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2021 Mexico City Grand Prix Index

Welcome to our index page of the 2021 Mexico City Grand Prix. From here you will be able to find links to all our reports, pictures and results from Mexico.

Session Reports

FP1: Bottas and Hamilton top FP1 for Mercedes in Mexico City

FP2: Verstappen way in front in clear air for Mexico City second practice

FP3: Perez and Verstappen top final practice in Mexico City

Qualifying: Bottas and Hamilton pull off qualifying upset in Mexico

Race: Crushing victory for Verstappen in Mexico City GP

Photos

Gallery: All the pictures from Thursday's build-up in Mexico

Gallery: All the pictures from practice day in Mexico

Gallery: All the pictures from qualifying day in Mexico

Gallery: All the pictures from race day in Mexico

Results

Free Practice 1 results

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1:18.341s		28
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:18.417s	+ 0.076s	24
3	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	1:18.464s	+ 0.123s	28
4	Sergio Pérez	Red Bull	1:18.610s	+ 0.269s	20
5	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	1:18.985s	+ 0.644s	23
6	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	1:19.463s	+ 1.122s	26
7	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	1:19.656s	+ 1.315s	26
8	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1:19.667s	+ 1.326s	20
9	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	1:19.759s	+ 1.418s	20
10	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	1:19.858s	+ 1.517s	27
11	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	1:20.011s	+ 1.670s	30
12	Kimi Räikkönen	Alfa Romeo	1:20.026s	+ 1.685s	26
13	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	1:20.030s	+ 1.689s	27
14	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	1:20.273s	+ 1.932s	25
15	Lando Norris	McLaren	1:20.301s	+ 1.960s	26
16	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo	1:20.344s	+ 2.003s	27
17	George Russell	Williams	1:20.517s	+ 2.176s	23
18	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	1:21.580s	+ 3.239s	23
19	Mick Schumacher	Haas	1:22.144s	+ 3.803s	27
20	Nikita Mazepin	Haas	1:22.819s	+ 4.478s	24

Free Practice 2 results

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	1:17.301s		28
2	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1:17.725s	+ 0.424s	31
3	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:17.810s	+ 0.509s	26
4	Sergio Pérez	Red Bull	1:17.871s	+ 0.570s	26
5	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	1:18.318s	+ 1.017s	29
6	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	1:18.429s	+ 1.128s	29
7	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1:18.605s	+ 1.304s	28
8	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	1:18.644s	+ 1.343s	31
9	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	1:18.681s	+ 1.380s	32
10	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	1:18.732s	+ 1.431s	27
11	Kimi Räikkönen	Alfa Romeo	1:18.841s	+ 1.540s	25
12	Lando Norris	McLaren	1:18.979s	+ 1.678s	27
13	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo	1:19.227s	+ 1.926s	31
14	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	1:19.431s	+ 2.130s	37
15	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	1:19.521s	+ 2.220s	7
16	Mick Schumacher	Haas	1:19.620s	+ 2.319s	30
17	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	1:19.730s	+ 2.429s	36
18	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	1:20.820s	+ 3.519s	17
19	Nikita Mazepin	Haas	1:21.581s	+ 4.280s	28
20	George Russell	Williams			2

Free Practice 3 results

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Sergio Pérez	Red Bull	1:17.024s		15
2	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	1:17.217s	+ 0.193s	12
3	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:17.675s	+ 0.651s	14
4	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1:17.708s	+ 0.684s	17
5	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	1:18.029s	+ 1.005s	20
6	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	1:18.037s	+ 1.013s	25
7	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	1:18.121s	+ 1.097s	15
8	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	1:18.202s	+ 1.178s	18
9	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1:18.213s	+ 1.189s	20
10	Lando Norris	McLaren	1:18.312s	+ 1.288s	16
11	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	1:18.352s	+ 1.328s	20
12	Kimi Räikkönen	Alfa Romeo	1:18.531s	+ 1.507s	22
13	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo	1:18.556s	+ 1.532s	19
14	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	1:18.614s	+ 1.590s	17
15	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	1:18.847s	+ 1.823s	15
16	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	1:18.999s	+ 1.975s	17
17	George Russell	Williams	1:19.211s	+ 2.187s	19
18	Mick Schumacher	Haas	1:19.238s	+ 2.214s	14
19	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	1:19.313s	+ 2.289s	12
20	Nikita Mazepin	Haas	1:20.479s	+ 3.455s	15

Qualifying results

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3
1	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1:16.727s	1:16.864s	1:15.875s
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:17.207s	1:16.474s	1:16.020s
3	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	1:16.788s	1:16.483s	1:16.225s
4	Sergio Pérez	Red Bull	1:17.003s	1:17.055s	1:16.342s
5	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	1:16.908s	1:16.955s	1:16.456s
6	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	1:17.517s	1:17.248s	1:16.761s
7	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	1:17.719s	1:17.092s	1:16.763s
8	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1:16.748s	1:17.034s	1:16.837s
9	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	1:17.330s	1:16.701s	1:17.158s
10	Lando Norris	McLaren	1:17.569s	1:17.473s	1:36.830s
11	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	1:17.502s	1:17.746s
12	Kimi Räikkönen	Alfa Romeo	1:17.606s	1:17.958s
13	George Russell	Williams	1:17.958s	1:18.172s
14	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo	1:17.897s	1:18.290s
15	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	1:18.126s	1:18.405s
16	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	1:18.452s
17	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	1:18.756s
18	Mick Schumacher	Haas	1:18.858s
19	Nikita Mazepin	Haas	1:19.303s
20	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	1:20.873s

Race results

Pos	Driver	Team	Gap	Stops
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	71 laps - 1:38:39.086s	1
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	+ 16.555s	1
3	Sergio Pérez	Red Bull	+ 17.752s	1
4	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	+ 63.845s	1
5	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	+ 81.037s	1
6	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	+ 1 lap	1
7	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	+ 1 lap	1
8	Kimi Räikkönen	Alfa Romeo	+ 1 lap	1
9	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	+ 1 lap	1
10	Lando Norris	McLaren	+ 1 lap	1
11	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo	+ 1 lap	1
12	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	+ 1 lap	2
13	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	+ 1 lap	1
14	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	+ 2 laps	2
15	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	+ 2 laps	4
16	George Russell	Williams	+ 2 laps	1
17	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	+ 2 laps	2
18	Nikita Mazepin	Haas	+ 3 laps	2
	Mick Schumacher	Haas	DNF	0
	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	DNF	0

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