System 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 certainly one 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 document weekend whole of 405,000 spectators to the circuit.
Within the wake of house hero Sergio Perez’s departure from Crimson Bull and F1, the organisers had all the time 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 operating for at the very least three extra years beneath 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 shall be held for 3 extra years,” mentioned Alejandro Soberon, the president and CEO of CIE.
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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 System 1, who’ve made it attainable to proceed bringing System 1 to our nation.
“This not solely contributes to the financial growth of Mexico Metropolis, but in addition promotes our metropolis, in addition to our nation, in a big manner worldwide.
“Collectively, we are going to proceed to work laborious to make sure that followers get probably the most out of an occasion that provides a singular 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 via the 2028 season.
“System 1 is power, ardour and emotion, and yearly the distinctive ambiance created by our followers in Mexico Metropolis is without doubt one of the most unbelievable 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 closing win for Ferrari in emphatic style.
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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