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Last year's race

Pole sitter Bottas was taken out of contention at the first turn while Verstappen went ahead to win. Pérez finished 3rd thus being the first mexican to finish on podium at his home race

Season standings
after round 19

DRIVERS
POS   DRIVER   NATIONALITY   CAR   PTS
1   Max Verstappen   NED   RED BULL RACING RBPT   391
2   Charles Leclerc   MON   FERRARI   267
3   Sergio Perez   MEX   RED BULL RACING RBPT   265
4   George Russell   GBR   MERCEDES   218
5   Carlos Sainz   ESP   FERRARI   202
6   Lewis Hamilton   GBR   MERCEDES   198
7   Lando Norris   GBR   MCLAREN MERCEDES   109
8   Esteban Ocon   FRA   ALPINE RENAULT   79
9   Fernando Alonso   ESP   ALPINE RENAULT   65
10   Valtteri Bottas   FIN   ALFA ROMEO FERRARI   46
11   Sebastian Vettel   GER   ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES   38
12   Daniel Ricciardo   AUS   MCLAREN MERCEDES   29
13   Kevin Magnussen   DEN   HAAS FERRARI   26
14   Pierre Gasly   FRA   ALPHATAURI RBPT   23
15   Lance Stroll   CAN   ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES   13
16   Yuki Tsunoda   JPN   ALPHATAURI RBPT   13
17   Mick Schumacher   GER   HAAS FERRARI   12
18   Zhou Guanyu   CHN   ALFA ROMEO FERRARI   6
19   Alexander Albon   THA   WILLIAMS MERCEDES   4
20   Nicholas Latifi   CAN   WILLIAMS MERCEDES   2
21   Nyck De Vries   NED   WILLIAMS MERCEDES   2
22   Nico Hulkenberg   GER   ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES   0

CONSTRUCTORS
POS   TEAM   PTS
1   RED BULL RACING RBPT   656
2   FERRARI   469
3   MERCEDES   416
4   ALPINE RENAULT   144
5   MCLAREN MERCEDES   138
6   ALFA ROMEO FERRARI   52
7   ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES   51
8   HAAS FERRARI   38
9   ALPHATAURI RBPT   36
10   WILLIAMS MERCEDES   8

Timetables
all times are local (GMT+5)*

FRIDAY 28th OCTOBER      Local time

GTM   Practice Session   10:05 - 10:30
Formula 4 NACAM Championship   Practice Session   10:55 - 11:20
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   11:30 - 12:30
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Pit Lane Walk   11:30 - 12:30
FIA   F1 Car Presentation   11:30 - 12:30
FORMULA 1   FIRST PRACTICE SESSION   13:00 - 14:00
Freightliner Legends Cup   Practice Session   14:30 - 14:55
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   15:05 - 15:35
FORMULA 1   SECOND PRACTICE SESSION   16:00 - 17:30
Historic Demonstration   BRM P153 Pedro Rodriguez & Formula Ford   17:40 - 17:55
Formula 4 NACAM Championship   Qualifying Session   18:10 - 18:35
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Pit Lane Walk   18:50 - 19:50
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   18:50 - 19:50

SATURDAY 29th OCTOBER
      
GTM   Qualifying Session   08:45 - 09:15
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Pit Lane Walk   09:25 - 10:25
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   09:25 - 10:25
Formula 1   Team Pit Stop Practice   09:30 - 10:00
Formula 1   Teams' Press Conference   09:30 - 10:30
GTM   Race (30 Mins)   10:40 - 11:15
FORMULA 1   THIRD PRACTICE SESSION   12:00 - 13:00
Historic Demonstration   BRM P153 Pedro Rodriguez & Formula Ford   13:10 - 13:25
Freightliner Legends Cup   Qualifying Session   13:45 - 14:15
FORMULA 1   QUALIFYING SESSION   15:00 - 16:00
Formula 1   Press Conference   16:00 - 17:00
Formula 4 NACAM Championship   First Race (30 Mins)   16:45 - 17:20
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Pit Lane Walk   17:30 - 18:30
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   17:30 - 18:30
F1 Experiences   F1 Experiences Champions Club - Trophy Photo & Grid Walk   18:40 - 19:40

SUNDAY 30th OCTOBER
      
Formula 4 NACAM Championship   Second Race (30 Mins)   09:45 - 10:20
Historic Demonstration   BRM P153 Pedro Rodriguez & Formula Ford   10:35 - 10:50
Freightliner Legends Cup   Race (30 Mins)   11:05 - 11:40
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   11:55 - 12:25
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Pit Lane Walk   11:55 - 12:55
Formula 1   Drivers' Parade   12:00 - 12:30
Promoter Activity   Starting Grid Presentation   12:30 - 13:00
Formula 1   National Anthem   13:44 - 13:46
FORMULA 1   GRAND PRIX (71 LAPS OR 120 MINS)   14:00 - 16:00
Promoter Activity   After Podium Show   16:10 - 17:10

what will be the next FIA steward clown show display?

