Mexico GP should return...

[East Londoner]

...Says the son of the richest man in the world. I wonder if this is jumping on the Perez bandwagon?

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/96601

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[FullMetalJack]

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HUZZAH!

I wouldn't complain if it returned to Hermanos Rodriguez, imagine someone being stupid enough to use DRS through Peraltada.

[AdrianSutil]

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HUZZAH!

I wouldn't complain if it returned to Hermanos Rodriguez, imagine someone being stupid enough to use DRS through Peraltada.

That'll obviously be Maldonado, as he likes to use it halfway through Parabolica

Seriously though, Hermanos Rodriguez would need a lot of work doing to it. The pit area and main grandstand are at least 20 years out of date. But the track layout is brilliant, so keep Tilkedrone away... New pits and grandstands, track resurface, sort the run-off areas out, should be all it needs...

[Mister Fungus]

Whatever they do just PLEASE don't make it a street circuit.

[JeremyMcClean]

Whatever they do just PLEASE don't make it a street circuit.

Agreed. We all know what happened to Valencia...

[nome66]

don't know about Hermanos rodriguez. the elevation messed with loads of stuff.
this is as close as we get to what we want. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49oC9au-JNA
this is just on the exit of peridalta
Look at the chicane!

[mario]

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HUZZAH!

I wouldn't complain if it returned to Hermanos Rodriguez, imagine someone being stupid enough to use DRS through Peraltada.

That'll obviously be Maldonado, as he likes to use it halfway through Parabolica

Seriously though, Hermanos Rodriguez would need a lot of work doing to it. The pit area and main grandstand are at least 20 years out of date. But the track layout is brilliant, so keep Tilkedrone away... New pits and grandstands, track resurface, sort the run-off areas out, should be all it needs...

To be more precise, get Tilke to leave the track itself alone and only work on upgrading the facilities there - that would keep the teams and FOM satisfied, but leave the track reasonably intact.

don't know about Hermanos rodriguez. the elevation messed with loads of stuff.
this is as close as we get to what we want. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49oC9au-JNA
this is just on the exit of peridalta
Look at the chicane!

It would be an interesting situation for the teams if they were to race at Hermanos Rodriguez (which is certainly being considered) - the drop in air pressure around Interlagos, which is about 760m above sea level, has a noticeable effect on engine performance and the aerodynamics (the engines are thought to lose around 7% of their peak power). Hermanos Rodriguez, meanwhile, is nearly 2,300m above sea level - so, not only would the performance of the cars be much more limited, it's possible that the drivers could also start feeling the effects too.

[nome66]

so a race in the andes is out of the question?

[Frentzen127]

so a race in the andes is out of the question?

I support this notion. Apparently RB engineers were pulling their hair out trying to make the engines work when they did demo runs around here.

[F1000X]

don't know about Hermanos rodriguez. the elevation messed with loads of stuff.
this is as close as we get to what we want. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49oC9au-JNA
this is just on the exit of peridalta
Look at the chicane!

It would be an interesting situation for the teams if they were to race at Hermanos Rodriguez (which is certainly being considered) - the drop in air pressure around Interlagos, which is about 760m above sea level, has a noticeable effect on engine performance and the aerodynamics (the engines are thought to lose around 7% of their peak power). Hermanos Rodriguez, meanwhile, is nearly 2,300m above sea level - so, not only would the performance of the cars be much more limited, it's possible that the drivers could also start feeling the effects too.

Now they HAVE to go back. It would be really disappointing to see F1 turn down such unique challenge for both the teams and the drivers.

[Waris]

so a race in the andes is out of the question?

The Andes is in South America, not Mexico.

[nome66]

it was a joke commenting on elevation

[eurobrun]

Maybe they should go to that Fundidora park track that Champ Car went to. It looked cool with all the abandoned steel buildings in the background even if the racing wasnt that good

[Jeroen Krautmeir]

Maybe they should go to that Fundidora park track that Champ Car went to. It looked cool with all the abandoned steel buildings in the background even if the racing wasnt that good

Yeah, well, the racing wasn't good. Says it all really...

