Charles Leclerc was curious about Ferrari’s nascent demonstration of race pace as the Mexico City FP2 session drew to a close. “Apart from the last two laps, how did it look? I guess McLaren are on another planet?” Engineer Bryan Bozzi handed his charge the reply: “Yeah, McLaren are fast – Norris more so than Piastri.”
McLaren hadn’t exactly set the world alight across the soft-tyre qualifying simulations. Championship leader Oscar Piastri had a slide on the exit of the opening sector and the time continued to snowball away from him, while Lando Norris needed a second tour on the softs to get into a more respectable position of fourth. “We’re already a little bit behind,” Norris said, particularly of his current qualifying pace. “The balance of the car is all over the place. Single lap stuff, we’re struggling a little bit.”
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