Mexican Grand Prix

Follow the action live as Max Verstappen aims to make more history at the Formula One Mexican Grand Prix 2022.

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Follow live coverage of the 2022 Mexican Grand Prix. Keep up to date with everything that happens during the race at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez.

In the blog, we will provide you with the latest developments during the Mexican Grand Prix. [Red Bull](/formula-1-teams/red-bull). [Mercedes](/formula-1-teams/mercedes)?

The over-enthusiastic behaviour of fans in the Formula 1 paddock in Mexico City has left drivers frustrated and calling for more respect for their personal ...

OPIONION: Max Verstappen hunted down and defeated Lewis Hamilton in last weekend’s US Grand Prix at Austin – in scenes that were very 2021 after Red Bull botched his second stop. With Red Bull at the top, Ferrari losing its edge, and Mercedes still in recovery, hopes of a two- or three-way battle for 2023 look increasingly slim No Mexican driver since has had the potential to win their home grand prix, but Sergio Perez aims to change that - as OLEG KARPOV discovers.

The paddock is busier than ever in Mexico City this weekend as fans clamour to rub shoulders with their F1 heroes, but there are worries some are taking it ...

They should feel lucky enough to be in the paddock, and get to be as close as they are to us." Commenting on the matter, Grupo CIE – the Mexican Grand Prix event promoter – told Mirror Sport: "We have an incredible group of fans here at the Mexico City Grand Prix who are very passionate about Formula 1. After that session, [Max Verstappen](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/max-verstappen) was also seen being hassled by a large group as he walked through the paddock. And in a way, you can't control what they do, like kids are kids, that's cool," said the Brit. "I love having the fans in here, especially when it's kids and stuff. "We're working here, and obviously we give time for the fans when we can.

More fans have been allowed into the paddock in recent races, causing some concern among drivers.

“They're looking up to us as being in our place one day, and dreaming of what we're doing and, and we're the idols and heroes and so on. The Frenchman even emphasised he was frightened of being “mobbed” by fans and revealed he had stayed in AlphaTauri’s hospitality centre all weekend to avoid issues. I think it's great, and also to see kids and people really enjoying it, but just maybe find a way where they can understand where to reach us, and when to give us a bit more space.”

Max Verstappen managed to put his Red Bull on pole position by three-tenths ahead of the rest of the field, but will he be able to maintain that advantage ...

The Italian racetrack will have to overcome recurring tyre degradation problems to get a good result in the race. [Lewis Hamilton](/en/f1-drivers/lewis-hamilton) showed very strong performances, especially since FP3, so presumably everything is going to depend on who knows how to use their tyres best. This is the live blog for the Mexico City Grand Prix.

Will Red Bull's world champion Max Verstappen break the record for grand prix victories in a single season at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez?

Lap 12/71: Word on the grapevine – AKA the Mercedes radio – is that Perez is struggling with his rear tyres. Lap 6/71: “You’re in a very good position here,” Bottas is told over the radio. Lap 23/71: Verstappen is complaining about bouncing, though any discomfort he’d feeling has not been reflected in the first third of the race, throughout which he has maintained a stead lead. In fact, that was the last time the pole-sitter here finished on the podium, that long run to turn one adding an element of glorious chaos. Lap 40/71: We now have ourselves a chess game, with the front three all on different strategies: Verstappen, on the quicker compound, is 9secs ahead of Hamilton, who is on hards. Lap 21/71: Leclerc, stuck in traffic in sixth and making little headway, has asked for Plan C – whatever that is. Lap 24/71: Perez pits first, and it’s a wince-inducing five-second extravaganza. Gasly will get a 5sec penalty for forcing Stroll off the track as he went past him for 15th. Lap 31/71: Verstappen turns the radio waves blue with some gripes about his gear shifts. And Verstappen has sped clear in the last couple of laps to extend his lead towards the 10sec mark. Verstappen is well in command now and looks like he could get away with a one-stopped Gasly picks off Albon for P11 and eyes Bottas in the last points spot.

The 2022 Mexican Grand Prix is here, and there are several talking points ahead of the race.

