Mexico City

The Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez sits at 2,238 m above sea level in Mexico City, and the thin air shapes everything about the weekend. Cars produce less downforce and cooling is harder, so teams run maximum-downforce wings and still reach high top speeds on the roughly 1.2 km front straight. The 4.304 km lap has 17 corners, and there is a long run from the grid to the first braking zone.

The layout then turns into a technical section of slow and medium-speed corners, and finishes with the Foro Sol stadium, where the track winds through the baseball stadium in front of packed stands. Cooling and brake temperatures are the main engineering challenges.

The circuit opened on 20 November 1959 and is named after the brothers Ricardo and Pedro Rodríguez, who both died racing; the current name dates from 1979. Ricardo was killed in practice for the non-championship 1962 Mexican Grand Prix. The first championship race followed in 1963 and Jim Clark won it for Lotus.

Formula 1 raced here from 1963 to 1970, then again from 1986 to 1992, when Nigel Mansell won the last race of that era in a Williams. The famous banked Peraltada corner was the final turn of the old layout. The Foro Sol stadium was built within the Peraltada after 1992, and the circuit's modern layout routes cars through the stadium.

The Mexican Grand Prix returned in 2015, and Nico Rosberg won the first race for Mercedes. Max Verstappen has won five of the ten races since the return (2017, 2018, 2021, 2022 and 2023), Carlos Sainz won in 2024 and Lando Norris in 2025. The 2020 race was cancelled because of the pandemic. The 2026 race is scheduled for 1 November.