George Russell has warned that traffic will pose an issue during qualifying at the Mexico Grand Prix. He explains that the short and twisty track of the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez will leave drivers vulnerable to an early exit if their timing isn't perfect.

FP1 saw the Mercedes driver watch from the grandstands as he slipped between fans disguised in a lucha libre mask.

"One thing when you're an F1 driver, is you can't watch F1," he said. "It's rare you get the chance to go out, and I thought, you know what, I'll try and do something semi-normal, and I didn't get recognised too much, and enjoyed it.”

Back in the car for FP2, Russell placed sixth on the timesheet, four tenths off pacesetter Max Verstappen . His rookie team-mate Andrea Kimi Antonelli also impressed, finishing th

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