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While Max Verstappen and Red Bull have already claimed the Drivers’ Championship and the Constructors’ Championship, this weekend’s Mexican Grand Prix is expected to deliver more Formula 1 magic.

While much of the talk will be about Red Bull’s cost cap breach, the focus will be on the battle between Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc to claim second place in the Driver’s Championship. There will also be an intriguing subplot as Lewis Hamilton strives for his first win of the season after going so close in Austin.

The Mexican Grand Prix was only reintroduced back to the F1 calendar in 2015, and it’s only been won by Mercedes and Red Bull in the past few years. The Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez circuit is going to remain on the F1 calendar until 2025 and it’s now one of the highlights of the racing season.

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Can Perez win on home soil?

Most racing fans will be scouring the Formula 1 betting odds to see Sergio Perez’s chances of winning this weekend’s Mexican Grand Prix. The driver has his best chance yet of winning his home race as the Red Bull car is easily the best on the track.

Last year saw Perez finishing third behind Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes and his teammate, Max Verstappen, but the belief is that he could go one better this year. The Mexican star is just two points behind Leclerc and he’ll be sure to have the home crowd behind him on Sunday’s race. It’s a circuit that Perez knows well having claimed points in nearly all of his six starts here.

Not that Verstappen will be staying completely out of the headlines in Mexico. After all, he’ll be trying his hardest to get the all-time record of wins in an F1 season. The Dutchman put in yet another commanding performance in Austin last weekend where he tied the record of 13 wins.

All of the best bookmakers for betting on sports will give short odds for Verstappen to break the record on Sunday. This is because Verstappen’s three Mexico Grand Prix wins are more than any other driver has claimed. What’s remarkable is the fact that none of these wins came from pole position, and this is true for the last four winners of the Mexican Grand Prix. 

The Red Bull car still has a clear edge on Ferrari and Mercedes and most people would be predicting a Verstappen-Perez one-two finish. Ferrari’s Leclerc is also in with a shot of getting a podium finish, while his teammate Carlos Sainz continues to struggle with his fitness issues. If this happens, it’s very likely that the battle for second-place in the Drivers’ Championship could come down to the last race of the season.

However, Lewis Hamilton has already gone on record as saying that the high-downforce packages required at the Mexican Grand Prix could give Red Bull some trouble. The high altitude of the circuit could therefore favour Mercedes cars which have performed better in similar conditions such as in Hungary earlier this year. As such, Mexico could be Hamilton’s best chance yet of claiming that elusive win in what’s been a thoroughly miserable 2022 F1 campaign.

Elsewhere we can expect George Russell to continue his excellent run of form in 2022 despite an underperforming Mercedes car. Plus many will be watching Alex Albon who has done remarkably well despite having relatively little to work with. All of which means that there will be plenty of F1 fans who’ll be picking up the best betting offers in the UK to bet on the Mexican Grand Prix this weekend.

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