The second free observe session of the 2025 Mexican Grand Prix started with excessive expectations after a promising morning for Ferrari and an FP1 dominated by rookies. On the monitor of the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, the groups aimed to verify their optimistic sensations and accumulate priceless knowledge forward of qualifying and the race, beneath nonetheless difficult and dusty circumstances that made tyre administration troublesome.
First half-hour
Within the first thirty minutes, reliability points struck two vehicles, these of Kimi Antonelli and Lando Norris, who have been compelled to return to the pits for energy unit checks. Charles Leclerc confirmed consistency and pace, putting himself forward of Antonelli and Norris as soon as they rejoined the monitor. Lewis Hamilton completed between the 2 McLarens, whereas Oscar Piastri struggled to search out the fitting rhythm. Was this the affirmation of Ferrari’s robust kind?
Across the center of the session, all drivers switched to smooth tyres for top-speed simulations. Leclerc continued to dominate with a 1:17.545, whereas Norris, Carlos Sainz and George Russell alternated within the positions behind him. The session additionally supplied essential indications for Pink Bull, which continues to judge the efficiency of its fundamental drivers in view of subsequent season.
Final half-hour
Within the remaining thirty minutes of FP2 on the Mexican Grand Prix, Max Verstappen snatched the highest spot from Leclerc with a 1:17.392, whereas Antonelli accomplished the digital podium of the session, just some tenths behind the chief. Piastri, in the meantime, struggled to search out tempo, stopping in twelfth place, eight tenths behind Verstappen, highlighting McLaren’s present difficulties.
The closing section of the session was devoted to race tempo simulations, with Russell reporting rear-end issues on the medium tyres. Verstappen confirmed exceptional consistency with occasions round 1:22.6, whereas Leclerc and Norris maintained their rhythm within the 1:22s, with the British driver showing extra comfy on the smooth compound after seven consecutive laps on the identical tempo, in comparison with his teammate Piastri, who remained always one second slower
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