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Old 25th October 2024, 16:43   #1
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2024 Formula 1 Mexican Grand Prix | Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez Circuit | 26-28 October 2024

Get ready as Formula One heads to Mexico this weekend. The Mexico City Grand Prix is one of the most buzzing & vibrant races of the season.

Qualifying: 27th October from 2:30 am IST to 3:30 am IST

Race: 28th October from 1:30 am IST

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2024 Mexico City Grand Prix, which takes place over 71 laps of the 4.304-kilometre Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City.

Track Layout

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Circuit Stats

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Full Weekend Timing (IST)

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Re: 2024 Formula 1 Mexican Grand Prix | Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez Circuit | 26-28 October 2024

One of the most boring circuit on calendar along with Shanghai and Miami completing the top three. I am expecting yet another Ferrari win and Checo having the privilege of disappointing not just RB fans but also his home fans now.

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Re: 2024 Formula 1 Mexican Grand Prix | Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez Circuit | 26-28 October 2024

Checo’s fanbase is insane, I hope he finishes the race in the top 10 and scores points.
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Re: 2024 Formula 1 Mexican Grand Prix | Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez Circuit | 26-28 October 2024

What a spicy race.

The stewards penalising Max is a welcome move. The overtaking issue was too gray and needed to be defined better. Top drivers will always try to exploit rules to the max till they cannot get away with it.

Haas post Gunther are much improved, shows how technical the sport has become and even Team principals need to be fat more engaged technically.
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Re: 2024 Formula 1 Mexican Grand Prix | Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez Circuit | 26-28 October 2024

I just saw someone point out on Reddit how Kimi was all the way in 4th, in the championship standings in 2007 with 4 races to go. So, is there hope of a Ferrari championship this year or am I reading too much into it? This is getting so exciting!!
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Re: 2024 Formula 1 Mexican Grand Prix | Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez Circuit | 26-28 October 2024

What a race!! Another Ferrari win!! With a Ferrari 1-3, the constructor's title fight is well and truly on. The race was exciting with so much wheel to wheel action. For a change, stewards took action on Max's aggressive defence tactics.

With back to back wins for Ferrari. The lead for the constructors is down to 29 points. Redbull is now a distant third with 54 points gap to leader

The driver championship is down to 47 points with 4 races to go.

This season is getting exciting with every race. Now on to the sprint weekend in Brazil in another 7 days time!!

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Qualifying Result
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Qualifying Highlights


Race Result
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Race Lap Chart
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Race Highlights


- Sainz wins for the second time this season! He sent it down the first turn at the first opportunity, and the race was his from there. I think Max didn’t expect him, just like Leclerc didn’t expect Piastri in the Baku GP. Like the US GP, Sainz looked stronger than ever this weekend and arguably drove better than Leclerc. A thoroughly well-deserved win and an emotional one with all of his family present. He wanted to win once more with Ferrari, and he successfully managed to do that.

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- Lando finishes P2, splitting the scarlet Ferraris. Really impressive of him to avoid Max during the first few laps. He drove maturely and sensibly to avoid the crash, which seemed like the only motive that Max had. Him undercutting the Ferraris did help him to close the gap on Leclerc but not quite on Sainz. McLaren seems to have the upper hand in tyre management, followed by Ferrari; RB now seems to be a distant third.

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- Leclerc comes home to take P3 after a not-so-good weekend for him. He didn’t get time in FP1 as Bearman drove his car, who also later crashed with Albon. He benefitted again this weekend when Max and Lando incident took place. Since Leclerc was under pressure from Lando, he hit the throttle too hard in the last corner to get a better exit and almost crashed into the barriers.

- The Mercedes duo had lots of action between themselves, and Hamilton came out on top. This was probably the best result they could have achieved.

- Max finishes P6 after receiving a 20-second penalty, finishing a long day in office. For once he received a penalty! His driving style is aggressive, but yesterday’s incident with Lando leaves a lot of questions. They say you are driving at the pinnacle of motorsports, but is that the way you go racing? People do this type of racing during go-karting, and these drivers are well past that. Taking an unconventional racing line is fine, but not braking and almost sending a driver into the barriers?


Would leave it to y’all to judge.

