Overview
- A left‑front suspension failure on Valtteri Bottas’s Cadillac sent him into the TecPro barrier at Turn 1 and caused a heavy impact that stopped the Mexican Grand Prix on Sunday.
- Race medics spent time with Bottas in the cockpit, he climbed out and walked away unaided, and his team said he was taken to the circuit medical centre for precautionary checks.
- Race control declared a red flag while marshals and TecPro crews repaired the damaged barrier, with RaceFans reporting the stoppage after 46 of 71 laps and other accounts placing the crash on lap 45.
- Officials first posted a restart order with Max Verstappen leading then revised it to move Lewis Hamilton ahead of Andrea Kimi Antonelli because Charles Leclerc had pitted under the Safety Car before the red flag.
- A restart time of 3:45pm local was reported but remains to be confirmed, and the incident will prompt further scrutiny of the left‑front suspension failure and the repaired TecPro barrier before racing resumes.