Buemi tops second practice in Mexico

Championship leader Sebastien Buemi was quickest in the second practice ahead of this evening’s qualifying session.

The Frenchman was quickest on a 1:03.341 ahead of the ABT pairing of Daniel Abt and Lucas Di Grassi. Abt found himself topping the session for quite a while after setting blistering second and third sector times, which most drivers found difficulty in beating until Buemi pipped him with just a few minutes to go.

In fourth place was Renault e.dams driver Nicholas Prost who was half a second off his teammate’s benchmark. Mike Conway put in an impressive lap to end the session fifth quickest. Turvey, D’Ambrosio, Sarrazin, Vergne, and Piquet Jr rounded out the top 10.

Home favourite Salvador Duran brought out a red flag around 10 minutes into the session after stopping on track, just before Mahindra’s Bruno Senna spun and made slight contact with the wall.

British driver and Argentine E-Prix victor Sam Bird also had a spin at the first chicane after the session got underway again. The two Team Aguri cars set just 10 laps between them, ending the session in 17th and 18th.

The two Mahindra and Andretti drivers found themselves outside the top 10 and must improve if they want points tonight.

Qualifying begins at 6pm tonight (UK Time), here are the groups that the drivers will be in:

Group 1

Stephane Sarrazin, Loic Duval, Nick Heidfeld and Jean-Eric Vergne.

Group 2

Jerome D’Ambrosio, Sebastien Buemi, Lucas di Grassi and Bruno Senna.

Group 3

Nico Prost, Antonio Felix da Costa, Simona de Silvestro, Daniel Abt and Oliver Turvey.

Group 4

Salvador Duran, Nelson Piquet Jr, Sam Bird, Mike Conway and Robin Frijns