Ferrari stats and facts in F1 Mexican GP | 2022 Mexico City statistics. Ferrari stats and facts in F1 Mexican GP.

CIRCUIT INFO

LOCATION: Mexico City
FIRST GP: 1963
CIRCUIT LENGTH: 4.304 km
RACE DISTANCE: 305.354 km
LAPS: 71
LAP RECORD: 1:18.741Valtteri Bottas (2018)

Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City
Home to all 21 Mexican Grand Prix which counted towards the Formula 1 World Championship, the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez hosted the first event back in 1963. The 4.304 kilometre track has undergone a major renovation. The main straight is a good 1.2 kilometres long, but this is not a low downforce track. In fact, there are some slow corners and a series of esses where good aero downforce is a key requirement. The most distinctive part of the track was the final corner, called Peraltada, a long slightly raised hairpin, which leads onto the very fast main straight. The latest changes mean that that half the old Peraltada is no longer in use and now, a series of three slow corners join up to the mid-point of the corner. Scuderia Ferrari won twice in Mexico, in 1970 with Jacky Ickx and in 1990 with Alain Prost.

Last season, Charles Leclerc finished in fifth place for the Maranello team and was followed by his teammate Carlos Sainz, as Max Verstappen won the race ahead of Lewis Hamilton and Sergio Pérez.

THE FIRST CORNER
The Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez has undergone several changes and so there is no reference point for current F1 cars. However, it’s clear overtaking should be on the cards, especially at the first braking point.

PROST’S GEM
In 1990 here, Alain Prost took possibly his best ever win for Scuderia Ferrari. The French driver was able to manage the tyres perfectly and, with team-mate Nigel Mansell they secured a memorable one-two finish for the Italian side, after the Englishman passed Gerhard Berger’s McLaren on the final lap of the Mexican Grand Prix!