2018 Mexican Grand Prix


The 2018 Mexican Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 28 October 2018 at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City. The race was the nineteenth round of the 2018 Formula One World Championship and marked the 20th running of the Mexican Grand Prix, and the 19th time that the race had been run as a World Championship event since the inaugural season in.
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton entered the round with a 70-point lead over Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel in the World Drivers' Championship. Vettel's team-mate, Kimi Räikkönen, was in third, a further 55 points behind. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes held a lead of 66 points over Ferrari, with Red Bull Racing a further 160 points behind in third place.
The race was won by Max Verstappen, while Lewis Hamilton finished in fourth position, thereby taking his fifth Drivers' World Championship.

Qualifying

Daniel Ricciardo took pole position from teammate Verstappen and with Hamilton in third. This was Ricciardo's last pole position.

Qualifying classification

;Notes
  • – Pierre Gasly received a 20-place grid penalty: 15 places for exceeding his quota of power unit elements and 5 places for an unscheduled gearbox change.
  • – Romain Grosjean received a three-place grid penalty for causing a collision in the previous round.

Race

Max Verstappen won the race after taking the lead on lap 1, his teammate Ricciardo bogged down badly at the start. The two Ferraris of Vettel and Räikkönen completed the podium. Lewis Hamilton's fourth-place finish was enough for him to claim the World Drivers' Championship with two rounds to go. Pole sitter Ricciardo retired on lap 61, his eighth retirement of the year. Nico Hülkenberg finished a fine 6th place ahead of Charles Leclerc, while Stoffel Vandoorne equalled his best finish of the season in 8th place.

Post race

In the immediate aftermath of the race, Ricciardo insisted that his car was cursed and said that he "didn't see the point" in doing the final two races of the season.

Race classification

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Championship standings after the race

;Drivers' Championship standings
;Constructors' Championship standingsNote: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.Bold text indicates the 2018 World Drivers' Champion.Bold text and an asterisk indicates competitors who still had a theoretical chance of becoming World Champion.