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How Friday practice unfolded for the F1 Mexico City Grand Prix

FP2 is at 10pm.

The F1 Mexico City Grand Prix weekend continues with Friday practice.

However, the attention has been on off-track affairs with the FIA announcing their verdict on Red Bull's cost cap breach.

Follow the action with the Crash.net live blog!

Connor McDonagh

28 Oct 2022

19:27

Schumacher slots into second on the softs, 0.4s off.

19:25

Leclerc goes 0.7s clear on the softs. Verstappen's best time is on the hards.

19:20

Funny exchange at Ferrari

Engineer: "De Vries behind on an outlap."

Carlos Sainz: "Debris?"

Engineer: "No, no. De Vries."

19:19

20 minutes gone in FP1

Top five: Verstappen, Perez (0.3s off), Sainz (0.4s off), Bottas (0.8s off), Gasly (0.8s off).

19:17

Solid start to the session.

P7 Fernando: 1:23.957
P13 Jack: 1:25.124#MexicoGP pic.twitter.com/7d1TNQR4Hd
— BWT Alpine F1 Team (@AlpineF1Team) October 28, 2022

19:14

Current top 10: Verstappen, Perez, Gasly, Bottas, Sainz, Ricciardo, Alonso, Norris, Hamilton and Zhou.

19:12

Verstappen takes to the top of the timesheets with a 1m22.291s, 0.4s ahead of Perez.

19:11

LAW: "I have no brakes, brakes are completely gone"

Liam Lawson's FP1 outing for AlphaTauri isn't off to the best start#MexicoGP #F1 pic.twitter.com/nXr4gHS3Tm
— Formula 1 (@F1) October 28, 2022

19:11

A number of driver swaps for FP1

Jack Doohan is on for Esteban Ocon.

Nyck de Vries replaces George Russell.

Liam Lawson is in action instead of Yuki Tsunoda.

Logan Sargeant is in the Williams.

Pietro Fittipaldi replaces Kevin Magnussen.

19:09

Perez is on top in the early stages with a 1m22.702s, 0.077s ahead of Verstappen.

Ricciardo, Gasly and Bottas complete the top five.

19:02

FP1 is well underway in Mexico City.

Sergio Perez - the home hero - takes to the track.

19:02

Hello!

We're live for FP1 in Mexico City. Sorry for the delays, we were busy focusing on Christian Horner's press conference.