Mexican GP final practice and qualifying
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By: Geoff Creighton
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That's it for Autosport's live coverage of qualifying for the Mexican Grand Prix. Join us tomorrow to find out whether Vettel can convert his pole to victory for Ferrari and whether Hamilton can do enough to clinch his fourth world championship. Meanwhile, live coverage of Rally Great Britain continues here: 
Here's Edd Straw's full report of a thrilling qualifying session in Mexico: 
Hamilton is not on pole but still right in the mix and on for the championship-clinching result he needs: "We're still on for the win. We'll have to see what happens with Max. I hope to have a battle with at least one of them."
"The tyres don't work - unbelievable!" Verstappen is not a happy man and things may yet get worse if he is penalised for impeding Bottas in Q3.
Final Q3 order: Vettel, Verstappen, Hamilton, Bottas, Raikkonen, Ocon, Ricciardo, Hulkenberg, Sainz, Perez.
Raikkonen goes fifth. Ricciardo is beaten into the top six by Ocon's Force India! Terrible session for Ricciardo.
"I lost quite a bit of time on the straight," says Verstappen, and he's told it could be wind-related.
"What are your thoughts?" Verstappen is asked. "Yeah, this is good," he says, which feels like a slight understatement.
A bad first run for Raikkonen, 1.3s off Vettel. We can expect him and Bottas to do better on the next runs.
Ricciardo only fourth on his first Q3 run. Verstappen has got something extra in his Red Bull today. Ricciardo is nine tenths down on his team-mate.
Verstappen's next lap is clean and he leaps to the top of the pile, almost three tenths clear of Vettel.
The Red Bull stayed off the racing line, but it wasn't a great effort in terms of keeping out of the Mercedes driver's way. You can see why that wrong-footed Bottas.
Bottas has to get around a slowing Verstappen, and he promptly locks up at the hairpin in the stadium moments later.
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