| 2023 Mexico City Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 19 of 22 in the2023 Formula One World Championship
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 Layout of the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez | |||||
| Race details[1] | |||||
| Date | 29 October 2023 | ||||
| Official name | Formula 1Gran Premio de la Ciudad de México 2023 | ||||
| Location | Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez Mexico City, Mexico | ||||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
| Course length | 4.304 km (2.674 miles) | ||||
| Distance | 71 laps, 305.354 km (189.738 miles) | ||||
| Weather | Sunny | ||||
| Attendance | 400,639[2] | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver | Ferrari | ||||
| Time | 1:17.166 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver |  Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | |||
| Time | 1:21.334 on lap 71 | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First | Red Bull Racing-Honda RBPT | ||||
| Second | Mercedes | ||||
| Third | Ferrari | ||||
Lap leaders | |||||
The2023 Mexico City Grand Prix (officially known as theFormula 1 Gran Premio de la Ciudad de México 2023) was aFormula One motor race held on 29 October 2023 at theAutódromo Hermanos Rodríguez inMexico City,Mexico. It was the nineteenth round of the2023 Formula One World Championship.Charles Leclerc tookpole position and finished third in the race.Lewis Hamilton finished in second behindMax Verstappen, who took his sixteenth victory of the season, arecord in Formula One.Daniel Ricciardo, driving forAlphaTauri, qualified in fourth and finished in seventh, the team's best results of the season for both sessions.
The event was held across the weekend of 27–29 October. It was the nineteenth round of the2023 Formula One World Championship, the 23rd Formula One Grand Prix at this circuit, and the third held under the name of theMexico City Grand Prix, having previously been titled the Mexican Grand Prix.[3][4]
Coming into the weekend,Max Verstappen led theDrivers' Championship with 466 points. He led his teammateSergio Pérez by 226 points andLewis Hamilton by a further 39 points. Hamilton was ahead ofFernando Alonso in fourth by 18 points, withCarlos Sainz Jr. in fifth, 8 points behind Alonso.Red Bull Racing led theConstructors' Championship with 706 points, 362 points ahead ofMercedes and a further 22 points ahead ofFerrari.McLaren, in fourth, was behind Ferrari by 80 points and ahead ofAston Martin, in fifth, by 6 points.[5]
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The drivers and teams were the same as the season entry list with the exception ofDaniel Ricciardo, who replacedNyck de Vries atAlphaTauri starting at theHungarian Grand Prix.[6][7] During the first practice session, five teams fielded alternate drivers who had not raced in more than two Grands Prix, as required by the Formula One regulations:[8]
Bearman, Vesti and Hadjar made their Formula One practice debut.[8]
Tyre supplierPirelli brought the C3, C4 and C5 tyre compounds (designated hard, medium, and soft, respectively), which are three softest compounds in their dry tyre range, for teams to use at the event. Theprevious iteration of the race had used compounds that were one step harder. Pirelli also provided two sets per driver of an experimental C4 compound that was trialed during the first two free practice sessions.[9][10]
Threefree practice sessions were held for the event.[1] The first free practice session was held on 27 October 2023, at 12:30 local time (UTC−6).Max Verstappen topped the session ahead ofAlexander Albon andSergio Pérez.[11] The second free practice session was held on 27 October 2023, at 17:00. Max Verstappen topped the session ahead ofLando Norris andCharles Leclerc.[12] The third free practice session was held on 28 October 2023, at 11:30. Max Verstappen topped the session ahead of Alexander Albon and Sergio Pérez.[13]
Qualifying was held on 28 October 2023, at 15:00 local time (UTC−6).[1]
Charles Leclerc took pole position ahead of his teammateCarlos Sainz Jr. andMax Verstappen.[14] Verstappen,Lewis Hamilton and teammateGeorge Russell were all investigated for impeding, but no penalties were given to them.[15]
Fernando Alonso spun in Q1, bringing out a yellow flag in the first sector.Logan Sargeant could not set a lap time; he joinedLando Norris,Lance Stroll,Kevin Magnussen, andEsteban Ocon in exiting after the first part of the session.Pierre Gasly,Nico Hülkenberg, Alonso, Albon, andYuki Tsunoda were knocked out of the second session.Alexander Albon had lap times deleted due to track limits, soZhou Guanyu appeared in Q3.[14]
Daniel Ricciardo qualified in fourth place, the AlphaTauri team's highest qualification of the season. The Ferrari drivers took a front row lockout, with Leclerc claiming pole position.[14]
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The race was held on 29 October 2023, at 14:00 local time (UTC−6), and was run for 71 laps.[1]
Max Verstappen won the race, his record-setting sixteenth win in a season, ahead ofLewis Hamilton in second and polesitterCharles Leclerc in third. Five retirements occurred during the race. On the first turn of the first lap,Sergio Pérez turned into Leclerc, resulting in Pérez's retirement and damage to Leclerc's endplate. On lap 5 Leclerc's endplate came off at turn 1 which led to a shortvirtual safety car (VSC) period in order to allow for the marshals to remove the debris from the circuit safely. On lap 33,Kevin Magnussen had a left rear suspension failure, leading to a heavy crash at turn 9 which left his car a smoldering wreck and initially brought out the safety car. One lap later, the red flag was brought out to allow marshals to repair a section of the barrier.Fernando Alonso withdrew due to damage in lap 47, with hisAston Martin teammateLance Stroll later also being forced to retire after a collision withValtteri Bottas.Logan Sargeant had an issue with his fuel pump, forcing him to retire on the final lap.[21][22]
Starting seventeenth,Lando Norris gained twelve places to finish in fifth.Daniel Ricciardo finished in seventh, marking the AlphaTauri team's highest finish for the season.[23] This result moved AlphaTauri from last to eighth in the Constructors Championship: 4 points ahead of Haas and level with Alfa Romeo.[23]
After the lap-one crash between Pérez and Leclerc, a fan started an altercation between other fans. The instigator was ejected from the venue and given a lifetime ban.[24]
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| Previous race: 2023 United States Grand Prix | FIA Formula One World Championship 2023 season | Next race: 2023 São Paulo Grand Prix |
| Previous race: 2022 Mexico City Grand Prix | Mexico City Grand Prix | Next race: 2024 Mexico City Grand Prix |
