Max Verstappen experienced a spin at Turn 7 while running on hard compound tyres early in the session.
The session was interrupted twice. First, when Pietro Fittipaldi (Haas) stopped on track due to a power unit failure, and later when Liam Lawson (AlphaTauri) suffered an engine issue in the final minutes, preventing a restart.
In the , Carlos Sainz led a Ferrari one-two, clocking the fastest time of 1:20.707 at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez . He narrowly beat teammate Charles Leclerc by just 0.046 seconds, while Red Bull’s Sergio Pérez and Max Verstappen remarkably set identical times to finish third and fourth. FP1 Results Summary