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Round 19 · Mexico City Grand Prix

Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez

Mexico City, Mexico

4.304 km

Lap length

17

Corners

Clockwise

Direction

25

F1 races held

since 1963

What makes it different

  • At roughly 2,240 m above sea level this is by far the highest round of the year - the air is about 22% thinner, which costs engine power and makes maximum downforce behave like a medium-downforce setup elsewhere.
  • Thin air also means less cooling, so brake and power-unit temperatures are a live concern here in a way they are not at sea level.
  • The lap runs through the Foro Sol baseball stadium, with grandstands on both sides of a slow chicane.
  • The circuit is named for brothers Pedro and Ricardo Rodríguez, Mexican racing drivers - Ricardo died here in a practice crash for the first Mexican Grand Prix in 1962, aged just 20.

Home race

Home race for Sergio Pérez.

The records

350.3 km/h

Top speed (2022–now)

Charles Leclerc, 2024

372.5 km/h

Top speed, all time

Valtteri Bottas, 2016

1:17.774

Fastest race lap (2004–now)

Valtteri Bottas, 2021

Max Verstappen · 5 wins

Most wins

2023, 2022, 2021, 2018, 2017

1:15.586

Latest pole time

Lando Norris, 2025

17

Different winners

from 25 races

50% (5 of 10)

Pole converted to win

since 2015

20

Youngest winner

Max Verstappen, 2017

39

Oldest winner

Graham Hill, 1968

13% — roughly 1 car in 8

Cars that don't finish

last 4 races here, since 2022

2.8 places

How much the order changes

up or down from the grid slot, on average — about the calendar average

"Cars that don't finish" and "How much the order changes" both cover the 4 Grands Prix run here since 2022. Movement is the distance between a car’s grid slot and its finish, in either direction — not a count of overtakes, since a car retiring ahead of a driver moves that driver up too.

This grid’s history here

DriverWinsPodiumsPoles
Max Verstappen5 wins · 2023, 2022, 2021, 2018, 20175 podiums · 2023, 2022, 2021, 2018, 20172 poles · 2022, 2019
Lewis Hamilton2 wins · 2019, 20162 podiums · 2019, 20161 pole · 2016
Lando Norris1 win · 20251 podium · 20251 pole · 2025
Carlos Sainz1 win · 20241 podium · 20241 pole · 2024
Charles Leclerc——1 pole · 2023
Valtteri Bottas——1 pole · 2021

Recent form at this circuit

Last winners

Last pole times

Historic moments

2021 · Pérez's first Mexican podium at home

Sergio Pérez became the first Mexican driver to stand on the podium at his home Grand Prix, taking third place behind Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton in front of more than 130,000 fans. He called it the biggest day of his career outside an actual win.

1990 · Mansell's outside pass at the Peraltada

Nigel Mansell went around the outside of Gerhard Berger through the flat-out, banked Peraltada corner in 1990 - one of the most fearless overtakes in F1 history, on a corner since replaced by the stadium chicane the lap now runs through.

Mexico City Grand Prix coverage

No coverage is tagged to the Mexico City Grand Prix yet - stories are matched to a round while the weekend is running, so this fills in from practice onwards.

The Mexico City Grand Prix preview has the session times and what to watch for, and the standings show where the season sits.