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14:01 - Warm up lap
And the cars have started the warm up lap.
14:03 - Lap 1
First lap Hamilton slides in behind Rosberg as per tema derectives. Contact beteween Ricciardo and Vettel.
14:05 - Lap 2
Vettel pits for new tire. A clean start except for Vettel which was hit by Ricciardo , and Alonso retires with mecanical problems.
14:06 - Lap 3
DRS enabled Versteppen up to 6th with his F1 Torosso car a great start to the race.
14:09 - Lap 5
Review of the hit between Ric and Vet such a slight touch but makes a puncture on the rear right of Vettels car now 50 secondes off but making the best lap .
14:08 - Lap 4
Ricciardo being attacked by Bottas for 4th place meanwhile Kyvat has extended a nice lead over Ric.
14:12 - Lap 7
Places are Rosberg , Hamilton , Kyvat
14:17 - Lap 10
Bot and Mas stop for a new set of tires.
14:19 - Lap 12
Perez up to 6th place but hasn’t stpped yet.Sainz is rght behind him.
14:21 - Lap 13
Verstappen up to 5th with a 6 second gap to Perez.
14:22 - Lap 14
Sainz in the pits for Mediums
14:24 - Lap 15
Rosberg leads by 1.5 seconds over Hamilton Both Mercedes F1 Cars under the 1min24 seconds
14:26 - Lap 16
Seems like there are teams on 2 stop strategy and others on 3 stopers lets see which will pay out at the end of the 71 laps
14:28 - Lap 18
Vettel spins out on his own pushing to much after his puncture ,seems like the rear end braked to much compared to the front.
14:30 - Lap 19
Perez pits for a set of mediums comes out just in front of Sainz but gets passed by the end of the straight and drops to 11th
14:34 - Lap 23
Rosberg and Hamilton exchanging the fastest laps while Kvyat pits for a new set of mediums and Bottas gets his revenge for Sochi by taking the inside and kimi closes the door . And localised Yellow flag in sector 2. The way we see it Kimi is in the wrong again Bottas left him space but Kimi cut him off.
14:38 - Lap 25
Vettel up to 13 th even after spinning off , Ricciardo pits at 25 laps. the only ones left are the Mercedes F1.
14:40 - Lap 26
Rosberg in this lap and Verstappen pits from 4th and comes back out to 8th place.
14:41 - Lap 27
Rosberg comes out in 2nd place Hamilton pitting this lap. And the incident between Kimi and Bottas has been ruled and incident of racing no further action will be taken.
14:43 - Lap 29
Rosberg passes Hamilton at the pits straight.
14:45 - Lap 31
Places update Ros, Ham, Kvy ,Ver in 8th
14:47 - Lap 33
Vettel complaning about tire degredation and Hamilton closing in Rosberg .
14:49 - Lap 34
Not a lot of action in terms of Yellow flags compared to the US Grand Prix but we just saw Sainz going off track in the battle with Perez for 10th and Sainz has to let him pass.
14:55 - Lap 37
Vettel pits again for mediums comes out just behind Rosberg and just in front Hamilton but with a lap down.
14:58 - Lap 39
The Mercedes F1 cars seem unbeatable at this stage.
15:07 - Lap 48
Hamilton in 1st but pits beacause of the racing team orders, comes out behind Rosberg.
15:14 - Lap 51
Lewis fastesed lap 1:20.8
15:17 - Lap 52
Sergio Perez passes Max Verstappen for 8th place and Vettel hits the wall badly in turn 7 where he spun the first time and brings out the safety car. End of the race for Vettel.
15:18 - Lap 53
Safety car out everybody Pits for a new set of tires. This will be an interesting end of F1 race with everybody racing on equal terms.
15:20 - Lap 54
Cars reforming for the restart of the race!
15:25 - Lap 57
Race Restart Rosberg keeps first with Hamilton close behind. Hamilton will be looking to take advantage of this safety car to pass Rosberg.
15:29 - Lap 60
Rosberg and Hamilton short the track both keep their places Bottas has moved up to third and DRS is enabled once again .
15:33 - Lap 62
Verstappen having some truble with his set of tires that he pitted for, putting him in 9th 13 seconds off the lead.
15:34 - Lap 63
Hamilton pushing to get back into that 1 second video for using the DRS. Only 1 tenth left for Hamilton.
15:36 - Lap 64
Not the battles we we’re expecting everybody is keeping the same gap with nobody being able to use DRS.
15:42 - Lap 69
Seems like this is going to be the finishing positions for the race
1 ROS 1:20.948
2 HAM +1.600
3 BOT +10.800
4 KVY +13.500
5 RIC +16.700
6 MAS +18.300
7 HUL +20.600
8 PER +27.800
9 VES +30.000
10 GRO +31.900
11 MAL +32.500
12 ERI +34.800
13 SAI +40.800
14 BUT +41.400
15 RSI +2L
16 STE +2L
NAS
VET
RAI
ALO
15:46 - Lap 71
And Rosberg wins his Grand Prix of Mexico after 4 poles in row this is a well deserved win. After more then 2 decades without a Mexican Grand Prix Rosberg wins from Start to finish . Congratulations to Perez and Verstappen.
1 ROS 1:21.253
2 HAM +1.900
3 BOT +12.700
4 KVY +15.100
5 RIC +18.100
6 MAS +20.700
7 HUL +23.600
8 PER +32.300
9 VES +33.700
10 GRO +35.900
11 MAL +36.500
12 ERI +38.500
13 SAI +46.300
14 BUT +46.900
15 RSI +2L
16 STE +2L
NAS
VET
RAI
ALO
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