The twentieth round of the Formula 1 World Championship will take place this Sunday, October 29 at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez From Mexico City.
The Dutchman Max Verstappen arrives as the absolute leader of the competition with 466 points, followed by the Mexican Sergio Czech Pérez with 240 and the 7-time world champion, Lewis Hamilton, with 201 units in third place.
The Constructors' Championship is led by Oracle Red Bull Racing with 706 points; In second place is Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team with 344, and in third place is Scuderia Ferrari with 322.
The 2023 season is Max Verstappen's ninth in the top category of world motorsport. The native of the Netherlands has 3 F1 world titles; He has achieved 94 podiums in 181 grand prix and 2477.5 points in the drivers' championship.
The Mexican Sergio Pérez has competed in every edition of the Mexican GP since 2015. That year he achieved eighth place with Force India; In 2016 it stayed in position 10; By 2017 she was in the 7th and in 2018 she registered a dropout. For 2019 at Racing Point he got 7th place and in 2021 and 2022 (at Red Bull Racing), he got XNUMXrd place.
The Mexican Grand Prix is held in the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, named in honor of Pedro and Ricardo Rodríguez de la Vega, two of the most important drivers in the history of Mexican motorsport.
Since his return to the Formula 1 calendar, only three different drivers have achieved victory in the Mexican Grand Prix: German Nico Rosberg in 2015; the British Lewis Hamilton in 2016 and 2019, both from the Mercedes team, and Max Verstappen (Red Bull Racing) took the victory in 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2022, being the highest historical winner.
The Mexican Grand Prix circuit is 4,304 kilometers long and has 71 laps, that is, 305,3 kilometers in total. The track record belongs to the Finnish Valtteri Bottas, who in the 2021 edition covered it in 1 minute 17 seconds and 774 hundredths for the Mercedes team.
