{"id":665876,"date":"2026-05-13T04:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/665876\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:06:12","slug":"mexico-citys-f1-track-to-get-12m-upgrade-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/665876\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico City&#8217;s F1 track to get $12M upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/f1-mexico-city-norris-8ca4b40da2e077d3dd84e5ce9352bb9f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mexican Grand Prix<\/a> organizers have announced an investment of 202 million pesos (around $12 million) in the Aut\u00f3dromo Hermanos Rodr\u00edguez track.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico City will host the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/formula-one\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1<\/a> race on Nov. 1 as part of an agreement signed in April 2025 that <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/f1-mexico-city-grand-prix-contract-2028-971c443d3bc53a40cbaf757b2114837a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">guarantees races until 2028<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis investment represents our commitment to preserving the Aut\u00f3dromo Hermanos Rodr\u00edguez as a world-class venue,\u201d Federico Gonz\u00e1lez Compe\u00e1n, managing director of the Mexican GP, said Tuesday. \u201cEnsuring its international (certification) and continuing to raise its technical standards is fundamental for Mexico to remain part of the Formula 1 calendar for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Race organizers said the work includes resurfacing, improving track drainage, and upgrading pit facilities but doesn&#8217;t include modifying the track layout \u2014 which had been the subject of previous speculation.<\/p>\n<p>Work has already begun under the supervision of German company Tilke, which participated in the redesign of the circuit when Formula 1 returned to Mexico in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP auto racing: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/formula-one\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/formula-one<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEXICO CITY (AP) \u2014 Mexican Grand Prix organizers have announced an investment of 202 million pesos (around $12&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-665876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}