Son of Aussie race legend makes F1 debut

Carlos Sainz outpaced teammate Charles Leclerc to apical the times arsenic Ferrari delivered a one-two successful Friday's opening signifier astatine the Mexico Grand Prix.

The Spaniard clocked a fastest thigh successful 1min 20.707sec to bushed his teammate by 0.046sec, up of section leader Sergio Perez and his Red Bull teammate and two-time satellite champion Max Verstappen.

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - OCTOBER 28: Jack Doohan of Australia and Alpine F1 prepares to thrust successful the store during signifier up of the F1 Grand Prix of Mexico astatine Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez connected October 28, 2022 successful Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Dan Istitene - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images) (Formula 1 via Getty Images)

Aussie youngster Jack Doohan made his authoritative F1 debut, driving the Alpine of Esteban Ocon.

The lad of legendary five-time 500cc motorcycling World Champion Mick Doohan, competes for Alpine's inferior programme successful Formula 2, but was deed by motor issues, completing conscionable 13 laps earlier being forced to instrumentality to the garage. He finished the league second-last.

Doohan remains an extracurricular accidental to regenerate Fernando Alonso successful F1 adjacent year, but it appears Alpine whitethorn spell with a much experienced driver.

Seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton was 5th for Mercedes up of two-time champion Fernando Alonso of Alpine successful a league deed by 2 reddish emblem interventions.

Valtteri Bottas was seventh for Alfa Romeo up of McLaren's Lando Norris, Pierre Gasly of Alpha Tauri and Aston Martin's two-time champion Sebastian Vettel.

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