The Formula 1 world champion, Max Verstappen (Red Bull), starts this Sunday from pole position at the Mexican Grand Prix, which takes place at the Hermanos Rodríguez racetrack in the Mexican capital and which sees the Mercedes drivers lurking. It will be from 5pm (Argentine time), with television from Fox Sport and Star +.
In a packed Foro Sol, the Mexicans vibrated on Saturday with the date 20 classification of a Formula 1 that already has its champion among the drivers and also among the constructors. For every grandstand Checo Pérez passed, the audience shouted, eager for a Mexican to win his country’s Grand Prix for the first time in 24 hours, even if this edition won’t be easy either.
Verstappen will start from first place followed by the British George Russell (Mercedes) and further behind the seven-time world champion, also English Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes). The race will be 71 laps around the 4,304 meter circuit.
Checo Pérez (Red Bull) finished fourth and Spaniard Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) finished fifth.
Sixth the Finnish Valtteri Bottas (Alfa Romeo), seventh the Monegasque Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), eighth the British Lando Norris (McLaren); Spaniard Fernando Alonso (Alpine) finished ninth and Frenchman Esteban Ocon (Alpine) completed the top ten.
Main positions in the drivers’ championship: Verstappen 391 points (champion); Leclerc 267; Perez 265; Russell 218; Sainz 202; Hamilton 198; Norris 109; Ocon 78; Indeed 71; Barrels 46.
Source: Clarin
