Untelevised Mexican GP team radio has revealed how George Russell poked fun at an incident sparked by Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton.

Polesitter Lando Norris tackled the first braking zone four-wide alongside Lewis Hamilton, Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen, from inside to outside; while the former two stayed on the track, Leclerc and Verstappen ended up cutting Turn 2, then emerging in first and third respectively.

Mercedes driver George Russell used a Lucha Libre mask to sneak into the crowd Friday during opening practice ahead of the Mexico City Grand Prix.

OK, when I hit a lob we both come to the net,” George Russell instructs me. “But stick to your side. Force them to play down the middle.” It is late Wednesday morning at the Centro Deportivo Chapultepec in Mexico City and I am getting a brief taste of what it is like to be Russell’s team-mate over a game of padel.

Russell found himself running behind team-mate Kimi Antonelli during the second half of Sunday’s race at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, with Oliver Bearman in his sights and McLaren star Oscar Piastri hunting him down from behind.

After watching FP1 undercover in a lucha libre mask, the Mercedes driver returned for FP2 and cautioned that the short, twisty layout will make clean laps critical in qualifying

George Russell joked that he would probably have done the same thing as the Red Bull staff member regarding the tape incident if he were in a similar situation at the United States Grand Prix. The Mercedes driver,