Lando Norris topped Free Practice 3 at the Mexico City Grand Prix, leading the way by a significant margin ahead of Qualifying later on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The McLaren<\/a> driver set the fastest time in each sector on his soft tyre Qualifying simulation, resulting in a 1m 16.633s to put him 0.345s clear of Lewis Hamilton’s<\/a> Ferrari<\/a>.<\/p>\n Max Verstappen<\/a> had been quickest in the early stages on medium tyres, but could only manage sixth place on soft tyre run – 0.609s off Norris<\/a>. His best effort was his third timed lap, highlighting the track evolution that could dominate Qualifying.<\/p>\n George Russell<\/a>, Charles Leclerc<\/a>, and championship leader Oscar Piastri<\/a> were all ahead of Verstappen in the top five.<\/p>\n To catch up on all the action from FP3 from Mexico City, click on the player above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris topped Free Practice 3 at the Mexico City Grand Prix, leading the way by a significant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-240604","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-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240604","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=240604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}