topped second practice for the Mexico City Grand Prix<\/a> with a 1m17.392s, the Red Bull driver leading Ferrari\u2019s Charles Leclerc by 0.153s and Mercedes rookie Kimi Antonelli by 0.239s.<\/p>\nLando Norris was fourth for McLaren ahead of Lewis Hamilton in fifth, with George Russell, Yuki Tsunoda, and Fernando Alonso completing the top eight. Carlos Sainz and Lance Stroll rounded out the top ten, while Liam Lawson and Oscar Piastri were 11th and 12th respectively.<\/p>\n
Esteban Ocon, Isack Hadjar, and the Saubers of Gabriel Bortoleto and Nico Hulkenberg all ended within a second of Verstappen, with Oliver Bearman, Franco Colapinto, Alex Albon, and Pierre Gasly completing the session further back.<\/p>\n
Cars return to the track for FP3 at 11:30am local time on Saturday (4:30am AEDT Sunday).<\/p>\n
Pos.
\nNo.
\nDriver
\nTeam
\nTime \/ Gap
\nLaps<\/p>\n
1
\n1
\nMax Verstappen
\nRed Bull Racing
\n1:17.392
\n33<\/p>\n
2
\n16
\nCharles\u00a0Leclerc
\nFerrari
\n+0.153s
\n32<\/p>\n
3
\n12
\nKimi\u00a0Antonelli
\nMercedes
\n+0.174s
\n26<\/p>\n
4
\n4
\nLando\u00a0Norris
\nMcLaren
\n+0.251s
\n30<\/p>\n
5
\n44
\nLewis\u00a0Hamilton
\nFerrari
\n+0.300s
\n29<\/p>\n
6
\n63
\nGeorge\u00a0Russell
\nMercedes
\n+0.437s
\n32<\/p>\n
7
\n22
\nYuki\u00a0Tsunoda
\nRed Bull Racing
\n+0.491s
\n31<\/p>\n
8
\n14
\nFernando\u00a0Alonso
\nAston Martin
\n+0.546s
\n28<\/p>\n
9
\n55
\nCarlos\u00a0Sainz
\nWilliams
\n+0.547s
\n33<\/p>\n
10
\n18
\nLance\u00a0Stroll
\nAston Martin
\n+0.562s
\n29<\/p>\n
11
\n30
\nLiam\u00a0Lawson
\nRacing Bulls
\n+0.826s
\n32<\/p>\n
12
\n81
\nOscar\u00a0Piastri
\nMcLaren
\n+0.840s
\n30<\/p>\n
13
\n31
\nEsteban\u00a0Ocon
\nHaas F1 Team
\n+0.874s
\n30<\/p>\n
14
\n6
\nIsack\u00a0Hadjar
\nRacing Bulls
\n+0.889s
\n29<\/p>\n
15
\n5
\nGabriel\u00a0Bortoleto
\nKick Sauber
\n+0.931s
\n29<\/p>\n
16
\n27
\nNico\u00a0Hulkenberg
\nKick Sauber
\n+0.956s
\n29<\/p>\n
17
\n87
\nOliver\u00a0Bearman
\nHaas F1 Team
\n+1.050s
\n33<\/p>\n
18
\n43
\nFranco\u00a0Colapinto
\nAlpine
\n+1.329s
\n30<\/p>\n
19
\n23
\nAlexander\u00a0Albon
\nWilliams
\n+1.463s
\n30<\/p>\n
20
\n10
\nPierre\u00a0Gasly
\nAlpine
\n+1.802s
\n29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull returned to the top of the timesheets in FP2 in Mexico City. Image: XPB Images Max…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,825,139444,7499,85],"class_list":["post-238661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-max-verstappen","tag-mexico-city-gp","tag-slot4","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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