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The 2026 F1 season will include a round in Mexico after the series agreed a new deal with the promoters of the race at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.

Mexico returned to the world championship calendar in 2015 but its current deal was due to run out after this year’s race. Formula One Management announced the latest in a series of three-year extensions to the race’s deal today.

There will be no Mexican driver on the grid for this year’s race for the first time since the event’s return a decade ago. However Sergio Perez, who lost his drive with Red Bull at the end of last season, is rumoured to be in discussions with Cadillac about joining the new team which will join the grid next year.

The news is a further blow to the promoters of the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at Imola. That race and the Las Vegas Grand Prix are the only rounds on this year’s calendar without a deal for next season, but the Nevada event is considered much more likely to remain on the schedule. Formula One Management has invested heavily in its showpiece round, owns the site its paddock stands on and already has a deal to continue using the public roads which form part of the track.

F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali said in April it “will be increasingly difficult to have two races in the same country” due to the growing demand for calendar places. Italy’s other round of the world championship is contracted to remain at Monza until at least 2031.

This article will be updated.

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