The fact is that Valtteri Bottas won pole position with a lap, which is unmatched by teammates and championship contender Lewis Hamilton. He ranked second, and The suspension of the front row of Mercedes was an unexpected result and was at a loss with the Merc camp.

The Red Bull Boys ranked third and fourth, Verstappen in third, behind Bottas, and Sergio Perez in fourth. For the team with more convenient cars around Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, the second row stoppage was clearly a failure, and it was much faster in FP3 a few hours before the qualifiers.

In the few hours between the end of FP3 and the qualifying in Mexico on Saturday, if you consider the performance improvement between the two quarters, Mercedes found much more time than Red Bull:

Therefore, the story of how the qualifying match was won by Mercedes and lost by Red Bull.

But I don't buy it. We know this team well from the days when they cleaned up with Sebastian Vettel-expect the surprise. I suggest that Red Bull did not "lost" qualifying, but "surprised" for the overall win on Sunday. Verstappen did this effortlessly.

Before we delve into it, if the opposite happens, that is, the two Red Bulls in the front row and the Mercedes driver in the back, what will be the result of the first lap?

If they both have a reasonable start, it is certain that both Black cars will devour the Bulls long before Turn 1, because they have the highest speed and will benefit from slipstream traction and even a slingshot. Maybe Biwei This is even more so for the surge in Stapan.

Our weak advantage in the F1 championship this year clearly shows that in Mexico, the front row is not ideal. The 800-meter resistance drags to the first corner. As we can see, the front row two draw one in the air. Hole.

With this in mind, the Red Bull driver took full advantage of the trailer, bypassed the periphery of Mercs, and then slammed on the brakes to enter T1. The hardest part of Max's day was over, after which he cruised to the ninth victory. So far this season.

However, if he starts from the front row, it is likely that he will also be swallowed, although I believe nothing can stop Max’s victory in Mexico on Sunday, making the game easier (and surely) in the front row than if he had been catching up. .

But because of some shrewd ideas, a day ago, before qualifying, the template for his dominant victory had been set by his team.

Red Bull will calculate and realize that if they start from the front row, they will be dragged into T1, everyone knows this. Therefore, the clever people at Blue calculated the Mercedes' quality capabilities at around 1:15 or 1:16 to understand what their drivers need.

Maybe with Honda's PU adjusted down a bit, they sent their kids to participate in the third quarter of the game, Verstappen's task is to pop up what he did in 1:16 seconds.

For Perez, perhaps ignorant of his team’s cunning tricks, which is always about Max’s championship title in the end, Red Bull gave their drivers enough time about 1:16.5 seconds, and in the slowest Messiah There are about four-tenths of window places between Dess and Fifth.

Their Dutch ace won the second row with a score of 1:16.2. In this season of cloaks and daggers, all this is possible, even possible.

Verstappen's final efforts in the third quarter were combative. Deliberately? Is he cutting those extra time, in other words, is he making sandbags? For a person who has never made a mistake now, his efforts in Q3 were substandard... and he was not angry about it afterwards.

The only argument I heard was how Max and Checo aimed for third and fourth place and actually got it? Because it's like throwing a dart with a blindfold on.

Yes, but these are not just mere mortals. If you give Max a lap time increment to reach the goal, please make sure that he can successfully hit it every time, because most drivers on the grid can or at least Should be able to do it.

On that day in the third quarter, there was an increase of about four tenths of a second between Hamilton and fifth place Pierre Gasly, which was a huge hole for Max and Sergio, even if it was a misunderstanding. You can aim with your eyes open.

Prove? not any. And it is extremely unlikely that Red Bull or Max will admit or even brag about "Saturday Fool's Punch" because they might use it again.

For me, there is evidence that this is not wrong in qualifying from the Red Bull Racing team. This team is absolutely correct, providing impeccable pit stops, getting all the numbers right, and using themselves to be impressive. The smell of the F1 champion pedigree as the 2021 champion becomes stronger when they next travel to Brazil.

In the end, as far as I'm concerned, it was a punch from Red Bull (the poker face that later won the Oscar), and he even cried out to know where all those Merc-horse trots came from.

Instead, they deliberately left their carriages in the stables so that they could use them to win the race before Turn 1 on Sunday, and Max did it.

This is how to win and lose championships. This is my theory.