The 2026 F1 season will embody a spherical in Mexico after the collection agreed a brand new take care of the promoters of the race on the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.
Mexico returned to the world championship calendar in 2015 however its present deal was on account of run out after this 12 months’s race. Formulation One Administration introduced the newest in a collection of three-year extensions to the race’s deal as we speak.
F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali thanked the nation’s president Claudia Sheinbaum “for her sturdy dedication to Formulation 1.” Sheinbaum beforehand helped make sure the continuation of the race when she was the top of the federal government of Mexico Metropolis. Domenicali additionally prolonged his because of her successor within the function, Clara Brugada and Alejandro Soberon Kuri, the CEO of Grupo CIE which promotes the race.
There shall be no Mexican driver on the grid for this 12 months’s race for the primary time because the occasion’s return a decade in the past. Nonetheless Sergio Perez, who misplaced his drive with Purple Bull on the finish of final season, is rumoured to be in discussions with Cadillac about becoming a member of the brand new crew which is able to be part of the grid subsequent 12 months.
The information is an extra blow to the promoters of the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at Imola. That race and the Las Vegas Grand Prix are the one rounds on this 12 months’s calendar with out a deal for subsequent season, however the Nevada occasion is taken into account more likely to stay on the schedule. Formulation One Administration has invested closely in its showpiece spherical, owns the positioning its paddock stands on and already has a deal to proceed utilizing the general public roads which type a part of the observe.
Domenicali said earlier this month it “shall be more and more tough to have two races in the identical nation” because of the rising demand for calendar locations. Italy’s different spherical of the world championship is contracted to stay at Monza till at the least 2031.
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