I'm calling a lightning Vettel start and contact between the Bulls. I got a great start and was working my way up. FASTEST LAPS: Vettel is the rocket man and he'll need to be for the remainder of the race if he wants to keep his title hopes alive 20 to go and Lance is P14 with Sergey running in P16 ...who is falling back into the reach of Vettel. VSC deployed. His tyres are looking a little worn. We have two more races to go and we'll try to do better" WHAT A RACE!!!!! Vettel gets closer and closer to Ricciardo in the middle of the lap.
It's still close at the end of the lap...within a second...LAP 44: RIC coming in fast! The backmarkers have put this battle on ice but it is now back on...Vettel stays patient and waits, as he has to do. I’m going to do my best to fight him next year.”Initially, Hamilton seemed unsure how to digest the magnitude of his achievement. I'm not sure......and he has a look at Hamilton but keeps his powder dry for now. ...and that makes sense, there was enough time. “You put a lot of work in, and you would love to hang in there a bit longer. The German manufacturer has outscored its Italian rivals by 20 points or more on just three occasions in 2018 -- in Spain, Germany and Russia, where it scored one-two finishes.The two Finns are separated by just four points in the battle for third in the drivers' championship.
29.10.18 29 Oct 2018 11:05 (UTC) Mexican Grand Prix '18. This is surely his finest title. You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. But here he was quick to acknowledge his debt of gratitude. “That’s how you do it,” actor Will Smith told him, via a recorded message on his in-car radio. 7-10 on used hypersofts and then a mixture of new supersofts and new ultrasofts apart from Gasly in 20th on fresh hypersofts? Find out the full results for all the drivers for the Formula 1 2018 Mexican Grand Prix on BBC Sport, including who had the fastest laps in each practice session, up …
“It’s obviously not an easy day,” he said, beaten again with two grands prix to spare. I was trying to bring the car home.
And Hamilton is exactly that now. He will also win the title regardless of his position if his only remaining rival, Sebastian Vettel, fails to win Sunday.Formula One heads to the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez on the back of an enthralling U.S. Grand Prix, where Kimi Raikkonen claimed his first win since the 2013 Australian Grand Prix, while Max Verstappen recovered from 18th on the grid to finish second.With rain forecast for qualifying, we could be set for another great weekend of F1 action.What time does it start and how can I watch?
He's fifth, obviously. Time for a pit for the hypersoft runners?Verstappen leads Hamilton who leads Ricciardo and Vettel!
We’ll fight back in Brazil! Runner up? Find out more As Red Bull’s Max Verstappen bolted away for the win, Hamilton trailed home in fourth, his performance stymied by a shredded front left tyre.For the last blissful few corners, Hamilton could afford to cruise, in anticipation of his hero’s reception. At least nobody has moaned about it in the last few laps. 11:05 29.10.18 Mexican Grand Prix '18. The Briton has clinched his fourth title in five years with two rounds to spare, having dominated the season since the half-way point, blowing away Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel. We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. The latest offers and discount codes from popular brands on Telegraph Voucher Codes But he also got caught up in some trouble on lap one. He won't battle Ricciardo, nursing the tyres, so alot hinges on the latter's pace. After all that Hamilton is now 13s behind Verstappen in the lead. Not sure that hypersoft gamble worked out for Gasly.
But form up they do. They did a superb job all year. So then, game on at the front on strategy too - Vettel will have to keep pace w/ Verstappen while his tyres are fresher, because he'll be coming back at him towards the end. ... Mexican Grand Prix 2018 … “That’s how you drive.”Perhaps it was not Hamilton’s finest driving exhibition on the day, but the 2018 campaign should surely count as his most pristine body of work. ...looks like he's retiring. It's close, Hamilton squeezes him to the right on the straight and the Ferrari puts a small part of the wheel onto the grass but he gets past! "Okay," he replies. ET. ...as Ricciardo closes up to within two seconds of him.
Plenty of time to suck it all in and savour. A slow stop for Bottas but that shouldn't cost him. They have a decent chance starting on the more durable tyres. That was very dangerous!" WHAT A RESULT!!!!! All clean on the first lap at the front. By Darren Heath. I’m just glad that I was able to do the job, improve on my second run. All good for Hamilton currently. By Darren Heath.
13.1s behind, he is. But will F1 really miss Alonso once he finishes his final race in Abu Dhabi? ...and outs on fresh tyres. Mercedes holds a 66-point lead over Ferrari with three rounds of the season to go.A maximum number of points a team can score in a grand prix weekend is 43 points. Something that isn't just a boring one-stopper for 90 per cent of the field. This could be interesting at the front. Stops from third.
And now Verstappen pits! Can Daniel Ricciardo have the rest of the grid dancing to his tune today?...and wearing a sort-of Day of the Dead-type mask. ...he wasn't very happy after missing out on pole yesterday but with a lead at nearly nine seconds and increasing, he might have to stifle a smile inside his helmet now. Will we see drama again in 2018? ...he won here, convincingly last year. This weekend's Mexican Grand Prix is set to get underway at 1:10 p.m. local time, 7:10 p.m. GMT and 2:10 p.m. THE 2018 MEXICAN GRAND PRIX IS GO GO GO! The gap between Vettel in third and race leader Verstappen is now 10s.