Lewis Hamilton set the pace in Friday's first practice for the Mexican GP, a session that was red flagged for several minutes after Lance Stroll crashed. After Thursday's rain, Formula 1 got down to business on a cold and damp Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez with F1's three leading teams all predicting the other will come out tops. Friday's first practice gave us a small indication of what could potentially happen. Given the track conditions it was a slow start to FP1 with Williams test driver Nicholas Latifi, running the soft tyres, posting the first time 25 minutes into the 90-minute session. He clocked a 1:24.463. That was blitzed by Valtteri Bottas on the medium tyres in the Mercedes. A...
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