The end-result was Kevin Magnussen having to take a new power unit for the rest of the weekend. This normally benefits those starting in second and lower; hence Verstappen will have to be sneaky and cunning if he wants any advantage by the end of the first lap. In Friday practices, Haas stand-in Pietro Fittipaldi pulled his car to the side of the track. But in 2016, it was the last time that the pole sitter finished on the podium: Hamilton for Mercedes-AMG. The Mexican GP returned to the F1 calendar in 2015 after last featuring in 1992. The Grand Prix in Mexico City takes place 2 200m above sea level, and it favours the Silver Arrows' 2022 car, the W13.

Max Verstappen leads the drivers championship by 135 points from Sergio Perez after the Mexican Grand Prix.

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Max Verstappen produced yet another dominant showing to pip Lewis Hamilton to a record-breaking victory at the Mexican Grand Prix.

I'm expecting Ferrari to be stronger in the race as well but they’ve still got to beat the Red Bulls." We had to look after our tyres because it was a really long stint on the medium but we made it work. Silverstone is the one that stands out for me." "We were also on a different strategy to the other cars around us but again, an incredible result. "The mediums look quick, mate," says Lewis Hamilton via team radio. It was fairly comfortable in the end for Verstappen, who managed to keep his Mercedes rivals at arm's length on the first lap before speeding off into the distance. The hard was the offset. I was so close in the first stint but the Red Bulls were clearly faster today, and ultimately had the better tyre strategy. The gamble did not pay off, though, with Verstappen and third-placed Sergio Perez ultimately going to the end after pitting just once to switch their softs for mediums. The Dutchman, who has already clinched this year's Drivers' Championship title, crossed the line in first to win his 14th race of the campaign and surpass the previous benchmark that was held jointly by himself, Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel. "But I have so much love for Mexico and the people here. "We had a little bit of a bad stop which prevented us from undercutting Lewis.

Max Verstappen held Lewis Hamilton at arm's length as he broke the record for the highest number of wins in a single season.

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Max Verstappen took a commanding victory at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez ahead of Mercedes Lewis Hamilton.

The [Mercedes](/formula-1-teams/mercedes) of George Russell at the start of the race and hold the position to take a podium in front of his home crowd. The Dutchman prevailed in a battle of pit strategy to beat Hamilton to the victory.

Lewis Hamilton was booed after the Mexican Grand Prix, explaining it has been "awkward" as this had been happening all day.

“I’m not sure it was the right tyre at the end,” Hamilton reiterated. “I was so close I think in that first stint,” Hamilton commented. It did not work out that way. “This has been an amazing crowd, definitely a bit awkward this time around,” said Hamilton. “It was okay in the first stint, but that hard tyre was just at offset, so congratulations to Max.” Lewis Hamilton was booed after the Mexican Grand Prix, explaining it has been “awkward” as this had been happening all day.

'What the f*** is he doing?' Ricciardo's epic charge after crash as Max breaks record.

Tsunoda roared: “What the f*** is he doing!?” “This tyre is not as good as the medium,” Hamilton told his team. “That was a little bit of a difficult moment in the race,” he added. The hard tyres were not expected to be used in the race by top contenders, but Lando Norris also took on the hards after his first stop. Russell was later told that Perez would have to do 20 laps on his medium tyres more than Russell did on his own. It helped Verstappen and Perez get great starts off the line, with Perez overtaking Russell for third on the third corner of the first lap. Starting second, the other Mercedes of George Russell ran a touch wide on turns 2 and 3, seeing him drop two places to Hamilton and home hero Sergio Perez in the second Red Bull. His teammate Lando Norris dropped to 10th from the start, also losing two places – being passed by both Alpines, who lead them in the constructors’ championship. After being told by his team about the penalty, he said: “I didn’t respond. It meant he could swap to the faster soft tyres for a short final stint and hopefully charge up the field against rivals on ageing tyres. After his pit stop saw him return down to 13th, Ricciardo gained a place the following lap when Alfa Romeo’s Guanyu Zhou pitted. Nevertheless, he could have lost the place due to his time penalty.

