Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen
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Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen will miss first practice for the Mexico City Grand Prix on Friday. Hamilton and Verstappen are among the eight drivers who will give up their seat to a reserve driver for the session.
Lewis Hamilton has said Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have to be cutthroat with Max Verstappen in their fight for the world championship.
Max Verstappen has confirmed that he won’t use the same ‘games’ he deployed against Lewis Hamilton during his 2021 title fight to beat Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri in 2025. The Red Bull driver shifted the pressure onto the McLaren duo, declaring that they will be more ‘nervous’ than him during the run-in.
Lando Norris won his fifth pole of the season while Oscar Piastri was a distant seventh in Saturday qualifying.
Max Verstappen has cut the driver's championship points deficit from 104 to 40, and he still has five Grands Prix to close the gap versus Norris and Piastri.
Lewis Hamilton once risked injury by dabbling in a spot of WWE-style wrestling ahead of the Mexican Grand Prix. Having just secured his third of seven F1 titles at the previous race in Austin, Hamilton could arguably afford to take some extra risks ahead of the 2015 race.