Antonelli could become the youngest F1 champion, Ferrari could reach 300 runner-up finishes and Perez makes his 300th Grand Prix start. Here are the milestones and the records which could be broken at the 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix!
The 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix Milestones
The 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix will be the 1,168th race in World Championship history.
This will be the 27th Mexican Grand Prix (including races held under the Mexico City Grand Prix title) since the event was first held in 1962. This will be the 26th time that Formula 1 has raced in Mexico. It will be the 26th World Championship Grand Prix held at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez and the sixth time the race has been given the official title of ‘Mexico City Grand Prix’.
This is the sixth F1 race to take place on November 1. The last to do so was the 2020 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola.
Appearing at his home event for the first time since 2024, Sergio Perez makes his 300th Grand Prix start at the 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix.
Max Verstappen no longer has a mathematical chance of winning the Drivers’ Championship this year. The 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix marks the first time he enters a race without a mathematical chance of winning that year’s title since the 2020 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Title On The Line For Antonelli
Kimi Antonelli has a strong chance of becoming F1’s 36th World Champion at the 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix.
A title win for Kimi Antonelli, at the age of 20, would make him the youngest-ever World Champion, breaking the record set by Sebastian Vettel, at the age of 23, in the 2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. He will also be the first driver born in the 2000s – and the first driver not born in the 1900s – to become World Champion.
Antonelli would become the first Italian driver to win the Drivers’ Championship in 73 years. He would be the first Italian World Champion, after Giuseppe Farina (1950) and Alberto Ascari (1952 & 1953).
This would be the first time that three different drivers have won the title in three consecutive years since Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button and Sebastian Vettel in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
Antonelli would become the fourth driver to win the Drivers’ Championship with Mercedes, after Juan Manuel Fangio (1954, 1955), Lewis Hamilton (2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020) and Nico Rosberg (2016). It would be the team’s first Drivers’ Championship win since Hamilton took the honours in 2020. Mercedes would become the third constructor, after Ferrari and McLaren, to have won the Drivers’ Championship on as many as ten occasions.
Antonelli would be the third driver to win the title on November 1, after Nelson Piquet in 1987 and Mika Hakkinen in 1998.
This would be the sixth time that the Drivers’ Championship has been won in Mexico, while Antonelli would be the fifth driver to win the title in the country, after John Surtees (1964), Denny Hulme (1967), Graham Hill (1968) and Lewis Hamilton (2017, 2018). Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez would equal Interlagos for third on the list of circuits which have hosted the most title deciders.
If he were to win the title at the 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix, Antonelli would win the World Championship in only his 43rd Grand Prix. Only 12 drivers have won the title in fewer races from their first appearance. Lewis Hamilton and Jacques Villeneuve are the only drivers to have done so since Emerson Fittipaldi in 1972.
Antonelli would be only the fourth driver in F1 history to win the title within his first two seasons in the sport. Juan Manuel Fangio, Jacques Villeneuve and Lewis Hamilton also won their first titles in their second season, while Giuseppe Farina was the inaugural World Champion in 1950.
The Formula 1 Records Which Could Be Broken
A victory for Kimi Antonelli this weekend would make him the fourth driver to have won as many as ten Grands Prix with Mercedes. He would equal Valtteri Bottas for third on the list of most wins with the team, behind Lewis Hamilton (84) and Nico Rosberg (23).
If Charles Leclerc, Kimi Antonelli and Max Verstappen finish on the podium at the 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix, this would be the first time that the same three drivers have finished on the podium at three successive races since Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen and Valtteri Bottas did so at the 70th Anniversary, Spanish and Belgian Grands Prix in 2020. It would be only the fourth time it has happened in F1 history, equalling the longest such streak.
A second place finish for Ferrari would make them the first team in F1 to record as many as 300 runner-up finishes.
A win from pole position for Max Verstappen would see him equal Michael Schumacher for the second-most wins from pole in F1 history. Verstappen has won 39 races from pole to date, compared to Schumacher’s 40. Only Lewis Hamilton sits ahead of them on the list, having converted 61 of his poles into wins.
If Max Verstappen leads five laps of the race, he will become only the third driver in F1 history – after Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton – to have led as many as 4,000 Grand Prix laps.
A podium finish for Lando Norris would see him become the 19th driver to reach 50 top three finishes in Formula 1, equalling Jenson Button for 18th on the all-time list. He would also overtake Lewis Hamilton for fifth place on the list of most podium finishes with McLaren, as well as equalling Button for fourth place on the list of most top three results for a British driver.
If Oscar Piastri or Charles Leclerc win, they will join a list of eight other drivers who have won as many as ten Grands Prix without ever winning the title.
