{"id":901165,"date":"2026-10-31T15:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T15:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/901165\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T15:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T15:06:15","slug":"lewis-hamilton-praying-for-ferrari-power-unit-after-mexico-fp2-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/901165\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton “praying” for Ferrari power unit after Mexico FP2 failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lewis Hamilton<\/a> has been left \u201cpraying\u201d for his Ferrari<\/a> power unit after it caused an early retirement in second practice for the Formula 1 Mexico Grand\u00a0Prix.<\/p>\n

The seven-time world champion suddenly lost power down the start-finish straight after 28 minutes<\/a>, leading to him stopping at the exit of Turn 3 at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.<\/p>\n

Hamilton was enjoying a competitive FP2 until then as he was quickest on the hard tyre and sat amongst the top five, before eventually dropping to 11th in the final leaderboard.<\/p>\n

But it was still a positive day for the Scuderia, as Hamilton\u2019s team-mate Charles Leclerc<\/a> topped both Friday practice sessions heading into FP3 and qualifying on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was feeling really good in the car,\u201d said Hamilton. \u201cIt’s just my luck. We did a really good job in getting the set-up in a better place and yeah, it’s just really unfortunate.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we’re really competitive this weekend as a team and then didn’t get to do the long run. So I have no idea how, but I know it’s really hard to overtake here.\u00a0As you saw some people out there.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo they’re still investigating to find out what was wrong and just praying that everything’s OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Lewis <\/p>\n

Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari<\/p>\n

Photo by: Daniel Cardenas \/ Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The 41-year-old reckons the engine failure has left him on the \u201cback foot\u201d because he spent the first half of FP1 with an aero rake on his SF-26, completing just 25 laps.<\/p>\n

But many others also had a slow start to Friday as 10 \u2018rookies\u2019 contested opening practice, with Ferrari being the only team that didn\u2019t field a young driver.<\/p>\n

\u201cI missed a little bit of time in FP1 because we did the rake running,\u201d added Hamilton.<\/p>\n

\u201cNormally I would have one of the young drivers do FP1 at this track like most people did. But I opted to do it somewhere else.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo basically I’ve only really had one session, because I missed pretty much at least half of that session. So, I mean, I don’t really know where we would sit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t think I need to make many changes to the set-up. I probably want the same because we were very quick.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I already had a loss of power earlier on in the lap and we’re still quick. So, yeah, I’ll give it everything tomorrow and just try to do the best with whatever I have.<\/p>\n

“But it obviously feels like we could be close to competing for the front row.\u201d<\/p>\n

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