap 39: Verstappen is getting away from Hamilton, establishing a lead of more than eight seconds. Perez is doing best with the mediums right now, with Mercedes having a think about their hard tyres and Verstappen on quick compounds. Verstappen is well over nine seconds ahead of Hamilton in first. Lap 59: Verstappen is cruising here.

A short circuit, the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez rarely rewards the pole-sitter - but Verstappen is chasing a record 14th win in a single season. The ...

[today’s 71-lap race](/sport/formula-one/f1-mexico-city-grand-prix-2022-race-start-time-uk-schedule-how-can-i-watch-live-tv-coverage-today-b1035399.html) always offering plenty in the way of early drama. [George Russell](/topic/george-russell) and [Lewis Hamilton](/topic/lewis-hamilton) are yet to win a race this year, a run they will be desperate to end after coming close to usurping the Dutchman in qualifying. Lap 57/71 Lap 63/71 Lap 66/71 Lap 70/71

Follow live coverage of the 2022 Mexican Grand Prix. Keep up to date with everything that happens during the race at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez.

In the blog, we will provide you with the latest developments during the Mexican Grand Prix. [Red Bull](/formula-1-teams/red-bull). [Mercedes](/formula-1-teams/mercedes)?

Follow the action live as Max Verstappen aims to make more history at the Formula One Mexican Grand Prix 2022.

For viewers planning to live stream F1 in 2022, you can watch via the Sky Go app if you're an existing subscriber or you can purchase For fans in Canada, TSN will carry the English-language telecast of races. Monaco Grand Prix Miami Grand Prix Time (BST) Bahrain Grand Prix Time (ET) ESPN's prerace show typically airs in the hour before the start of the race. GMT (2 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. Or might Sergio Perez become the first home racer to do the business in Mexico? His team, Haas, think it is likely to be the former.

Will Red Bull's world champion Max Verstappen break the record for grand prix victories in a single season at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez?

Lap 12/71: Word on the grapevine – AKA the Mercedes radio – is that Perez is struggling with his rear tyres. Lap 6/71: “You’re in a very good position here,” Bottas is told over the radio. Lap 23/71: Verstappen is complaining about bouncing, though any discomfort he’d feeling has not been reflected in the first third of the race, throughout which he has maintained a stead lead. In fact, that was the last time the pole-sitter here finished on the podium, that long run to turn one adding an element of glorious chaos. Lap 40/71: We now have ourselves a chess game, with the front three all on different strategies: Verstappen, on the quicker compound, is 9secs ahead of Hamilton, who is on hards. Lap 21/71: Leclerc, stuck in traffic in sixth and making little headway, has asked for Plan C – whatever that is. Lap 24/71: Perez pits first, and it’s a wince-inducing five-second extravaganza. Gasly will get a 5sec penalty for forcing Stroll off the track as he went past him for 15th. Lap 31/71: Verstappen turns the radio waves blue with some gripes about his gear shifts. And Verstappen has sped clear in the last couple of laps to extend his lead towards the 10sec mark. Verstappen is well in command now and looks like he could get away with a one-stopped Gasly picks off Albon for P11 and eyes Bottas in the last points spot.

Max Verstappen claimed his 14th victory of the 2022 season in the Mexico City Grand Prix, ahead of Mercedes rival Lewis Hamilton and Red Bull team mate ...