Hamilton received a hostile reception from some in the stands at the Mexican Grand Prix, as he reacted to a race which saw him lose a tyre strategy battle ...

"The start helped me out a lot to stay in the lead," said the Dutchman. Perez completed the podium, much to the delight of those home fans who cheered him on so well all weekend. But the Silver Arrows took a risk on tyre strategy which did not pay off, and he was powerless to prevent pole-sitter Verstappen from cruising to the win. It seems he heard the less-than-welcoming reception from those fans, but Hamilton did not react. I am not sure it was the right tyre. And some of them made their allegiance even more clear by booing Hamilton as he stepped up for his post-race interview in the stadium section.

The Mexican Grand Prix looked like it might be a Red Bull vs Mercedes battle for victory, but ultimately there wasn't much of a threat to Max Verstappen as ...

Even if his Alpine had stayed healthy, he probably would’ve been caught by the flying Ricciardo for seventh by the end but kept the place thanks to the McLaren driver’s penalty, so this was definitely a ‘best of the rest’ result lost. Instead he finally returns to the top 10 – but not as high up it as his qualifying form promised. – BA [Mark Hughes explained on Saturday after qualifying](/formula-1/mark-hughes-how-mexico-quirks-changed-f1s-lead-fight/), the Ferrari’s inlet, turbo and MGU-H design is ill-suited to such a high-altitude venue as Mexico City. While his fury has to be seen partly in the context of his impending exit from Alpine, it’s still understandable. Since Spa’s new plank restrictions and oscillation metrics, the Ferrari simply hasn’t looked the same car it did in the early races. The smooth track surface and high altitude played to the W13’s strengths and helped minimise its weaknesses – but it still wasn’t nearly enough to get the job done. Russell had a realistic shot at pole and at least a podium finish here, but he ended up achieving neither. – JS Mexico looked to be providing something of a reset. – Ben Anderson They’re down to how well he’s maximising every moment when his rivals aren’t, and Mexico was yet another great example of it.

Red Bull driver Max Verstappen finished in first place at the Mexican Grand Prix to claim his record-setting 14th win of the season on Sunday.

It’s been an incredible year so far. “An incredible result. The 25-year-old’s 14th victory of the season allows him to pass Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel for the most in a single season in Formula 1 history.

Max Verstappen scored a record 14th race win of the 2022 Formula 1 World Championship season in Sunday's Mexican Grand Prix at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez ...

OPIONION: Max Verstappen hunted down and defeated Lewis Hamilton in last weekend’s US Grand Prix at Austin – in scenes that were very 2021 after Red Bull botched his second stop. With Red Bull at the top, Ferrari losing its edge, and Mercedes still in recovery, hopes of a two- or three-way battle for 2023 look increasingly slim No Mexican driver since has had the potential to win their home grand prix, but Sergio Perez aims to change that - as OLEG KARPOV discovers.

There are two more races to come in the 2022 campaign, and Verstappen made it 14 after another victory on Sunday at the Mexican Grand Prix. Ad.

We had to look after our tyres because it was a really long stint on the mediums but we made it work. We were also on a different strategy to the other cars around us but again, an incredible result,” he said. Since then Hamilton has been a more consistent performer, with George Russell also doing well for the German team, but neither of them has been able to win a Grand Prix in 2022.

Max Verstappen sets a new single-season win record and Sergio Pérez joins the double world champion on the podium as Oracle Red Bull Racing snap a ...

