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How does the thin air affect cars at Mexico?
With its unique set of circumstances due to its altitude, the Hermanos Rodriguez track poses an enormous challenge for engineers to find the optimal cooling level for F1 cars. Mexico City is located at over 2000 metres above sea level and the rarified air has an influence on car performance, reducing the aerodynamic downforce generated by the cars. One of the consequences of this is that top speeds reached are very high, despite a configuration that actually looks typical of tracks that require maximum downforce – the speed record was set here in 2016 when Valtteri Bottas in the Williams-Mercedes was clocked at 372.5 km/h. Furthermore, on the longest straights, the main one and the one...
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