Lando Norris topped Mexico's final practice by one-thousandth of a second, but Kimi Antonelli’s blistering run proved Mercedes is ready to spoil McLaren’s high-altitude party.
High altitude has a habit of exposing delicate aerodynamic packages, but at 2,240 metres above sea level, the margins at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez were reduced to absolute…
Antonelli, piloting the No. 12 Mercedes through 24 laps of the thin Mexican air, delivered a 1:17.601 flyer that sent ripples through the pit lane.
The front of the grid remains suffocatingly tight behind the leading pair. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc posted a 1:17.
Lando Norris topped Mexico's final practice by one-thousandth of a second, but Kimi Antonelli’s blistering run proved Mercedes is ready to spoil McLaren’s high-altitude party.