“In a surprising turn of events, Charles Leclerc confessed that he hadn’t anticipated his victory on Saturday as he clinched pole position, with his teammate Carlos Sainz, enabling Ferrari to dominate the front row for Sunday’s Mexico Grand Prix.”
In a chaotic and confusing qualifying session that seemed set to see Max Verstappen on pole again, Ferrari emerged in Q3 with a surge of pace that surprised almost everyone.
The Monegasque clocked a best lap in one minute and 17.166 seconds to beat the Spaniard by 0.067 seconds, leaving newly-crowned three-time world champion Verstappen third for Red Bull.
“It’s two weekends in a row where we say that we don’t know if we have the pace,” said Leclerc. “People will start not believing us anymore! To be honest, I did not expect to be on pole today, I thought we were lucky after FP3.
