2022 Mexican Grand Prix

The **2022 Mexico City Grand Prix** was a Formula 1.5 motor race that was held on 30 October 2022 at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City, Mexico.

## Background

### Championship standings before the race

Lando Norris led the Drivers' Championship with 48 points from Esteban Ocon, second, and 79 from Fernando Alonso, third. Alpine led the Constructors' Championship from McLaren by 73 points and Aston Martin by 234 points. Both championships could have been won at the grand prix with the following permutations;

#### Drivers standings permutations

Fernando Alonso only had 2 ways of staying in the title fight:

1. Alonso wins the Mexican GP without scoring the fastest lap and Lando Norris finishes 8th or lower.
2. Alonso wins the Mexican GP with the fastest lap and Lando Norris finishes 7th or lower.

As for Ocon the permutations had a little more lee-way in them.

 4th (With or Without the fastest lap)
 5th (With or without the fastest lap)
 6th (With or without the fastest lap)
 7th (With or without the fastest lap)
 8th (With the fastest lap)
 8th (Without the fastest lap)
 9th (Without the fastest lap) OR 10th (With the fastest lap)
 10th (Without the fastest lap)
 11th or lower

#### Constructors standings permuations

Alpine could have became champions if they outscore McLaren by 30 points or more at the Mexican GP, the clearest route to do this was Alpine finishing 1st and 2nd with McLaren off of the podium.

### Entrants

The drivers and teams were the same as the season entry list with no additional stand-in drivers for the race. Pietro Fittipaldi, Logan Sargeant and Liam Lawson drove for Haas in place of Kevin Magnussen, for Williams in place of Alexander Albon and for AlphaTauri in place of Yuki Tsunoda respectively, during the first practice session. Jack Doohan drove for Alpine in place of Esteban Ocon in the same session, making his Formula 1.5 practice debut.

### Tyres

Tyre supplier Pirelli brought the C2, C3, and C4 tyre compounds (designated hard, medium, and soft, respectively) for teams to use at the event.

### Track Changes

The second and the third activation point of the DRS were moved further back, being positioned 165 metres (541 ft) after turn 17 and 115 metres (377 ft) after turn 3, respectively.

### Penalties

Aston Martin's Lance Stroll carried a three-place grid penalty for causing a collision with Fernando Alonso at the previous round, the United States Grand Prix.

## Practice

FP1 was topped by Fernando Alonso, Valtteri Bottas and Lando Norris. FP1 included friday drivers for some teams including Liam Lawson for AlphaTauri, Logan Sargeant at Williams, Jack Doohan for Alpine and Pietro Fittipaldi for Haas. FP2 was topped by Yuki Tsunoda, Esteban Ocon and Valtteri Bottas. FP2 was a Pirelli tyre test. The third and final practice session was topped by Norris, Bottas and Tsunoda.

## Championship Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

;Constructors' Championship standings

## External Links

1. ↑  Kevin Magnussen received a five-place grid penalty for exceeding his quota of power unit elements.
2. ↑  Lance Stroll received a three-place grid penalty for causing a collision with Fernando Alonso at the previous round.
3. ↑ Daniel Ricciardo received a ten-second time penalty for causing a collision with Yuki Tsunoda. His final position was not affected by the penalty.
4. ↑  Includes one point for fastest lap.
5. ↑  Fernando Alonso was classified as he completed more than 90% of the race distance.