| About FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO DE MÉXICO™:
The highest category in motor racing has returned to Mexico, after 23 years of absence, pioneer of the greatest sport events in our country. With a term from 2015 to 2019 the renewed Autodromo
Hermanos Rodriguez is the perfect stage for the return of the F1ESTA to our country, with a highest world-class level track. On its first two editions (2015 and 2016), over 375 thousand people attending the race, turned into the second with the biggest number of spectators around the world (after Great Britain). Until now, FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO DE MÉXICO™ has generated over 22 thousand jobs, economic revenue of 1,119 MDD (24,841 million of pesos). One more year, Mexico will create a world-class position during racing that will take place from October 27th, to October 29th, after having been awarded as the Best Event of the Year by the maximum authorities in world
professional motor racing FIA and FOM, during its first two editions. For further information about FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO DE MÉXICO™ go: https://www.mexicogp.mx/
About Formula 1®:
Formula 1® is the most prestigious motor racing competition in the world that has taken the position of the most popular annual sport competition in the planet: In 2016 the championship was witnessed by 400 million of viewers only from over 200 places. With a long history of glory and racing written
since 1950, Formula 1® has been bastion for great drivers, as well as for iconic teams that had led motor racing to being part of collective memory in millions of fans all around the world. In 2016 FIA Formula One World Championship™ took place from March to November, including 21 races in 21 countries of the five continents. Formula One World Championship Limited is part of Formula 1® and owns the exclusive commercial rights to FIA Formula One World Championship™.
Formula 1® has being raced in Mexico for 17 times, being editions 2015 and 2016 recognized as “The best Grand Prix of the world”. For further information about Formula 1® go to: www.formula1.com
About CIE: Corporación Interamericana de Entretenimiento, S.A. de C. V. www.cie.com.mx
We are the market leader in outdoor entertainment in Mexico, Colombia and Central America and one of the major players in the entertainment industry in Latin America and across the globe.
We offer a variety of world-class entertainment options including concerts, theater productions, and sports and family and cultural events, among others, to meet our market segments’ needs for recreation and entertainment through its unique vertical integration model that provides the only access available to an extensive network of entertainment centers, advertisers, including the main advertising investors in our markets, and partnerships and strategic alliances with experienced global partners.
We operate an amusement and water park in Bogota, Colombia, and manage Centro Banamex in Mexico City, one of the largest convention and exhibition facilities across the globe. We are recognized as the foremost producer and organizer of special and corporate events in Mexico, and we operate one of the most professional contact centers in the Mexican market.
CIE is a public company whose shares and debt securities are listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange. |
Only ten days away from FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO DE MÉXICO 2017TM, the ambassador of the event, Adrian Fernandez, concluded his participation in La Carrera Panamericana’s 30th edition, after taking the message #FuerzaMéx1co around the country.
Fernandez promoted the unity and determination needed in our country after the recent adversities, along the different states and communities toured as part of this emblematic competition, on behalf FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO DE MÉXICO 2017TM.
As part of this initiative, implemented thanks to the support of La Carrera Panamericana, in addition, a mobile collection center was set at Arco de Meta’s side and people was invited to keep on supporting the earthquakes’ sufferers on the different stops of the route.
The strategic alliance between these two big motor racing events which have honored Mexico’s name and have been primordial pieces to keep and maintain motor Racing legacy and passion for this sport in our country.
Furthermore, between October 13 and 15, Adrian Fernandez was accompanied by Rodrigo Sanchez, Marketing and PR Director of FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO DE MÉXICO 2017TM during his journey. Over these days they visited states like Queretaro, Puebla, Mexico City and Michoacan encouraging Mexican people’s solidarity.
With this regard, Sanchez said: “It is now more than ever, a time to get together and help to carry our country forward. With FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO DE MÉXICOTM last two editions we have proved that when we Mexican people work together we can get fabulous things”.
The FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO DE MÉXICOTM returns to the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez on October 27, 28 and 29 to show the world what Mexico is made of.
