Charles Leclerc secures pole position in a Ferrari front-row lockout at the Mexican Grand Prix, beating Max Verstappen into third place. Investigations will take place for potential grid penalties. Yuki Tsunoda assists Daniel Ricciardo with a tow down the start/finish straight.
Charles Leclerc took pole position in a Ferrari front-row lockout at the Mexican Grand Prix, with the Scuderia finding a huge amount of pace in Q3 to beat Max Verstappen into third place.
And given how closely matched the drivers were, most opted to go straight onto the soft compound tyres in Q1 to get themselves on the board early on. But an ill-timed yellow flag came out after Fernando Alonso spun his Aston Martin on the exit of Turn 3, scuppering many flying laps in the process, including Norris, who was made to pay for his earlier mistake and qualified 19th on Saturday.
Despite his practice pace, Albon complained his Williams felt like a “completely different car” during qualifying, suffering with oversteer and brake locking during the session. Tsunoda did not set a representative lap time in the session in helping Ricciardo, who ranked fourth quickest in Q2, only a tenth behind Hamilton, Verstappen and Russell – in what looked set up to be a hugely competitive Q3 session.But after Q2, Albon’s lap time was deleted for track limits – promoting Zhou back into the top 10 shootout in a breathless qualifying hour at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez.
This gave the Scuderia hope of a shock pole in Mexico City, but there was still one more run to come in Q3.
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