2016 Mexican Grand Prix Review

Review of the nineteenth round of the 2016 F1 season at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in the centre of Mexico City for the Mexican Grand Prix.

Once again a dominating race weekend for Mercedes, dominating in qualifying, and most importantly dominating in the race for Mercedes driver and current Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton was on pole for Sunday's race. Hamilton took the advantage at the start and comfortably lead the race throughout the race to conclude with a race win in this seasons Mexican Grand Prix for Hamilton's eighth race win of the season.



While, Hamilton's team-mate and Nico Rosberg finished in second place in the other Mercedes to give the team its sixth one-two finish of the season, Rosberg was eight seconds behind Hamilton at the end.

Meanwhile, Max Verstappen finished in third place in the Red Bull to complete the podium. However Verstappen has been given a five-second time penalty following the race after cutting the first chicane late in the race. Promoting Sebastian Vettel to third, Daniel Ricciardo to fourth, and Verstappen to fifth.



Then, Vettel has been given a ten-second time penalty for potentially dangerous driving against Daniel Ricciardo on the penultimate lap of the race, dropping him to fifth, behind both Red Bull drivers.



Meaning Daniel Ricciardo finished in third place in the Red Bull to complete the podium, Ricciardo was twenty-one seconds behind Hamilton at the end of the seventy-one lap race.



With Lewis Hamilton's win in Mexico and Nico Rosberg only managing a second place finish, Rosberg still leads the F1 driver championship and now his gap between himself and team-mate Lewis Hamilton is gone from twenty-six points to nineteen points with two races to go.

Nico Rosberg could win his first Drivers' Championship in Brazil. If Rosberg wins the Brazilian Grand Prix.

Rate the Teams and Drivers

Mercedes - 8
Lewis Hamilton - 9 (pole and race win)
Nico Rosberg - 8 (finished second)

Ferrari - 7
Sebastian Vettel - 7 (finished fifth)
Kimi Räikkönen - 7 (finished sixth)

Williams - 7
Valtteri Bottas - 7 (finished eighth)
Felipe Massa - 7 (finished ninth)

Red Bull Racing - 7
Daniel Ricciardo - 8 (finished third and fastest lap)
Max Verstappen - 7 (finished fourth)

Force India - 7
Nico Hülkenberg - 8 (finished seventh)
Sergio Pérez - 6 (finished tenth)

Renault - 5
Kevin Magnussen - 5 (finished seventeenth, lap down)
Jolyon Palmer - 6 (finished fourteenth, lap down)

Toro Rosso - 4
Carlos Sainz Jr. - 5 (finished sixteenth, lap down)
Daniil Kvyat - 4 (finished eighteenth, lap down)

Sauber - 7
Marcus Ericsson - 8 (finished eleventh, lap down)
Felipe Nasr - 6 (finished fifteenth, lap down)

McLaren - 6
Fernando Alonso - 6 (finished thirteenth, lap down)
Jenson Button - 6 (finished twelfth, lap down)

Manor - 4
Esteban Ocon - 3 (finished twenty-first, two laps down)
Pascal Wehrlein - 6 (DNF, Collision with Esteban Gutiérrez)

Haas - 4
Romain Grosjean - 4 (finished twentieth, lap down)
Esteban Gutiérrez - 4 (finished nineteenth, lap down)


Next stop, Autódromo José Carlos Pace, Interlagos, São Paulo in two weeks time for the Brazilian Grand Prix.