MEXICAN GRAND PRIX 2021

The return of Maxico was glorious!! It was a double Red Bull podium, too, which was even better because Sergio was the home hero and you could just hear the roar of the crowd and the Red Bull support! It was such an awesome atmosphere and the celebrations were utterly rowdy and wonderful.

Free Practice 1

- HERE WE GO MAXICOOOOOOOOO

- This track is famously dusty and is over 2200 meters above sea level

- Charles has no grip on the hard tires and does a small spin into the last turn and bumps the wall but is fine

- Then Sergio does the EXACT same thing as Charles in the same place and hits thee back or the wall and ends up coming into the pit with only HALF an entire wing which I’ve never seen

- At about 33 minutes left in the sessions there’s a guy in the Ferrari garage hitting something in Charles car with a sideways wrench and I just think it’s exactly what I expect from Ferrari

- Pato O’Ward is at the young driver test at the McLaren pit wall! Aww

- Hamilton just went straight through the grass on something and is being called into the stewards after for not going around the bollards like he was supposed to

FP2

- HA Hamilton got a reprimand for going over the grass! Hahaha! Kimi got one too but the important thing is that Hamilton got a reprimand

- The dust is so outrageous

- George has a gearbox problem and can’t do much practice

- Daniel has some kind of problem keeping him from being on track too

Free Practice 3

- there’s oil on the track from a support series and it’s suuuuuper slippery

- The support for Perez is so beautiful

Qualifying

- in Q1, Lance Stroll crashes near the pit straight with 11 minutes left and it causes a red flag. Will have medical checks but says he is fine.

- People who have engine penalties this race will include Lance Stroll, Lando, George Russell, Ocon I think

- When the session finally restarts, Sainz looks like he is losing power but then they are able to tell him how to fix it

- Mazepin complains on the radio that Schumacher is going too slow in front of him and then gets chewed out on the radio by an engineer saying if he says to stay behind mick he stays behind mick.

- Out in Q1: Alonso Latifi Schumacher Mazepin and Stroll

- Gio pulls yellow flag at the last minute in Q2 but gets away with it without compromising anyone’s lap

- Out in Q2: Vettel, Kimi, Russell, Gio, Ocon

- Bot on pole, Hamilton in second, Max, then Perez

Race

- people going slow into the grid and Mercedes mad about it

- BOTTAS SPUN ON THE FIRST LAP by Perez!!! AHHHHH

- MAX LEADS INTO THE FIRST TURN AHHHHH HES FIRST

- Daniel has damage, Yuki is out, mick is out

- OKAY DONT WORRY it actually wasn’t Perez!! YAY, it was actually Daniel who hit Perez so Perez is all good

- WoW when Yuki and Ocon and Mick came together I think? They like flew in the air

- Full safety car for the first five laps

- So yeah Yuki and Mick are both out

- Lance has an off and rejoins and has to give back his advantage

- More amazing footage of Mick hugging all the guys on the Alfa Romeo pit wall and beings truly grateful and sweet. I wish he hadn’t been taken out

- As soon as I saw that Carlos was behind Charles and I was like watch he’s gonna complain he’s faster than Charles because Charles is giving him a slipstream and then BOOM five minutes later that exact thing happened and Charles immediately put another half second between him and Sainz on the next lap. Getting real sick of them constantly being nice to Sainz and being mean to Charles

- A bit of a slow stop for Stroll

- Hamilton pits first and comes out behind Charles and Charles holds him up! YES! But then Ferrari calls him in at the end of the lap to get out of Lewis’s way, boooooo. But thankful Charles held up Lewis a little

- Max has a beautiful pit stop and it also means Perez is now leading the race and he is the first Mexican to lead a lap in Mexico

- It’s just wonderful to watch everyone cheering for Sergio as he leads, I’m gonna cry

- 42/71 Bottas has a super slow stop of over 11 seconds because the front left won’t come off and there’s fire and smoke from him being stationary so long but he gets going again

- Sainz accuses Charles of "making a lot of mistakes to keep me behind I think" EXCUSE ME

- They do swap the Ferraris so sainz is in front because Charles tires went off

- Perez is catching Hamilton with ten laps to go and he could DO IT

- It was SO CLOSE but Perez didn’t quite get Hamilton

- MAX WINNNNNNNNNNNSSSSS WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

- Hamilton in second but Perez in third!! First time a Mexican has been on a Mexico podium!!! He came over the radio and said he was so happy they won in his country and it was so beautiful

- Everyone roaring for Perez!! THE POST RACE SCENES ARE SO BEAUTIFUL

- Max and Perez holding up the Mexican flag! And his

- LITTLE CHECO CAME UP TO HIS DAD AT THE POST RACE INTERVIEW

- ONE OF THE BEST POST RACE CELEBRATIONS OF RED BULL AND MAX AND SERGIO IVE EVER SEEN

- They raised up the car to the podium and Max was just sitting on it casually and I love it

- I just can’t get over this crowd atmosphere, the only other time I’ve seen this so far is it’s almost like the Dutch Grand Prix

- Max is the first person ever to win in Mexico 3 times!! THATS WHY ITS MAXICO