[Now] Iâm going home so really happy about that.â â Max VerstappenFor the third time in his five championship-clinching races, Lewis Hamilton has failed to finish on the podium (along with 2008 and 2017).
That left the Mercedes boys to finish fourth and fifth, Hamilton ahead of Valtteri Bottas, with Hamilton massively dropping his pace towards the race end to make it home safely and claim the championship.Some fine midfield performances saw Nico Hulkenberg take sixth â good news for Renault on a day when Haas failed to score â Charles Leclerc finish seventh, while the beleaguered Stoffel Vandoorne was eighth to equal his best performance of the year.But despite a crushing win for Verstappen to put Red Bull on top for the first time since Austria, the plaudits today have to go equally to Hamilton, the British driver now forming part of an exceptionally rare group of Formula 1 drivers.Less than 24 hours after his jubilation at taking pole position, Daniel Ricciardoâs dreams of converting that into a victory all but ended within the first five seconds of the Grand Prix start, as his RB14 bogged down horribly off the line.
That allowed team mate Verstappen to launch himself into the lead while Lewis Hamilton pounced on Ricciardoâs misfortune to move himself into third.Once Ricciardo had got back up to speed, he was left to duke it out for third place with Valtteri Bottas into Turn 1. Hamilton is expected to clinch the drivers' championship in Mexico City tonight having missed out last weekLewis Hamilton has been crowned Formula One world champion for a fifth time, despite stuttering over the line in fourth at an incident-packed Mexican Grand Prix.The 33-year-old Mercedes star has now drawn level with Juan Manuel Fangio, and is just two short of Michael Schumacher's record, but in a dramatic race, won by Max Verstappen, he ran off the road while defending third place from Daniel Ricciardo.Hamilton, who needed to finish only seventh at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez to beat Sebastian Vettel to the title with two rounds to spare, spent much of the race at odds with his Mercedes team as he struggled for pace.But, just as in Mexico City last year, Hamilton did enough to win the championship, his fourth in five quite remarkable years.
Pues si, en la tierra del Yo puedo, nosotros, con nuestro deshecho de coche McLaren, abandonado a su suerte por sus mentes … Will Daniel Ricciardo be able to make it onto the podium as his time with Red Bull comes to a close?
Ferrari's Vettel finished second.The Dutch and Austrian national anthems ring out around Mexico City.Trophies be handed over and champagne will be sprayed very soon.Hamilton has gone round every member of his team and congratulated each of them.Hamilton really does appreciate everyone in silver!But all the hollers and cheers are for him as he runs back to the Mercedes garage.“That was the best result for the position we were.“It has been a good two races but we always want more.“There are two more races to go and we will try to do better.”“What I said on the radio was that it wasn’t won here but over loads of races.“I have ultimately been at Mercedes since I was 13.“It was a horrible race. This isn’t great for the turn in of the slower corners, but the performance is too good down the straight to ignore.
FP3 is at 4pm on Saturday 27 October.Mexican GP qualifying will take place on Saturday at 7pm.The 2018 Mexican GP starts at 7.10pm on Sunday 28 October.GCSE results could be delayed as exam crisis deepens Daniel Ricciardo pipped Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen to pole position at … Exciting times are still ahead people.Gasly reveals his home was ârobbed and trashedâ while he was away racingPerez brands blue flag penalty âreally unfairâ after fifth place finish on F1 returnBeating Schumacherâs podium record âfar beyond what I dreamedâ says HamiltonThe Winners and Losers of the 2020 Spanish Grand PrixHIGHLIGHTS: Watch the key moments as Hamilton picks up his 88th F1 win in Spain© 2003-2020 Formula One World Championship Limited And after a string of first lap incidents that hadnât gone the Germanâs way this season, this time Vettel was incisive, fairly muscling past Bottas through Turns 4 and 5, his front left tyre making the lightest of contacts with Bottasâ front wing before the Ferrari driver resumed in his well-earned fourth.Further back, contact between the Force India of Esteban Ocon and Renaultâs Nico Hulkenberg claimed an unlikely victim, as a piece of Oconâs front wing skated underneath the McLaren of Fernando Alonso, ultimately causing the Spaniardâs retirement five laps later.Out front, Verstappen was in no mood to hang around, and immediately set to putting in quick laps to try and open up a gap to the chasing Hamilton. The Mexican Grand Prix was first held on 4 November 1962 at the Magdalena Mixhuca circuit.