{"id":6677,"date":"2018-10-27T13:09:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T17:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=6677"},"modified":"2018-10-27T13:09:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T17:09:18","slug":"mexican-gp-max-verstappen-heads-into-qualifying-with-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2018\/10\/27\/mexican-gp-max-verstappen-heads-into-qualifying-with-confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican GP – Max Verstappen Heads Into Qualifying With Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Max Verstappen<\/strong> finished ahead of everyone else for the third time this weekend before Qualifying kicks off. Only putting in nine laps in the whole session, Verstappen clocked a 1:16.284s lap to put himself at the top. Second to him was Lewis Hamilton<\/strong> who finished with a lap +0.254s slower. Most cars ran Hypersoft<\/strong> tyres late in the session, with some donning the green Intermediates<\/strong> to deal with the wet track.<\/span><\/p>\n

Verstappen Does Fastest FP3 Lap Before Qualifying<\/h1>\n

Early Session Weather<\/h2>\n

The track didn\u2019t see a whole lot of action due to the track drying up from rain previously in the day. Most cars did not put in a time until over halfway through the session. Teams were aware of a possible thunderstorm in the area coming. Pierre Gasly<\/strong> communicated to his team early on that on the track there was \u201cA lot of dry patches but at the same time some corners are really wet.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Concerns for Bottas and Verstappen<\/h2>\n

With 15 minute to go in the session Valtteri Bottas<\/strong> parked his Mercedes car in sector three with fumes coming from the back of the car. It was found out through his team radio that there was a hydraulic failure. With two minutes left in the session Red Bull\u2019s Max Verstappen expressed concern about his car, saying \u201cmy battery is not charging\u201d.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

With Qualifying Coming Up<\/h2>\n

Qualifying is starting shortly with all eyes on Max Verstappen. If he can pull off his fourth successful session in a row, it would put him in pretty good shape to secure a race win. Lewis Hamilton looks to put on a fair performance Sunday to clinch his World Drivers’ Championship<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Full Timing Sheet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Pos<\/span><\/td>\n#<\/span><\/td>\nDriver<\/span><\/td>\nTeam<\/span><\/td>\nLap Time<\/span><\/td>\nGap<\/span><\/td>\nLaps<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/span><\/td>\n33<\/span><\/td>\nMax Verstappen<\/span><\/td>\nRed Bull Racing<\/span><\/td>\n1:16.284<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n9<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/span><\/td>\n44<\/span><\/td>\nLewis Hamilton<\/span><\/td>\nMercedes<\/span><\/td>\n1:16.538<\/span><\/td>\n+0.254<\/span><\/td>\n9<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/span><\/td>\n5<\/span><\/td>\nSebastian Vettel<\/span><\/td>\nFerrari<\/span><\/td>\n1:16.566<\/span><\/td>\n+0.282<\/span><\/td>\n11<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\nDaniel Ricciardo<\/span><\/td>\nRed Bull Racing<\/span><\/td>\n1:17.028<\/span><\/td>\n+0.744<\/span><\/td>\n7<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/span><\/td>\n7<\/span><\/td>\nKimi Raikkonen<\/span><\/td>\nFerrari<\/span><\/td>\n1:17.045<\/span><\/td>\n+0.761<\/span><\/td>\n16<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/span><\/td>\n16<\/span><\/td>\nCharles Leclerc<\/span><\/td>\nSauber<\/span><\/td>\n1:17.059<\/span><\/td>\n+0.775<\/span><\/td>\n13<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/span><\/td>\n55<\/span><\/td>\nCarlos Sainz<\/span><\/td>\nRenault<\/span><\/td>\n1:17.336<\/span><\/td>\n+1.052<\/span><\/td>\n11<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/span><\/td>\n10<\/span><\/td>\nPierre Gasly<\/span><\/td>\nToro Rosso<\/span><\/td>\n1:17.525<\/span><\/td>\n+1.241<\/span><\/td>\n16<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/span><\/td>\n9<\/span><\/td>\nMarcus Ericsson<\/span><\/td>\nSauber<\/span><\/td>\n1:17.565<\/span><\/td>\n+1.281<\/span><\/td>\n14<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/span><\/td>\n27<\/span><\/td>\nNico Hulkenberg<\/span><\/td>\nRenault<\/span><\/td>\n1:17.623<\/span><\/td>\n+1.339<\/span><\/td>\n10<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/span><\/td>\n31<\/span><\/td>\nEsteban Ocon<\/span><\/td>\nForce India<\/span><\/td>\n1:17.731<\/span><\/td>\n+1.447<\/span><\/td>\n10<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/span><\/td>\n11<\/span><\/td>\nSergio Perez<\/span><\/td>\nForce India<\/span><\/td>\n1:17.819<\/span><\/td>\n+1.535<\/span><\/td>\n10<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/span><\/td>\n8<\/span><\/td>\nRomain Grosjean<\/span><\/td>\nHaas<\/span><\/td>\n1:18.145<\/span><\/td>\n+1.861<\/span><\/td>\n10<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\nStoffel Vandoorne<\/span><\/td>\nMcLaren<\/span><\/td>\n1:18.445<\/span><\/td>\n+2.161<\/span><\/td>\n15<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/span><\/td>\n14<\/span><\/td>\nFernando Alonso<\/span><\/td>\nMcLaren<\/span><\/td>\n1:18.548<\/span><\/td>\n+2.264<\/span><\/td>\n11<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/span><\/td>\n28<\/span><\/td>\nBrendon Hartley<\/span><\/td>\nToro Rosso<\/span><\/td>\n1:18.637<\/span><\/td>\n+2.353<\/span><\/td>\n10<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/span><\/td>\n35<\/span><\/td>\nSergey Sirotkin<\/span><\/td>\nWilliams<\/span><\/td>\n1:18.669<\/span><\/td>\n+2.385<\/span><\/td>\n9<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/span><\/td>\n18<\/span><\/td>\nLance Stroll<\/span><\/td>\nWilliams<\/span><\/td>\n1:18.698<\/span><\/td>\n+2.414<\/span><\/td>\n8<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/span><\/td>\n77<\/span><\/td>\nValtteri Bottas<\/span><\/td>\nMercedes<\/span><\/td>\n1:18.839<\/span><\/td>\n+2.555<\/span><\/td>\n5<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/span><\/td>\n20<\/span><\/td>\nKevin Magnussen<\/span><\/td>\nHaas<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Max Verstappen finished ahead of everyone else for the third time this weekend before Qualifying kicks off. Only putting in nine laps in the whole session, Verstappen clocked a 1:16.284s lap to put himself at the top. Second to him was Lewis Hamilton who finished with a lap +0.254s slower. Most cars ran Hypersoft tyres […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2354,"featured_media":6674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[424,23,895,1095,293],"class_list":["post-6677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","category-news","tag-2018-formula-one-season","tag-formula-1","tag-fp3","tag-mexican-gp","tag-mexican-grand-prix"],"modified_by":"Sudha Sundar","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}