Mexico City Grand Prix Qualifying Facts & Stats: Bottas continues his qualifying hot streak

An astonishing Mexico City Grand Prix qualifying session saw Valtteri Bottas take pole ahead of team mate Lewis Hamilton as Mercedes ended a long drought at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. Here are the facts and stats from Saturday's scintillating session.

• Mercedes have their first front row of any kind in Mexico since 2016.

• Bottas has his third pole of season and second in three races.

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• Hamilton has won from second on the grid three times this year (Bahrain, Portugal, Great Britain).

• Max Verstappen third – only the sixth time this season that he has not been on the front row in 2021.

• Sergio Perez has never previously started in the top-eight in Mexico.

• Pierre Gasly qualified P5 – AlphaTauri/Toro Rosso's best-ever in Mexico.

• Carlos Sainz managed his best-ever qualifying in Mexico with P6, but he's never scored a point here.

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• With P7, Daniel Ricciardo matched McLaren's performance in 2019.

• Charles Leclerc outqualified by Sainz for only the fifth time this year.

• Yuki Tsunoda ensured both AlphaTauris reach Q3 for the third consecutive race, and second consecutive race in Mexico City.

• Kimi Raikkonen's 12th in Q2 is his best Q2 performance of the year.

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• Fernando Alonso was out in Q1 for the first time since Monaco.

• Mick Schumacher has outqualified Haas team mate Nikita in every conventional qualifying this year when he has set a time.