Red Bull suspects a hydraulic failure caused Max Verstappen’s late stoppage in second practice and is confident he will avoid a grip drop for thꦉe Formula 1 Mexican Grand Prix.

Verstappen dominated Friday practice at the Au🌌todromo Hermanos Rodriquez circuit as he headed a Red Bull 1-2 in both s🦩essions.

There was late concern for the Dutchman when his Red Bull car suddenly 🍸suffered a complete power shutdown𝔍 - 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 was not engiꦜne-related.

"It’s a hydraulic issue of some ꦆsort," Horner 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 laꦚte💮 problem, Verstappen replied: “For the moment not, we think it was a hydraulic failure.

“We don’🌊t💃 know what it is exactly, as the car is still over there.”

Red Bull finish🔴ed over a second clear of ꦦits 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 go﷽od car, good downforce, good mecha🍸nical grip, we knew that, you could see that already in Monaco, today again it worked really well,” he explained.

“Today has been really good but we have to keep on working of cꦉourse to try and be better.”