Mexican F1 Grand Prix Live commentary with KNW

And the cars have started the warm up lap.

First lap Hamilton slides in behind Rosberg as per tema derectives. Contact beteween Ricciardo and Vettel.

Vettel pits for new tire. A clean start except for Vettel which was hit by Ricciardo , and Alonso retires with mecanical problems.

DRS enabled Versteppen up to 6th with his F1 Torosso car a great start to the race.

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 .

Ricciardo being attacked by Bottas for 4th place meanwhile Kyvat has extended a nice lead over Ric.

Places are Rosberg , Hamilton , Kyvat

Bot and Mas stop for a new set of tires.

Perez up to 6th place but hasn’t stpped yet.Sainz is rght behind him.

Verstappen up to 5th with a 6 second gap to Perez.

Sainz in the pits for Mediums

Rosberg leads by 1.5 seconds over Hamilton Both Mercedes F1 Cars under the 1min24 seconds

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

Vettel spins out on his own pushing to much after his puncture ,seems like the rear end braked to much compared to the front.

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

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.

Vettel up to 13 th even after spinning off , Ricciardo pits at 25 laps. the only ones left are the Mercedes F1.

Rosberg in this lap and Verstappen pits from 4th and comes back out to 8th place.

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.

Rosberg passes Hamilton at the pits straight.

Places update Ros, Ham, Kvy ,Ver in 8th

Vettel complaning about tire degredation and Hamilton closing in Rosberg .

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.

Vettel pits again for mediums comes out just behind Rosberg and just in front Hamilton but with a lap down.

The Mercedes F1 cars seem unbeatable at this stage.

Hamilton in 1st but pits beacause of the racing team orders, comes out behind Rosberg.

Lewis fastesed lap 1:20.8

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.

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.

Cars reforming for the restart of the race!

Race Restart Rosberg keeps first with Hamilton close behind. Hamilton will be looking to take advantage of this safety car to pass Rosberg.

Rosberg and Hamilton short the track both keep their places Bottas has moved up to third and DRS is enabled once again .

Verstappen having some truble with his set of tires that he pitted for, putting him in 9th 13 seconds off the lead.

Hamilton pushing to get back into that 1 second video for using the DRS. Only 1 tenth left for Hamilton.

Not the battles we we’re expecting everybody is keeping the same gap with nobody being able to use DRS.

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

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