[jackanderton]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Mexican_Grand_Prix

The results of the final GP here.




edit- oh and wow- 19 finishers at the 1990 event!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Mexican_Grand_Prix

[DanielPT]

Maybe they should go to that Fundidora park track that Champ Car went to. It looked cool with all the abandoned steel buildings in the background even if the racing wasnt that good

Yeah, well, the racing wasn't good. Says it all really...

I am guessing that, having slim behind, they would do a new circuit if Hermanos Rodriguez is judged too old or outdated. Unfortunately that would mean, with a high degree of probability, another Tilkedrome. This, in turn, tells us that there is a probability of 75% in which the circuit comes out a bland dullness...

[IdeFan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccDQ7mzGDDQ&feature=related

Hermanos Rodriguez gets my vote!

Of course if it did happen they would probably have Tilke redevelop the track, so maybe we should leave it for the sake of a great track.

[F1000X]

Of course if it did happen they would probably have Tilke redevelop the track, so maybe we should leave it for the sake of a great track.

As long as he leaves the Peraltada untouched, that may not be a bad thing; the track isn't seeing any great use at present. From what I can tell it's not seeing use by any noteworthy series; Mexican F3 no longer exists, F3 Sudamericana doesn't go there, Champcar hasn't been there in years and Indycar doesn't look like it intends to go back, the Nascar Busch series race is gone, and the Rolex Sports Car Series is no longer visiting Mexico.

[dinizintheoven]

As long as he leaves the Peraltada untouched...

...I am firmly of the opinion that the Peraltada will be the first corner that will be attacked by Hermann Tilke's scalpel. I still remember the day when it was announced the Japanese Grand Prix would transfer to Fuji; after briefly mourning the loss of Suzuka, I thought "maybe it won't be so bad, after all, that's where James Hunt won the World Championship all those years ago, and I know the circuit from playing Pole Position in the arcades when I was a nipper..."

...and then I saw the new circuit, and a wave of cold dread shot over me. What was this? This wasn't the Fuji I knew. All its long, flowing corners had been crudely hacked into a series of straight lines, and there were a load of Mickey Mouse chicanes where Fuji's answer to the Peraltada used to be...

Believe me, if Doctor Butcher ever gets his hands on the Hermanos Rodríguez circuit, it will be destroyed. It's a circuit almost entirely composed of constant-radius corners, and I can pretty much guarantee none of them will survive. I would, at the very least, expect everywhere from turns 6 to 13 to become a series of Valencia-esque straight lines with slight kinks, Peraltada will get much the same treatment as the last section of Barcelona, and the chicane at the end of the pit straight will be turned into a hairpin not a million miles away from the long straight at Shanghai.

[nome66]

wait. you mean like the champ car race?


i see it as a better way to sell more seats!

[Myrvold]

edit- oh and wow- 19 finishers at the 1990 event!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Mexican_Grand_Prix

Brilliant - The Life had it's fastest lap on 4.07.4 (How on earth is that possible??)
And Moreno in the EuroBrun managed to qualify just to be disqualified by a push start... Oh those where the days (before I was born)

[F1000X]

Maybe you're right Diniz, and we should hope that it's held somewhere else. That turn is the defining mark of Hermanos-Rodriguez; if Tilke can't keep that bit as it is, he'll have done something criminal.

[Ridge Racer]

You're all forgetting about the Ferro Sol baseball stadium which was built backing onto the the peraltada curve creating a giant blind spot coming into the corner which would necessitate either a redesign of the corner moving it further out by expanding the two straightaways it links or by bypassing the corner altogether like NASCAR and Indycar did when they used the track a few years ago.

[Captain Hammer]

We all know what happened to Valencia...

Where is it written that a Mexican street circuit would be Valencia 2.0? For all we know, it would be another Port Imperial with massive elevation changes and next to no run-off.