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Lorraine McKenna

  1. And now Isack Hadjar is under investigation for crossing the line at the pit entry. It's not been the red Bull driver's day.

    Right then. Who is your pick for pole? Is Charles Leclerc keeping hold it, or can someone else mount a challenge?

  2. Isack Hadjar ran his Red Bull very wide at Turn 13 following a lock-up on his Q3 lap, so the Frenchman bailed his attempt and is without a time to his name.

  3. Top 10 after first runs in Q3

    1, Charles Leclerc

    2, Max Verstappen

    3. Lando Norris

    4. Lewis Hamilton

    5. George Russell

    6. Pierre Gasly

    7. Kimi Antonelli

    8. Liam Lawson

    9. Arvid Lindblad

    10. Isack Hadjar

  4. Verstappen beats Norris' time

    The front row gets demoted to the second for Lando Norris, as Max Verstappen puts down a lap time of 1:16.692 to slip into P2 on these opening runs in Q3.

    Verstappen had a decent final sector, and is 0.045 seconds off Charles Leclerc marker. But the Dutchman has that one-place grid penalty for his contact with Racing Bulls' Liam Lawson yesterday.

  5. Norris on the front row

    Lando Norris puts his McLaren on the front row, but the world champion is is 0.177 seconds behind provisional polesitter Charles Leclerc.

  6. Leclerc goes quickest

    Lewis Hamilton just makes a little mistake in the middle sector which stops him going quickest on his first push lap. The other Ferrari of Charles Leclerc gets round fine, and goes top of the timesheets with a 1:16.647.

    George Russell's attempt is good enough for the second row in P3, while Kimi Antonelli can only manage fourth with his opening time.

  7. So, who made it through to Q3? The big dogs are all there, minus one of the McLarens, and are joined by the two Racing Bulls of Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad, plus the Alpine of Pierre Gasly.

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

    Pole position is not everything, but everyone still wants it.

    Track temperature is tumbling at an extraordinary rate. It is a real factor here and they will all have to adapt. It will change the way these cars behave.

  9. Go! Go! Go!

    This might be a tough one to predict tonight. Pole position feels wide open at the moment.

    Here we go then.

    Q3 is green.

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    I’m no Ferrari fan but they could have been right in this title fight if they had just got the engine right this year. They just seem to fall short in quali and the races. Can they sort it for 2027?

    Lee, Bristol

  11. "Oh my god, I'm so sorry!" says Haas driver Ollie Bearman when told he has failed to reach the top-10 shootout and will start P15.

    That was odd session for McLaren. While world champion Lando Norris topped the times ahead of four-time title winner Max Verstappen, Oscar Piastri has been left bewildered as to how he's ended up out of the pole fight in Mexico.

  12. 'A real shock'

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

    Wow that is a real shock and Piastri will be bitterly disappointed when he has seen what his team-mate has done.

    The track temperature has dropped dramatically. I think the McLaren is really susceptible to that and I suspect they lost their way in dialling into the conditions.

    Piastri will find it very hard from down there running into turn one tomorrow.

  13. Out in Q2

    11. Nico Hulkenberg (Audi)

    12. Franco Colapinto (Alpine)

    13. Oscar Piastri (McLaren)

    14. Gabriel Bortoleto (Audi)

    15. Oliver Bearman (Haas)

    16. Carlos Sainz (Williams)

  14. Piastri knocked out

    Nico Hulkenberg can only go ninth on the board, which now becomes P10 with Pierre Gasly's better lap time.

    Brit Oliver Bearman can save himself this weekend, but can McLaren's Oscar Piastri?

    No! The Australian gets the boot in Q2 in P13. He tells his pit wall he doesn't know what happened.

  15. Hamilton up to P3

    With the form of Ferrari so far this weekend, a Q2 knockout wasn’t really on the cards. Lewis Hamilton's latest lap on the softs is good enough for P3 on the timesheets, which pushes Oscar Piastri down into the danger spots in P11.

  16. Rookie Arvid Lindblad reaches the heights of P3 for Racing Bulls, but he has to make way for reigning world champion Lando Norris, who can better his time by a tenth.

    Norris' team-mate Oscar Piastri is on the cusp in 10th place and preparing for his lap, as Lewis Hamilton slips down to the bottom of the pile in P16.

  17. Drop zone

    11. Gabriel Bortoleto

    12. Oliver Bearman

    13. Franco Colapinto

    14. Lando Norris

    15. Lewis Hamilton

    16. Carlos Sainz

  18. Verstappen to the top

    The Red Bull has struggled so this weekend, but could this be the turning point for the team? Max Verstappen completes a good lap and goes 0.068 seconds quicker than the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc. However, the Dutchman does have that one-place drop hanging over him tonight.

    Nico Hulkenberg has lifted his Audi up to P6, while the other Scuderia of Lewis Hamilton is stuck in the elimination zone.

  19. 'I cannot call a clear favourite'

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

    I think it has been a while that we've not had a clear frontrunner to this level anyway. At the moment I don't think I could call anybody to be a clear favourite here. Everyone is going to be so, so close as the session rolls on.

  20. Leclerc quickest

    Charles Leclerc safely makes it through the Turn 13 danger zone and puts his Ferrari quickest with a time of 1:16.944. All drivers are on the soft compound, but it's a mix of old and new across the field.

    Lewis Hamilton's name drops down the order, as his twitch on his previous lap means his lap time has been deleted for exceeding track limits.