00:00...on Lando Norris, and it looks really, a real struggle getting around the final corner, and he ends up that same 7 tenths down.
00:08...this time, a lot quicker than Hamilton's, but he's lost a bit there just by going a bit deep at 13, but...
00:16...the drivers are going to jump in the middle of the two McLarens if it carries on like this.
00:20Where did Lewis Hamilton lose a little bit of time? Was it into turn 12?
00:24Yeah, not quite. He went a bit wide here at the right-hander.
00:29Yeah, 12, and a beast on the kerb. I'm told Oscar Piastri reported on the radio a DRS problem, which could easily explain the big-time guy, because the DRS here is worth about.
00:40Oh, Portoletto!
00:42Well, that's how he, I think, went over the line and exceeded track limits in a cloud of smoke as he locks up the brakes, and he goes all four wheels over the white line.
00:52Right, sort of Lawson-Hajard territory at the moment, isn't it, if he gets a decent run in the last sector?
00:58So, around the final corner comes Max Verstappen, and there, just ahead of Lawson, but that final sector he absolutely nailed and picks up a couple of tenths through it.
01:08Carlos Sainz goes fourth fast.
01:09He turns into seven, that's him understeer, that puts him slightly wider than he would have liked, then gets a snap of oversteer at nine,
01:18and again, Hertz's line to get back across in the epic center. So, he's lost time. We know, we could see on the graphic there, tenth and a half, more or less.
01:26I was going to talk F1 with Alan Pumain earlier, but he got in first as Hajar goes quickest on a 1.16.7. He got in first with,
01:33All right, Crofty, how's the football this weekend? And at that stage, the conversation was not going to last long.
01:38It really wasn't.
01:39Racing balls, first and third, because this track is improving, and it's improving fast. Antonelli goes 11th fastest, that will help Oscar Piastri.
01:48certainly lost a little bit in that middle sector, as Karoum was pointing out. Eighth fastest for Carlos Sainz.
01:55That'll also help Oscar Piastri, because he's behind him. Piastri currently is seventh on the board.
02:01Gasly crosses the line, can't get out of the bottom five. That's it, Pierre Gasly knocked out.
02:05Objective knockout time, 1.17.2. Bortoleto a 1.17.4. So, we're seeing pace improvements, but not by as much as the likes of Yuki Tsunoda,
02:15as Hülkenberg goes 11th fastest and gets himself out of that bottom five, and Ocon now goes third fastest.
02:22It looks like Alex Albon's the only one on track still pushing to get out.
02:26And he could knock out Kimi Antonelli, who's back in the pits. So, is the rookie going through, or is Alex Albon going through?
02:34These two battling for seventh place in the Drivers' Championship currently. They're battling to get out of Q1, and the winner is the rookie on this occasion.
02:42Albon stays in that bottom five. What happened to the Alpine driver?
02:46Let's have a look here. This is turn two. Oh, he touched the bollard.
02:49Oh, and then... Then went off. ...flobbler the kerb at the apex of three, and that bounced him off wide.
02:55So, that's where his final lap went away. Just watch the bollard on the... Oh, he's very close to it. Didn't touch it.
03:00But then here, watch this. Tries to shortcut that corner. Gets that big sausage kerb underneath the plank of the car, and it just bounces him off.
03:07Here's a response from his boss, who... There's a wave of disdain.
03:13Temperatures have gone down a degree, which might have a bearing on some of these lap times as well.
03:17As Hajar crosses the line, and this time he's not in the 1.16s. He's overall about four tenths slower, put to the 1.17.8s.
03:25Hamilton crosses the line, goes second fastest ahead of Hajar, but behind Hülkenberg.
03:30Piastri's on the set of tyres that he used when he aborted his final lap in Q1.
03:36Max Verstappen, will I imagine, be on a new set of tyres to put in a 1.16.8s as he crosses the line.
03:42And top. But Leclerc has gone quickest overall through the middle sector, and was about a tenth off him in the first sector, and goes ahead of him by the time he crosses the line.
03:51Norris crosses the line. Norris crosses the line, four tenths ahead of Charles Leclerc.
03:55Here comes Oscar Piastri, who just doesn't seem to be hooking up the car in the way that his teammate is.
04:01Not just now, but this morning and yesterday too. Second off the pace.
04:05They were confident that would be enough.
