Yet another triumph for Red Bull in the 2022 Formula 1 World Championship. With the controversy and the slight penalty for the budget cap case behind them, the world champion team and Max Verstappen are not satisfied by continuing to take everything: so also the Mexican Grand Prix it is from the flying Dutchman who starts from pole position in command of the race, also controls without worries the old rival Lewis Hamilton, taking away the satisfaction of winning at home from Mexican teammate Sergio Perez, third in the end also behind the Englishman of Mercedes.
Ferrari all back, with Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc respectively only fifth and sixth at the end of an opaque race for the Maranello team which now has to bow in terms of performance even to the Silver Stars.
Pure Gerorge Russell closes ahead of the Reds in fourth place.
Show, folklore, emotions and enthusiasm in Mexico City for Formula 1 more before the race than during and after: almost 400,000 spectators flocked to Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez this weekend to attend the Circus of the speed queen.
The two Red Bulls and the two Ferraris start with soft tires, as well as Tsunoda, Schumacher, Vettel and Latifi.
All others are on medium tires.
The green light turns on and Verstappen retains the first position, while behind him Hamilton makes fun of his teammate Russell, who is also overtaken by the Red Bull of home idol Perez.
Sainz and Leclerc's Ferraris are fifth and sixth respectively after several attempts by the Monegasque to overtake his Spanish teammate.
From the first laps the flying Dutchman sets an almost unsustainable pace for his closest rivals: only Hamilton's Mercedes manages to stay in the wake for a while with two consecutive fast laps, while Perez's other Red Bull comes off. and Russell's Silver Star.
The Ferraris are clearly in difficulty, since at the beginning they are unable to maintain the same pace as the leading 'train': after twenty laps the Reds take a good twenty seconds from Verstappen in the lead without any problems.
Around halfway through the race the pit stop waltz begins with Red Bulls mounting medium tires, same thing for Ferrari, while Mercedes go hard.
At the end of the tire changes the music does not change,
with Verstappen's Red Bull going faster and faster reaching the end of the race with a wide margin on Hamilton's Mercedes and Mexican Perez.
No jolt from the Ferraris and a colorless test that also brings second place in the constructors' championship back into play.
And the party is all for the Red Bulls who now find the lights of the old rivals of the Silver Stars in the mirrors.