Ricciardo on pole, Verstappen 2nd, Hamilton 3rd, Vettel 4th
Hamilton will win fifth world title with 7th or higher on Sunday - race at 19:10 GMT
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Romain Grosjean who starts P16 tomorrow says: "There's something about Mexico and Haas that doesn't work but we'll keep working at it. We can't quite get it right - we tried to maximise with the hypersoft but it didn't go to Q2."
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Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra
Esteban Ocon is in the money seat (in the midfield), starting 11th but with a free choice of his tyres.
Q2
Alonso's engineer: "That's P12, good job well done."
Sadly he didn't make it. Alonso has only reached Q3 twice this season.
Q2
Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra
It is a shame for Brendon Hartley he went wide at Turn 12 and he knew it, radioing straight to his team saying 'sorry, I messed it up'. He has shown some pace but not been able to use it.
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Nobody improves on Verstappen's time. However Hamilton is scarily close... 0.004 behind.
With two minutes to go, we've had a swap for hypersofts - the faster tyre, but with the highest amount of degradation.
It's only Force India who aren't wearing those matching pink boots.
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Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live
We are going to be in for a thriller later on with all the top six drivers giving it the full beans.
Q2
The top six are all riding ultrasofts.
That tyre strategy worked perfectly for Kimi Raikkonen to take Hamilton from P2 on the first corner last week in Austin and lead most of the race.
Who's going to try it this weekend?
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Jennie Gow
BBC Radio 5 live pit-lane reporter
Isn't this tasty. This is what we have been after all year. We've wanted the top six to be fighting it out for pole. This is really exciting in what we could see in this final qualifying session.
Q2
In the drop zone we have:
16. Hartley
17. Perez
18. Ocon
19. Alonso
20. Gasly
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Q2
Verstappen: "Do you think that’s good enough?"
Engineer: "Yep, we’re happy with that."
Q2
Verstappen is back at the top, with a new track record of 1:15.640.
He's smashing those track records... driver of the day and number two on the podium last week - what can we expect from Max Verstappen today?
Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra
The top six are separated by three and a half tenths.
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James Horrocks: BIG FAN OF @Max33Verstappen, external and surefire world champion but after USA water pump failure Dani Ric will have the added rage to get pole.
Joanna Harran: Having Corona with lime and some nachos, just need a half decent result for McLaren to make it a perfect quali.
Now that sounds perfect... where can we find that at BBC Towers?
Jeremiah: All odds are for Max and Red Bull to take Pole in #MexicanGP, external. But I think there is going to be a spicy moment. Trust Hamilton to pull one from his bag of "hammers" and Vettel throwing in the Ferrari power to disappoint the Red Bulls.
Bob McFeil: I thought everyone hoovers their bed? (See 18:50 entry)
A quick ask around the BBC office, and it seems nobody else does...
Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra
No-one wants to start the race on the hypersoft tyres. It is the quickest tyre, but degrades very, very quickly.
We're off out for Q2.
Let's see what the tyre game is.
Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra
Both Haas cars out in Q1, Romain Grosjean improved, but Charles Leclerc pushed him out. Stoffel Vandoorne out, he was one tenth behind Alonso. It was not a bad effort from Vandoorne but the midfield battle is so close.
He's got 81 pole positions which is more than any other driver, ever.
This is his season so far, and this weekend it could make all the difference. He has to finish seventh or higher in order to claim his fifth world title.
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