The flyaway final rounds of F1's 2025 season continue as the sport heads to the second weekend of four consecutive rounds in the Americas.
It's the high-altitude test of Mexico City awaiting the 20 drivers this Sunday at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez.
A doubleheader race, especially after a Sprint weekend, is a lot to tackle, but we've got you covered with these five things.
Decade Done
Formula One and Mexico have had quite the on-off love affair since the sport first held a championship race there back in 1963.
An eight-year spell of Mexican Grands Prix followed until 1970 before F1 paused their trips until the 1980s.
This 1986 return was when we at Williams first had our taste of Mexican racing. Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet tackled the track, with our Nigel taking victory one year later in the '87 GP.
Nigel's Mexican expertise also helped us take victory in 1992, but F1 left Mexico again and wouldn't return until 23 years later.
Williams' podium-finishing ways continued in the 2015 Mexican GP as Valtteri Bottas stormed to P3.
Formula 1 is now enjoying a tenth Mexican race under its current contract to mark the current stint as the longest run of races in the country, albeit with a brief Covid hiatus in 2020.
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Magic Memories
Mexico is, of course, a special place for Carlos Sainz, who had a spectacular weekend at last year's Mexico City GP.
Carlos showcased his speed throughout the weekend, topping three sessions across each day of on-track activity.
Friday's FP2 session was a sign of things to come, with Carlos taking pole position one day later by over two-tenths from Max Verstappen in P2.
Opposite fortunes befell our 2025 Atlassian Williams drivers on Sunday, though, with Alex Albon retiring on the opening lap after contact with Yuki Tsunoda and Pierre Gasly.
For Carlos, though, he battled for the lead through the opening laps and won out, eventually crossing the line for a relatively comfortable victory - the fourth of his career so far.
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A Busy Break
Formula 2 is in the middle of its now-standard late-season slowdown before the Middle Eastern climax.
That means no racing for over two months for Luke Browning, our lead F2 driver in the series, who sits P3 in the standings with 161 points.
While Baku was a month ago and F2's next race in Qatar comes at the end of November, Luke is still going to enjoy hitting the track with his latest FP1 outing on Friday.
He'll helm the FW47 for the second time this season, after his Bahrain session earlier this year, to replace Carlos for the opening 60 minutes of this weekend's activity.
That will make it Luke’s fourth F1 outing in the past 12 months, who also drove the FW46 in Abu Dhabi's FP1 session last year before joining the post-season rookie test, too.
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Such Great Heights
You'll hear a lot about altitude on the coverage for this Grand Prix, and for good reason: Mexico City is 2.2 km above sea level.
Not only does that make it nearly 1.5 km higher than the next-highest circuit, Interlagos, but it's also higher than most of the world's population.
Davos, Europe's highest city in Switzerland, is 1,560 m above sea level, and Mexico City is 600 m higher than the "Mile High City" of Denver in the USA.
The city breaks into the top-10 highest capital cities in the world, and is easily the most populated among its peers with 23 million citizens within the greater urban area.
Ironically, Mexico City itself is located within the Valley of Mexico, a plateau that has volcanoes and mountains reaching in excess of 5,000 m enclosing the capital city.
Inefficient Aerodynamics
Mexico City's thin air makes racing at this circuit so different from elsewhere F1 visits on the calendar.
Incredibly high speeds are possible, even with a high-wing setup in place to try and maximise the car's cornering capabilities.
Most grip is instead found from the mechanical elements of the car rather than the front and rear wings pushing the chassis to the floor.
The result is a tough task for the tyres, which grain a lot over the Grand Prix distance thanks to them sliding across the track through the turns.
Perfecting the setup is always a challenge for the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, with the pit straight stretching over a kilometre, but almost all of the track's second and third sectors being corners.
Alex, Carlos, and Luke will need to make the most of the three free practice sessions to set us up for the weekend.
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