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Perez leads Red Bull 1-2 in final Mexico practice
Sergio Perez has set the pace in the final practice session in Mexico, just marginally ahead of teammate Max Verstappen as Red Bull dominated proceedings in the final practice session at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. Warm track temperatures greeted the drivers for the Saturday morning session, loitering in the low 40 degrees celsius as the drivers headed out to clean up the track a little after the support races. With oily patches of tarmac due to dropped oil, there was a couple of minor incidents early on as drivers complained about the lack of grip.It was Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton who was first of the frontrunners to set a lap time, in the high 1:18s, with teammate Valtteri Bottas pipping him moments later as the Red Bulls headed out on track. Perez sent the home crowd wild as he took over at the front with a mid 1:18 lap halfway through the session, but the pace was really starting to ramp up on the Soft tyre qualifying simulations. Verstappen's first Soft tyre run was a 1:17.5, as he went four tenths clear of the improving Perez, before he took the opportunity before doing two cooldown laps ahead of another run. The Dutch driver then went quicker again, doing a 1:17.2 to finally go quicker than the pace he'd shown in Friday's FP2 session.
This time put Verstappen half a second clear of Bottas as the Mercedes driver improved, but it was Perez who lit up the timing screens right at the end of the session. Perez came out on a fresh set of Softs and set a 1:17.024 to go 0.193 faster than Verstappen, with the championship leader's final run slightly scrappy as he struggled with oversteer. Verstappen complained over team radio about the oversteer he'd encountered, but was still almost half a second clear of third placed Hamilton.
Hamilton was incredulous when told about the gap to Perez out front, saying "Six and a half tenths?" when his engineer informed him.
Practice 3 Results
| Pos | Name | Car | Best Time | Gap Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sergio Pérez | Red Bull-Honda | 1m17.024s | |
| 2 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull-Honda | 1m17.217s | +0.193s |
| 3 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1m17.675s | +0.651s |
| 4 | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 1m17.708s | +0.684s |
| 5 | Carlos Sainz Jr. | Ferrari | 1m18.029s | +1.005s |
| 6 | Yuki Tsunoda | AlphaTauri-Honda | 1m18.037s | +1.013s |
| 7 | Daniel Ricciardo | McLaren-Mercedes | 1m18.121s | +1.097s |
| 8 | Pierre Gasly | AlphaTauri-Honda | 1m18.202s | +1.178s |
| 9 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 1m18.213s | +1.189s |
| 10 | Lando Norris | McLaren-Mercedes | 1m18.312s | +1.288s |
| 11 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin-Mercedes | 1m18.352s | +1.328s |
| 12 | Kimi Räikkönen | Alfa Romeo-Ferrari | 1m18.531s | +1.507s |
| 13 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Alfa Romeo-Ferrari | 1m18.556s | +1.532s |
| 14 | Sebastian Vettel | Aston Martin-Mercedes | 1m18.614s | +1.59s |
| 15 | Fernando Alonso | Alpine-Renault | 1m18.847s | +1.823s |
| 16 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine-Renault | 1m18.999s | +1.975s |
| 17 | George Russell | Williams-Mercedes | 1m19.211s | +2.187s |
| 18 | Mick Schumacher | Haas-Ferrari | 1m19.238s | +2.214s |
| 19 | Nicholas Latifi | Williams-Mercedes | 1m19.313s | +2.289s |
| 20 | Nikita Mazepin | Haas-Ferrari | 1m20.479s | +3.455s |
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Limejuice
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Or Turtle Wax?
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Why not get it valeted, while we're at it?
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MrCurry
right after this urgent rest
There was for Lance…
Limejuice
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What the living hell is that? It's like a refugee from a David Attenborough nightmare.
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