F1 championsh♛ip leader Verstappen set a scintillating lap time on soft tyres around the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez with a 1m17.301s, leaving him in a league of his own at the top of the FP2 timesheets.🀅 

FP1 pacesetter Valtteri Bottas could only get within 0.424s of Verstappen’s be♚nchmark after two runs on Pirelli’s fastest compound, while his Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton was half a second adrift in third. 

Hamilton, who trails Verstappen by 12 points going into the weekend, was unhappy wi𝕴th the balance of his Mercedes in a frustrating session as he endured a scrappy pair of laps with the softest ty♐res fitted. 

Home favourite Sergio Perez w♒as fourth-quickest, 0.061s down on Hamilton and nearly six-tenths behind his Red Bull teammate Verstappen. 

Carlos Sainz was over a secon🥃d off the pace as he put his Ferrari fifth, with AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly splitting the Ferrari duo in P6 ahead of Charles Leclerc. 

Yuki Tsunoda, Sebas🔯tian Vettel and Fernando Alonso completed a top 10 order that featured all four Honda-powered cars. 

McLaren once again found themselves in the bottom half of the timesheets with Lando Norris only 12th, while his teammate Daniel Ricciardo was leftꦇ 15th after a gearbox issue limited his running to just seven laps.&nb🐟sp;

Gearbox problems also hampered George Russওell and preventing thꦕe Williams driver from setting a lap time. 

Haas rookie Nikita Mazepin was the slowest of the 19 drivers who posted lap times, with t♐he Russian some 4.2s off the pace. 

Full results from second practice for the 2021 F1 Mexican Grand Prix.