MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- Lewis Hamilton claimed a comfortable pole position at the Mexican Grand Prix ahead of championship rival Nico Rosberg, who struggled initially before a last-gasp effort put him on the front row alongside his teammate for Sundays race.Hamilton looked like the quickest driver throughout the session while Rosberg struggled to feature in the top four in Q1 and Q2. Hamilton set his pole position time on his first attempt in Q3, with Rosbergs initial effort leaving him behind both Red Bulls in fourth. However, as Hamilton, Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen all failed to improve on their second attempts, Rosberg found 0.3s to take second place from Verstappen by 0.096s. Ricciardo took fourth on the grid, a further 0.079s adrift of his teammate.The second place start is crucial for Rosberg, who needs to finish second or third this weekend to keep the championship battle in his hands. Up until Q3 it had looked like his weakest weekend in recent memory, but his final lap maintained an impressive record of consecutive front row starts that extends back to last years Japanese Grand Prix.?The strategies of the top two teams will be split for Sundays race, with Mercedes set to start on the soft tyres after using that compound in Q2. Red Bull used the super-softs in Q2 and will start on that compound as a result, with only Ferrari following Mercedes lead of passing through Q2 on the softs.However, the Ferraris were unable to find the pace when it mattered in Q3, with Nico Hulkenberg in the Force India beating both Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel to fifth. Hulkenbergs pace had been impressive all weekend and he finished just 0.197s off Ricciardos best effort.Raikkonen is set to start sixth after a suspected engine problem in Q3, while Vettel struggled to hook all three sectors together despite showing impressive pace in sector one. The two Williams will start eighth and ninth, with Valtteri Bottas 0.481s faster than teammate Felipe Massa. Carlos Sainz rounded out the top ten with an impressive lap in the Toro Rosso.Fernando Alonso missed out on a place in Q3 by 0.113s as the two Williams, Hulkenberg and Sainz all upped their pace at the end of the second session. Alonso was 0.005s clear of home hero Sergio Perez in the Force India in 12th, who ruined his final attempt by locking a brake on entry to Turn 1. Jenson Button was 13th fastest in the second McLaren, after setting a time 0.391s off teammate Alonso, and will start ahead of Kevin Magnussen and Marcus Ericsson. Pascal Wehrlein impressed by hauling his Manor into Q2, but in doing so used all three of sets of his super-softs, leaving him with no fresh tyres to attack Q2.Esteban Gutierrez missed out on a position in Q2 at his home race by just 0.038s after spinning on his final attempt at Turn 9. 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The move by the Thessaloniki club had been pre-announced by Greek-Russian owner Ivan Savvidis, who was angry after they were punished for crowd violence during the first leg on March 3.PAOK were fined 100,000 euros (£78,000; $113,000), docked three points from next seasons Greek Super League and ordered to play three matches behind closed doors. The Greek federation will most likely now deduct three more points from PAOK and slap them with a heavy fine for not showing up at the Karaiskakis Stadium in the Athens port of Piraeus.The refusal to show up means Olympiakos will be awarded an automatic 3-0 win and will go on to face AEK in the final at the Athens Olympic Stadium on May 7 in an attempt to win the double.ddddddddddddOlympiakos had also been awarded a 3-0 win in the first leg, which was abandoned in the 89th minute when PAOK fans invaded the pitch and dozens of flares and smoke bombs were thrown from the stands. Olympiakos had been leading 2-1 at the time.Deputy sports minister Stavros Kontonis took the radical measure of cancelling the cup after the incidents for fear of violence in upcoming contests, a move which angered the Greek federation, FIFA and UEFA.Pressure from FIFA forced Kontonis to back down on his decision with a compromise that the remaining matches be played behind closed doors. Also See: Transfer Centre Latest transfer news Transfer betting Paper Talk ' ' '