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McLaren team principal Andrea Stella reckons the team’s execution let it down in Mexico Grand Prix qualifying and felt pole was possible.But Lando Norris, who was quickest in both Q1 and Q2, suggested he had hit the limit of potential in his car.He was unable to hit the ground running atContinue Reading

Carlos Sainz will start from pole position for the Formula 1 Mexico Grand Prix. Here’s how and when you can watch the race.Sainz dominated Q3, setting two laps that were good enough to take his sixth career pole for Ferrari by 0.225s. Max Verstappen ended up second, recovering from having hisContinue Reading

Sergio Perez revealed braking issues were behind his painful Q1 elimination at his Mexican Grand Prix home race.Perez only managed the 18th-fastest time in Q1 at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, missing the cutoff by two-tenths and joining McLaren driver Oscar Piastri in the drop zone.The Red Bull driver had been struggling allContinue Reading

After every F1 qualifying session, Autosport publishes each team’s qualifying record in terms of team-mate duels.This record is based exclusively on qualifying results so that grid penalties don’t alter the statistics.When a driver can’t put in a representative lap time due to a technical issue or an incident, this willContinue Reading

Carlos Sainz scorched to pole for the Mexico Grand Prix with a 0.225-second advantage over Formula 1 championship leader Max Verstappen.Sainz was in imperious form throughout the session and found two times good enough for pole – opening his Q3 run with a 1m16.055s and improving on his final runContinue Reading

Oscar Piastri has conceded the error that saw him eliminated from Q1 for Formula 1’s Mexican Grand Prix was a “very poor mistake”.The McLaren driver went off the track at Turn 12 in the opening phase of qualifying, with his car bottoming out over the kerbs. His lap time wasContinue Reading

Oscar Piastri completed the final practice session ahead of the Mexico Grand Prix on top of the timesheets, 0.059 seconds clear of McLaren Formula 1 team-mate Lando Norris.The two McLarens had sat about three tenths clear of the rest of the field, led by early session headliner Carlos Sainz, asContinue Reading

The FIA is to revise the wording of its controversial racing guidelines after a meeting with Formula 1 drivers in Mexico in the wake of Max Verstappen’s tactics against Lando Norris at Austin.The governing body is understood to have accepted that changes to the guidelines were required to close aContinue Reading