The Mexican events company CIE has filed papers with the Mexican stock exchange indicating that subject to final negotiations and paperwork, it has agreed a five-year contract to host Formula One races in Mexico City, starting in 2015. Previous Mexican Grands Prix have been held at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, which is operated by CIE. The venue is currently used for baseball games and concerts and needs a lot of work to be brought up to modern F1 standards.
Mexico has hosted 15 Formula One races in the past. The first races took place between 1963 and 1970, and then again from 1986 to 1992.
If the race joins the current 19, it will take the total number of races to 20 as none of the current events seem likely to drop out.
joeblogsf1 
And actually also India was told they would have come back in 2015, so it would be a total of 21
That’s not going to happen anytime soon
So presumably India is not making a return?
Joe,
How can they generate enough space for run off areas for the high speed corners of this track Peraltada etc. The track area itself is quite constrained due to surrounding buildings, roads, games pitches, swimming pools etc. I assume the track would need to be widened slightly as well. Can all this be done for 2015 in Mexico?
Wilson
Apparently
Any news Joe on the New Jersey street race?
Not for now.
Assume Peraltada will have a chicane before it, a la CART races. Which would be a shame.
Peraltada has a baseball stadium on its infield. The corner is gone in real terms. Look up Foro Sol on Google Earth. I think the plan is run the track inside the stadium.
I did look it up, Joe. By jingo, the Save Albert Park mob would splutter on their lattés if the track was that close to them.
Could be covered by double waved yellows?
CART did that – it was a joke, (running on a concrete surface through the stadium). I was a visiting CART observer back in the 2002 race and they had a massive crowd, mainly because of three local drivers plus the heavy backing of Tecate. They never really got a handle on stray dogs getting on the course or the odd fan deciding to take a short cut across the racing surface. The altitude (7800ft) was a shock to the system for a few days but we adjusted. Things have changed since then – the City is no longer the fun place it was back then – now I fear it will make the rough areas of Sao Paulo look like child’s play. Tourists and foreigners are followed as soon as they leave hotels on foot. Holding up in hotels and traveling in groups in escorted buses isn’t even a guarantee of safety now. It’s terrible what has happened in this country as the people and culture are wonderful. Without the commando like gangs it would be a wonderful place for an F1 event – but its too soon yet – this society has to fix its domestic issues first.
Oh joy. It was Dodge City with pollution when we last went there.
Don’t say Bernie doesn’t take you to interesting places and to meet unusal people Joe! And, it’s a contract for next year, will it really happen, or is it just someone promising to chuck money at Bernard if he helps them to keep Sergio & Guiterrez in seats?
Failed narco states not your cup o tea? 😆
A guy I worked with hired some Mexican “temporary visitors” to do some drywalling for him. One of the guy pulls out his phone to show him a video of a couple guys being slaughtered by Chainsaw by a guy in a Mexican wrestling mask. Seems they were rival drug gang members, and there is a website that they upload the killings to as warning/badge of honor.
Enjoy your visit to Mexico. 😆
I’m all for more races in my time zone, but I’ll believe it when I see it. No promoter makes money on F1, and this is apparently a private promoter. No Gvt. money means huge losses for the promoter, right? So please explain to me how it could make sense to do this.
BTW, when’s that 100% privately funded NJ GP making the calendar?
TY,
jim
Just wait.
Empty Grandstands?? Do it NASCAR style. And this is a genuine video on the official Indianapolis Motor Speedway Youtube site. This is awesome!
SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY!
Damn, that’s cool. We need some of those!
Thanks, PNJ.
And there is no reason not to install video screens every darn place around a track. Bring them with, per race, if local promoters won’t spend. Why have a moan about missing the little wireless squint boxes to follow the action, when you could have it in plain sight, and broadcast FM radio locally for the audio, per feed. Heck, pipe in the national relay broadcast commentaries. Oh, come ON, F1, do something ALREADY, will you, please??!
The embed video above is mixed up. I think it’s unintentional, but the playlist link now gets a National Guard promo running first. Ah, okay, I get it, the video has been added to the playlist, as “Graham Ryan and Dale Earnhardt Jnr visit Camp…”…
Quite sure it’s unintentional, but that could be a way of hijacking views. I managed to click through a advert by mistake already, fiddling to pop the video put to its YouTube origin page, to see what was going on,
Above video now shows a recent addition to the playlist, not what was first linked. I think it’s unintentional, but is effectively a link hijack. I clumsily managed to click through a advert, popping the video out to its original YouTube page to discover what is up.
I love Mexico and applaud this positive move for the sport.
Is Azerbaijan still on?
I don’t care.
Not excited by the thoughts of a weekend in Azerbaijan?
May be replaced by Iraq and or Syria.
Mexico // Azerbaijan …. Azerbaijan // Mexico ??
Hmmm, how did those thoughts connect? 🙂
Just wait? That may be the most positive thing I’ve heard you say about New Jersey in some time 🙂
Haven’t gone all the way around but you can get a look at the circuit in Google Street view here: http://goo.gl/UvSpPw
There will be a change of government in Victoria (Australia) at the end of the year. I’m confident the new mob will sign up for 2016 and beyond.
So am I.
Yep, unless somewhere like Perth does to Melbourne, what Melbourne did to Adelaide. Although I don’t think that is very likely.
I meant to say not confident, sorry.
Is it too early to resurrect the “Long Beach plan to hold GP” conversation. This is all getting too repetitive.
Keep up. Long Beach has re-upped with IndyCar. f1 is now working on Anaheim.
The Disneyland (R) California Grand Prix? Certainly doesn’t sound as strange as the Azerbaijan Grand Prix to me!
Nothing to do with Disney
Except it’s almost guaranteed to be Mickey Mouse!
i have been to anaheim many times. it is a featureless suburb. the only place where you could possibly race would be in the parking lot of the baseball stadium. if this is what is being considered, i would like to ask that those considering it look back at races held in similar venues and perhaps reconsider.
After one glass too many, I keep thinking I did something wrong, being squiffy a year or so back, well, solidly before it got the mention, imploring for Long Beach to return. So in virtually recreated sozzledom, I like to egomaniacally think not only was I stupid enough to be clamoring for that, but also, about the same time, that, in fairness, Bernie should be indicted whilst they were incarcerating a certain German banker… I do take things all too personally, in my virtual world, lol.
Another GP in North America? Awesome and Mexico city is not from from LA…
Three hours flying or 30 hours driving…
“Three hours flying or 30 hours driving…”
Ah, you’ve been researching the alternatives to flying United…
Driving 30 hours through Mexico is certainly a valid alternative to flying United.
I note your good friends United fly that route!
Road Trip!
Joe, I am very curious about this.
Im not talking about you specifically, but the media and people in general
why is it that the U.S. gets away doing exactly the same as Russia is doing now, but Russia gets heavily criticized?
I mean
– Shooting down a passenger plane by mistake? U.S. Has done it (Iran Air 655 in 88′)
– Invading neighbor countries? U.S. has done it (Half latin america)
– Funding “separatists”, “terrorists” or however you wanna call it? U.S. has done it (Contras, Al-qaeda in the 80’s, and god knows what now)
– Taking territory from other countries? U.S. has done it (texas, california, etc)
– Alienating minorities? U.S. has done it (blacks, latin americans, etc)
so, why instead of criticizing everybody, the world choses to ignore when the U.S. does it and there is no problem hosting a GP there or the olympics… but Russia? No, they’re evil.
I am not here to discuss politics. I will discuss the effect of politics on F1. If you want to discuss the matter I suggest you check out political websites and blogs.
Great timing, when’s the verdict on the Munich trial going to be announced?