But arguably his best non-winning F1 drive came at Interlagos on a sodden track in 2016, when he finished third in his first Red Bull season. The Japanese driver was forced to stop with damage to the right rear of his car after contact with Daniel Ricciardo (McLaren) at Turn 6. Before the season finale in Abu Dhabi (November 20), the series heads south from Mexico City to Brazil and the Autódromo José Carlos Pace. Bottas had scored 46 points in the first nine races of the year, but none in the following 10 Grands Prix before Sunday. Gasly, from 14th on grid, was hit with a five-second penalty when he was deemed to have forced Aston Martin's Lance Stroll off the track at Turn 4. You didn't need to consult a timing screen to know where Pérez was on the track on Sunday. We had to look after our tyres because it was a very long stint on the medium, but we made it work." The [Scuderia AlphaTauri](https://www.scuderiaalphatauri.com/en/)driver finished 11th and one place out of the points behind Alfa Romeo's Valtteri Bottas by just half a second after 71 laps, his late-race comeback falling agonisingly short. The 20th round of the 2022 season wasn't the most riveting – the top six finishers were in positions 1-6 after four corners of the 71-lap race, and was a strategic slow-burn of a race rather than a flat-out blast. It was a balancing act Verstappen aced, and as the laps counted down, the Dutchman slowly but surely broke Hamilton's resistance. Verstappen's 14th victory for the year set a single-season record for one driver in one campaign, and extended Red Bull's rollicking run in 2022. It meant the team was represented on the podium for the 19th consecutive race, another record.

Lewis Hamilton admitted he had been affected by being booed by sections of the crowd after he finished second behind Max Verstappen in Sunday's Mexico Grand ...

"It was OK in the first stint, but that hard tyre was just the opposite. His enthusiasm seemed undimmed on team radio when he told the team: "Mega job everyone. "I'm not sure it was the right tyre at the end.

Max Verstappen now has the record number of victories in a single season by winning the Mexican GP, while the Ferraris struggle and both finish far away and ...

Mercedes, on the other hand, deserves a solid eight and is praised for their determination to chase Ferrari in the championship. For the magazine, "the signal is not the most encouraging if, after the reliability change in Austin, the performance was forced down again so as not to suffer in Mexico with the tightness of the power unit." "Weekend to forget for Ferrari, which finished with [Carlos Sainz](/en/f1-drivers/carlos-sainz) and [Charles Leclerc](/en/f1-drivers/charles-leclerc) in fifth and sixth place behind [George Russell](/en/f1-drivers/george-russell). The newspaper devotes ample space to the 'dream' of Lewis Hamilton, who "after eleven months of walking in the desert with a bad car, skipping, constant stability problems and a set-up that had to be reinvented at every race" finally seemed to be able to grab the first victory of his season. After the 9 to Hamilton, and the 7s to Perez, Russell and the two Alpine's there are the 6s given to the two "With different tyre strategies from the start compared to Mercedes, the Dutchman managed the 71 laps of the race brilliantly, never flinching, and once again demolished everyone.

Who were the standout performers and the biggest disappointments in F1's strategy-dictated Mexican Grand Prix?

Showed a promising turn of pace and would have comfortably made Q2 but for having the first lap of his final run deleted for exceeding track limits at the apex of Turn 2. However, with qualifying not a major focus, he would have been outpaced by Schumacher without his team-mate’s track limits penalty. Even so, the pace of the Alfa Romeo was good enough for him to miss out on Q2 only by a couple of tenths despite the 0.714s deficit to Bottas. “I can’t believe it, we’re so slow” was his summary, although he did at least turn around a deficit of a few hundredths to Stroll entering the stadium section into a one-tenth advantage. But he had cost himself with a five-second penalty issued for leaving the track and gaining an advantage while overtaking Stroll in the first stint. He put that to good use, ending up a couple of tenths off Norris largely thanks to time lost in the slower corners. He climbed from 13th after his stop to seventh, the first of those places gained with his ambitious pass on Tsunoda that put the AlphaTauri driver out and earned Ricciardo a 10-second penalty. Lost a couple of places at the start to run 13th, but soon picked off Zhou. Jumped ahead of Bottas at the start and drove around in sixth place behind his team-mate in what he called a “lonely” race. A needless crash in FP2 was a bad start to the weekend and things got worse on Saturday with an engine problem that resulted in his worst qualifying position of the season. But a lock-up coming into the stadium while “trying too hard” led to him going off and losing the lap when he felt pole position was there for the taking. Cut the inside of Turn 2 on his first Q3 run and had the lap deleted as a result.

Ferrari drivers Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz blamed Mexico's high altitude for their lack of speed and competitive performance in Sunday's Mexico Grand ...