“The pace of the car was really nice; we had to look after our tyres because [of the] very long stint on the mediums, but we made it work. We were also on a different strategy to the cars around us, but [it’s] an incredible result,” said race winner Verstappen. We are definitely enjoying it and we will try to go for more.” “You just need to try and break this tow. Perez was unable to reel in Hamilton for P2, but at least made the podium in his home race, while Russell pitted with two laps to run to bolt on a set of softs and score an extra point with the fastest lap. Further back, Sainz and Leclerc continued their race as the ‘best of the rest’, as Ocon joined Alonso in getting past Bottas with a fine move to put the Alpines in P7 and P8 respectively – Norris keeping his hands on the final point with 20 laps to run. Nonetheless, on Lap 30, Hamilton and Mercedes decided it was time to pit, switching from mediums to hards, while Russell asked to extend his stint and aim to bolt on a set of softs in the closing stages of the race. Perez was the first of the front-runners to pit on Lap 24, swapping his softs for mediums in a tardy five-second stop due to a sticking rear-left tyre, with Verstappen pitting two laps later, releasing Hamilton and Russell into the lead. While Verstappen continued to edge away from Hamilton up front, Perez sat around six seconds off the lead, and Russell 7.5s, as Sainz and Leclerc settled into a quiet race of their own – the Ferraris struggling to live with the pace of the Red Bull and Mercedes machines. When the lights went out and the 71-lap race roared into life, Verstappen made a clean getaway to defend from the Mercedes drivers off the line and down to Turn 1, before Hamilton pounced on Russell in the middle of the first chicane to take P2. Intriguingly, Verstappen and Perez opted for soft tyres to attack the run of more than 800 metres to Turn 1, with Russell and Hamilton going for mediums – meaning there would be an array of strategic permutations to keep an eye on as the encounter developed. Russell was also unhappy with his strategy, repeatedly asking Mercedes to pit again and ditch the hard tyres, which failed to bring the race back to the Silver Arrows in the closing stages – a stop for softs with two laps to run at least yielding the fastest lap.

Daniel Ricciardo has produced one of the best drives of the season, overcoming a 10-second penalty to finish seventh in the Mexican Grand Prix.

Fans voted Ricciardo the driver of the day for his performance. The Australian was handed a 10-second penalty from the race stewards, which was added to his time at the end of the race. World champion Max Verstappen has set a new record for most wins in an F1 season, taking his 14th victory of the year in Mexico.

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The Australian, who has endured a nightmare 2022 which saw him dumped by McLaren for next season, was battling Yuki Tsunoda for 11th when he collided with the ...

He’s so charged up.” Ricciardo held on for seventh place, even with the time penalty, to secure his best result since the Singapore Grand Prix in October and third best of the season. “He’s a candidate for driver of the day with all the overtaking he’s doing. Completely different to the United States just a week ago.” “It has really fired him up, fired him up in a treat,” Brundle said on the coverage. “What the f*** is he doing,” Tsunoda raged.

When Daniel Ricciardo picked up a 10-second time penalty for a clumsy contact with Yuki Tsunoda, his chances of points in Mexico looked slim.

Max Verstappen - 12% Daniel Ricciardo - 24.4% When Daniel Ricciardo picked up a 10-second time penalty for a clumsy contact with Yuki Tsunoda, his chances of points in Mexico looked slim.

In his record-extending fourth win in Mexico City, Verstappen stretched his lead over Hamilton during the second half of the race to win by more than 15 seconds ...

Time (BST) Time (ET) GMT (2 p.m. Or might Sergio Perez become the first home racer to do the business in Mexico? 5 mins until lights out: Verstappen starts on soft tyres. Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull are all yet to pit. Then Verstappen pits successfully, returning ahead of Sainz in third. Lap 27: One of the loudest roars of the race goes up as Perez overhauls Leclerc to take P5! Lap 39: Verstappen is getting away from Hamilton, establishing a lead of more than eight seconds. Perez is doing best with the mediums right now, with Mercedes having a think about their hard tyres and Verstappen on quick compounds. Verstappen is well over nine seconds ahead of Hamilton in first. Lap 59: Verstappen is cruising here.

Crash.net journalist Connor McDonagh runs through the field's driver ratings after the F1 2022 Mexico City Grand Prix.