- Double points for Haas as Magnussen finishes P7 and Hulkenberg P9. Who would have guessed that Haas would be in the top 10!

- Piastri splits the Haas to finish P8 after a disastrous qualifying session. His poor qualifying meant that he would have loads of overtaking to do and had a good recovery drive.

- After a disappointing US GP, Gasly finally managed to score a point after finishing P10.

- Colapinto was given a 10-second penalty for his incident with Lawson. He usually wouldn’t give up the position and drives really hard.

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The similarity is uncanny!

- Lawson had 2 incidents: one with Checo and another with Colapinto. After overtaking Checo on the main straight, he was caught showing the finger on the cam! Marko and Horner seemed to have a word with him post-race.

- Yet another miserable Mexican GP for Checo, but whose fault was that? RB tried to snatch the fastest lap point by pitting him, and he was almost a second slower than Leclerc! Yes, he did have some sidepod damage, but is he really a capable driver?

- Tsunoda and Albon ended their day early after their crash.



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With 4 races to go, both the championship titles are wide open and up for grabs. Almost slept midway into the race, but Lando closing the gap on Leclerc in the second stint made me wide awake.

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One of the most boring circuit on calendar along with Shanghai and Miami completing the top three.
It actually turned out to be quite interesting due to the sheer amount of overtaking and chaos on track.
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I am expecting yet another Ferrari win and Checo having the privilege of disappointing not just RB fans but also his home fans now.
Honestly, I am appalled by the decision of RB sticking with Checo. The team should have replaced him long ago, but they didn't, and his average performance this year has cost them the constructors championship. Don’t want to jump the gun; even Colapinto can drive better than him.
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Re: 2024 Formula 1 Mexican Grand Prix | Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez Circuit | 26-28 October 2024

Thought it would be a boring race. Though it got a bit slow after the pit stops, there were lots of action in the race and kept watching till the end.

Finally Max gets penalty for dive bombing the opponents. In 2021 FIA was reluctant to punish Max due to various reasons and his confidence grew as Mike Masi played his part as well.

This is not racing at all and this kind of racing has to be stopped by FIA. As rest of the 19 drivers are aligned on this, its no surprise that there is news that FIA will come up with rule update/guidance before the end of the season.

Its painful to see Perez in this form and its time for him to wrap up his F1 career. There are a lot of young and exciting drivers who deserve a chance.

Once again, Ferrari were on the spot and dint spoil it up for either of the drivers.

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Re: 2024 Formula 1 Mexican Grand Prix | Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez Circuit | 26-28 October 2024

Woke up in the middle of the night to watch the race. Was sleepy during the start so much so that I don't really remember when the race started. But then our dear Max decided to jolt me up from sleep with his attempts to crash Norris out and then never felt sleepy after that.

About the race, it became a bit boring after the pit stops with the only interesting thing happening was Hamilton trying to chase Russell down and Russell defending for a long time before Hamilton could overtake. Feels like Hamilton has been having trouble overtaking for some time now with even Bearman and Colapinto managing to keep him behind earlier this year.
Max on the other hand, managed to reduce the points gained by Norris helping himself with the WDC chances. Norris would have won most probably if he was not stuck behind Max for so long. In the end, Norris was way faster than Sainz and had reduced the deficit to 4.7 seconds.\

The rise of Ferrari has been astonishing considering that they have not brought any upgrades to their car and still managed to beat cars bringing new upgrades. Looks like Ferrari has the chance to win the WCC in a battle between RB and McLaren.

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Re: 2024 Formula 1 Mexican Grand Prix | Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez Circuit | 26-28 October 2024

Being a Ferrari fan I'm totally enjoying their current form that has come out of nowhere. My team has made staying up late to watch the races worth it. It was a composed and clinical drive by Sainz, nothing stupid or over adventurous done. 1-3 was a great result though I would have loved to see Charles in P2. That would have happened had his rear tyres not gone kaput.

Max is really desperate now and it shows. I'm loving those battles though. Hope it continues with Norris in Brazil as well. Ive heard Max might take an engine penalty in Brazil. That should makes things spicy for sure.

Ferrari in P2 in the constructors currently and if they carry this form in the upcoming races, they do have a chance to take the constructors championship. Difficult but not impossible either. Praying with hope.
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