Hughes fastest for Maserati in damp second Mexico City practice

Jake Hughes was fastest in second practice for the Mexico City E-Prix as wet conditions shook up the order compared to Friday’s first session, with only four drivers from Friday’s top 10 remaining there.

The mixed conditions – with the track drying towards the end of the session – not only affected the order, but lap times too, with Maserati MSG driverHughes’ table topping lap of 1m25.808s -- 15 seconds slower than the fastest FP1 time. The top 10 was covered by 0.628s on Friday, but that spread was over 1.719s this time around.

Second was Jaguar TCS Racing’s Nick Cassidy, who moved up the order late on despite a spin at Turn 15. He was 0.157s off Hughes pace, with Pascal Wehrlein leading a trio of Porsche-powered cars in third, another 0.197s back. Andretti’s Jake Dennis split the two factory Porsches in fourth, with Friday’s fastest Antonio Felix da Costa fifth.

Nyck de Vries was sixth fastest for Mahindra ahead of Envision Racing’s Robin Frijns and Stoffel Vandoorne who ensured both Maseratis were in the top 10 after both missed out on Friday, with Maximilain Guenther ninth in the similarly Stellantis Powered DS Penske, while Oliver Rowland completed the top 10 for Nissan.

Mitch Evans was 11th in the second Jaguar, just under three tenths adrift of the top 10, ahead of Nico Mueller, who improved one spot in his Andretti Porsche.

Previous series champions Jean-Eric Vergne, Lucas di Grassi, and Sebastien Buemi were next up for DS Penske, Lola Yamaha Abt and Envision respectively, ahead of Cupra Kiro’s Dan Ticktum and the NEOM McLarens of Taylor Barnard and Sam Bird, with Zane Maloney (Lola), Norman Nato (Nisssan), and Edoardo Mortara (Mahindra) next up. David Beckmann once again rounded out the field for Kiro.

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Dominik Wilde

Dominik often jokes that he was born in the wrong country – a lover of NASCAR and IndyCar, he covered both in a past life as a junior at Autosport in the UK, but he’s spent most of his career to date covering the sliding and flying antics of the U.S.’ interpretation of rallycross. Rather fitting for a man that says he likes “seeing cars do what they’re not supposed to do”, previously worked for a car stunt show, and once even rolled a rally car with Travis Pastrana. He was also comprehensively beaten in a kart race by Sebastien Loeb once, but who hasn’t been?

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