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As Kimi Antonelli bids to become F1's youngest world champion, veteran Lewis Hamilton rolled back the years to take his first Ferrari pole.

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The Meisterstuck Great Masters Ferrari Tailor Made Inedita Special Edition is for sale for $4,300 in the United States. If you would rather not deal with the messy reloading of such a pen ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen qualified fourth for the Formula 1 Mexico City Grand Prix, but will have to drop one place on the starting grid, meaning he will start from the third row. The reason is remarkable, to say the least: contact with Liam Lawson - two drivers from the Red Bull teams during the second free practice session.
Verstappen was rather outspoken in the media pen on Friday, saying, among other ...Keep reading

Charles Leclerc doubts there will be any overtaking in the Mexican Grand Prix, warning the race order will likely be set in the first few corners at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.
The Ferrari driver topped both of Friday's practice sessions but had to settle for third on the grid. His team-mate and seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton claimed his first pole position with the Maranello outfit ...Keep reading

Kimi Antonelli is hoping to overcome an off-colour Mexico City Grand Prix qualifying session with a good night's rest, but admits Formula 1 title nerves have led to him driving with unwanted tension.
The Italian was just 0.001s slower than Lando Norris' FP3 headliner earlier in the day, but in qualifying had been half a step behind Mercedes team-mate George Russell and unable to find the right ...Keep reading

George Russell believes an extra lap of fuel cost him pole position for the Mexican Grand Prix after he missed out to his former team-mate and seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton by just 0.009 seconds.
The Mercedes driver will start alongside Hamilton on the front row, with Charles Leclerc in third. Russell explained that his rivals had not done preparation laps on their final Q3 runs, while ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton can finally say he has scored pole position for three different teams after a blistering lap today gave him pole for tomorrow's Mexico City Grand Prix - his first grand prix pole for Ferrari. The seven-time champion says it took him back to watching Michael Schumacher dominate with the Italian team.
Hamilton beat his former team-mate George Russell by just 0.009 seconds, with ...Keep reading

Esteban Ocon denies reports that his being dropped by Haas at the Mexico City Grand Prix was a consequence of a row with team principal Ayao Komatsu descending into a physical confrontation.

Isack Hadjar has hit back at the paddock guest he pushed away at the Mexican Grand Prix, insisting that "it's not a reality show".
The Red Bull driver was summoned to the stewards on Saturday morning after footage on social media showed him shoving a man who was trying to take a selfie with him in the paddock.
The stewards found that Hadjar had breached the International Sporting Code, but ...Keep reading

Haas stand-in Ryo Hirakawa believes he'd have "easily" reached the second part of qualifying for the Mexico City Grand Prix, had he not encountered traffic on his final lap of the session.
Hirakawa, making his Formula 1 debut with Haas as Esteban Ocon was stood down from his driving duties, had set a personal-best first sector and was angling to make the Q3 cut at the expense of Carlos ...Keep reading

Carson Kvapil earned a big win at Martinsville on Saturday, keeping his title hopes alive as JR Motorsports teammate Justin Allgaier finished second and took over the championship lead.
Behind the JRM 1-2, Corey Day finished third, Brandon Jones fourth, and Sam Mayer fifth. Sheldon Creed, Sammy Smith, William Sawalich, Brent Crews, and Taylor Gray filled out the rest of the top ten.
"I knew ...Keep reading

Formula 1 heads into Sunday in Mexico City with Lewis Hamilton on pole and Kimi Antonelli only one result away from becoming world champion.
Hamilton leads George Russell and Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc on the grid, while Antonelli will start fourth after Max Verstappen one-place grid penalty.
Antonelli needs only to finish ninth or higher to clinch his first Formula 1 world ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen rued being unable to log his final run of Mexico City Grand Prix qualifying, stating that his lap was "up there for pole" before encountering Lando Norris in the final sector.
The four-time champion was almost a tenth up on the lap of eventual poleman Lewis Hamilton at the close of the second sector, having found a purple opening sector and then matching Hamilton in the second ...Keep reading

Dropped Haas Formula 1 driver Esteban Ocon has denied French media rumours of a physical altercation with team boss Ayao Komatsu as he issued his response to missing this weekend's Mexico Grand Prix.
Ocon was benched in Mexico, most likely connected to a public disagreement with his race engineer during free practice. That led to a discussion with the team on Friday night as the relationship ...Keep reading

Seven-time Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton admitted he was "lost for words" after claiming his first grand prix pole position for Ferrari at the Mexican Grand Prix.
The Briton beat his former Mercedes team-mate George Russell by just 0.009 seconds to end a three-year wait for a grand prix pole position. It is the 105th pole of Hamilton's career, extending his own F1 record, and his first ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton has ended a three-year pole position drought in Qualifying at the Mexico City Grand Prix.

Live coverage of the Formula 1 Qualifying session for the 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix.

On the site of two of his seven world championship celebrations, Lewis Hamilton added yet another chapter to his illustrious Formula 1 career and his fond Mexico memory bank, one that was long overdue.
Hamilton broke Ferrari's pole drought by earning the Scuderia its first pole of 2026, and in the process also secured his first one in red, his first pole since the 2023 Hungarian Grand Prix. In ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton takes his first pole position for Ferrari and his first for more than three years at the Mexico City Grand Prix.

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Kimi ...Keep reading