04:07Piastri aborted, but still felt the need as we saw Liam Lawson too quick into four, missed the apex, got in the dirt, and then the rear of the car just sliding around.
04:17But Piastri felt vulnerable enough to feel the need to put on that second set of tyres, and he's burnt up that set.
04:24Weird up with the PU.
04:26Vulnerable enough to feel the need to put on that second set of tyres, and he's burnt up that set.
04:32I feel like turn five, something weird up with the PU.
04:36Yep, we're on that Oscar.
04:38Coming out of 15, you would have felt that into his spine. Goes second fastest by some margin there behind Norris.
04:46Hamilton has just gone quickest in the middle sector. Ocon goes sixth fastest overall.
04:51Very nice for him and his teammate, Oli Behrmann, will be next to cross the line. Behrmann takes a shorter route, I think, to the line.
04:58And improves ahead of Ocon to go fifth fastest. On board now with Lewis Hamilton around the final corner. One previous hole here before.
05:07And goes second fastest to Lando Norris, who is out.
05:10He should get him around the Behrmann Antonelli territory.
05:13Alonso doesn't make it through. Hülkenberg hasn't made it through. Ocon is out. Tsunoda is through.
05:18Unless Piastri can knock him out, and it's going to be touch and go for Oscar.
05:22Piastri makes it seventh place as he crosses the line and pushes the second Red Bull out of the top ten.
05:30Lando Norris coming up to the end of the middle sector now, and he puts in a 29-2 advantage.
05:35Norris, as Verstappen crosses the line, it's a 1-16-4.
05:39He improves by a tenth and a half on his best time in Q2.
05:44But Lando Norris looking to improve even more.
05:46Norris to the line looking for a first pole in Mexico City.
05:50There's your provisional pole right there.
05:521-16-1 for Lando Norris. He's putting the pressure on nine other drivers in the top ten,
05:58including his teammate Oscar Piastri, who gets closer, it has to be said,
06:04but still only good enough for third on the grid currently.
06:07This has been good from both Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton.
06:09Leclerc is about two tenths up on Hamilton, crosses the line now.
06:14And, sorry, and go as Hamilton crosses the line now, goes second fastest.
06:19Looking for Charles Leclerc on the track, goes quickest overall into the 1-15s.
06:24Antonelli crosses the line, goes sixth fastest.
06:28And Oscar Piastri hanging on to the top five currently, but only hanging on.
06:33Here's George Russell next across the line.
06:35And this might put more pressure on the McLaren driver.
06:38He doesn't. He misses out by a couple of hundredths of a second.
06:41Phenomenal stuff as Piastri only P3.
06:44So others have a chance to try and beat that.
06:47The championship leader is expecting a bad result here as Verstappen goes ahead of it,
06:54pushing him down to fourth fastest.
06:56Verstappen crosses the line on the front row.
06:58Still Charles Leclerc holding onto pole position.
07:01Carlos Sainz will be next to cross the line.
07:03Five place grip penalty. He'll start ninth after that fourth there.
07:06This is a pole position lap. Make no mistake.
07:09Hadjar sixth. Norris crosses the line.
07:11puts a distance between himself and Charles Leclerc.
07:15Hamilton a bit further off. We'll see where he ends up.
07:17Second for him, but watch Leclerc.
07:19He was quicker than Hamilton in the first two sectors.
07:22Round the final corner now.
07:24Can Charles Leclerc make it three poles in Mexico? No, he can't.
07:27It's Lando Norris on pole for the first time in Mexico City.
07:32Charles Leclerc on the front row.
07:34Kimi Antonelli crosses the line to go fifth fastest overall.
07:38And that now pushes Piastri down to seventh.
07:40It'll be a net six when Sainz's penalty is applied.
07:43He will be seventh now because George Russell has crossed the line
07:48to make it to the second row.
07:50And is that a qualifying session that blows this championship race
07:54wide open once again?
07:56And you're on pole. Good afternoon.
07:58Ah, what a laugh. What a laugh.
08:02I don't know how I did that.
08:04Doesn't matter mate. It's good laugh.
08:06I know. Listen out of it.
08:08Oops.
08:12I don't know.
08:14I don't know.
08:16I don't know.
08:17Maybe I'll go for it to the second row.
08:19I don't know how to play with the second row.
08:20It's a good three of them.
08:22I can't remember what a qualifications of brute force.
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