(Reuters) – Formula One statistics for Sunday’s Mexico City Grand Prix at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, round 20 of the 24-race season.
Lap distance: 4.304km. Total distance: 305.354km (71 laps)
2023 race winner: Max Verstappen (Netherlands) Red Bull
2023 pole position: Charles Leclerc (Monaco) Ferrari one minute, 17.166 seconds
Race lap record: 1:17.774, Valtteri Bottas (Finland) Mercedes 2021.
Start time: 2000GMT/1400 local
MEXICO
The race is officially named the Mexico City Grand Prix.
Verstappen has won five of the last six races in Mexico, his joint most successful track with the Red Bull ring.
Red Bull’s Sergio Perez is the only Mexican driver on the starting grid, and the most successful with six career victories, but he has yet to win this season.
Perez has twice finished on the podium in Mexico (third in 2021 and 2022).
Lewis Hamilton (2016, 2019) and Verstappen (2017, 2018, 2021, 2022 and 2023) are the only active drivers to have won in Mexico.
The race was won from pole position in 2015, 2016 and 2022. Three of the last four wins have been from third on the grid.
Ferrari swept the front row last year.
Sunday will be the 24th time Mexico has held a championship grand prix.
The circuit is the highest of any on the calendar at 2,285m above sea level. Cars reach speeds of 320kph down the long opening straight. The final sector runs into the Foro Sol stadium section with 30,000 fans in high grandstands.
WINS
Seven-times world champion Hamilton has a record 105 career victories from 351 starts, Verstappen has 61 from 204.
Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes have all won races this season, the most teams since 2021 when Red Bull, Mercedes, Alpine and McLaren won.
Seven drivers have triumphed, the most in a single season since 2012 when there were eight.
Red Bull, who won all but one race last year, have now gone nine without a win.
Verstappen has won seven times this season. McLaren five, Ferrari four and Mercedes three.
Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz won in Melbourne, McLaren’s Lando Norris in Miami, the Netherlands and Singapore, Leclerc in Monaco, Italy and Texas, Mercedes’s George Russell in Spain, Hamilton in Britain and Belgium and McLaren’s Oscar Piastri in Hungary and Azerbaijan.
Ferrari top the all time list with 247 wins, McLaren have 188, Mercedes 128 and Red Bull 120.
POLE POSITION
Verstappen has had eight poles this year. That includes the first seven, equalling Alain Prost’s 1993 record, and eight in a row including the last race of 2023 — equalling Ayrton Senna’s 1988-89 record.
The Dutch driver was last on pole in Austria in June.
Leclerc took pole in Monaco, Belgium and Azerbaijan. Russell was fastest in Canada and Britain. Norris took the top spot in Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Italy, Singapore and Texas.
Hamilton has a record 104 poles, his most recent in Hungary in July 2023.
PODIUMS
Verstappen has 110 career podiums, Hamilton a record 201.
Verstappen has been on the podium 12 times this season, Norris 11, Leclerc 10, Piastri seven and Sainz six.
CHAMPIONSHIP
Verstappen leads Norris by 57 points with five rounds remaining.
McLaren are 40 points clear of Red Bull.
MILESTONE
Mexico will be a record 400th race for Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso, although he qualified for but did not start three of his 399 to date.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Christian Radnedge)
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