Five rookie/stand-in drivers participated in the session to fulfill the FIA's mandatory young driver outings:
: Zhou Guanyu experienced a gearbox failure at the end of the pit lane, while Jack Doohan (standing in for Esteban Ocon) had his session cut short by power unit "anomalies". Rookie Performances
(AlphaTauri): P16 (Quickest rookie despite his late failure) Logan Sargeant (Williams): P17 Nyck de Vries (Mercedes): P18 Jack Doohan (Alpine): P19 Pietro Fittipaldi (Haas): P20 F1 2022 Mexican Grand Prix - FP1 results - RacingNews365 FIA Formula 1 2022: Mexico F1 GP Practice 1 - Broadcast 1
: In the final five minutes, Liam Lawson (standing in for Yuki Tsunoda at AlphaTauri) suffered a technical failure in the stadium section. His front-left brakes caught fire shortly after, and the session was not restarted.
set the pace with a time of 1:20.707 , narrowly edging out his teammate Charles Leclerc by just 0.046 seconds. The session was incredibly tight, with the top six drivers—representing Ferrari, Red Bull, Mercedes, and Alpine—separated by less than two-tenths of a second. Five rookie/stand-in drivers participated in the session to
Notably, the Red Bull pairing of and Max Verstappen set identical lap times (1:20.827), with home favorite Perez officially classified in 3rd because he recorded the time first. Carlos Sainz Charles Leclerc Sergio Pérez Max Verstappen Lewis Hamilton Fernando Alonso Key Moments & Incidents
The session was highly disruptive for several teams due to reliability issues on the high-altitude Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez circuit: set the pace with a time of 1:20
: Triggered with approximately 22 minutes remaining when Pietro Fittipaldi (standing in for Kevin Magnussen at Haas) ground to a halt at Turn 2 due to an MGU-K failure.