(Reuters) - Formula One statistics for Sunday's Mexican Grand Prix at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, the 20th round of the 22-race world championship:Lap distance: 4.304km.
Total distance: 305.354km (71 laps)2021 race winner: Max Verstappen (Netherlands) Red Bull2021 pole position: Valtteri Bottas (Finland) Mercedes one minute 15.875 Race lap record: 1:17.774, Bottas, Mercedes 2021.Start time: 2000GMT/1400 localMEXICORed Bull's Sergio Perez is the only Mexican driver on the starting grid and could become the first to win his home race in the history of the world championship.Lewis Hamilton (2016, 2019) and Verstappen (2017, 2018 and 2021) 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.There was no race in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The race was won from pole position in 2015 and 2016.
Hamilton, third on the grid in 2019, is the only driver to have won and not started on the front row since the race returned.Sunday will be the 22nd time Mexico has held a championship grand prix.The circuit is the highest of any on the calendar at 2,285m above sea level.TITLEBoth titles have been won by Red Bull, with Verstappen taking the drivers' crown in Japan on Oct.