00:01Oscar Piastri has made Q3 at every single qualifying session of the season so far when
00:07it comes to the Grand Prix format and he's scraping over the kerb at 12. Yeah he got wide you
00:11could
00:11hear the spike of wheelspin as he straddled I'm sure the the exit kerb in his angle a great one
00:16to look at the drivers not so much for the cars but I think Piastri probably lost a bit there
00:21in
00:22the final sector and yeah it's only 13th for him. Piastri's time is deleted for going wide at turn
00:2712 doesn't count he has to go again four minutes to go this is trackside view of what we saw
00:33on board
00:33all four wheels beyond the white line. That lap is deleted for track limits turn 12. Sergio Perez
00:41currently last finds himself with a better lap than Piastri's on. Piastri's in real trouble here
00:48even if he jumps up everyone else behind is improving as well. He's up to 14th Piastri is at
00:53risk he gives himself a chance but Perez surely gonna go past him no slots in behind. Piastri is
01:0014th the home hero Perez is only 15th. Charles Leclerc in the drop zone will surely improve
01:06and does so to knock out the home hero as it stands minute and 20 to go. Magnussen can improve
01:12in the house he's going quickly as well we know that car's quick. So Magnussen on for a personal best
01:17so is Joe Guarniou as well. Magnussen goes to fourth Oscar Piastri into the bottom five.
01:26Bottas jumps up and knocks Colla Pinto out as well so the last driver is now Esteban Ocon to try
01:31and
01:31knock out Lance Stroll who's also improving so there's still places to be played out here. Can he find a
01:37way of dragging that Alpine into Q2 and demote Lance Stroll once again around this circuit? The answer
01:45is not quite. 19th place for Ocon as both Aston Martins find their way through but for the crowd
01:53dejection Sergio Perez out in Q1 for the first time in his home race with Red Bull
02:02and two major contenders fall at the first hurdle along with Franco Colla Pinto, Esteban Ocon and Joe
02:09Guan Yu. Magnussen looking to book his place once again in the top 10. Can he do it? Eighth is
02:17good
02:18enough at the moment but he is behind Alex Albon who went earlier. Hülkenberg is always strong at this
02:24part and we find eighth place for Hülkenberg as Yuki Tsunoda finds the barriers to bring out the red
02:31flag and the Haases made it across the line. Gasly dropped down to 10th place but with 10 seconds on
02:39the clock Tsunoda finds the wall. He says he's all right but his time will not be in the barriers
02:46at
02:47turn 12. Lawson will not make Q3 for the second time in his career and no chance to improve for
02:53both
02:53Aston Martins. That will be that. This is the moment that ended Q2. Yuki Tsunoda breaking on the curb
03:00and spinning into the wall. He's on the limit of absolutely everything. Big front left lock up
03:05doesn't want to back out of it turns in too much speed on and the the rear just snaps around
03:10on him.
03:11The lock up meant he just didn't slow up enough and paid the price. It's Tsunoda out along with Lawson,
03:17Alonso, Stroll and Valtteri Bottas who will have his worst ever start around this circuit.
03:25Verstappen showing the rest of the field how to do it. Trying to return to the front of a Grand
03:29Prix
03:30grid for the first time since Austria earlier this year and it has been a tidy lap. It has been
03:36a clean
03:36lap. It has been a lap on the front foot. Little bit of a wiggle as he applied the power
03:41to the 17th and
03:42final corner. Time to beat is a 1-16-3. Big lap at a big time for Max Verstappen and
03:48I don't think
03:49Norris will have an answer on this first lap of his in Q3. Squeezes on the gas, runs to the
03:55line
03:55but he's not even close. Carlos Sainz has yet to be on pole so far this season. Charles Leclerc putting
04:02the pressure on. Good enough for second. Missed out by half a tenth across the line. That's one Ferrari.
04:08What about the second one? This is only run one but it could be important. It's very important.
04:15Carlos Sainz to the front of the field by a mammoth three tenths of a second as Max Verstappen's time
04:21is deleted from the board and just like that it's Ferrari one. Ferrari in second. George Russell in
04:29third ahead of Lando Norris. It's Ferrari, Ferrari, Mercedes, Mercedes and Max Verstappen staring at
04:35tenth with another run to go. That just turned on its head. You can't spot it with the naked eye
04:42when
04:42he's going at speed over that apex curve but the stewards have had a closer look and they say this
04:47is all four wheels over track limits. Albon has gone into seventh position. There will be others trying
04:54to respond but in the battle for pole position it is looking tight at the moment. Charles Leclerc on
05:00for his best lap. On for an improvement as Gasly takes back sixth. Demotes Norris and Albon. Leclerc trying to
05:07apply the power all over the road. It's not enough. He can't displace his teammate who's going fastest in
05:13sector one, fastest in sector two and for the first time this season it's pole position for Carlos Sainz
05:20as it stands with the chequered flag waving. Where does Lando go? Where does Max go? Let's find out.
05:27Across the line to split the Ferraris goes Max Verstappen. That's a big lap under pressure. Can
05:33Lando Norris take it away from Carlos Sainz? Provisional pole for Sainz would be his first of
05:38the season. Lando going all in. Can he get there? He misses out by three tenths of a second. Verstappen
05:45gets ahead of his championship rival Lando Norris. Charles Leclerc is down to fourth and the Mercedes are
05:52still out on the circuit. They're still finding time. This is going to be their best effort. Magnussen got
05:57ahead of Gasly. Albon is in ninth. Hülkenberg is in tenth. Which way round? Will the Mercedes
06:02start or can they get past Charles Leclerc? It's fifth for George Russell who improves his time and
06:08not his position and then Lewis Hamilton cuts the beam. He can't improve either and Carlos Sainz for
06:16the first time this season can say he is on pole. He's taken first place in qualifying for the Mexico
06:25City
06:25Grand Prix. Yes, pole. Two laps. Two laps. Two laps. Two laps, yeah. Who has motor there?
06:35That's outstanding driving from Carlos Sainz. Ferrari become the first team this year to put both
06:40drivers on pole position. It's now Verstappen, Norris, Leclerc, Russell and Sainz who have started
06:45the Grand Prix from the head of the field.
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