2024 F1 Mexico City Grand Prix - Friday Practice Results

Full results from Friday practice at the Mexico City Grand Prix, Round 20 of the 202⛎4 F1 world championship.

26 Oct 2024

The results from Friday prac⛎tice for the Mexico City Grand Prix:

Practice 2

2024 F1 Mexico City Grand Prix - Free Practice Results (2)
Pos	Driver	Nat.	Team	Time
1	Carlos Sainz	ESP	Scuderia Ferrari	1m17.699s
2	Oscar Piastri	AUS	McLaren F1 Team	1m17.877s
3	Yuki Tsunoda	JPN	Visa Cash App RB F1 Team	1m17.878s
4	Charles Leclerc	MON	Scuderia Ferrari	1m17.887s
5	Lando Norris	GBR	McLaren F1 Team	1m17.948s
6	Kevin Magnussen	DEN	MoneyGram Haas F1 Team	1m18.239s
7	Lewis Hamilton	GBR	Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	1m18.279s
8	Valtteri Bottas	FIN	Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber	1m18.351s
9	Sergio Perez	MEX	Oracle Red Bull Racing	1m18.392s
10	Liam Lawson	NZL	Visa Cash App RB F1 Team	1m18.560s
11	Fernando Alonso	ESP	Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team	1m18.579s
12	Nico Hulkenberg	GER	MoneyGram Haas F1 Team	1m18.621s
13	Esteban Ocon	FRA	BWT Alpine F1 Team	1m18.656s
14	Lance Stroll	CAN	Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team	1m18.890s
15	Franco Colapinto	ARG	Williams Racing	1m18.908s
16	Pierre Gasly	FRA	BWT Alpine F1 Team	1m18.942s
17	Zhou Guanyu	CHN	Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber	1m18.980s
18	George Russell	GBR	Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	1m19.041s
19	Max Verstappen	NED	Oracle Red Bull Racing	No Time Set
20	Alex Albon	THA	Williams Racing	No Time Set

Carlos Sainz set the pace in second practice for the F1 M🎃exico City Grand Prix.

The session was ex🍌tended by 30 mi🐻nutes, allowing all the teams to test Pirelli's tyres for next year.

This♛ meant the session wasꦿ fairly unrepresentative pace-wise.

🌃Max Verstapp𒁏en lost out on some running due to a PU issue.

2024 F1 Mexico City Grand Prix - Free Practice Results (1)
Pos	Driver	Nat.	Team	Time
1	George Russell	GBR	Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	1m17.998s
2	Carlos Sainz	ESP	Scuderia Ferrari	1m18.315s
3	Yuki Tsunoda	JPN	Visa Cash App RB F1 Team	1m18.699s
4	Max Verstappen	NED	Oracle Red Bull Racing	1m18.839s
5	Nico Hulkenberg	GER	MoneyGram Haas F1 Team	1m18.904s
6	Oscar Piastri	AUS	McLaren F1 Team	1m18.958s
7	Esteban Ocon	FRA	BWT Alpine F1 Team	1m18.996s
8	Valtteri Bottas	FIN	Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber	1m19.048s
9	Liam Lawson	NZL	Visa Cash App RB F1 Team	1m19.093s
10	Sergio Perez	MEX	Oracle Red Bull Racing	1m19.094s
11	Franco Colapinto	ARG	Williams Racing	1m19.109s
12	Andrea Kimi Antonelli	ITA	Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	1m19.200s
13	Pato O'Ward	MEX	McLaren F1 Team	1m19.295s
14	Kevin Magnussen	DEN	MoneyGram Haas F1 Team	1m19.335s
15	Pierre Gasly	FRA	BWT Alpine F1 Team	1m19.340s
16	Lance Stroll	CAN	Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team	1m19.600s
17	Alex Albon	THA	Williams Racing	1m19.812s
18	Felipe Drugovich	BRA	Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team	1m19.819s
19	Robert Shwartzman	ISR	Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber	1m19.988s
20	Oliver Bearman	GBR	Scuderia Ferrari	1m21.256s

ꦜGeorge Russell led꧙ the way in first practice for the Mexico City Grand Prix, 0.3s ahead of Sainz.

It was a hectic first hour𒅌 of practice with two red flags.

The first w🐼as caused by a piece of debris on the start-finish straight, while the second was more dramatic.

Alex Albon lost control of his Williams when coming up behind Oliver Bearman, causing a coll♑ision in the proc꧟ess.