![]() ![]() Kevin Magnussen suffered a suspension failure on the rear left of his Haas and the Dane veered off track in Turn 8, slamming hard into the barrier on the left side of the track. The Safety Car was deployed and Verstappen pitted for a new set of Hard tyres. Leclerc then made his stop at the end of the next lap, allowing Verstappen to retake the lead, with a 16-second advantage. Sainz pitted at the end of lap 30 and he rejoined in P4 behind Hamilton. Verstappen began to rapidly make his way back up the order breezing past Russell into Turn 1 on lap 22 and on the following lap, aided by DRS, cruising past Piastri on the long run to the same corner to take P5. As the world champion eased his way past Ricciardo, Hamilton pitted at the end of lap 25, moving to Hard tyres, a move which boosted Verstappen to P3, just 3.8 behind Sainz who had not stopped. Verstappen then dismissed the Spanish driver on lap 28 to rise to P2, 7.4s behind Leclerc who had yet to pit. Leclerc took the lead, 5.6s ahead of Sainz who was busy defending from Hamilton. On lap 19, Verstappen pitted for Hard tyres, rejoining in seventh place behind Russell. Pérez ran over the right front tyre of the Ferrari and was launched off track. Leclerc managed to carry on but Pérez limped back to the pits where he eventually retired from the race.Īt the front, Verstappen began to pull away from Leclerc and by lap 10 the three-time champion was just over 2.5s clear of the Ferrari driver, with Sainz a further two seconds back in third. However, the Red Bull driver turned in too sharply and with Leclerc boxed in by Verstappen on the right there was no space for the Ferrari driver to react into. The Dutchman slipped between the slower-starting Ferraris of the polesitter Leclerc and Carlos Sainz and as they went into Turn 1 he was ahead.īehind them Pérez had also made a good start and on the approach to the first corner the Mexican drew alongside Leclerc on the outside. Verstappen’s victory was sealed at the start, when, from P3 on the grid he reacted to the lights going out. The Red Bull Racing driver, finished ahead of Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc in a race that saw local hero Sergio Pérez crash out on the first lap. Max Verstappen scored a dominant 16 th victory of the season at the Mexico City Grand Prix to set a new record for most wins in a season. FORMULA REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS CERTIFIED BY FIA.FORMULA 4 CHAMPIONSHIPS CERTIFIED BY FIA.International Sporting Code and Appendices. ![]() FIA Certified Gran Turismo Championships.FIA Trophy for Historic Regularity Rallies.FIA European Historic Rally Championship.Goodyear FIA European Truck Racing Championship.Formula 4 Championships certified by FIA.Formula Regional Championships certified by FIA.Judgements of the International Court of Appeal.Judgements of the International Tribunal.Joint Sporting and Mobility Commissions.World Council for Automobile Mobility and Tourism.FIA ANTI-HARASSMENT AND NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY. ![]()
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