"I felt like we maximised absolutely everything and even though we did that we are still one minute away from Max, which is a huge difference. "Today, I felt like an explanation was that it was a bit of a one-off here in the different conditions and I hope we can come back to our usual performance in Brazil," Leclerc said. "Going into the weekend with this car, at this altitude, we knew we were going to lose quite a bit of performance," said Sainz, acknowledging that the team's aerodynamic and engine performance had suffered.

Max Verstappen added another record to his forever expanding honours list as he claimed his 14th victory of the season.

This meant he would start from the back and he found it tough to make any headway in moving up the leaderboard. Exiting qualifying in Q1, the Aston Martin car proved to not have the speed Vettel would need if he was going to rescue a points score. Pierre Gasly: The Frenchman may look back at one moment in the race and wonder what could have been after he received a five-second penalty for pushing Lance Stroll off the track on the 13th lap of the race. Zhou Guanyu: Rather outshone by his team-mate, Zhou has scored points in just one of the last 11 races as he finished behind a Williams in Mexico. He did have a good race of his own though, managing to move past Valtteri Bottas even if he was not able to the same with Ocon. Still, he will be pleased to have ended a run of 10 races without a point and will be hoping to rediscover that qualifiying pace in Brazil. Ricciardo was able to continue but the same could not be said of Tsunoda with the Australian being handed a 10-second penalty. Finally, he was adamant he should come in and go for the fastest lap bonus point and after a few ‘no’s, he was allowed to do just that. The messages coming out of Ferrari going into the weekend were not optimistic and that proved to be the case with the car running on less power at the high altitude circuit to avoid failing. To Sainz’s credit, he outperformed his team-mate Leclerc in both qualifying and the race but a P5 finish that far behind is nothing to write home about. Hamilton’s whole race could be boiled down to one single moment and that was when the hard tyres went onto his car on lap 30. For all the talk of a potential challenge following the long straight into Turn 1, the Dutchman demonstrated that it was going to take more than a good start to snatch the race victory away from him.

Max Verstappen has broken the record for the most wins in a single F1 season after he edged out Lewis Hamilton.

It was okay in the first stint but that hard tyre was just an offset. "I'm not sure (the hard) was the right tyre at the end. Hamilton questioned the team’s tyre strategy after the race but still praised Verstappen on his record-breaking win. @kunalashah remarked: "Cool down room - can we just leave Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen in there and see what happens OR how long the silence would last?" Hamilton and Verstappen didn’t speak, with the Mercedes driver not even looking at the two Red Bull men. Hamilton sat and watched highlights of the race in F1’s cooldown room as Verstappen spoke to team-mate Sergio Perez.

Max Verstappen made his mark in F1's history books in Mexico while Daniel Ricciardo finally turned up when McLaren needed him.

Abu Dhabi was not only a pivotal moment in the Verstappen-Hamilton rivalry, but almost a year later later it remains the most recent. “We have to remember these days because there’s no guarantee that they will last forever,” Vettel, Verstappen’s predecessor, memorably said at the height of his dominance in 2013. Yet how exactly does that tally with Bottas’s single-lap performance in a car with an identical engine? Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the 30-second penalty handed to Alonso in Austin – following one of the greatest, most defiant drives of his career – was that it had the power to completely distort the fight for fourth between Alpine and McLaren. Bottas has emerged as something of an American specialist in 2022 with his return to form in Austin and Mexico coming after he qualified as high as P4 for the inaugural race in Miami, with his last top-10 finish prior to this back in Canada. After appearing to have overcome the worst of their issues prior to the summer break, Alpine are struggling to finish races at the worst possible point of the season with Alonso’s retirement at Monza followed by a double DNF in Singapore. As recently as 2017, for example, a tame performance in the season finale in Abu Dhabi resulted in some concluding Ferrari were in some sort of terminal decline, only for the Prancing Horse to emerge with the quickest car of 2018. Perhaps the ghosts of 2021 will only truly laid to rest when there is the opportunity for fresh battles to be had and new memories to be made, opening a window for the respect between Hamilton and Verstappen to be re-established. But that first stint – a truce called to stop the nonsense and let racing drivers be racing drivers, with Verstappen and Red Bull on softs and Hamilton and Mercedes on mediums – was the first time all year the two have gone head to head, toe to toe, eyeball to eyeball. He didn’t exactly cover himself in glory in late 2017 either – failing to win either of the final two races after securing his fourth Championship in Mexico and crashing out of qualifying in Brazil without a time on the board – but learned the art of finishing with a flourish in 2018/19/20. Having won his first title on the final lap of last season, Verstappen is in new territory as 2022 comes to a close, facing that age-old challenge of maintaining his standards even though his work for the year is already done. When the title is sealed with weeks to spare, it is during the collection of ‘non-championship’ races to conclude a season when the true depth of a driver’s ambition and application becomes apparent.

