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  1. Team radio - Hamilton to Ferrari

    Hamilton: "The stewards are basically handing Charles this win. We agreed in the drivers meeting."

  2. Hamilton not happy

    Lap 23/71

    The radio is red-hot at Ferrari now. Lewis Hamilton is planed in third place after starting on pole position, and the seven-time world champion flags to his engineer what was discussed in the drivers' briefing, adding the stewards are "handing" his team-mate Charles Leclerc this win.

  3. Marc Priestley
    Former F1 mechanic on Radio 5 Live in Mexico City

    The difficulty that everyone has now got is we are settling into this phase of the race where people are managing tyres, they don't want to pit too early. They want to wait for either somebody to blink before them to open up a gap they can slot into or to run as deep as they can to make the one stop strategy that they think is best work. But, it means that because you are managing tyres, you're managing temperatures of things like brakes and power unit cooling, you don't have the ability to sit very close behind the car for very long before things overheat.

  4. Lap 22/71

    Charles Leclerc of Monaco driving the (16) Scuderia FerrariGetty Images

    Charles Leclerc's lead is growing, which is bad news for polesitter Lewis Hamilton? How should Ferrari handle this situation? Let us know your views using the 'get involved' button on the live page.

    Over at McLaren, Lando Norris is having a strategy chat with his engineer.

  5. Lap 21/71

    Lewis Hamilton has dropped back slightly on Charles Leclerc and now the gap is seven seconds. The Ferrari man is stuck behind the Red Bull of Max Verstappen, making the path to another victory this season a bit difficult.

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    I’m at the circuit in Mexico. Funny to see the crowd start to turn on Charles after that moment.

    Anna, Mexico City

  7. Lap 20/71

    Oliver Bearman spies a chance to pass Gabriel Bortoleto down at Turn One. The Haas driver navigates that long run down and overtakes the Audi for P11.

    Charles Leclerc has a five-second penalty to serve and now he's 4.8 seconds ahead of Max Verstappen thanks to that clean air.

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    Ferrari should do the right thing and hold Charles long enough at the pit stop for Lewis to overtake.

    Tim, Yarm

  9. Damon Hill
    1996 world champion on BBC Radio 5 Live in Mexico City

    The other thing Ferrari are setting up is, if they do this pit stop and Charles Leclerc comes in. They are going to come out almost on top of Lewis Hamilton, at the moment he is six seconds behind, let's say they can make it a plus or minus. So within a second bringing the two guys who have been fighting like mad men over their position out onto the track together.

  10. Lap 19/71

    There a few driver starting to make pit stops now, including Alex Albon, who is called in by Williams to fit some soft tyres.

    Kimi Antonelli is fourth at the moment and will become world champion - the youngest-ever in Formula 1 - if it stays like this.

  11. Top five

    Lap 18/71

    1. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) - five-second penalty

    2. Max Verstappen (Red Bull)

    3. Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari)

    4. Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes)

    5. George Russell (Mercedes) - 10-second penalty

  12. Team radio - Ferrari to Hamilton

    Engineer: "Charles got a five-second penalty."

    Hamilton: "Five-second penalty? He's got clean air and doesn't have to manage like the rest of us."

  13. Lap 17/71

    Lando Norris is stuck behind George Russell in sixth, trying to chase down the Mercedes, but with nowhere to go at the moment. Oscar Piastri is one place lower than his world champion team-mate in seventh, in recovery mode after starting outside the points.

  14. Lap 16/71

    Arvid Lindblad of Great Britain driving the Racing Bulls VCARB 03 RB Ford leads Franco Colapinto of ArgentinaGetty Images

    Arvid Lindblad, Franco Colapinto and Audi's Nico Hulkenberg are sitting in the final points places in eighth, ninth and 10th respectively.

    George Russell is still in fifth place with Lando Norris behind, but the Mercedes man has a 10-second penalty hanging over his cockpit.

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    I could trundle round in my Skoda and be more successful than Aston Martin

    Jasper, Verwood

  16. Lap 15/71

    Lewis Hamilton is informed of his team-mate's punishment, but the seven-time world champion thinks Charles Leclerc should've have been to give the place back, as now he's zooming along in clean air out in front.

  17. Damon Hill
    1996 world champion on BBC Radio 5 Live in Mexico City

    [Charles Leclerc] has to go long. Basically he has to wait for everyone to do their stops before he comes in to do his one.

  18. Lap 14/71

    The advantage Charles Leclerc holds over second place Max Verstappen is three seconds while his gap to Ferrari team-mate Lewis Hamilton in third is 5.7 seconds.

    The Monegasque driver will be serving his penalty when he comes in to pit.

  19. Damon Hill
    1996 world champion on BBC Radio 5 Live in Mexico City

    Charles is comfortably in the lead but I saw him going into Turn One and he had a bit of a drift going into Turn One as he put the lock on, we will be wanting to see how long his tyres are going to last. They should have a good few laps in them. When you have used tyres they don't seem to fire up quite as quickly as the new tyres.

  20. Five-second time penalty for Leclerc

    Lap 13/71

    The stewards have delivered their verdict, and it's a five-second time penalty for Charles Leclerc for leaving the track and gaining an advantage.

    George Russell was also under the spotlight for his contact with Isack Hadjar. The stewards' decision on that one is a 10-second penalty for the Mercedes man for causing a collision.

    Leclerc leads, Russell is in fifth.