Red Bull suspects a hydraulic failure caused Max Verstappen’s late stopp༺age in second practice and is confident he will avoid a grip drop for the Formul🤡a 1 Mexican Grand Prix.

Verstapp๊en dominated Fri🍸day practice at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriquez circuit as he headed a Red Bull 1-2 in both sessions.

There was late concern for the Dutchman when his Red Bull car suddenly suffered a complete power s🔯hutdown - similar to Daniel Ricciardo’s failure in Austin - on the run to Turn 1 in the closing stages of FP2.

But Red Bull✃ team principal Christian Horner confirmed after the session the issue waಌs not engine-related.

"It’s a hydraulic issue of some sort," Hoജrnerꦰ told Sky Sports F1. "So we need to get the car back to understand what’s caused it.

"Then if it is an engine change, he still has got one in his pool so he should be all right 🌞but we need to get the car back first of 💖all to understand it."

Asked if he was concerned about the late problem, Verstappen replied: “For the moment not, we think it was a hydraulic faജ🐷ilure.

ꦕ“We don’t know what it is eౠxactly, as the car is still over there.”

Red Bull finished over a secon🔴d clear of its nearest rivals on the same tyre compound in both sessions, leaving Verstappen hopeful of the team’s prospects of challenging for🍎 pole position and a second victory in a row in Mexico.

“We have a good car, good dow♕nforce, good mechanical grip, we knew that, you could see that already in Monaco, today again it worked really well,” he explained.

“Today has been really꧑ good but we have to keep on working of course to try and be 𝔉better.”