Will Day of the Dead prove to be a Day of the Red (Bull)?
The Burning Questions
Will Red Bull have the advantage that most expect of them this weekend?
Can Sergio Pérez do anything special in front of his passionate home crowd?
Will there be any major announcements over the weekend?
The Track
The Stats
- Track Length: 4.304 km
- Laps: 71
- Race Distance: 305.354 km
- Maximum Speed: 350 km/h
- Lap Time at Full Throttle: 51%
- First Grand Prix: 1963
- Race Lap Record: Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 2018 | 1:18.741
- Outright Lap Record: Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull | 2018 | 1:14.759
- Most Driver Wins: Jim Clark/Lewis Hamilton/Nigel Mansell/Alain Prost/Max Verstappen | 1963, 1967/2016, 2019/1987, 1992/1988, 1990/2017, 2018
- Most Constructor Wins: Lotus/McLaren/Mercedes/Williams | 1963, 1967, 1968/1969, 1988, 1989/2015, 2016, 2019/1987, 1991, 1992
The Trivia
- At 2,240 metres above sea level, the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez is by far the highest track on the current F1 calendar
- Gerhard Berger took his first win at the 1986 Mexico Grand Prix, driving a Benetton B186 – one of the most powerful F1 cars ever raced – and completed the win on a single set of tyres
- John Surtees, Denny Hulme, Graham Hill and Lewis Hamilton have all clinched the world title in Mexico, with the latter doing so twice, in 2017 and 2018
- In 2018, Max Verstappen became the first driver to win the Mexican Grand Prix in consecutive years
The Weather
The Quotes
Lewis Hamilton | “I always want to win it in the right way and if you’re going to lose it, you lose it in the right way also.”
Max Verstappen | “I will race hard like Lewis does and everyone else does and of course always try to keep it clean.”
Sergio Pérez | [On whether he would move aside for Verstappen whilst in the lead] “I think it will be a great problem to have from my side, you know? It always depends on the situation, because most of the decisions are normally taken during the race, during the heat of the event, so I think that depending on the circumstances, we’ll see. But I’m pretty sure the whole team, Red Bull, everyone, wants me to win this weekend.
Andrea Stella | “We don’t anticipate that from an HPP (Mercedes) point of view there should be any larger deficit than the other manufacturers. From a power point of view I don’t think this puts a McLaren or any other HPP cars at a disadvantage. Possibly in the past we saw there as a bit more of a swing associated with the power-unit, but I don’t see the technical reasons why this should still be true.”
The Friday Form
Practice 2 Top 5
1 | Max Verstappen | 1:17.301 | 28 Laps
2 | Valtteri Bottas | 1:17.725 | 31 Laps
3 | Lewis Hamilton | 1:17.810 | 26 Laps
4 | Sergio Pérez | 1:17.871 | 26 Laps
5 | Carlos Sainz | 1:18.318 | 29 Laps
Practice 1 Top 5
1 | Valtteri Bottas | 1:18.341 | 28 Laps
2 | Lewis Hamilton | 1:18.417 | 24 Laps
3 | Max Verstappen | 1:18.464 | 28 Laps
4 | Sergio Pérez | 1:18.610 | 20 Laps
5 | Pierre Gasly | 1:18.985 | 23 Laps
The Photos
The Predictions
Podium
Pole Position
Fastest Lap
Driver of the Day
