The 2026 F1 season will embody a spherical in Mexico after the sequence agreed a brand new cope with 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. Components One Administration introduced the newest in a sequence 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 robust dedication to Components 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 position, Clara Brugada and Alejandro Soberon Kuri, the CEO of Grupo CIE which promotes the race.
There can be no Mexican driver on the grid for this 12 months’s race for the primary time for the reason that occasion’s return a decade in the past. Nevertheless Sergio Perez, who misplaced his drive with Pink Bull on the finish of final season, is rumoured to be in discussions with Cadillac about becoming a member of the brand new workforce which can be a part of the grid subsequent 12 months.
The information is an additional 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. Components One Administration has invested closely in its showpiece spherical, owns the location its paddock stands on and already has a deal to proceed utilizing the general public roads which kind a part of the monitor.
Domenicali stated earlier this month it “can be more and more troublesome to have two races in the identical nation” as a result of rising demand for calendar locations. Italy’s different spherical of the world championship is contracted to stay at Monza till not less than 2031.
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