*Daylight saving time in the northern hemisphere ends on the following weekend, start times may differ according to your local schedule

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Motorsports trend for 2024: everything is a bad taste joke now

I think 90% of the F1 fans hope for a Perez win

I honestly feel that it is 100% up to him. After this Max still has 2 races to surpass the 13-win season record and I feel he is the kind of guy that would gift Perez this win after the things Perez did for him over the last 2 years.
But that means he needs to be in P2 behind Max to get it.

In the press conference, Alonso said he thought Stroll's penalty was harsh. His new employer must have had a word...

It would be great to see Perez win here, but he may have to do it on pace. I think Max is too competitive to just let him through. It may need another slow pit stop.

Honestly, I can't see Alonso and Stroll Sr. get along. He'll either be leaving after 1 season or even like a half.

Alonso already said after the race that he thought it was a race accident, and no penalty was needed.

Alonso is so used to big moments and crashes that even a big air is a racing incident for him

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Motorsports trend for 2024: everything is a bad taste joke now

After many surprisingly good races, I will refrain from bad-mouthing this track until Sunday night. Just in case it delivers an absolute banger, like so many horrendous tracks did with this year's regulations.

It seems that the Formula 1 site does not take into account daylight savings change when converting start times.

All sessions are shown with the same time difference (7 hours) to local Mexico time. From Friday to Sunday. Unless Mexico is also changing their time Saturday night, the Sunday race is supposed to start differently, with only 6 hours difference to Mexico.

TL;DR: tune up one hour before whatever time you think the race is at.

Or don't tune in and go out like I'm planning to

I believe that in western europe, qualifying starts at 22h and race on Sunday at 21h.

big moment for Max

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Motorsports trend for 2024: everything is a bad taste joke now

These tyre test practice sessions are pretty rubbish. Race weekends aren't the time for meaningless test sessions.

bigger moment for LeClerc in FP2

100% agree. Just stay on and do a days test on the Monday after one of the GPs, or schedule one on a Thursday before.

People see him as the lion of F1 and the only one left that can be relied on to say it as it is, but he's also a massive fucking hypocrite at times

Literally any other driver doing that, he'd have gone full Alonso on the radio and in the press "you can't drive with these people, they have no mirrors, they will kill somebody" etc etc

His future team mate and son of the guy who is about to give him millions of dollars to toil around in the midfield?
Oh sure, now his dangerous move that sent him up in the air is no problem at all........give me a break fernando

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Imagine if we were still fighting for both championships. I don't see teams so interested in next year's tyres.

I might just agree with you on something for once. Once I saw the incident happen I thought he would go full Fernando and say "who is this clown? Crazy driver", but he actually was .... political?
Wonder how long that will last though

Alonso's last great move will be to detonate another team that he thinks is favouring his team mate

Aston Martin better be fucking scrupulous in their dealings over the next couple of years, because if they piss Alonso off he'll be e-mailing the FIA with whatever "red bull plans copy+paste and paint green" data he can find when he get pissed off about them favouriing lance lol

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RIP Birmingham Wheels: here's some of the crash videos I recorded when it was there:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIaKIE ... 5t9d5PvoHA

Twitter:

http://www.twitter.com/paulhadsley

Not helped by the tyres being terrible

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The longer the Pirelli era has gone on the more obvious it is to me at least, that a big reason why the racing has been crap for the last 5-6 years is that after the first few years of being in the sport, the tyres are just terrible.

You can argue (and justifiably) that the teams constant request for them to be changed after the first few years has led to the current tyres, but it is clear that Pirelli are just doing the bare minimum required.

The sooner they are replaced the better in my opinion. Get a manufacturer that actually wants to progress tyre technology/construction, not one that has won the contract and is just doing what it needs to do to get by.

And this is coming from someone that was a big supporter of them for the first few years.