Red Bull Formula 1 driver Max Verstappen ended Fer𒉰rar💧i’s run of qualifying supremacy with a stunning lap to claim pole position at the Mexican Grand Prix.

Ferrari had looked the team to beat heading into qualifying but Verstappen secured his second pole position of the season by tu♎rning in a fant🐻astic 1m14.758s around the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez circuit.

The Dutchman subsequently ended Ferrari’s streak of consecutive pole positions, a run which had stretc🌞hed back to the Bꦉelgian Grand Prix following the summer break.

Verstappen’s pole came 12 months after he was denied becoming F1’s youngest-ever pole sitter in Mexico by former Red Bull teammat⭕e Daniel Ricciardo. He will be looking to convert his second career pole into a third straight victory in Mexico, after winning the last two races in 2017 and 2018. 

Charles Leclerc was the fastest Ferrari driver but was some 0.266s adrift of Verstappen’s pole l🥃ap, whil⭕e Sebastian Vettel ended up four-tenths behind.

Mercedes struggled to match the pace of its rivals as Lewis Hamilton secured fourth on the grid, finishing over half a second down. Alexander Alb🍸on claimed fifth as he split the Mercedes pair, with Valtteri Bottas suffering a big crash right at the end of Q3.

The Finn was looking to improve on h♛is opening effort but lost control of his W10 coming out of the final corꦍner, before slamming into the barriers. He will start sixth on the grid as a result.

Carlos Sainz once again was best of the rest as he sealed a s𓂃trong seventh, three-tenths clear of McLaren teammate Lando Norris in eighth.

Completing the top 10 were the Toro Rosso pairing of Daniil Kvyat and Pierre Gasly, with the latter battling illness to set a time gꦰood enough for 10th on the grid and just a tenth slower than his teammate.

Home-favourite Sergio Perez missed out Q3 by just 0.008s as he finished 11th in his Racing Point, narrowly pipping the Renault duo o🐻f Nico Hulkenberg and Daniel Ricciardo in 12th and 13th.

With both M🧸cLaren cars starting inside the top 10, Renault faces a difficult task to cla﷽w back some of its 43-point deficit to the Woking squad in Mexico in the ongoing scrap to come out on top in this year’s midfield battle.

Alfa Romeo drivers Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi were less than a tenth behind in what pr𓆉oved to a tight second segment of qualifying, with Raikkonen out-qu൩alifying his teammate for the first time since September’s Italian Grand Prix.

🍷Racing Point driver Lance Stroll was three-tenths shy of making it into Q2, with the Canadian reporting he had “no grip” on his way to  setting a time only good enough for 16th.

It was a miserable quꩵalifying session for the Haas duo as the American squad’s struggles showed no signs of stopping in Me🧜xico.

Both Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean were unable to progress from Q1 and w𝓰ill start from 17th and 18th respectively, with only🐬 the Williams pair behind them on the grid.

George Russell outpace🌠d Williams teammate Robert Kubica by a whopping 1.356s for the 19th-fastest time to maint🍬ain his 100 percent qualifying record over the Pole in 2019.

Ricciardo and Kvyat will be investigated after qualifying for a pitlane incident that🍨 occurred as Q1 got underway.

The Mexican Grand Prix takes place on Sunday at 1310 local time in Mexi💝co🐈 City (1910 BST).

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