Components 1 has signed a contemporary three-year contract extension with promoters of the Mexico Grand Prix to maintain the race on the calendar till 2028.
The 2025 version of the race at Mexico Metropolis’s Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez is the final one in every of its present contract, with promotor CIE having to barter new phrases with F1.
The race, which was revived in 2015, has grown into probably the most widespread occasions on the calendar, with final 12 months’s version drawing a file weekend complete of 405,000 spectators to the circuit.
Within the wake of house hero Sergio Perez’s departure from Pink Bull and F1, the organisers had at all times been assured curiosity within the occasion would stay excessive sufficient to decide to a brand new deal.
That has now occurred, with promoters persevering with to obtain authorities backing to maintain its occasion working for at the very least three extra years underneath the present moniker of Mexico Metropolis Grand Prix, signing a deal for 2026, 2027 and 2028.
“We’re very excited to announce that the Mexico GP will likely be held for 3 extra years,” mentioned Alejandro Soberon, the president and CEO of CIE.
Fan of Sergio Perez, Pink Bull Racing
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“We’re deeply grateful for the invaluable assist of the Authorities of Mexico Metropolis, from the Head of Authorities of Mexico Metropolis, Clara Brugada, to our President, Claudia Sheinbaum, in addition to Stefano Domenicali from Components 1, who’ve made it attainable to proceed bringing Components 1 to our nation.
“This not solely contributes to the financial improvement of Mexico Metropolis, but additionally promotes our metropolis, in addition to our nation, in a major method worldwide.
“Collectively, we are going to proceed to work laborious to make sure that followers get probably the most out of an occasion that gives a novel reside leisure expertise, and which for nearly 10 years has proven the world the standard of the occasions we organise on this metropolis.”
F1 CEO Domenicali added: “We’re very excited to announce that the Mexico Metropolis Grand Prix will proceed to be a part of our calendar by way of the 2028 season.
“Components 1 is power, ardour and emotion, and yearly the distinctive environment created by our followers in Mexico Metropolis is without doubt one of the most unimaginable and energetic experiences of our championship.”
Final 12 months’s grand prix was marked by a fierce battle between title protagonists Max Verstappen and Lando Norris, with Carlos Sainz snaring his ultimate win for Ferrari in emphatic vogue.
The 2025 occasion is scheduled for Sunday 26 October because the second a part of a double-header with Austin’s United States Grand Prix, with the next Brazilian Grand Prix now a standalone occasion.
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