All you need to know about Mexican GP  | Fast Facts
• This is the fourth Mexico City Grand Prix, with the race in Mexico first acquiring this name in 2021. Prior to this, there were 20 World Championship Mexican Grands Prix all of which have been held on the various iterations of this circuit. The race was first held between 1963-1970 when this was the Magdalena Mixhuca circuit, it returned for a second stint between 1986-1992 when it renamed as the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, and the most recent sequence began in 2015, only missing 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. »

• Max Verstappen is the most successful driver at this circuit with five victories. He first won here in 2017 and then added victories in 2018, 2021, 2022 and last year. All the Dutchman’s wins have been scored with Red Bull Racing. »

• Verstappen’s five victories also make Red Bull Racing the most successful team at this circuit, two ahead of Lotus, McLaren, Williams and Mercedes. Lewis Hamilton is the only other Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez winner in the current field. The Briton won for Mercedes in 2016 and 2019. »

• Grand Prix great Jim Clark has the most pole positions at this circuit. The Scot started from the front in 1963, 1964-’65 and in 1967. »

• This weekend Fernando Alonso is celebrating a remarkable 400 grand prix presences. He has started 396 races, with the only times he has not featured being the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix, when he retired after three laps and a later crash for Luciano Burti rendered the first start null and void, the 2005 US Grand Prix, when tyre issues forced all but six drivers to withdraw from the race, and the 2017 Russian Grand Prix, when an ERS issue stopped him before the start. »

• Of the current grid, only Charles Leclerc has been on pole more than once here. The Monegasque driver started from P1 in 2019 and last year. »

• From the eight races held on this track since F1’s return to Mexico in 2015, the race has been won from pole on only three occasions. Nico Rosberg won from pole in 2015, Hamilton repeated the feat the following year and Verstappen won from pole in 2022. It remains the only one of his five wins to come from P1. The only other current driver to have had pole here is Valtteri Bottaas in 2021 with Mercedes. »

• Both RB’s Liam Lawson and Williams’ Franco Colapinto will get their first taste of the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez this weekend.

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