The top of Mexico Metropolis’s authorities has stated it’ll signal a brand new deal to maintain its race on the Formula 1 calendar subsequent week.
The way forward for the Mexican Grand Prix on the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez has been unsure as its contract expires after this yr’s race.
Nonetheless Clara Brugada, the pinnacle of presidency for the nation’s capital, stated this week they may formally announce a contract extension with Method One Administration on Wednesday.
“On 30 April, we can be signing the settlement with Method 1, so that is excellent news,” stated Brugada, according to Marca. “On the identical day, we are going to inform you all and make it formally public.”
Mexico’s spherical of the world championship returned to the F1 calendar in 2015. It has held a race yearly since then, besides in 2020 when it was known as off because of the pandemic.
The race’s final contract extension, for 3 years, was agreed in 2022 by certainly one of Brugada’s predecessors, Claudia Sheinbaum, who turned the nation’s president final yr.
It has proved a vastly fashionable occasion, with giant crowds filling the grandstands, most noticeably on the distinctive Foro Sol stadium part on the finish of the monitor. Nonetheless this yr’s race stands to be the primary and not using a Mexican driver within the subject because the occasion returned to the world championship calendar.
Sergio Perez, who completed third for Pink Bull within the 2021 and 2022 races, was dropped by the workforce on the finish of final yr. It stays to be seen what impact his absence may have, and whether or not he would possibly return to the grid subsequent yr with new US workforce Cadillac.
The occasion is certainly one of F1’s 5 rounds in North America, together with the Canadian Grand Prix and three occasions within the USA.
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