Max Verstappen stayed on top in the second practice session for the Mexican Grand Prix. But he had technical problem with 10 minutes to go. It’s seems that the problems was with the brakes.
Bu later Red Bull team principal Christian Horner confirmed that a hydraulic issue was the reason Verstappen ground to a halt.
The Red Bull driver led another one-two for the team while none of their rivals were able to get within 1.2 seconds of them.
They were led, unusually by Carlos Sainz Jnr’s Renault. Both Mercedes and Ferrari struggled to extract as much performance from the hypersofts as Red Bull could. Sebastian Vettel fell short of third place by one-thousandth of a second in an eight-car cluster covered by just 2-tenths of a second.
Nico Hulkenberg made it two Renaults in the top five. Brendon Hartley also surprised. He put his Toro Rosso ahead of world championship leader Lewis Hamilton in the first of the Mercedes.
Kimi Raikkonen, Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez rounded off the top 10. Esteban Ocon, taking part in his first practice session of the weekend, ended up three-tenths of a second off his team mate.
While the first 4 Renault cars appeared in the top five, the other two McLaren-Renaults languished in 15th (Vandoorne) and 19th (Alonso).
As in first practice the hyper-soft tyres dropped off very rapidly. Several drivers were seen suffering from heavy degradation early into their race simulation stints in the second half of the session.
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Another dominant display from Red Bull – although late engine trouble did mean Max Verstappen’s session came to a premature halt#MexicoGP ?? #F1 pic.twitter.com/HeF7xjAHnA
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