Daniel Ricciardo emerged fastest in a closely-fought battle at the front of the Formula 1 pack in second praꦿctice for the Mexican Grand Prix on Friday afternoon, edging out championship leader Lewis Hamilton by one-tenth of a second.

In a session that ꦗsaw both Hamilton and fell🎉ow title contender Sebastian Vettel both suffer setbacks, Ricciardo was able to stretch the legs of his Red Bull RB13 car to pace the field and throw his hat into the ring for pole on Saturday in qualifying.

Ricciardo turned in a fastest lap time of 1:17.801 to finish 0.131 seconds clear of Hamilton in the final classification, with the Mercedes driver recovering from an early spin at the e▨xit of Turn 11 that cost him track time while his team che🥃cked over his car for damage.

Championship rival Vettel suffered a more peculiar issue when the fire extinguisher in his cockpit burst and began to leak, leaving a white s✅tain across the Ferrari driver's race suit, as well as forcing the team into fitting a replacement for the remainder of the session.

Vettel took P4 overall, one-quarter of a second off Ricciardo's time, slotting in behind Max Verstappen, whose session was ended early with a repor♐ted engine problem in the secon💧d Red Bull.

Kimiꦫ Raikkonen finished fifth-fastest for Ferrari ahead of fellow Finn Valtteri Bottas, who wound up sixth despite being less than half a second shy of Ricciardo's ꧃time at the front.

The setbacks for Hamilton, Vettel and ꦑVerstappen were not the only major incidents in the session, with a red flag being shown early on after Romain Grosj📖ean suffered a tyre failure on his Haas car, leaving debris across the track.

Stoffel Vandoorne also hit trouble in his McLaren when trying toಞ head out on-track early, but recovered to get out and finish P15, wi🎀th teammate Fernando Alonso enjoying a less stressful run to seventh place at the head of the midfield.

Seꦰrgio Perez took P8 for Force India ahead of Renault's Nico Hulkenberg, while Esteban Oco🗹n rounded out the top 10.