• With P4 for Mercedes, Lewis Hamilton finished off the podium in Mexico for the first time since 2018.

• Hamilton has had no podium finishes since the summer break.

• His team mate George Russell finished in P5 for his third consecutive top-six finish in Mexico City.

• Max Verstappen took P6 for Red Bull, having won the last three Mexico City Grands Prix, all by a margin of at least 13 seconds.

• Verstappen has not finished within 19 seconds of a race winner since the summer break (he finished 59.558s behind the winner today)

• Verstappen now leads the drivers’ championship by 47 points, the smallest gap since after Monaco in May.

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• With P7 for Haas, Kevin Magnussen took his best result since finishing fifth in Bahrain 2022, his only other top-seven finish in the 2020s.

• For Haas, it was the team’s best-ever finish at this track.

• McLaren’s Oscar Piastri finished eighth in the 2023 and the 2024 Mexico City Grands Prix.

• In the other Haas, Nico Hulkenberg in P9 scored points for the eighth time this season.

• Haas scored with both cars for the third time in 2024.

• At Alpine, Pierre Gasly took P10, having finished 11th in the 2022 and 2023 races here.

• It was Gasly’s sixth points finish of the 2024 season.

• Alpine closed by one point on eighth-placed Williams in the constructors’ championship – the gap is now just three points.

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