Christian Horner stated Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez’s hopes of pole place had been thwarted by Yuki Tsunoda’s mistake on the finish of qualifying.

Tsunoda, who drives for Crimson Bull junior group AlphaTauri, ran huge by means of the center sector of the Mexico Metropolis circuit and drove slowly alongside a run-off space which runs adjoining to the monitor. Tsunoda’s second distracted Perez and noticed him go huge on the identical a part of the monitor.

Verstappen was the following automotive by means of that a part of the circuit and though he prevented making the same mistake, he clearly had his rhythm disrupted by means of one of many hardest elements of the lap.

After passing Tsunoda and Perez’s automotive, Verstappen stated over the radio: “Unbelievable! What a dumb fool”.

Talking after the session, Crimson Bull boss Horner stated blame for his group lacking out on pole laid with the Alpha Tauri driver.

“I feel we bought Tsunoda’d,” Horner advised Sky Sports activities.

“Each drivers had been up on their final lap. Max was up two and a half tenths [of a second], I feel Checo [Perez] was slightly below two-tenths up and I do not perceive why he was simply cruising round at that a part of the circuit. It is disappointing as a result of it affected each the drivers and they’re each fairly aggravated. However we’re nonetheless second row of the grid and might have an excellent race from there.”

Crimson Bull was anticipated to be the favorite to win the Mexican Grand Prix however will now begin the race behind the Mercedes drivers Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton.

Horner added: “[Mercedes] had been very fast, very fast.

“I feel we may see yesterday that their engine, they’ve addressed the problems that that they had beforehand right here. I feel we underperformed in Q3, nevertheless it’s nonetheless very, very tight. I feel within the race tomorrow, once more it is going to be very tight. They’ve simply bought straightline velocity right here, which goes to be robust.”