Formula 1 Free Practice sessions one and two were held on Friday, October 28, at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City, Mexico on the opening the day of the Mexico City Grand Prix.

In FP1, Ferrari's Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc were first and second quickest, respectively, with Red Bull's Sergio Perez, racing in his home country Grand Prix, third, followed by teammate and 2022 World Champion, Max Verstappen (fourth).

Leclerc suffered a high impact collision in FP2 when the Monegasque driver lost the rear end of his F1-75 and hit the barriers, mostly damaging the tail of the car. Leclerc was not injured in the incident.

FP2 was primarily reserved for an extended 90-minute tire test for Pirelli

FP1 saw a number of non-regular drivers on duty, with Nyck de Vries in the Mercedes, Liam Lawson in the AlphaTauri, Logan Sargeant in the Williams, Pietro Fittipaldi in the Haas and Jack Doohan in the Alpine

They replaced F1 regulars George Russell, Yuki Tsunoda, Alex Albon, Kevin Magnussen and Esteban Ocon.

While Nyck de Vries was driving for Mercedes on Friday, he will team up with AlphaTauri's Yuki Tsunoda for the 2023 Formula 1 season.

With visible flames and smoke billowing out of Liam Lawson's AlphaTauri AT03, the youngster was told to park it on Turn 13. The young New Zealander exited the AT03 unassisted and unharmed.

As a result of the red flag, with only four minutes remaining, the FP1 session did not resume.

An earlier FP1 red flag occurred when Haas driver Pietro Fittipaldi had to pull over in Turn 3 with what was reported as an engine problem. The session was restarted with 18 minutes remaining.

Earlier in the day it was announced that, having exceeded the cost cap by $2.2m, Red Bull will fined $7m together with 10 percent reduction in wind tunnel time for next season. Red Bull has 30 days to pay the $7 million fine.

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FP2 RESULTS
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Pos	Driver		Team		Time		Gap

1	Russell		Mercedes	1:19.970	120.375 mph
2	Tsunoda		AlphaTauri	1:20.798	0.828
3	Ocon		Alpine		1:21.177	1.207
4	Hamilton	Mercedes	1:21.509	1.539
5	Perez		Red Bull	1:21.579	1.609
6	Verstappen	Red Bull	1:21.588	1.618
7	Leclerc		Ferrari		1:21.618	1.648
8	Sainz		Ferrari		1:21.693	1.723
9	Bottas		Alfa Romeo	1:21.993	2.023
10	Gasly		AlphaTauri	1:22.104	2.134
11	Alonso		Alpine		1:22.337	2.367
12	Vettel		Aston Martin	1:22.371	2.401
13	Albon		Williams	1:22.447	2.477
14	Norris		McLaren		1:22.738	2.768
15	Ricciardo	McLaren		1:22.763	2.793
16	Stroll		Aston Martin	1:22.840	2.870
17	Schumacher	Haas		1:22.879	2.909
18	Magnussen	Haas		1:23.316	3.346
19	Latifi		Williams	1:23.320	3.350
20	Zhou		Alfa Romeo	1:23.369	3.399


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FP1 RESULTS
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Pos	Driver		Team		Time		Gap

1	Sainz		Ferrari		1:20.707	119.276 mph
2	Leclerc		Ferrari		1:20.753	0.046
3	Perez		Red Bull	1:20.827	0.120
4	Verstappen	Red Bull	1:20.827	0.120
5	Hamilton	Mercedes	1:20.849	0.142
6	Alonso		Alpine		1:20.899	0.192
7	Bottas		Alfa Romeo	1:21.083	0.376
8	Norris		McLaren		1:21.120	0.413
9	Gasly		AlphaTauri	1:21.310	0.603
10	Vettel		Aston Martin	1:21.525	0.818
11	Ricciardo	McLaren		1:21.762	1.055
12	Zhou		Alfa Romeo	1:21.820	1.113
13	Stroll		Aston Martin	1:21.865	1.158
14	Schumacher	Haas		1:21.952	1.245
15	Latifi		Williams	1:22.912	2.205
16	Lawson		AlphaTauri	1:23.861	3.154
17	Sargeant	Williams	1:24.246	3.539
18	De Vries	Mercedes	1:24.582	3.875
19	Doohan		Alpine		1:24.615	3.908
20	Fittipaldi	Haas		1:26.766	6.059

(image provided by Alpine Racing F1 Media)