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Formula 1 Mexico City Grand Prix 2025 - Race Weekend Discussion
Mexico City Grand Prix
Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez
October 24-26, 2025
Qualifying Results -- SPOILER
| Pos. | No. | Driver | Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 1:16.899 | 1:16.252 | 1:15.586 | 21 |
| 2 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 1:17.024 | 1:16.658 | 1:15.848 | 20 |
| 3 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Ferrari | 1:16.736 | 1:16.458 | 1:15.938 | 21 |
| 4 | 63 | George Russell | Mercedes | 1:16.895 | 1:16.537 | 1:16.034 | 18 |
| 5 | 1 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | 1:17.076 | 1:16.605 | 1:16.070 | 18 |
| 6 | 12 | Kimi Antonelli | Mercedes | 1:17.291 | 1:16.773 | 1:16.118 | 18 |
| 7 | 55 | Carlos Sainz | Williams | 1:17.171 | 1:16.607 | 1:16.172 | 18 |
| 8 | 81 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 1:17.158 | 1:16.737 | 1:16.174 | 20 |
| 9 | 6 | Isack Hadjar | Racing Bulls | 1:16.733 | 1:16.804 | 1:16.252 | 18 |
| 10 | 87 | Oliver Bearman | Haas F1 Team | 1:17.040 | 1:16.787 | 1:16.460 | 21 |
| 11 | 22 | Yuki Tsunoda | Red Bull Racing | 1:17.234 | 1:16.816 | 12 | |
| 12 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | Haas F1 Team | 1:16.948 | 1:16.837 | 15 | |
| 13 | 27 | Nico Hulkenberg | Kick Sauber | 1:17.251 | 1:17.016 | 15 | |
| 14 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 1:17.232 | 1:17.103 | 15 | |
| 15 | 30 | Liam Lawson | Racing Bulls | 1:16.961 | 1:18.072 | 13 | |
| 16 | 5 | Gabriel Bortoleto | Kick Sauber | 1:17.412 | 9 | ||
| 17 | 23 | Alexander Albon | Williams | 1:17.490 | 9 | ||
| 18 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 1:17.546 | 9 | ||
| 19 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 1:17.606 | 9 | ||
| 20 | 43 | Franco Colapinto | Alpine | 1:17.670 | 8 |
Source: F1.com
Grand Prix Results -- SPOILER
| Pos. | No. | Driver | Team | Laps | Time / Retired | Pts. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 71 | 1:37:58.574 | 25 |
| 2 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 71 | +30.324s | 18 |
| 3 | 1 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | 71 | +31.049s | 15 |
| 4 | 87 | Oliver Bearman | Haas F1 Team | 71 | +40.955s | 12 |
| 5 | 81 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 71 | +42.065s | 10 |
| 6 | 12 | Kimi Antonelli | Mercedes | 71 | +47.837s | 8 |
| 7 | 63 | George Russell | Mercedes | 71 | +50.287s | 6 |
| 8 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Ferrari | 71 | +56.446s | 4 |
| 9 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | Haas F1 Team | 71 | +75.464s | 2 |
| 10 | 5 | Gabriel Bortoleto | Kick Sauber | 71 | +76.863s | 1 |
| 11 | 22 | Yuki Tsunoda | Red Bull Racing | 71 | +79.048s | 0 |
| 12 | 23 | Alexander Albon | Williams | 70 | +1 lap | 0 |
| 13 | 6 | Isack Hadjar | Racing Bulls | 70 | +1 lap | 0 |
| 14 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 70 | +1 lap | 0 |
| 15 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 70 | +1 lap | 0 |
| 16 | 43 | Franco Colapinto | Alpine | 70 | +1 lap | 0 |
| 17 | 55 | Carlos Sainz | Williams | 67 | DNF | 0 |
| NC | 14 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 34 | DNF | 0 |
| NC | 27 | Nico Hulkenberg | Kick Sauber | 25 | DNF | 0 |
| NC | 30 | Liam Lawson | Racing Bulls | 5 | DNF | 0 |
Fastest Lap: George Russell // 1:20.052 (lap 50)
DOTD: Oliver Bearman
Source: F1.com
Next race:
Sao Paulo Grand Prix
Autódromo José Carlos Pace
November 7-9, 2025
Oscar's killing me, man. What happened to the locked in Iceman on a consistent campaign to steal away the WDC from his faster, more experienced teammate? I can't watch this happen..
Hamilton too, shame about that penalty. I'm still surprised out of T1, he was the only one who got one (I realize it was because he failed to go through the escape road properly, but still.. considering Verstappen and Leclerc's other moves..)
Good to see Leclerc on the podium again! And the Mago del motor, Oliver Bearman with a P4! Love to see it. He's a great driver.
