2025 F1 Mexico City Grand Prix - Friday Practice - LIVE UPDATES!

Red Bull boss Laurent Mekies has revealed teams lost GPS data during first practice in Mexico City.

Arvid Lindblad has been summoned to see the stewards over an alleged blocking incident, but the loss of GPS could explain why that occurred. 

"All the teams lost GPS in the session, so it was difficult with traffic," Mekies told Sky Sports F1. 

"We took the decision to leave Arvid on low-ish fuel to not give him the complication of high and low fuel.

"He did a very good job. It's so difficult to jump in. The pace is there, so not much to argue against that."

An impressive showing from Sauber in FP1, with Nico Hulkenberg and Gabriel Bortoleto sitting third and fifth.

Arvid Lindblad has just gone fifth fastest on a set of soft tyres. 

The Red Bull stand in is six tenths off the pace but two places and a tenth quicker than Yuki Tsunoda. 

Isack Hadjar briefly caused a yellow flag a short while ago as he ended up in the run-off area. He managed to avoid further drama and got going again with no harm done. 

Frederik Vesti is the fastest rookie in 11th for Mercedes. 

He is three-tenths clear of Haas's Rio Hirakawa, with Ayumu Iwasa 13th for Racing Bulls ahead of Williams junior Luke Browning.

Paul Aron sits 15th for Alpine, ahead of Aston Martin's Jak Crawford. 

Arvid Lindblad is 18th in Max Verstappen's Red Bull, with Pato O'Ward 19th for McLaren and Antonio Fuoco the slowest rookie in 20th. 

Charles Leclerc goes for another soft tyre run and shoots to the top of the timesheet in his Ferrari, a tenth clear of Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli. 

Kimi Antonelli sets a new benchmark in his Mercedes to go quickest with a 1m18.487s.

Nico Hulkenberg is second, two tenths back, with Oscar Piastri third and Charles Leclerc fourth as more drivers complete soft tyre laps. 

The Autodromo Hermonos Rodrigues circuit is evolving fast. 

Oscar Piastri is the first driver to put a set of soft tyres on.

He duly goes on to set the fastest time with a 1m19.035s in his McLaren.

That's nearly a second faster than Isack Hadjar's effort on mediums. 

It appears Isack Hadjar took that personally. Almost immediately, the Racing Bulls driver reclaims top spot with a 1m20.005s to edge Kimi Antonelli by 0.030s.

Hadjar set his best time on mediums, with Antonelli still running the hards. 

A change at the top as Kimi Antonelli goes fastest with a 1m20.035s in his Mercedes. 

That puts him just 0.093s clear of Isack Hadjar. 

Isack Hadjar continues to lead the way, two and a bit tenths clear of Esteban Ocon, who has improved to second in his Haas.

The top two are using medium tyres, with the rest of the top 10 on hards bar Sauber's Nico Hulkenberg, who has just been shuffled down to fifth as Kimi Antonelli improved to third. 

1. Isack Hadjar (mediums)
2. Yuki Tsunoda (hard)
3. Esteban Ocon (medium)
4. Nico Hulkenberg (medium)
5. Kimi Antonelli (hard)
6. Alex Albon (hard)
7. Arvid Lindblad (hard)
8. Charles Leclerc (hard)
9. Franco Colapinto (hard)
10. Oscar Piastri (hard)

Interestingly, Alpine have set up a pretty public audition by putting Paul Aron up against Franco Colapinto in this session. 

According to Alpine, one of these two drivers will get the final seat at the team alongside Pierre Gasly for next season. 

Colapinto has the upper hand in the early stages of FP1 in sixth, with Aron down in 18th. 

Antonio Fuoco is driving Lewis Hamilton's Ferrari in this session. He's currently down in P17, with Charles Leclerc third. 

Championship leader Oscar Piastri now goes fastest with a 1m21.570s as times continue to improve with the track rapidly evolving. 

So much so, that pretty much every time I type an update, another driver shoots to the top of the timesheet.

Isack Hadjar, rumoured to be getting the Red Bull drive for 2026, sets the early pace for Racing Bulls with a 1m22.001s.

That puts him eight tenths clear of Yuki Tsunoda, the driver he is expected to replace next year. 

First practice is underway in Mexico City as Frederik Vesti heads out in the Mercedes. 

Max Verstappen, Lando Norris and Lewis Hamilton are among nine regular drivers who will sit out of first practice in Mexico, with rookies stepping in to complete their mandatory FP1 outings in 2025.

The drivers in action include a Mexican in Pato O'Ward. 

• Pato O'Ward - McLaren (Norris)
• Frederik Vesti - Mercedes (Russell)
• Antonio Fuoco - Ferrari (Hamilton)
• Arvid Lindblad - Red Bull (Verstappen)
• Luke Browning - Williams (Sainz)
• Jak Crawford - Aston Martin (Stroll)
• Ryo Hirakawa - Haas (Bearman)
• Ayumu Iwasa - Racing Bulls (Lawson)
• Paul Aron - Alpine (Gasly)

Red Bull have brought some further minor upgrades to help boost Verstappen's title bid in Mexico City. 

These include a revised version of their floor from Monza, as well as a new front corner and engine cover which is more track specific to deal with cooling.

Ferrari, Williams, Racing Bulls, Sauber and Alpine have also introduced some updates to aid cooling, which can be a big problem with the Autodromo Hermanos Rodrigues 2.2km above sea level. 

Things have gone wrong for Oscar Piastri in the past four races.

Ever since a nightmare and uncharacteristically error-strewn weekend in Azerbaijan, Piastri has been watching his championship advantage reduced by both Verstappen and Lando Norris.

Despite this, Verstappen still finds himself in the lead, 14 points clear of Norris.

Piastri insists he is still in the best position, but the Australian could really do with a weekend where he finishes ahead of both of his rivals to re-establish control in the title race. 

Max Verstappen will be looking to continue his charge on the McLaren drivers down in Mexico City. 

The Dutchman's imperious form, combined with Red Bull's remarkable resurgence, has brought Verstappen right back into championship contention following three victories in the last four races. 

Extraordinarily, Verstappen has turned a 104-point deficit into a 40-point one with five rounds to go. 

Verstappen has scored five wins in Mexico and will be looking to make it six this weekend. 

Hello and welcome to Crash.net's live coverage of Friday practice at the Mexico City Grand Prix.

We are back to a traditional F1 weekend format in Mexico, meaning there are two hour-long practice sessions coming up at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez.

FP1 gets underway at 7.30pm UK time, with FP2 starting later on tonight at 11pm.