Lewis Hamilton stormed to a clear pole position at the Mexican Grand Prix, beating his Mercedes team-mate and title rival Nico Rosberg.
The British driver looked quick throughout qualifying, making it through to Q3 by using the soft tyre compound in Q2.
His first lap of 1m18.704 proved to be good enough, as drivers struggled to improve with their second runs in the top 10 shoot-out.
Rosberg found himself down in fourth after the opening laps but moved up to second place with his final attempt, securing Mercedes another front row lock-out.
Max Verstappen was three tenths off Hamilton’s best time in third, just ahead of team-mate Daniel Ricciardo.
Nico Hulkenberg was fifth for Force India, ahead of the Ferrari duo of Kimi Raikkonen – who bailed on his final lap – and Sebastian Vettel. Valtteri Bottas, Felipe Massa and Carlos Sainz Jr. rounded out the top 10.
Fernando Alonso just missed out on Q3 and ended the second segment of qualifying 11th, being joined in the drop-zone by Sergio Perez and Jenson Button.
Kevin Magnussen improved late on to 14th, with Marcus Ericsson and Pascal Wehrlein next up after the Manor driver just snuck into Q2.
It was a tough Q1 for the Haas F1 outfit, with Esteban Gutierrez and Romain Grosjean being eliminated in 17th and 21st – Daniil Kvyat, Felipe Nasr and Esteban Ocon between them.
Jolyon Palmer failed to take part in qualifying after the team found a crack in his chassis, caused by running wide on a kerb in FP3.
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