There have been six Formula One drivers from Mexico who have taken part in races since the championship began in 1950.
Sergio Pérez is the most successful, having won Grands Prix. Since , Pérez drives for the
Red Bull team.
Pole winner
Pérez is the only Mexican F1 driver to achieve a pole position. He took his first pole position at the
2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, in his 219th Grand Prix meeting (a record for the most Grands Prix before a pole).
Race winners
Pedro Rodríguez and Pérez are the only Mexican drivers to have won an F1 race, with two wins for Rodríguez and wins for Pérez.
Current drivers
Sergio Pérez began his career in with
Sauber
Sauber Motorsport AG is a Swiss motorsport engineering company. It was founded in 1970 (as PP Sauber AG) by Peter Sauber, who progressed through hillclimbing and the World Sportscar Championship to reach Formula One in . After operating it un ...
before moving to
McLaren in and then
Force India in . Pérez continued to race with Force India till their collapse in 2018. He was retained when Force India was bought out and renamed to
Racing Point where he was contracted to continue racing until but was pushed out of the team at the end of by the incoming
Sebastian Vettel, and moved to
Red Bull for .
Former drivers
Brothers Pedro and
Ricardo Rodríguez raced in the 1960s.
Héctor Rebaque
Héctor Alonso Rebaque (born 5 February 1956) is a Mexican former racing driver who raced in Formula One and CART IndyCar in the 1970s and 1980s. He also ran for his own Formula One team called Rebaque in 1978 and 1979.
Racing career
Rebaque par ...
raced in the 1970s.
Moisés Solana
Moisés Solana Arciniega (December 26, 1935 – July 27, 1969) was a Mexican racing driver. He participated in eight Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on October 27, 1963, and scoring no championship points. He also participat ...
attended races in the United States and Mexico throughout the 1960s.
Esteban Gutiérrez
Esteban Manuel Gutiérrez Gutiérrez (; born 5 August 1991) is a Mexican racing driver currently representing Mercedes in Formula One, Formula E and esports and Inter Europol Competition in World Endurance Championship.
Previously from 2013 ...
drove for
Sauber
Sauber Motorsport AG is a Swiss motorsport engineering company. It was founded in 1970 (as PP Sauber AG) by Peter Sauber, who progressed through hillclimbing and the World Sportscar Championship to reach Formula One in . After operating it un ...
in and and after a one-year gap in which he was a Ferrari test driver, came back to drive for
Haas F1 Team
Haas Formula LLC, competing as Haas F1 Team, is an American-licensed Formula One racing team established by NASCAR Cup Series team co-owner Gene Haas in April 2014. The team originally intended to make its debut at the start of the season b ...
in 2016.
Timeline
Summary of results
*Current driver
See also
*
List of Formula One Grand Prix winners
References
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