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Mexican Grand Prix

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Sun 28th October 2018 12:00am UTC

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League
Formula 1

Season
2018

Round
Round 19

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Location
Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez

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The Mexican Grand Prix is an FIA-sanctioned auto race held at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City. It first appeared as a non-championship event in 1962 before being held as a championship event in 1963–1970 and 1986–1992. The Grand Prix returned in 2015 at the Mexico City circuit.
The Mexican Grand Prix was first held on 4 November 1962 at the Magdalena Mixhuca circuit. The circuit was the first international racetrack in Mexico and was built within a park in the center part of capital city of Mexico City. The race provided unique challenges for racing, standing at 2,240 (7,340 ft) above sea level, as well as the long, 180-degree, lightly banked and fast Peraltada corner that finishes the lap, in addition to being a bumpy racetrack from actively shifting soils beneath the circuit. The Mexican Grand Prix of this period was always the season finale Grand Prix, held in late October.

The trophy in Mexico City went to Max Verstappen, the Dutchman driving an exemplary race to repeat his 2017 victory at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. But while it was a fifth race win for Verstappen, it was a fifth title win for Lewis Hamilton, the British driver’s fourth place enough to see him crowned champion with two races to go, becoming only the third ever driver, behind Juan Manuel Fangio and Michael Schumacher, to claim five world championships.
Sebastian Vettel knew that his chances of staying in the title hunt were minimal coming into the race. But despite putting in a fine performance – including executing a terrific move on Hamilton on lap 39 – to finish second, it wasn’t enough for Vettel to deny Hamilton. The German inherited that second place after Ricciardo suffered his eighth DNF of the season, after his engine appeared to let go on lap 62. It was a cruel twist of fate for the Australian.
Vettel was joined on the podium by his team mate Kimi Raikkonen.


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01			Max Verstappen	Oracle Red Bull Racing	1:38:28.851
02			Sebastian Vettel	Scuderia Ferrari HP	+0:17.316
03			Kimi Raikkonen	Scuderia Ferrari HP	+0:49.914
04			Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team	+1:18.738
05			Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team	+1 Lap
06			Nico Hulkenberg	Renault F1 Team	+2 Laps
07			Charles Leclerc	Sauber	+2 Laps
08			Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren Formula 1 Team	+2 Laps
09			Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	+2 Laps
10			Pierre Gasly	Toro Rosso	+2 Laps
11			Esteban Ocon	Force India	+2 Laps
12			Lance Stroll	Williams Racing	+2 Laps
13			Sergey Sirotkin	Williams Racing	+2 Laps
14			Hartley Hartley-Smith	Toro Rosso	+2 Laps
15			Kevin Magnussen	Haas Factory Team	+2 Laps
16			Romain Grosjean	Haas Factory Team	+3 Laps
17			Daniel Ricciardo	Oracle Red Bull Racing	DNF
18			Sergio Perez	Force India	DNF
19			Carlos Sainz Jr	Renault F1 Team	DNF
20			Fernando Alonso	McLaren Formula 1 Team	DNF

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