Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez
Lap data
Lap length 4.304km (2.674 miles)
Race laps 71
Race distance 305.354km (189.738 miles)
Pole position Left-hand side of the track
Lap record* 1’20.521 (Nico Rosberg, 2015)
Fastest lap 1’19.480 (Nico Rosberg, 2015, qualifying three)
Maximum speed 349kph (216.858 mph)
DRS zone/s (race) Pit straight and longest straight
Distance from grid to turn one 890m
Full throttle 45%
Longest flat-out section 1200m
Downforce level
Gear changes per lap 52
Fuel use per lap 1.41kg
Time penalty per lap of fuel 0.054s
UK Times
Friday 26th October 2018
Mexican Grand Prix Free Practice 1: 10:00-11:30 (UK time: 16:00-17:30)
Mexican Grand Prix Free Practice 2: 14:00-15:30 (UK time: 20:00-21:30)
Saturday 27th October 2018
Mexican Grand Prix Free Practice 3: 10:00-11:00 (UK time: 16:00-17:00)
Mexican Grand Prix Qualifying: 13:00 (UK time: 19:00)
Sunday 28th October 2018
Mexican Grand Prix: 13:10 (UK time: 19:10)
Previous Winners
2017 Netherlands Max Verstappen Red Bull-TAG Heuer Hermanos Rodríguez
2016 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2015 Germany Nico Rosberg Mercedes
2014 – 1993 Not held
1992 United Kingdom Nigel Mansell Williams-Renault
1991 Italy Riccardo Patrese Williams-Renault
1990 France Alain Prost Ferrari
1989 Brazil Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda
1988 France Alain Prost McLaren-Honda
1987 United Kingdom Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda
1986 Austria Gerhard Berger Benetton-BMW
Videos
Hamilton 2016 on board
Berger 1991 onboard rear view of the start
Championship Permutations
Hamilton needs 5 points from the last 3 races to win the title. 7th place (6pts) or better will be enough to secure his 5th Drivers Championship. If it ends in a tie for points Hamilton would still win as he has more race victories than Vettel could achieve.
Facts from the last race
As you’d expect, most of the key statistics from the United States Grand Prix concern Kimi Raikkonen ending his five-and-a-half-year wait for his 21st grand prix victory.
Or, to be precise, 2,044 days. This isn’t the longest wait between consecutive wins in terms of duration. After winning the 1983 season-finale at Kyalami, Riccardo Patrese had to wait 2,402 days for his next win at Imola.
But it is the longest wait in terms of the number of races which were held. There were 99 races between Patrese’s two wins, 114 between Raikkonen’s. Of those, Raikkonen only entered 112 (he missed the final two races of 2013) and started 111 (he qualified for last year’s Malaysian Grand Prix but did not start it).
October 21st was also the anniversary of Kimi’s and Ferrari’s last Driver’s Championship.
Raikkonen has also established a new record for the longest gap between a driver’s first and last wins. Michael Schumacher first and 91st wins were spread over 14 years (5,145 days), but Raikkonen’s victory on Sunday came over 15 years (5.691 days) since his maiden win.
With his victory Raikkonen finally moved ahead of Mika Hakkinen to become Finland’s most successful driver in terms of race wins. Hakkinen still has one more world championship, however.
Raikkonen is the only driver to have won races in each of F1’s three most recent engine ‘eras’: V6 hybrid turbos, V8s and V10s (other drivers have won races using three or more different engine formats when multiple types were permitted).
He also ended his streak of 30 consecutive podium finishes without a victory. This is more than double the previous record of 16 set by Jean Alesi.
Raikkonen got on course to win by passing Lewis Hamilton at the start. This was the first time Raikkonen had gained a place on lap one since he got ahead of Daniel Ricciardo on the first lap of the 2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Mercedes are poised to become the fifth team to score 100 pole positions. Hamilton took their 99th last weekend, which was also his 81st. However for the fourth time in his career he ended a winning streak of four consecutive races – he’s only made it further once, when he won five in a row in 2014.
Hamilton was beaten to third place by Max Verstappen, who made the biggest improvement over his qualifying position of any driver so far this year by climbing 16 places from 18th to second. He and Ricciardo now have the same number of wins (four) and podiums (19) during their time together as Red Bull team mates.
Finally, the disqualifications of Esteban Ocon and Kevin Magnussen promoted Brendon Hartley to a career-best ninth.
Drivers’ Chosen Tyres
Championship Standings