He was running just outside the points and ahead of teammate Gasly. Stroll was the weaker of the two Aston Martin drivers in Mexico. Vettel probably got the most out of it given Aston Martin’s struggles in Mexico, running on the softs for over 40 laps. Instead, he was knocked out of the first part of qualifying, and was beaten by Magnussen. He was one of the first drivers to switch to the hard tyre - which proved to be the wrong strategy based on how well Ricciardo did. For the first time in a long time, Carlos Sainz was the quicker of the two Ferraris across the duration of the whole weekend. Pierre Gasly could have finished inside the top 10 had it not been for his ill-judged overtake on Lance Stroll, which resulted in a five-second time penalty. He pulled off a great move on Bottas into Turn 1 - the highlight of his weekend en route to finishing eighth. He lost out to Fernando Alonso at the start and struggled to get the hard tyre working, losing further positions to Ricciardo, Ocon and Norris. Granted, he was on the preferred medium to soft strategy, but he made it work. A combination of issues for Leclerc hampered his chances at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. Hamilton ran close behind Verstappen in the first stint but the switch to the hard tyre ruined any chance of challenging for the victory.

How old-school Ricciardo was 'awakened' as rival slams 'rookie' move: F1 Talking Points.

It’s difficult to warm up was comfortably the slowest tyre of the range. But victory in Mexico also keeps him on track to finish second in the count for most wins by percentage, a truer measure of domination. “That was a little bit the difficult moment in the race. This was a rare afternoon in which he had confidence in the car, so much so he was visibly on the machine’s limit in that final dash. Red Bull Racing is now third in the ranking for most consecutive wins by a constructor. It earnt him a 10-second penalty — which he overcame by finishing more than 10 seconds ahead of Ocon — but the Aussie rejected the judgement. Had Alonso’s retirement forced a safety car, for example, he would’ve finished well out of the points. He didn’t have his front wheel alongside when they hit the brakes, and Tsunoda closed the door, as he was entitled to do. “Of course you never want contact to a point where the other guy goes off,” he told Sky Sports. “We kind of had the plan that if we were at the tail end of the group, then we had the opportunity to try something,” Ricciardo told Sky Sports. To get there he had to pass Yuki Tsunoda — just; more on that below — Norris, Bottas, the stricken Alonso and Ocon. And crushing the hopes of Lewis Hamilton in Red Bull Racing’s most convincing season in almost a decade.

Mercedes is unsure that following Daniel Ricciardo's medium-to-soft tyre strategy would have been enough to beat Max Verstappen to Formula 1 victory in ...

With Red Bull at the top, Ferrari losing its edge, and Mercedes still in recovery, hopes of a two- or three-way battle for 2023 look increasingly slim No Mexican driver since has had the potential to win their home grand prix, but Sergio Perez aims to change that - as OLEG KARPOV discovers But full credit must go to the reigning world champion and his Red Bull squad for masterminding a thumping performance, along with a handful of other critical factors which worked in their favour

Max Verstappen dominated to a record-breaking 14th Formula 1 win of the season at the Mexican Grand Prix, fending off a spirited challenge from Lewis ...

With Red Bull at the top, Ferrari losing its edge, and Mercedes still in recovery, hopes of a two- or three-way battle for 2023 look increasingly slim No Mexican driver since has had the potential to win their home grand prix, but Sergio Perez aims to change that - as OLEG KARPOV discovers But full credit must go to the reigning world champion and his Red Bull squad for masterminding a thumping performance, along with a handful of other critical factors which worked in their favour

Daniel Ricciardo says he 'didn't plan' to launch an overtaking move on Yuki Tsunoda when they clashed during Formula 1's Mexican Grand Prix.

With Red Bull at the top, Ferrari losing its edge, and Mercedes still in recovery, hopes of a two- or three-way battle for 2023 look increasingly slim No Mexican driver since has had the potential to win their home grand prix, but Sergio Perez aims to change that - as OLEG KARPOV discovers. But full credit must go to the reigning world champion and his Red Bull squad for masterminding a thumping performance, along with a handful of other critical factors which worked in their favour.

Max Verstappen says his boycott of Sky's Formula 1 coverage in Mexico was in response to the 'constant' disrespect he has faced this year and he is 'not ...

With Red Bull at the top, Ferrari losing its edge, and Mercedes still in recovery, hopes of a two- or three-way battle for 2023 look increasingly slim No Mexican driver since has had the potential to win their home grand prix, but Sergio Perez aims to change that - as OLEG KARPOV discovers But full credit must go to the reigning world champion and his Red Bull squad for masterminding a thumping performance, along with a handful of other critical factors which worked in their favour

Lewis Hamilton was focusing on the positives despite missing out on his first victory of the season in the Mexico City Grand Prix, as he crossed the line ...

