F1: Verstappen dominates Hamilton in practice

Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton. Pic/AFP

Max Verstappen dominated practice at the Mexico Grand Prix on Friday, ending the session over a half a second ahead of world champion and title rival Lewis Hamilton.

The Dutch Red Bull driver, who has a 12-point lead over Hamilton in the championship with five races left, clocked a blistering 1min 17.301sec. That was 0.424sec ahead of Valtteri Bottas and 0.509sec faster than Hamilton in the second Mercedes. Red Bull's Sergio Perez was fourth at 0.570sec behind his teammate.

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