A sixth place finish for Carlos Sainz or Fernando Alonso will see them equal Felipe Massa for the most sixth place finishes in F1 history. Massa recorded 27 sixth place finishes during his career, while Sainz and Alonso have had 26 to date.
With Kimi Antonelli having taken his maiden win at the 2026 Chinese Grand Prix, there are now 13 previous Grand Prix winners on the grid. If another driver takes a maiden victory this year, the next race will be the first time since the 1980 British Grand Prix that as many as 14 previous winners have lined up on the grid.
A pole position for Charles Leclerc would see him equal Nigel Mansell for eighth on the list of most poles with a single team. Mansell took 28 poles with Williams during his career, while Leclerc has taken 27 poles with Ferrari to date.
A Grand Slam for Max Verstappen or Lewis Hamilton – winning from pole position having led every lap and set the fastest lap – would be their seventh Grand Slam. It would see them take outright second place on the list of most Grand Slams in F1, behind only Jim Clark.
A third place finish for Lewis Hamilton or Charles Leclerc would make Ferrari the first constructor to record 300 third place finishes in Formula 1.
A fastest lap for Max Verstappen would be his 39th, overtaking Sebastian Vettel for fifth on the list of most fastest laps.
If Max Verstappen leads from start to finish, this would be the 20th Grand Prix which he has led from lights to flag. That would see him overtake Ayrton Senna for second on the list of most races led from start to end. Only Lewis Hamilton, on 23, has led more races from start to end than Verstappen and Senna.
Max Verstappen holds the record for wins from the most different grid positions in Formula 1. He’ll become the first driver to win from 11 different grid slots this weekend should he win from 5th, 8th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 15th, 16th, 18th, 19th or 20th on the grid.
The Mexico City Grand Prix Records On Offer
Red Bull lead the way for most team victories in Mexico, with five. Their record could be equalled at the 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix by Red Bull, who have four wins here to date.
Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen are tied for the most podium finishes in Mexico, each with six top three finishes at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. Either driver could set a new outright record in the 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix.
A fastest lap for Valtteri Bottas, Charles Leclerc or George Russell would see them equal Jim Clark for most fastest laps at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. Clark is the only driver to have taken as many as three fastest laps at the track.
Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton are the only drivers who’ve scored points in every race in Mexico since 2015. They’ll be hoping to maintain their records this weekend, while Oscar Piastri, Kimi Antonelli, Charles Leclerc, Ollie Bearman and Gabriel Bortoleto will also be looking to keep their 100% points streaks in Mexico alive.
If Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri lead 15 more laps of the race than Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar, McLaren will overtake Red Bull as the team that has led the most Grand Prix laps in Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez’s history on the F1 calendar.
Max Verstappen currently leads the way for most laps raced at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, having raced 710 laps here. Lewis Hamilton sits just behind on 709 laps raced. Hamilton will become the new record holder if he completes two more laps of the 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix than Verstappen.
2026 Mexico City Grand Prix: Qualifying Records
A pole position for Charles Leclerc at the 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix would see him become only the third driver, after Jim Clark and Ayrton Senna, to have taken as many as three poles in Mexico. Clark holds the record for most pole positions here, with four.
If Ferrari take pole position this weekend, they would equal Lotus for the most poles at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. Lotus have six poles at the track, compared to Ferrari’s five.
Kimi Antonelli, Max Verstappen, Isack Hadjar, Lewis Hamilton, Charles Leclerc and Ollie Bearman all hold 100% Q3 appearances rates in Mexico. Verstappen and Hamilton are the only drivers to have reached Q3 in every race in Mexico since it returned to the F1 calendar in 2015.
Longevity Records on Offer for Alonso
Fernando Alonso’s last win came at the 2013 Spanish Grand Prix. A victory at any race in 2026 would see him set a new record for the longest gap between wins in F1 history, by quite a margin. Riccardo Patrese holds the current record, having waited 6 years, 6 months and 28 days between wins at the 1983 South African Grand Prix and the 1990 San Marino Grand Prix.
A podium finish for Fernando Alonso at any race in 2026 would see him overtake Alain Prost for fifth on the list of most podium finishes in Formula 1. Both drivers have recorded 106 top three finishes.
If Fernando Alonso leads a race, he would become only the third driver – after Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton – to have led a lap of a Grand Prix in as many as 16 different seasons.
A victory for Fernando Alonso in 2026 would make him only the fourth driver – after Juan Manuel Fangio, Stirling Moss, Jackie Stewart and Alain Prost to have won with as many as four different constructors during his Formula 1 career.