- Mexican Grand Prix is spherical 20 of 2024 F1 season
- Race held at Mexico Metropolis’s Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez
- Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso celebrates four-hundredth begin
The 2024 System 1 World Championship continues this weekend with spherical 20, the Mexican Grand Prix, happening at Mexico Metropolis’s Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez.
The race is the second of an American triple-header that began with the US Grand Prix and can conclude with the Brazilian Grand Prix, and will probably be the four-hundredth begin for Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso.
The 2-time world champion, who turned 43 this yr, is competing in his twenty first F1 season and is not planning to stop anytime quickly. In April, he signed a new multi-year contract with Aston Martin, which suggests subsequent season, when he turns 44, he could have spent half his life racing in F1.
Alonso made his debut in 2001 and received his world titles with Renault in 2005 and 2006. When he began racing, among the present drivers weren’t born but. And through that debut season in 2001, Alonso raced once more Jean Alesi, who made his personal debut in 1989. It means that there’s a nonetheless a driver on the grid who raced in opposition to a driver that was energetic in F1 within the Eighties.
Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, dwelling of the System 1 Mexican Grand Prix
This weekend’s Mexican race, formally the Mexico Metropolis Grand Prix, runs on a quick 2.7-mile circuit that lies at an altitude of near 7,500 ft. The thinner air density makes the engines work more durable (oxygen ranges are 78% of what they’re at sea degree), and producing enough cooling and downforce are additionally extra of a problem. Prime speeds are among the many highest of the season as a result of low air density, with automobiles usually exceeding 217 mph.
The present format consists of a protracted straight, a blended center sector, and a ultimate part that includes the well-known Peraltada, a lot modified at this time from its previous as a parabolic nook harking back to the one at Monza. The format can also be famous for having the longest distance from the beginning line to the braking level for the primary nook, at 2,660 ft.
There’s various temperature variation throughout the day in Mexico, even within the area of some hours, which impacts grip ranges from the tires. Pirelli has nominated its softest mixture of C3, C4, and C5 compounds for the weekend. Throughout a observe session on Friday, groups may also have a prototype compound for the 2025 season to check.
Going into Saturday’s qualifying session and Sunday’s race, Pink Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen leads the 2024 Drivers’ Championship with 354 factors. McLaren’s Lando Norris is second with 297 factors, adopted in third by Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc with 275 factors. Within the Constructors’ Championship, McLaren leads with 544 factors. Pink Bull is second with 504 factors and Ferrari is third with 496 factors. Final yr’s winner in Mexico was Verstappen, driving for Pink Bull.
