Formula One F1 - Mexico City Grand Prix - Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, Mexico City, Mexico - October 27, 2024 General view of Red Bull's Max Verstappen in action during the race REUTERS/Henry Romero
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Formula One statistics for Sunday's Mexico City Grand Prix at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, the 20th race of the 24 round championship.
Lap distance: 4.304km. Total distance: 305.584km (71 laps)
2024 race winner: Carlos Sainz (Spain) Ferrari
2024 pole position: Sainz, one minute 15.946 seconds Race lap record: 1:17.774, Valtteri Bottas (Finland) Mercedes 2021.
Start time: 2000GMT/1400 local
MEXICO
The race is officially the Mexico City Grand Prix.
Verstappen has won five of the last seven races in Mexico, making it his joint most successful track with Austria's Red Bull ring.
Lewis Hamilton (2016, 2019), Verstappen (2017, 2018, 2021, 2022 and 2023) and Sainz (2024) are the only active drivers to have won in Mexico.
The race was won from pole position in 2015, 2016, 2022 and 2024. Three of the last five wins have been from third on the grid.
Sunday will be the 25th time Mexico has held a championship grand prix.
The circuit is the highest on the calendar at 2,285m above sea level. Cars reach 320kph down the long opening straight. The final sector runs into the Foro Sol stadium section with 30,000 fans in high grandstands.
Sainz, now at Williams, has a five place grid penalty for Sunday's race for causing a collision in Austin.
DRIVERS' CHAMPIONSHIP
McLaren's Oscar Piastri leads teammate Norris by 14 points with five rounds, and two Saturday sprint races, remaining. Norris has beaten the Australian in the last four races.
Red Bull's Max Verstappen is third and 40 points off the lead, after being 104 off the pace at the end of August. He has scored 119 points out of a maximum 133 in the last five rounds.
CONSTRUCTORS' TITLE
Defending champions McLaren clinched the team's 10th constructors' championship at this month's Singapore Grand Prix.
Mercedes are second but only seven points ahead of Ferrari.
WINS
Piastri has won seven times this season, Norris and Verstappen five and Mercedes' George Russell twice.
Hamilton has not won since his career 105th victory in Belgium on July 28, 2024.
Ferrari have not won since Mexico on October 27 last year and are the only top four team without a win.
Verstappen has won 68 grands prix and is third on the all-time list after Michael Schumacher on 91. The champion has won three of the last four races.
McLaren have won 12 of 19 races this year.
POLE POSITION
Verstappen has been on pole seven times this season, Piastri five, Norris four, Russell twice and Leclerc once.
The last five races have been won from pole, and 13 of 19.
PODIUM
Norris has been on the podium 15 times in 19 races, the most of any driver, and Piastri 14.
Piastri has now been absent from the podium in three successive races.
Leclerc's second place in Monaco remains Ferrari's best of the season. The Monegasque has six podiums for the season.
Hamilton has yet to stand on the podium for Ferrari, a team record 19 races without a top three result. He has been fourth four times.
Nine drivers from seven teams have been on the podium in 2025.
Verstappen's win in Austin last Sunday was his 122nd career podium, putting him level with retired quadruple champion Sebastian Vettel and third on the all-time list.
POINTSAlpine rookie Franco Colapinto is the only driver on the grid yet to score this year. No driver has scored in every race.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Christian Radnedge)
