We took the official results, starting grids and final standings of all 25 races from formula1.com, from 1963 to 1970, 1986 to 1992 and 2015 to 2025, with none in 2020; the race has been the Mexico City Grand Prix since 2021. The first Formula 1 race there, in 1962, was not part of the world championship. We counted as in our histories of the Singapore Grand Prix and the United States Grand Prix.
Every Mexico City Grand Prix winner, 1963 to 2025
Jim Clark won the first, for Lotus in 1963, and Norris the latest, for McLaren. In all, 17 drivers and 10 teams have won in Mexico City. Twelve winners started from pole and 16 from the front row; the furthest back was Alain Prost, 13th on the 1990 grid for Ferrari.
| Year | Winner | Team | Started | On pole | Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Jim Clark | Lotus | Pole | Jim Clark | Yes |
| 1964 | Dan Gurney | Brabham | 2nd | Jim Clark | No |
| 1965 | Richie Ginther | Honda | 3rd | Jim Clark | No |
| 1966 | John Surtees | Cooper | Pole | John Surtees | No |
| 1967 | Jim Clark | Lotus | Pole | Jim Clark | No |
| 1968 | Graham Hill | Lotus | 3rd | Jo Siffert | Yes |
| 1969 | Denny Hulme | McLaren | 4th | Jack Brabham | No |
| 1970 | Jacky Ickx | Ferrari | 3rd | Clay Regazzoni | No |
| 1986 | Gerhard Berger | Benetton | 4th | Ayrton Senna | No |
| 1987 | Nigel Mansell | Williams | Pole | Nigel Mansell | No |
| 1988 | Alain Prost | McLaren | 2nd | Ayrton Senna | No |
| 1989 | Ayrton Senna | McLaren | Pole | Ayrton Senna | No |
| 1990 | Alain Prost | Ferrari | 13th | Gerhard Berger | No |
| 1991 | Riccardo Patrese | Williams | Pole | Riccardo Patrese | No |
| 1992 | Nigel Mansell | Williams | Pole | Nigel Mansell | Yes |
| 2015 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | Pole | Nico Rosberg | No |
| 2016 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | Pole | Lewis Hamilton | No |
| 2017 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 2nd | Sebastian Vettel | No |
| 2018 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 2nd | Daniel Ricciardo | No |
| 2019 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 3rd | Charles Leclerc | Yes |
| 2021 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 3rd | Valtteri Bottas | Yes |
| 2022 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | Pole | Max Verstappen | Yes |
| 2023 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 3rd | Charles Leclerc | Yes |
| 2024 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | Pole | Carlos Sainz | No |
| 2025 | Lando Norris | McLaren | Pole | Lando Norris | Yes |
Most wins at the Mexico City Grand Prix
Verstappen won five of the six races from 2017 to 2023, all for Red Bull, and in 2021 became the first three-time winner in Mexico. Clark, Nigel Mansell, Prost and Lewis Hamilton won twice each, and 12 drivers won once.
- Teams: Red Bull 5, all by Verstappen; McLaren 4, with four different drivers; Lotus, Ferrari, Williams and Mercedes 3 each. Richie Ginther's 1965 win was Honda's first in Formula 1.
- Podiums: Hamilton and Verstappen 6 each, the most; Verstappen's third place in 2025 was the first podium there that was not a win.
- Pole positions: Clark 4 and Ayrton Senna 3. Charles Leclerc started from pole in 2019 and 2023 and has never won the race.
Pole position and the 830-meter run to Turn 1
The run to the first corner is long: it is 830 meters, just over half a mile, from pole to the braking point for Turn 1. Pole has still won at about the usual rate: 12 of the 25 races, 48 percent, the same share as in all 414 Grands Prix of those seasons. Since 2015 it is five of 10, against 54 percent of the 216 Grands Prix of the same seasons and 52 percent in our pole study.
The long run has not let winners come from further back. All 10 winners since 2015 started in the top three, and in our overtaking study classified drivers in Mexico City finished 2.7 places from their grid slot on average, tied with Yas Marina for the fewest of 22 circuits. In the five races since 2015 that pole did not win, the second or third car did:
- 2017: Verstappen, from second, got past Sebastian Vettel's Ferrari in the opening corners and won; Vettel finished fourth.
- 2018: Verstappen won from second again; Daniel Ricciardo, on pole in the other Red Bull, retired.
- 2019: Hamilton won from third; Leclerc, on pole after Verstappen's three-place grid penalty, was fourth.
- 2021: Verstappen went around the outside of both Mercedes into Turn 1 from third; Valtteri Bottas, on pole, was spun at Turn 2 and finished 15th.
- 2023: Verstappen won from third, and Leclerc, on pole again, was third.
Mexico City altitude: what thin air does to an F1 car
The track sits more than 2,200 meters, about 7,200 feet, above sea level, by far the highest of the season, as formula1.com's technical analysis puts it. The effects, as formula1.com and Pirelli describe them:
- Air pressure is about 20 percent lower than at sea level.
- Even with wings as big as at Monaco, the cars make less downforce than at Monza, where wings are smallest, and drag drops too.
- With less drag, Mexico took over from the Italian Grand Prix as the race with the highest top speeds; Bottas hit 231.46 mph at the speed trap in 2016.
- Brakes and engines cool less well, and turbochargers work harder; Nico Rosberg's brakes caught fire from overheating in practice in 2015.
- Tires slide more, so graining is usually marked, Pirelli says.
