F1 heads south of the border, down Mexico way, as the meat in a triple header F1 sandwich. Talking of choice cuts of beef, our 2024 Mexican F1 Grand Prix Preview will fill you up with F1 stats and opinion.
The Gurgler’s 2024 Mexican F1 Grand Prix Preview brings some thoughts on the race itself, a more than a few barely interesting stats.
Essentially a quick summary of what a casual F1 fan needs in the shortest possible time for your convenience.
And for F1 opinion, stand by for the F1 Donkey’s Bold Predictions and Opinion.
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2024 Mexican F1 Grand Prix Preview – Race Potential Rating
The Gurgler does like to use some obscure drivers in our Race previews and report, so who better to use than Teo Fabi to determine a race rating system.
So before each race we give a rating out of ten for four key category that are loosely based on each letter of Teo Fabi’s surname. Don’t know who Teo Fabi is, you should.
FAST? 7 / 10 – Big, long start-finish straight. The winding, snaking esses. Some areas of the track are untouched from back in the day, and still all fast. The kink into the baseball stadium ruins the lap, by not allowing cars to take the last corner straight. But it is still fun enough.
ACTION? 6 / 10 – Sergio Perez livened up last season’s race by crashing at the first corner. And it is a track where mistakes are punished. Overall it’s a track where stuff can happen, but the recent seasons can’t recall a classic.
BIG HISTORY? – 6 / 10 – The Mexican Grand Prix is in its third stint as an F1 host, with the first Championship race being held in the 60’s. Then it returned for the Senna-Prost-Mansell golden era and left when Mansell left for Indycars. And finally in recent times since 2015. Talking of Mansell, as ever, he is involved in some of the more memorable moments. Like when he was on the cusp of the 1986 title and appears to start the GP in reverse gear. Or his magnificent pass on Gerhard Berger in a Ferrari in the 1990 Mexican Grand Prix around the outside of the last corner back in the day, which was fast, and took guts.
INCLEMENT WEATHER? – 2 /10 The Weather Channel says partly cloudy and temperatures in the low 20’s but no rain. Not much happening then although maybe coolish conditions might mix the field up a little
RACE RATING 53% – Enough of everything, plus a Championship battle.
2024 ‘Mexican F1 Grand Prix Preview – Stats Summary
Want to know if your favourite driver for this weekend is a master of the track or the track is a master of them? Here then are some barely interesting facts and stats.
These visuals go back to 2000 to cover the current drivers, thanks to Fernando Alonso. The all time history goes back to 1950.
2024 Mexican F1 Grand Prix Preview – Driver Stats
2024 Mexican F1 Grand Prix Preview – Team Stats
99 = a DNF. Grid position 20 is overstated as that was also used for cars starting in pitlane. Results from 2016.
2024 Mexican F1 Grand Prix Preview – Historic Stats
