Mexico confident of keeping Grand Prix

MEXICAN GRAND PRIX organisers are confident they have the economic evidence to persuade the country’s new administration to keep the race on the Formula One calendar after the contract expires next year.

Sunday’s title-decider at Mexico City’s Hermanos Rodriguez circuit drew a sell-out crowd of 135,407 with a three-day attendance of 334,946 .

The grand prix is run by CIE with significant state funding.

That is guaranteed for the fiveyear duration of the contract but any extension depends on the leftist administration of Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who takes office in December.