I think the race pace was generally quite good it was just; we were offset on tyres most of the time.” “The upgrade really, really worked in the last race. So, I think ultimately, we should have been on the softs. When asked if Mercedes should have started on the soft, Hamilton said: “I think so. So, when both Red Bulls and everyone behind took their tyres off I thought shoot.” When I was on the medium tyre there wasn’t really any degradation when they pulled me in.

Daniel Ricciardo says he 'didn't plan' to launch an overtaking move on Yuki Tsunoda when they clashed during Formula 1's Mexican Grand Prix.

With Red Bull at the top, Ferrari losing its edge, and Mercedes still in recovery, hopes of a two- or three-way battle for 2023 look increasingly slim No Mexican driver since has had the potential to win their home grand prix, but Sergio Perez aims to change that - as OLEG KARPOV discovers. But full credit must go to the reigning world champion and his Red Bull squad for masterminding a thumping performance, along with a handful of other critical factors which worked in their favour.

The Red Bull driver, who wrapped up his second world title in Japan, also broke the record for most points in a season (Lewis Hamilton scored 413 in 2019) as he ...

[READ MORE: 'I obviously wanted more' – Perez disappointed to miss out on home victory in Mexico after P3 finish](https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.i-obviously-wanted-more-perez-disappointed-to-miss-out-on-home-victory-in.3qvUMouOBrFLSGzl1IB4Bb.html) His collision with Tsunoda aside, this was one of Daniel Ricciardo’s finest performances of the year. Max Verstappen continued his stunning form as he snatched the record for most wins in a season at the Mexico City Grand Prix. It was only his second points finish in the last eight races and a stark reminder that on his day, Ricciardo still has what it takes to compete at the highest level in F1. He was able to claw his way into the points and up to seventh, before building a lead big enough to negate his 10-second penalty for the collision with Tsunoda. His DNF meant McLaren close to within seven points in the fight for P4 in the championship with two races to go. It was Tsunoda’s fifth retirement of the season and with team mate Pierre Gasly failing to score, too, it dented the Italian squad’s hopes of challenging Haas for P8 in the constructors’. Second was his eighth podium of the season and second P2 in a row, helping him move into fifth in the drivers’ championship, 15 points adrift of Mercedes team mate George Russell. They are now just 40 points clear of Mercedes with two races to go in the fight for second in the constructors’ championship. While it was Sainz’s best finish in Mexico – and the first time he has got beyond the second lap since Singapore – this was a disappointing performance from the Scuderia, who were never in the hunt for a podium, let alone a win. Ferrari finished fifth and sixth in Mexico through Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc for the second year in a row, though this time it was Sainz who finished ahead. His triumph tied Red Bull’s team record of 19 consecutive races on the podium (set across 2010-2011) and was the first win for a pole-sitter in Mexico for five years.

Although this year's edition of the Formula 1 race in Mexico was hardly a classic, there were lots of significant threads tied up off-track as the cost cap ...

With Red Bull at the top, Ferrari losing its edge, and Mercedes still in recovery, hopes of a two- or three-way battle for 2023 look increasingly slim But full credit must go to the reigning world champion and his Red Bull squad for masterminding a thumping performance, along with a handful of other critical factors which worked in their favour. Although this year's edition of the Formula 1 race in Mexico was hardly a classic, there were lots of significant threads tied up off-track as the cost cap furore reached a resolution.

Max Verstappen scooped a new Formula 1 record on Sunday by picking up his 14th victory of the season in the Mexican Grand Prix.

With Red Bull at the top, Ferrari losing its edge, and Mercedes still in recovery, hopes of a two- or three-way battle for 2023 look increasingly slim No Mexican driver since has had the potential to win their home grand prix, but Sergio Perez aims to change that - as OLEG KARPOV discovers But full credit must go to the reigning world champion and his Red Bull squad for masterminding a thumping performance, along with a handful of other critical factors which worked in their favour