Lewis Hamilton is on his first free practice GP of Mexico drove the best lap time. The five-time world champion is on the racetrack track Hermanos Rodriguez Autodrome drove away in time 1: 17.327 minutes - with a soft rubber compound - and thus left behind tightly Charles Leclerc, who, however, did not use a soft mixture in his first workout. Monachan lagged behind the British a good tenth of a second (+ 0,119).
Otherwise during training it rained more, but there was a track at the beginning still wet, so the racers first went to the track on intermediates gum. After a few laps, however, the track was dry enough that they could change their race cars into dry track tires.
As said Hamilton, which can this weekend yet he becomes world champion for the sixth time, took his best time at soft mixtures, Leclerc so on medium. Something thousandths behind Leclerc, he landed third today Max Verstappen, who also spent his time at soft mixtures tires.
Za Verstappen but it has already arisen a bigger difference from half a second. His teammate Alexander albon was fourth, lagging behind Hamilton a good six tenths seconds, fifth Valtteri Bottas just under seven tenths, sixth Sebastian Vettel - also only on the middle mixture - but less than nine tenths of a second. Seventh place and "The Bes tof the Rest”Belonged Carlos Sainz, which is already more than a second behind. Pierre Gasly (+1,266) in Daniil Kvyat (+1,508) took eighth and ninth place, rounding out ten Antonio Giovinazzi (+ 1,632).
Od eleventh place onwards however, the racers were classified as follows: Nico Hülkenberg, Kevin Magnussen, Kimi Raikkonen, Lando Norris, Daniel Ricciardo, Lance Stroll, Sergio Perez, Romain Grosjean, Geroge Russell, and Nicholas Latifi - the latter raced instead in the first practice Roberta Kubica.
Of course it was a few incidents, which are also associated with altitude, where racers due sparse air they thrust with less thrust to the ground. In view of this, there were many braking errors, which led to driving on the grass, as well as some escapes the rear of the race cars.
The latter is the most "escaped" Lance Stroll, which is in the target bend lost control of his car and collided with his left side in protective fence, which made training for ten minutes interrupted. Because it is Stroll returned to the pits himself, the mechanics were able to repair his car before the end of training.
