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00:00We're ready to go in Mexico City. It's lights out and away we go.
00:05It is 760 meters down towards Turn 1 and it's Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz not going wheel-to-wheel
00:12because Verstappen has got slightly ahead. Lando Norris coming to join the party as is Charles Leclerc.
00:17Verstappen has got the lead and there goes the RB of Yuki Tsunoda as Carlos Sainz goes straight over
00:24on the grass and takes the lead but will he have to give that place back? Verstappen second Norris
00:29third. One of the RBs already out and it looked like Yuki Tsunoda to me as Verstappen is given
00:36that place back by Carlos Sainz. Lando Norris in third then comes Charles Leclerc. Oh Alex Albon
00:42he got hit at the first corner last weekend severely damaged his diffuser and I think he
00:47got collected by Yuki Tsunoda and he's out of this race too and it's dreadful luck for the man
00:54starting from ninth place and hoping for a points finish and we can have a look at what
00:57happened here Martin. Yeah I'm just looking in the background to see where we'll look at that first
01:04yeah so it was literally just contact in the middle of the pack. Let's just see this start again
01:12so Verstappen got a tremendous the second phase of his start on the front of the grid there so
01:18he's already taken the lead Norris decides to tuck in behind Verstappen rather than going around
01:23the outside and as they head down to the first corner Verstappen's got the inside line let's
01:29just face that and basically Sainz had to go off the track because Verstappen ran up to the edge
01:35of the track and we know that the stewards are more lenient with that kind of thing on the first
01:40corner particularly so Sainz giving the place back now and living for another day so the front runners
01:47and I think I think we saw probably why where Hamilton got past yeah right this is not this is
01:52not going to be pretty Alex Albon with the yellow on the engine cover Sunoda getting a really good
01:58slipstream didn't quite get ahead three times they touched nearly got ahead on the braking
02:04and Alex Albon clipped him I think the Sunoda just slightly moved over yeah to be honest when I see
02:11incidents like that it amazes me they don't happen more often so it really was it was just a squeeze
02:17it wasn't it it was the Alpine of Gasly squeezed Albon over he had nowhere to go
02:25and unfortunately for Yuki Sunoda I don't think he did anything wrong there Sunoda but as I say
02:29I watched that and wonder why it doesn't happen more often actually at first I thought Sunoda
02:33might have moved over on Alex Albon I don't think he did actually I think Alex Albon had to move over
02:38towards Yuki Sunoda because that's where he got squeezed by the Alpine yeah the Alpine came
02:42slightly left and sorry it's just the way you can well Sainz got the rear wing open this time
02:50he got within the second look at the pace he's got he's going for it he's going for it down the
02:55inside Carlos Sainz on Max Verstappen runs a little bit wide Verstappen tries to fight this
03:00and now he switches back let's go around the outside as Verstappen Sainz has got him coming
03:05off but a really good exit for Verstappen though out of turn three and towards the next braking
03:10zone he's still got DRS as Carlos Sainz and that's kept him in the DRS zone on the main
03:15straight by 75 meters this year made no difference to Carlos Sainz beautiful move goes a little bit
03:21deeper I think than he would have wanted to but he kept the car absolutely where he needed to
03:26what's wrong with Verstappen in that little sector what can I do with a battery what is
03:30this for stupid long he was harvesting battery power and I think that's when he thought I'm
03:36gonna have a go here goes Lando Norris this time trying around the outside and Max Verstappen
03:41covers him off and for the second week running Lando Norris has to go off the track now he's
03:46ahead of Max Verstappen what do McLaren do here safe option give that place back but do they feel
03:53once again that Max Verstappen just forced Lando off the road either way Verstappen is through and
03:59they're both off the track again now this is really getting their elbows out Sainz could be under
04:04pressure here in this battle for the lead it looked as if Norris was trying to let him through
04:10and he drove him off the racetrack I was ahead the whole way through the corner this guy is dangerous
