Mexico FP2 and Qualifying round up

hey guys, race time is alsmost here!!!1 Let's recap Quali

Quali

Groups:

A:                                                                            B

Vandoorne                                                         Dennis

Frijns                                                                    Sette Camara

Bird                                                                      Hughes

Di Grassi                                                              Guenther

Nato                                                                     Evans

Daruvala                                                              Da Costa

Fenestraz                                                            Buemi

Ticktum                                                               De Vries

Cassidy                                                               Rowland

Mortara                                                              Vergne

Wehrlein                                                            Muller

Norman had a close one!!! Almost gave me a heart attack :/. Luckily he didn’t hit the wall and cause a massive collision.

Robin ran over debris

Stoffel caused a blockade

Sacha also did the same with Pascal

Now I honestly and truthfully think that the FIA should police impeding more often than they do, as these could have caused a massive accident today, and injured people. But hey ho.

Sam took the flag unintentionally, as McLaren miscalculated the margin he would have needed to make across the line with time to do another flying lap.

I cried… Sam could have made the duels today, had the team not made that miscalculation. Sam was annoyed, as I would have been tbh. Ian James said in an interview after the duels, that the team have took full responsibility in regards to the incident, and will take appropriate steps to ensure that it doesn’t happen again.

Both envisions and both Jaguars made the duels, however both jaguars had a 1 place grid drop due to a red flag procedure infringement in FP1 yesterday.

It was yet another hectic qualifying session, with impediments a plenty, and even some close wall action.

Duels advancers:

Group A

Frijns

Vandoorne (1 place grid drop)

Cassidy (1 place grid drop)

Wehrlein

Group B:

Guenther

Hughes

Buemi

Evans

Surprisingly, pascal was the only Porsche powered car to advance to the duels;   Antonio and Jake D both had to abort their final fliers due to mistakes.

Duels progression:

Quarter finals

Cassidy V Vandoorne

Cassidy won

Frijns v Wehrlein

Wehrlien won. Robin made a mistake

Guenther v Evans

Evans won

Buemi v Hughes

Buemi won

Semis

Cassidy v Wehrlein

Wehrlein won

Buemi v Evans

Buemi won

Final

Wehrlein v Buemi

Wehrlein won

Official top 8

Pole Pascal Wehrlein (3 championship points)

2nd Sebastien Buemi

3rd Max Guenther **

4th Nick Cassidy

5th Mitch Evans

6th Jake Hughes

7th Robin Frijns **

8th Stoffel Vandoorne

**

Nick, Mitch, and Stoffel got penalised. Red Flag Procedure infringement in FP1 yesterday

I’m also going to add a little FP2 summary, as I didn’t have time to upload it as a separate blog earlier.

FP2

1.       Everyone, again, went out on the green light to have as much track time as they could.

2.       Sell out crowd with 40,000 people expected to attend today’s event

3.       Nico muller surprisingly went fastest with 19 minutes to go.

4.       Oliver Rowland shoved the Nissan in P2 with 9 minutes to go in the session

5.       Jake Dennis did a lovely drift, nice, concise, and controlled, however earlier in the session, he locked up and went straight on.

6.       Jake Hughes took a looooooootttttttttttttt of curb

Final session results

1.       Evans

2.       Guenther

3.       Frijns

4.       Cassidy

5.       Vandoorne

6.       Buemi

7.       Rowland

8.       Vergne

9.       Dennis

10.   Hughes

11.   Ticktum

12.   Bird

13.   Fenestraz

14.   Wehrlein

15.   Di Grassi

16.   Da Costa

17.   Nato

18.   Muller

19.   Daruvala

20.   Mortara

21.   Sette Camara

22.   De Vries