Bottas first practice, Hamilton at a hearing with the commissioners

Valtteri Bottas set the fastest time of the first Formula 1 training session in Mexico. The Finn was 0.076 seconds faster than his teammate Lewis Hamilton, and on the dusty track, three Red Bull racers were breathing down the collar of the Mercedes racers. Max Verstappen, in third place with 0.123 seconds behind, Sergio Perez, who spun and injured the back of the car during training, in fourth, and Pierre Gasly, a racer from Red Bull’s second team, Alpha Tauri.

Hamilton had before beginning of the second training had to be questioned before the commissioners, as he had violated the strict rules laid down for that race regarding driving off the track and returning to the race line. The Briton made a mistake when braking in the first turn and drove onto the grass and then returned to the track near the entrance to the third turn. He complained on the radio that he had failed to slow down the car, but that did not save him from a warning from the commissioners. In the office, he met Finn Kimi Raikkonen, who also committed a foul in the first corner, and like Hamilton, the Alfa Romeo racer only received a warning.

	#	Drinker	The team	The best time	The difference	Circles
1	77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1'18.341		28
2	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1'18.417	0.076	24
3	33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Honda	1'18.464	0.123	28
4	11	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Honda	1'18.610	0.269	20
5	10	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri-Honda	1'18.985	0.644	23
6	55	Carlos Sainz Jr	Ferrari	1'19.463	1.122	26
7	14	Fernando Alonso	Alpine Renault	1'19.656	1.315	26
8	16	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1'19.667	1.326	20
9	31	Esteban Ocon	Alpine Renault	1'19.759	1.418	20
10	5	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin-Mercedes	1'19.858	1.517	27
11	22	Yuki tsunoda	AlphaTauri-Honda	1'20.011	1.670	30
12	7	Kimi Raikkonen	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari	1'20.026	1.685	26
13	18	Lance stroll	Aston Martin-Mercedes	1'20.030	1.689	27
14	3	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren-Mercedes	1'20.273	1.932	25
15	4	Lando Norris	McLaren-Mercedes	1'20.301	1.960	26
16	99	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari	1'20.344	2.003	27
17	63	George Russell	Williams-Mercedes	1'20.517	2.176	23
18	6	Nicholas latifi	Williams-Mercedes	1'21.580	3.239	23
19	47	Mick Schumacher	Haas-Ferrari	1'22.144	3.803	27
20	9	Nikita mazepin	Haas-Ferrari	1'22.819	4.478	24