Although this year's edition of the Formula 1 race in Mexico was hardly a classic, there were lots of significant threads tied up off-track as the cost cap ...

[intention to sign a contract extension](https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/hamilton-wont-set-limit-on-f1-career-as-he-plans-multi-year-mercedes-deal/10391399/) to remain at Mercedes in an interview conducted in the United States. It was revealed that the championship and its owner Liberty Media had inked renewed terms with the Mexico City government and local promoter Corporacion Interamericana de Entretenimiento (CIE) for a further three years. But full credit must go to the reigning world champion and his Red Bull squad for masterminding a thumping performance, along with a handful of other critical factors which worked in their favour Likewise, [his progress was slowed.](https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/mercedes-unsure-ricciardos-f1-strategy-would-have-changed-mexico-result/10393217/) In brief, Alpine had rapidly issued a counter-protest for the penalty because Alonso had not been informed by race control that his car was unsafe to continue. Nevertheless, with the cat properly out of the bag, in Mexico City, the seven-time champion was bombarded with questions and clarified that there was no immediate end date to his decorated topflight career. [dropped him off the pace.](https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/hamilton-red-bull-too-fast-for-mercedes-to-beat-in-f1-mexican-gp/10393062/) Even race engineer Peter Bonnington struggled to justify the call over team radio. The excess is down to failing to include elements such as social security contributions for staff, apprenticeship levies, cost of use of the power units, and a clerical error in the calculation of costs recharged to Red Bull by Red Bull Powertrains, among others. His source material was the 2021 title fight, in which he repeatedly referred to a driver being “robbed” of the championship spoils. Such was his turn of speed that he cleared away from Esteban Ocon to effectively render his penalty meaningless as he didn’t drop a place and was voted ‘Driver of the Day’ by viewers. Team boss Mattia Binotto put some of the blame on the power unit and having to turn down the turbo in the high-altitude conditions. Although this year's edition of the Formula 1 race in Mexico was hardly a classic, there were lots of significant threads tied up off-track as the cost cap furore reached a resolution.

Red Bull and Ferrari said Mercedes cost themselves a potential victory for a second race in a row by switching to the hard tyre.

1 No. Lap no. All the lap times by the drivers (in seconds, very slow laps excluded). The gaps between each driver on every lap compared to the leader’s average lap time. That meant Ricciardo was the first driver home who finished in a higher place than he started. Ricciardo used his soft tyres to climb to seventh place. There were still several other drivers on their original sets of medium tyres at this stage, and Russell was keen to stay out and try to switch to a soft for the final stint. Mercedes weren’t the only team who thought a medium was the best tyre to start on. It was again a question not abusing that tyre, which is something that he’s just been masterful at this year.” “Actually, when they came off the car, there was still a lot of life left in them. The Mercedes drivers started the race on the medium tyre compound and switched to hards, while their nearest rivals used softer tyres for both stints.

An incident involving Ferrari star Carlos Sainz at the Mexican Grand Prix left F1 fans feeling concerned.

Lewis Hamilton was once forced to pit from the lead of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix when his headrest became partially unattached during a race, with the incident dividing opinion amongst the paddock. And fans were left concerned as it appeared Sainz, who was not in any danger when the incident occurred, was unable to release himself from the cockpit. Drivers are required to practice removing the headrest when getting out of the car to ensure a quick getaway in case of an accident or fire.