The weekend at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez was dominated by Carlos Sainz. With a stellar pole position and a textbook race, the Spanish driver prevailed over everyone, giving the Ferrari la second consecutive victory , fifth of the season. Even from a statistical point of view, the Mexican GP smiled at the Cavallino, as well as at McLaren and, surprisingly, Lance Stroll. Let's find out, then, the 10 most curious and surprising statistics.
Mexican GP Stats: Ferrari, Never So Good Since 2008
Before Sunday, la Ferrari had only won twice in Mexico (in 1970 with Jacky Ickx and in 1990 with Alain Prost)Sainz's success means that The Prancing Horse is the only team with a victory in the three different historical periods in which the Mexican GP has been on the calendar.

For the first time since 2008, moreover, the Reds manage to win at least two races with both driversThat year Massa won 6 and Raikkonen 2, while today the loot includes 3 successes for Leclerc and 2 for Sainz (for him it is the first year with more than one win). 2008 also coincides with the last constructors' title of the Prancing Horse: coincidence? progression in the team rankings it suggests something else.
Ferrari is also the first team in 2024 to get at least one pole and one win with both driversSainz's first pole of the season, then, came at the end of a “growing” in results in Mexico. Eleventh, tenth, ninth, eighth, seventh, sixth, fifth, second and now first: this is the order of his qualifying positions on this track from 2015 to today.
McLaren: Victory slips away, but a weekend to remember

Despite the failure of victory Norris, partly the result of the "slowing down" work done on him by Verstappen, the McLaren leaves the Mexican GP with some positive statistics. The second place of the number 4 is the Team's first podium in Mexico since 1991 and the 19th of the season: never so many since 2007.
Little curiosity: after the summer break, McLaren scored exactly double the points (200) of Mercedes (100), demonstrating that in Formula 1 you can now fight for victory even if you are a customer team.
The “Others’” Stats: Stroll’s Progress and Colapinto’s Curse

Despite finishing out of the points, Lance Stroll (on the weekend before his birthday) leaves Mexico City with his best qualifying (14th) and race (11th) result since 2017. Since the post-pandemic, in fact, the Canadian driver had always started last or from the pitlane on this track.
Moving on to Williams (which with Albon's ninth place obtained its own best qualifying result since 2017), Colapinto he came within a hair's breadth of the fastest lap again. After losing it at 2 laps from the end to Austin, saw the primacy snatched away when there were none here 9 laps at the checkered flag.