{"id":116276,"date":"2019-10-26T15:17:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T13:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/26\/mexican-circuit-designed-by-a-student-will-be-examination-for-mercedes\/"},"modified":"2019-10-26T15:17:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T13:17:50","slug":"mexican-circuit-designed-by-a-student-will-be-examination-for-mercedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=116276","title":{"rendered":"Mexican circuit designed by a student will be examination for Mercedes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty-six years ago the Aut\u00f3dromo Hermanos Rodr\u00edguez was created as part of a university thesis. It has not been a happy hunting-ground for MercedesWith a sixth Formula One world championship tantalisingly close, Lewis Hamilton has been studiously careful in taking nothing for granted going into Sunday\u2019s Mexican Grand Prix. He can close it out at the Aut\u00f3dromo Hermanos Rodr\u00edguez but expects a tough task on a track he has called the achilles heel of his Mercedes team. For Hamilton, then, this is another challenge on his march to the title but for the man who created this circuit, every meeting here is a moment to savour with pride.Hamilton goes into the race 64 points ahead of his teammate Valtteri Bottas \u2013 the only two drivers still in the running. A 78-point lead after the race would be enough for the world champion to retain his title. He won his last two championships in Mexico but only with a ninth place in 2017 and fourth in 2018. Mercedes have not won in Mexico since Hamilton took his sole victory at the track in 2016. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2019\/oct\/26\/mexican-grand-prix-circuit\" target=\"_blank\">Mexican circuit designed by a student will be examination for Mercedes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty-six years ago the Aut\u00f3dromo Hermanos Rodr\u00edguez was created as part of a university thesis. It has not been a happy hunting-ground for MercedesWith a sixth Formula One world championship tantalisingly close, Lewis Hamilton has been studiously careful in taking nothing for granted going into Sunday\u2019s Mexican Grand Prix. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}