Oscar Piastri headed McLaren teammate and F1 championship hopeful Lando Norris in closing follow on the Mexico Metropolis Grand Prix.
Piastri led a McLaren 1-2 within the closing hour of operating earlier than qualifying on the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez circuit by lapping simply 0.059 seconds sooner than his teammate on delicate tyres, with Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz third, 0.340s again.
After branding his Friday as “ineffective” having encountered engine points which promoted Crimson Bull to make a penalty-free change on his automotive, Max Verstappen had a greater begin to Saturday, setting the fourth-fastest time, some half a second adrift of Piastri.
Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton was fifth, 0.568s off the tempo, and forward of future Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc in sixth.
Yuki Tsunoda continued RB’s encouraging begin to the weekend by ending seventh, forward of George Russell’s Mercedes and Kevin Magnussen’s Haas.
Liam Lawson survived a spin popping out of the stadium part to finish the top-10 forward of Alex Albon, who returned to motion for Williams having sat out of FP2 as a result of harm picked up in his dramatic FP1 crash with Ferrari junior Ollie Bearman.
Residence hero Sergio Perez was solely 14th-fastest, 1.295s off the tempo and 7 tenths adrift of Crimson Bull teammate and world championship chief Verstappen.
