Mexico City E-Prix

Mexico City E-Prix
E-Prix Details
Name	Hankook Mexico City E-Prix
Location	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City
No. Held	7
Circuit	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez
Previous Circuits	{{{previouscircuits}}}
First Race	2016 Mexico City ePrix
Last Race	2023 Mexico City E-Prix
Only Race	unknown
Most Recent Results
Name	2023 Hankook Mexico City E-Prix
Pole	Lucas di Grassi 1:13:575
First	Second	Third
Jake Dennis	Pascal Wehrlein	Lucas di Grassi
Fastest lap	Jake Dennis 1:14.195

The Mexico City E-Prix is an annual motorsports event staged at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City, Mexico, that serves as a round of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship. Mexico City was added to the 2015/16 season calendar in late November 2015, hosting the inaugural Mexico City ePrix on 12 March 2016, and has remained on the calendar ever since.

The Mexico City E-Prix has appeared on every FE calendar since its debut in 2016, although the 2021 edition of the race would be cancelled due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. The race would return in 2022, however, and would go on to be the first race of the Generation 3 era when the Mexico City E-Prix staged the first E-Prix of the 2022/23 season.

City History

Mexico City was originally founded by the Mexica people during the fourteenth century, and became the centre for the Spanish colonialists after their arrival in the early sixteenth century. The city was rebuilt after a number of sieges, with steady growth until the Mexican-American wars of the nineteenth century, although that also proved to be a minor hindrance, with further growth into the twentieth century. Mexico City was also the home of the failed Mexican Revolution between 1910 and 1920, before becoming one of the biggest and fastest growing cities in the world by the twenty-first century.

Formula E History

The Mexico City ePrix circuit uses the famed, and newly rebuilt, Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez as a base, running on a modified version of the Oval circuit.

Circuit History

The Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez laid dormant to the Motor racing World after the mid-1990s, with only local and American continental championships using the circuit. Investment in the 2010s saw the promise of a return for the Mexican Grand Prix in 2015, with the World Motor Sport Council announcing shortly after that race that Formula E would use the circuit as part of the 2015/16.

Circuit Layout

The Mexico City ePrix circuit uses the famed, and newly rebuilt, Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez as a base, running on a modified version of the Oval circuit. Chicanes run either side of the long turn three (the first turn of the Oval), with the drivers then turning into the new Stadium section, following the Grand Prix layout. The drivers then exit the stadium to run through the remains of the Peraltada corner, which features a chicane to slow the cars before they re-join the main straight. For the 2022/23 Season a new chicane has been added in order to slow down the now much faster Gen 3 cars, this has added roughly 4-5 seconds of lap time, even with the much faster and lighter Gen3 cars compared to the Gen2 cars.

Records

A full list of records for the Mexico City ePrix are outlined below, including a list of race winners.

Winners

Below is a list of all of the winners of ePrix held in Mexico City E-Prix:

Mexico City E-Prix ePrix Winners List
Season	Name	Circuit	Date	Winner	Report
2015/16	2016 FIA Formula E Mexico City ePrix	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez	12 March 2016	Jérôme d'Ambrosio	Report
2016/17	2017 FIA Formula E Mexico City ePrix	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez	1 April 2017	Lucas di Grassi	Report
2017/18	2018 ABB Formula E Mexico City E-Prix	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez	3 March 2018	Daniel Abt	Report
2018/19	2019 CBMM Niobium Mexico City E-Prix	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez	16 February 2019	Lucas di Grassi	Report
2019/20	2020 CBMM Niobium Mexico City E-Prix	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez	15 February 2020	Mitch Evans	Report
2020/21	2021 ABB Formula E Mexico City E-Prix	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez	13 February 2021	Cancelled
2021/22	2022 ABB Formula E Mexico City E-Prix	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez	12 February 2022	Pascal Wehrlein	Report
2022/23	2023 ABB Formula E Mexico City E-Prix	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez	14 January 2023	Jake Dennis	Report

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