04:16I just have to avoid a crash it's the same as last time yeah we're on it
04:23right it's been noted by race control there goes Lando Norris he is ahead yeah but Verstappen
04:29breaks later yeah and then he's ahead I completely agree I think uh let's see
04:35but this is the next bit I think particularly day was Lando trying to give that place back
04:40uh no he wasn't at that stage no he wasn't and Max just slid up the inside and took him off so
04:47there has to be a penalty there for Verstappen or hand the place back but what it's done is freed
04:52up the two Ferraris 10 second penalty I thought he was going to get it and there might be another
04:57one yet I thought he was going to get that uh uh which is why I felt they should have given the
05:04place back so he gets a 10 second for that and are they they're not looking at anything else
05:09at the moment and that I'm sorry Max that was outrageous so Max for info uh you've been given
05:15a 10 second penalty for forcing Lando off track at turn four so head down 10 it's quite impressive
05:23there was a lot of winning a lot between the two Mercedes drivers once again he's got DRS
05:29as George Russell Hamilton now forces him towards the outside at turn one Russell is
05:34clean through and goes a little bit deeper but hangs on to that fifth place neat move
05:40by George Russell here comes Sergio Perez then responding to that Lawson wants him to go down
05:45the inside Perez is trying to do that oh Lawson has to go almost off the track but he hangs this
05:51one out for a bit longer Perez is off the track and they are still going wheel to wheel and Lawson
05:57stays ahead and this is big news for this race and in the drivers championship Max Verstappen
06:04another 10 second penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage yeah well that was the
06:10big one wasn't it George Russell out of turn three Kevin Magnussen gets past Esteban Ocon up into 12th
06:17and George Russell gets past Liam Lawson and up into the top four and that's going to frustrate
06:25surely we could have done one two more laps more
06:28Piastri sliding around as he tries to get on the power he's under pressure once again Lawson's
06:34doing a brilliant job here as down the inside goes Piastri the only way to get out of any threat
06:38from Lewis Hamilton is for Piastri to make the move and it looks like he's done just that and
06:43out of the next right-hander Lewis Hamilton dives down the inside at turn six Liam Lawson loses two
06:50places in two corners very small range up copy and here comes Oscar Piastri now we know that
06:58McLaren's got some decent DRS Hülkenberg in the Haas is ahead of him Piastri is not going to wait
07:04for a second invitation to steam down the inside and he does so this time around as we look to the
07:10Nigel Mansell corner oh as Charles Leclerc goes off almost into the barriers Lando Norris goes past
07:16and up into second place and Leclerc really struggling with those rear tyres for grip
07:21was easy prey when Norris came across it let's have a look at it again
07:26hugging that outside line and whoa that could have been so so nasty hundred mile an hour
07:32incident for Charles Leclerc averted with a fantastic lightning reaction on the steering wheel
07:39yeah yeah that was um he was a tiny tiny bit wide but that's uh an early Halloween present there
07:48isn't it for Lando Norris thank you very much he'll be saying he didn't think about lifting
07:53the throttle did he Norris here we go again with Lewis Hamilton down this main straight gaining on
07:59George Russell you can see how much extra speed he's got Russell covers that inside line once again
08:05this time he can cover it but it will be to no avail Lewis Hamilton had 20 or so kilometers an
08:10hour of extra pace and he takes that fourth place fourth career win and his second in 2024 to add to
08:19the victory in Australia he's going to add victory here in Mexico City he's never been on the podium
08:25at this track before he's never stood on the top step in this city he's going to do that now
08:30Carlos Sainz wins the Mexico City Grand Prix Ferrari win for the second time in a week
08:38Lando Norris comes home to take second place ahead of Charles Leclerc yes this is master class Carlos
08:46dominant weekend Umastino good job yes yes make a good weekend Carlos thank you oh this feels good
09:00thank you guys for Ferrari
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