Motor racing-Formula One statistics for the Mexican Grand Prix

* Red Bull's Max Verstappen was fastest in 2019 qualifying but dropped to fourth due to a subsequent grid penalty. MEXICO Sergio Perez, the only Mexican driver on the starting grid, will compete at home for the first time since becoming a race winner.

Formula One statistics for Sunday's Mexican Grand Prix at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City, round 18 of the 22-race championship: Lap distance: 4.304km. Total distance: 305.354km (71 laps)

2019 pole position: Charles Leclerc (Monaco) Ferrari, one minute 15.024 seconds* 2019 winner: Lewis Hamilton (Britain) Mercedes

Race lap record: 1:18.741, Valtteri Bottas (Finland) Mercedes, 2018 Start time: 1900GMT/1300 local

NOTE: No race in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. * Red Bull's Max Verstappen was fastest in 2019 qualifying but dropped to fourth due to a subsequent grid penalty.

MEXICO Sergio Perez, the only Mexican driver on the starting grid, will compete at home for the first time since becoming a race winner. The Red Bull driver won in Bahrain last year and in Azerbaijan in June.

No Mexican has ever won a home race in the Formula One world championship. Hamilton clinched the 2017 and 2018 world titles in Mexico but nothing can be decided this time.

Hamilton (2016, 2019) and Verstappen (2017 and 2018) are the only active drivers to have won in Mexico. The race returned in 2015, when now-retired Nico Rosberg won for Mercedes, for the first time since 1992. The race was won from pole position in 2015 and 2016. Hamilton, when he started third on the grid in 2019, is the only driver to have won from off the front row since 2015.

Sunday will be the 21st time Mexico has held a championship grand prix. The circuit is the highest of any on the calendar at 2,285 metres above sea level. Austria's Red Bull Ring is the second highest at 700m.

Red Bull hold the track record, having set the two fastest laps ever in Mexico City. Verstappen qualified in a time of 1:14.758 in 2019, beating former team mate Daniel Ricciardo's 2018 pole time of 1:14.759. RACE WINS

Hamilton has a record 100 career victories, of which 79 have been with Mercedes, from 283 starts. He has been on the podium 177 times. Red Bull's championship leader Max Verstappen has won eight times this year to Hamilton's five. Red Bull's Sergio Perez, Alpine's Esteban Ocon, McLaren's Daniel Ricciardo and Mercedes' Bottas have each won once.

Ferrari have won 238 races since 1950, McLaren 183, Mercedes 121, Williams 114 and Red Bull 73. POLE POSITION

Hamilton has a record 101 career poles and has won 59 times from pole. He has had three poles in 2021. Verstappen has been on pole nine times in 2021, while Leclerc was fastest in Azerbaijan and Monaco qualifying. Bottas was on pole in Portugal and Turkey, McLaren's Lando Norris in Russia.

Verstappen has now won the 2021 pole trophy as no other driver can match his tally. CHAMPIONSHIP

Verstappen is 12 points ahead of Hamilton. Mercedes lead Red Bull by 23 points. MILESTONE

Red Bull's engine partners Honda took their first win as a constructor at the Mexico City circuit in 1965, with American Richie Ginther.

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