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Why F1’s Mexican Grand Prix became the Mexico City Grand Prix

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The name change in 2021 followed a shift from federal funding to a private trust backed by local business leaders, RacingNews365 reports.

GPBeat · Newsroom30 Oct 2026, 14:44 · 1 min

From 2021, the Mexican Grand Prix was officially renamed the Mexico City Grand Prix, after the 2020 edition was cancelled during the pandemic. RacingNews365 links the city-specific name to a shift in backing from Mexico’s federal government to the capital’s administration.

The original contract expired in 2019. Then-president Andrés Manuel López Obrador declined to renew federal funding; the outlet says the move was reportedly intended to redirect public money towards infrastructure projects such as the Tren Maya railway.

Claudia Sheinbaum, then mayor of Mexico City, assembled a private trust backed by local business leaders, removing the need for federal money. RacingNews365 says the new name reflected the local government’s role as event backer and promoted the capital’s profile rather than the country’s.

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  1. SOURCEWhy is the Mexico F1 race named after the city and not the country?RacingNews365 English

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