Da Costa posted a 1m07.345s in the final few minutes of the session, overturning Lotterer by 0.041s despite the German driver’s obvious speed around the 2.606km Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez layout.
Lotterer spent the majority of the session on top of the times, picking up where he left off in the first practice session – in which he posted a 1m07.509s benchmark.
Sebastien Buemi hinted at a revitalised Nissan e.dams squad by being the first driver to bring the times in FP2 below the 1m08s window – the Swiss driver having been second in FP1 earlier in the day.
But although Lotterer beat that by a scant 0.008s margin, the Porsche driver’s time was erased for a track limits violation.
Lotterer regrouped and punched in a 1m07.386s on a full-power run, as his team-mate Pascal Wehrlein shuffled up to second with a lap 0.3s off his team-mate.
Championship leader Edoardo Mortara then went fastest with a 1m07.346s, but his time spend atop the timesheets was shortlived as his lap also fell…
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