Re. Hamilton's woes, I thought that his penalty was ultimately because of the advantage he pulled by going off track, not for the failure to follow the escape road. But it was such a mess that I'm not at all sure of that.
I also can't quite believe he was the only one to be penalised of all those drivers pulling sketchy moves. I feel like he used up all his luck in his championship-winning years, because in the last few years, he's just not been #blessed. Verstappen just has blackmail material on every steward, I reckon - he's somehow totally untouchable in any serious way. I love the guy's focus/ruthlessness, but I hate how poor he is at hard-but-fair wheel-to-wheel racing. He's purely hard, not fair.
The commentators were saying that if he had backed off and ceded the advantage, that the stewards probably wouldn’t penalize him
As it was, yeah the penalty probably has more to do with the advantage than the escape road itself
It seems like all of Piastri's problems have stemmed from qualifying the past 4 races.
Baku - crashes in qualifying, crashes in lap 1
Singapore - Qualifies P3, decent result
Austin - Qualifies P6 while Lando is P2
Mexico - Qualifies P8 while Lando is P1
Which is so bizarre given how insanely consistent he's been this year in qualifying. Even if he Qualifies 1-2 places behind Lando all of those races, he'd probably still be leading the championship.
Hopefully he can get it back together, I'd love to see this battle go down to the wire.
That was a wild race. My eyes were glued to the screen, watching the timing tower, trying to see if Oscar would get into the DRS windows on Ollie Bearman, and if Max would get in DRS on Charles. It's been awhile since I've watched an F1 race like that.
And then it was all ruined by a confusing VSC call. Like what? But...there might've been good reason for that: Marshals were technically on track. And there was also this incident with marshals on the track, reported by Lawson really early in the race. That's unacceptable.
Either way, great race by Lando, Charles, Max, Ollie, George, Kimi...Pretty much everyone seemed to have to fight or defend hard today. At one point, even Yuki was holding back Oscar! And was glad to see Oscar show a flash of "old Oscar" on the pass on George, I think it was. I need more of that please, Oscar.
The video of marshals scampering out of Lawson's way was mind-boggling. I don't know who's responsibility that sort of incident is, but they need a bollocking.
Oscar's Q2 was a bit dicey. Was in the drop zone, but on his final lap, did make it to into Q3 with P7. Still significantly down on Lando and Max.
But in the end, Lando killed it in Q3. As did the Ferraris. Max was not having a good time out there it seemed, and ended P5. Oscar was even worse at P8. Though with Carlos' 5-place grid penalty from last weekend, Oscar moves up to starting P7. Regardless, what's going on with this guy?
Obviously who knows what might happen tomorrow during the race, but assuming Lando's pole position holds through the race, this could turn out be a season-defining race for Lando. And maybe one for Max, too, but for a different reason.
Though to be fair, no one thought Max really had a chance at the WDC this year against the McLaren boys until recently. Still, I'd love to see a situation like 2021 where it comes down to the wire. Imagine a three-way battle at Abu Dhabi...God, the scenes alone...
yeaahhhhhhh Ferrari! That's it for now... purely because that's all that matters in life.
I feel for Oscar. Lando put in a killer lap. I really rear that Oscar has the yips to some extent. He just can't seem to put it together.
my picks / result
* weekly bet is 'First driver to get eyefucked by F1TV' --- its always Sharl.
As a super casual fan, when I saw it on the schedule yesterday I wanted to watch the race, but I only woke up from a nap in time to catch the drivers heading to the podium. So then I tried to watch highlights on Youtube, but the official F1 channel is geoblocking me, ESPN F1's highlights aren't HD so will look blurry on my screen, and then one other channel that's dodging copyright strikes by skipping the video ahead every 2.5 seconds. It shouldn't be this difficult 😑
Caught a glimpse of Evander Holyfield though, cool to see him there.
Sounds like you had a very typical F1 TV viewing experience, lol, sorry about that. But no worries, everything will change soon, instead of F1 geoblocking you, it'll be Apple. This is what progress looks like.
Yeah it's so frustrating how hard it can be to watch things as a casual fan. I watch Formula E here and there and more than once, I've had to spend like an hour before a race hunting down legal or even gray area/illegal avenues to find it. Sometimes I've missed the races altogether. And that's a series that probably NEEDS viewership; wishes it had anything close to F1's viewership! Not sure why they make it impossible to watch. Though at least in the US, they finally wizened up and made it easy this past season: free to watch on Roku's website.
And yeah, good luck watching it after the fact. For Formula 1, I have F1TV so I can watch replays on-demand. But without it, I'd have no clue where to go. The pirated streams sites are just that: streaming sites. I've never seen them have an archive of past events, whether F1, IndyCar, Formula E, other sports, etc.