Renault’s Jolyon Palmer also ran the entire race bar one lap on the medium tyre. Nasr completed the longest first stint of the race, starting on medium and then switching to supersoft only on lap 49, demonstrating the consistency of all the compounds throughout the race. Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel completed the longest first stint on softs, only swapping from the soft to the medium on lap 32. All the drivers apart from Toro Rosso’s Daniil Kvyat chose the medium tyre for the second stint, (with Sauber’s Felipe Nasr having started on mediums). However, Daniel Ricciardo changed to the medium tyre during a virtual safety car period on lap one, before completing a second stop to have a rapid final stint on the soft and finish fourth after using all three compounds. Directly behind them were two Red Bulls starting on the supersoft, which theoretically allowed them a faster start at the expense of a shorter first stint. Most drivers started on the soft compound, including the two Mercedes on the front row of the grid. During the course of the race, Williams driver Valtteri Bottas clocked 372kph on the speed trap (running the medium tyres): quite close to the fastest speed ever seen in a Formula 1 race. Mercedes driver #lewishamilton has won the Mexican Grand Prix from pole, after starting on the soft tyre and then running a one-stop strategy by switching to the medium.
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