Does the Mexico City Grand Prix winner win the championship?
In 8 of the 25 seasons, 32 percent, while the year's champion won 186 of the 414 Grands Prix of the same seasons, 45 percent. The gap comes from before 2019, when the winner became champion three times in 19 races: Clark in 1963, Graham Hill in 1968 and Mansell in 1992. Since then, five of the six winners have taken the title; the exception was Carlos Sainz, for Ferrari in 2024.
F1 titles decided in Mexico
Mexico City has settled the title five times, according to Wikipedia's list of champions; our count of the official points agrees for 2017 and 2018. The new champion won the race only once:
- 1964, the final round: John Surtees was second for Ferrari, behind Dan Gurney, and beat Graham Hill to the title by one point, 40 to 39. Clark, on pole, retired on the last lap.
- 1967, the final round: Denny Hulme was third and beat Brabham teammate Jack Brabham, second, by 51 points to 46.
- 1968, the final round: Graham Hill won from third and took the title, 48 points to Jackie Stewart's 36.
- 2017: Hamilton recovered from a first-lap puncture to finish ninth, enough to seal the title with two races left.
- 2018: Hamilton was fourth and sealed a fifth title, again with two races to go.
Mexican drivers at home: Pérez and the Rodríguez brothers
No Mexican has won at home. Four have started their home Grand Prix, 24 times between them, and only Sergio Pérez has reached the podium, third for Red Bull in 2021 and 2022. Before that 2021 race, no Mexican had led a lap or finished on the podium at home; Pérez did both.
| Driver | Years | Starts | Best finish | Not classified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedro Rodríguez | 1963-1970 | 8 | 4th (1968) | 2 |
| Moisés Solana | 1963-1968 | 6 | 10th (1964) | 4 |
| Sergio Pérez | 2015-2024 | 9 | 3rd (2021, 2022) | 2 |
| Esteban Gutiérrez | 2016 | 1 | 19th | 0 |
The circuit is named after Pedro and Ricardo Rodríguez. Ricardo, the first Mexican to race in a Grand Prix, was killed in practice for the non-championship 1962 race, and Pedro was killed racing nine years later, Wikipedia notes. Pedro's fourth place for BRM in 1968 was the best home result by a Mexican until 2021. Pérez is back on the grid in 2026 with Cadillac.
The 2025 Mexico City Grand Prix
Norris won from pole on October 26, 2025, by 30.324 seconds over Charles Leclerc, the widest margin in Mexico since 1970, with Verstappen third. The win put Norris one point ahead of McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri, 357 to 356, on the way to the title. It was McLaren's first win in Mexico since Senna's in 1989, formula1.com noted, and Oliver Bearman's fourth place equaled Haas's best result.
Mexico City Grand Prix 2026: date and start times
The 2026 race is round 19 of 23 on formula1.com's calendar, a week after the United States Grand Prix, with no Sprint. Formula1.com lists every session six hours behind UTC; the UK will be on GMT, and US clocks fall back on race morning:
- Friday, October 30: Practice 1 at 12:30 p.m. local time (1:30 p.m. CT, 2:30 p.m. ET, 6:30 p.m. UK) and Practice 2 at 4 p.m. (5 p.m. CT, 6 p.m. ET, 10 p.m. UK).
- Saturday, October 31: Practice 3 at 11:30 a.m. (12:30 p.m. CT, 1:30 p.m. ET, 5:30 p.m. UK) and Qualifying at 3 p.m. (4 p.m. CT, 5 p.m. ET, 9 p.m. UK).
- Sunday, November 1: the Grand Prix, 71 laps of the 4.304-kilometer circuit, at 2 p.m. (2 p.m. CT, 3 p.m. ET, 8 p.m. UK).
Kimi Antonelli of Mercedes leads teammate George Russell by 102 points, 340 to 238, after 17 of the 23 rounds, in formula1.com's standings. Four drivers on the grid have won in Mexico City: Verstappen five times, Hamilton twice, and Sainz and Norris once. The calendar is on the 2026 F1 schedule and the table on our F1 standings.
Mexico City Grand Prix: frequently asked questions
Who has won the most Mexico City Grands Prix? Max Verstappen, with five: 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022 and 2023, all for Red Bull, also the most successful team. Jim Clark, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost and Lewis Hamilton won two each.
Who won the 2025 Mexico City Grand Prix? Lando Norris, from pole for McLaren, ahead of Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen, on October 26, 2025.
What time is the 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix? Sunday, November 1, at 2 p.m. local time: 3 p.m. ET, 2 p.m. CT and 8 p.m. in the UK. Qualifying is on Saturday at 5 p.m. ET.
Has a Mexican driver ever won the Mexican Grand Prix? No. The best home result by a Mexican is third, by Sergio Pérez for Red Bull in 2021 and 2022.
How high is the Mexico City F1 track? More than 2,200 meters, about 7,200 feet, above sea level, the highest of the season. The thin air cuts both downforce and drag.
How this was built: the official race results, grids and final standings of the 25 world-championship Grands Prix in Mexico City, 1963 to 2025, and the grids and winners of all 414 Grands Prix of those seasons, from formula1.com, downloaded up to October 15, 2026. Pole is the first slot on the official grid; NC means not classified. The 2017 and 2018 clinches were checked against the points of every round from 2015 to 2025. Nationality: Wikipedia. The 2026 calendar, times and standings: formula1.com, October 15, 2026.