Mercedes are stood like statues as George Russell stays pit for 10 seconds. The penalty has been served, so off he goes to rejoin the action in eighth place.

Kimi Antonelli has stayed out and is leading this from Lando Norris and the Red Bull of Max Verstappen.

George Russell is told to pit by Mercedes on the next lap, so the team will be preparing themselves to stand still for 10 seconds.

Marc Priestley
Former F1 mechanic on Radio 5 Live in Mexico City

Going back on the Max Verstappen Charles Leclerc battle, what they are now on, effectively, is the same strategy, albeit on a different tyre but they are on the same pit stop strategy to the end of the grand prix. Either they can both go to the end, in which case Max just has to hold him back or the car behind, currently Leclerc, could potentially if he is struggling to get past opt for a two stop in about 15-20 laps or so, get back on a set of soft tyres and try and get past him that way.

Lewis Hamilton is banking the fastest laps on his fresh rubber from sixth place, but George Russell is feeling the heat from the McLaren of world champion Lando Norris. Neither of those drivers haved pitted yet, and Russell has a 10-second penalty to serve for causing a collision.

Norris: "Is there really nothing we can do at the minute?

Engineer: "Our best bet now is to stay out for the safety car."

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So, a bit of magic by Max Verstappen and that should be enough to keep the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc off his rear wing. Lando Norris has been asking what the strategy options are as he sits in third place on his starting soft tyres.

Engineer: "We basically need one of your magic Mexico stints here, Max. Just do enough to keep him behind."

Championship leader Kimi Antonelli jumps to the head of the field, but as the Italian, along with George Russell in second and world champion Lando Norris in third have yet to pit, Max Verstappen in fourth is just waiting to take control of this 71-lap grand prix.

Ferrari pull the trigger and Lewis Hamilton is told to come in for a stop. He dumps his sift tyres, takes on some mediums, but comes out behind team-mate Charles Leclerc, who has now served his five-second time penalty.

Lewis Hamilton goes into the lead of this Mexico City Grand Prix, but the seven-time world champion is yet to pit.

Charles Leclerc comes out in fifth and is beaten by Max Verstappen, who is sitting in fourth and will take the lead soon when the rest of the frontrunners come in.

Damon Hill
1996 world champion on BBC Radio 5 Live in Mexico City

[Lewis Hamilton] is pushing the point just to make it clear why he is where he is, but I think it is pointless asking the team or getting the message across to the team. The stewards are not going to change their decisions but he can still to better than this. He's not completely out of it.

Oscar Piastri makes his stop and comes out in P12, where he qualified yesterday, on the medium tyres.

Two more teams are getting ready for stops - Ferrari and Red Bull.

Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen are coming in!

McLaren are getting ready to collect one of their drivers for a pit stop. Which one are they planning to bring in? It's Australian Oscar Piastri, who arrives at the pit entry, ready to take on some new tyres.

The likes of Franco Colapinto and Arvid Lindblad are still in the points in this race, as their two teams, Alpine and Racing Bulls, battle for fifth place in the teams' standings.

We haven't heard any team radio from Charles Leclerc yet as he keeps the lead of this race by 5.2 seconds from Max Verstappen. The PR department will be working overtime now at Ferrari, though, after Lewis Hamilton's latest message.

Hamilton: "The stewards are basically handing Charles this win. We agreed in the drivers meeting."

The radio is red-hot at Ferrari now. Lewis Hamilton is planed in third place after starting on pole position, and the seven-time world champion flags to his engineer what was discussed in the drivers' briefing, adding the stewards are "handing" his team-mate Charles Leclerc this win.

Marc Priestley
Former F1 mechanic on Radio 5 Live in Mexico City

The difficulty that everyone has now got is we are settling into this phase of the race where people are managing tyres, they don't want to pit too early. They want to wait for either somebody to blink before them to open up a gap they can slot into or to run as deep as they can to make the one stop strategy that they think is best work. But, it means that because you are managing tyres, you're managing temperatures of things like brakes and power unit cooling, you don't have the ability to sit very close behind the car for very long before things overheat.

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Over at McLaren, Lando Norris is having a strategy chat with his engineer.