Antonelli becomes the youngest World Champion, Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez becomes the circuit at which Verstappen has won the most times and Ferrari reach 300 runner-up finishes. Here are the facts and statistics from the 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix!
Antonelli Becomes Youngest F1 Champion
Kimi Antonelli’s third place finish in the 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix saw him become Formula 1’s youngest-ever World Champion. He is the 36th driver to have won the Drivers’ Championship.
At the age of 20, Antonelli breaks the record as the youngest World Champion by three years. The previous record belonged to Sebastian Vettel, who claimed his first title at the age of 23 at the 2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Antonelli is the first driver born in the 2000s – and the first driver not born in the 1900s – to become World Champion.
Antonelli won 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 is only the fifth 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.
Antonelli becomes the first Italian driver to win the Drivers’ Championship in 73 years. He is the third Italian World Champion, after Giuseppe Farina (1950) and Alberto Ascari (1952 & 1953).
This is the first time that three different drivers have won the title in three consecutive years since Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button and Sebastian Vettel did so in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
Antonelli is 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 is the team’s first Drivers’ Championship win since Hamilton took the honours in 2020.
Mercedes are the third constructor, after Ferrari and McLaren, to have won the Drivers’ Championship on as many as ten occasions.
Antonelli is the third driver to win the title on November 1, after Nelson Piquet in 1987 and Mika Hakkinen in 1998.
This is the sixth time that the Drivers’ Championship has been won in Mexico, with Antonelli becoming 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 equals Interlagos for third on the list of circuits which have hosted the most title deciders.
VERSTAPPEN WINS THE 2026 MEXICO CITY GRAND PRIX
Max Verstappen took victory in the 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix, recording the 74th victory of his career. This was his third win in the last four races.
Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez becomes the circuit at which Verstappen has won the most times. It moves clear of the Red Bull Ring and Yas Marina Circuit, becoming the first circuit at which he has won six times. It’s his sixth win from the last nine race weekends in Mexico.
Verstappen extended his record for the most different grid slots from which a driver has won a Grand Prix. This was his first win from fifth on the grid. It’s the 11th different grid position from which he has won.
Verstappen became the first driver to win from outside of the top three grid positions in Mexico since Alain Prost won from 13th on the grid in 1990. It was the second furthest back win in the circuit’s history on the calendar.
Red Bull extend their record for the most victories in Mexico City. This was the team’s sixth victory at the track.
During the race, Verstappen became only the third driver – after Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton – to have led as many as 4,000 Grand Prix laps.
This was Verstappen’s seventh consecutive podium finish. In the last 12 rounds, the only times he has not finished in the top three were due to retirements at the British and Dutch Grands Prix.
ON THE PODIUM
Max Verstappen was joined on the podium at the 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix by Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Antonelli.
Verstappen and Hamilton each recorded their seventh top three finish in Mexico, remaining tied at the top of the list of most podium finishes in the country.
Verstappen and Hamilton remain the only drivers who’ve scored points in every race at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez since the track rejoined the calendar in 2015.
Finishing as runner-up, Hamilton recorded his best result since his victory at the Barcelona Grand Prix.
This was the first time since 1988 that the polesitter finished second in Mexico City.
Hamilton’s second place marked the 300th time that a Ferrari driver has finished as runner-up in a Grand Prix. Ferrari are the first constructor to reach that milestone.
Antonelli finished on the podium for a fourth race weekend in a row.
IN THE POINTS
Charles Leclerc finished in the top four for the sixth successive Grand Prix weekend. This was his fourth time finishing fourth in that period.
This was the first time since 2022 that Leclerc failed to finish on the podium in Mexico.
With sixth place, George Russell recorded his best finish since his win at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
Starting from the pit lane and gaining 15 positions, Liam Lawson finished seventh in the 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix. This was his fourth consecutive points-scoring appearance, with three of those finishes being seventh places.
This was the first time a driver starting from the pit lane went on to score points in Mexico City.
Finishing eighth, Gabriel Bortoleto equalled his and the Audi team’s best result of the season to date.
Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez becomes the second circuit, after Spa-Francorchamps, at which Bortoleto has scored points twice in his career.
Isack Hadjar finished ninth in the 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix, recording points for a 12th consecutive appearance.
Finishing tenth on his Formula 1 debut, Ryo Hirawaka scored the first point of his career in the 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix. He is the 82nd driver to score a point on his World Championship debut – the first to do so since Arvid Lindblad at the 2026 Australian Grand Prix.
This was Haas’ first points finish in a Grand Prix since both drivers finished in the points in Baku.
THE OTHER FINISHERS
With Alex Albon 11th and Carlos Sainz 12th, this was the first time that both Williams drivers reached the chequered flag in Mexico since 2022, as well as the first time that both cars finished in the top 12 at the track since 2017.
Oscar Piastri originally finished seventh at the 2025 Mexico City Grand Prix but fell down the order to 13th place following a post-race ten-second time penalty. This was the first time since Azerbaijan, where he also finished 13th, that Piastri failed to score a point.
This was the first time in his four appearances in Mexico that Piastri failed to score a point.
Alex Albon gained five positions from where he started in the 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix, equalling the most positions he’s gained in a race so far this year. He also gained five places at the Miami Grand Prix.
Franco Colapinto and Pierre Gasly finished eighth and tenth respectively on the road at the 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix. However, post race penalties for separate yellow flag infringements saw both drivers drop out of the top ten, ultimately finishing 15th and 17th.
THE RETIREES
A suspension failure for Valtteri Bottas brought about the Finn’s tenth DNF of the 2026 season. This was the second race in a row which the Cadillac driver failed to finish. He has now retired in four of the last five Grand Prix weekends.
Bottas’ crash brought out the red flags. This was the fifth Grand Prix of the year to feature a red flag period.
Both Aston Martin drivers retired from the 2026 Mexico City Grand Prix after only five laps. Lance Stroll recorded his 13th non-finish of the year, while Fernando Alonso recorded his seventh.
This was Aston Martin’s sixth double retirement of the season.
This was the fifth year in a row that Alonso failed to finish the Mexico City Grand Prix.
Ollie Bearman’s 100% points-finishing record in Mexico came to an end when he retired from the race in a collision with Nico Hulkenberg. This was his second successive DNF and his sixth non-finish of the year.
Arvid Lindblad exited the race in the closing stages in a collision with Oscar Piastri. Of races he has started, this was the first time Lindblad failed to reach the chequered flag in his Formula 1 career. He failed to start the Canadian Grand Prix earlier this season.