Mexican GP Qualifying
Here you can see all the latest from Mexico for the Mexican Grand Prix Qualifying Session, LIVE as it happens!
News – Jolyon Palmer has an issue with his car and could miss the qualifying session ahead, the team are currently working on his car but it looks like he won’t be participating.
Confirmation that Jolyon Palmer will NOT be taking part in qualifying – he will be starting the race from the pit-lane.
Mexican Grand Prix Qualifying LIVE
Qualifying 1
Cars are now on track for qualifying 1.
Gutierrez – aborting the lap with his team saying that Grosjean has already aborted his lap as “the tyres are not ready yet“.
Vettel sets the fastest lap time – he’s being doing well this weekend, setting a lap time of 1:19.865 and now his teammate, Raikkonen sets the fastest lap time of 1:19.554.
Kvyat is having an issue with his car – he had an issue in FP2 but he’s currently in the pits with his engineers looking over his car.
Hamilton now sets a fastest lap time – 1:19.447
Hamilton now pits along with most of the other drivers – 3 minutes of qualifying 1 left.
Kvyat is now OUT of qualifying.
Qualifying 1 – Knock Out Zone
Gutierrez
Kvyat
Nasr
Ocon
Grosjean
A terrible qualifying session for the Haas team with both their drivers out in Q1.
Qualifying 2
Hamilton is the first car on track.
Hamilton – “Small vibration coming from these front tyres.” Both Mercedes drivers are on the soft tyres.
Alonso, Button and Sainz on the supersoft tyres.
Raikkonen being told to box after reporting an issue.
Ferrari on the soft tyres too.
Red Bull on the super soft tyres.
Hamilton sets a fastest lap time of – 1:19.137
Vettel now sets a second fastest lap time right behind Hamilton with Rosberg currently in third.
Verstappen now sets the fastest lap time – 1:18.972
He’s the first driver to go into the 1:18’s this weekend!
Qualifying 2 – Knock Out Zone
Alonso
Perez
Button
Magnussen
Ericsson
Wehrlein
Sergio Perez is out of Qualifying 2 at his home race – he had a lockup during his lap not allowing him to get through to Q3.
Qualifying 3
All 10 cars are out on track.
Hamilton sets the fastest lap time with a time of 1:18.704 – his teammate, Rosberg is in fourth.
The two Mercedes drivers are split by the two Red Bull drivers.
Hamilton asking if he should start his fast lap now with his team telling him on lap 2 – he’s currently going round the track again getting his car ready.
Hamilton is on pole for the Mexican Grand Prix tomorrow with Rosberg in second place.
The Red Bull’s and and Ferrari right behind – Raikkonen suffering with a problem, Vettel not as fast as he could have been after such a good weekend.
RedBull lock out the second row – they’ve been looking strong this weekend along with Ferrari.
Brief Driver Reaction
Ricciardo – “It was pretty terrible balance, I was slower and it was a handful. I didn’t expect a perfect car but I thought qualifying would be better, not a great race car but fourth is great.“
“It’s tricky out there and I wasn’t entirely happy with the balance. Hopefully we can get amongst the Mercedes and hopefully we can make things work for us. I’m OK for the race but I didn’t understand with the balance, if I’m unhappy – I wonder what Ferrari are like……“
Top 3 Drivers – Reaction
Hamilton – “As always it’s a tough battle especially when you try to get a good lap. With these tyres sometimes it’s the first lap and sometimes it’s the last lap.”
“Last year we were sliding everywhere, this year it feels a lot more like a race track.”
Rosberg – “Lewis’ lap was a brilliant lap, not mine – I’m relatively pleased with that and I’m happy I’m now on front row.”
“It just took a bit longer to find the tyre temperate this weekend and we got there in the end so that’s OK.”
Verstappen – “I mean you have to be realistic when other guys are on different tyres. I’ve been feeling good with the car all weekend – it’s just a shame that in Q3 we couldn’t get the lap together.”
“I think we could have had P2.”
Hamilton – “There is no tactic for tomorrow, I turned out to do the job and I’m going to do what I did last weekend here, I’m looking forward to the race and looking forward to getting out on track.”
More to follow.
The Formula 1 Girl 🙂
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