Mexico City Grand Prix. Race weekend and Day of the Dead, with every journey planned for you.

The Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez is unusual among modern Grand Prix circuits in being genuinely inside the city, in the Magdalena Mixhuca sports park in the east, a short distance south of the international airport. Nobody stays there. Visitors stay in Polanco, along Reforma, in Roma Norte or Condesa, or out west in Santa Fe, and every one of those is a real journey across one of the largest urban areas in the world, on roads that were busy before Formula 1 arrived.

The consequence is simple and it catches people out every year. A twelve kilometre transfer can take twenty minutes at eight in the morning and an hour and a half at four in the afternoon. The metro runs to Velodromo and Ciudad Deportiva on line nine and is by far the fastest way to reach the gates on race day. The sensible pattern is to use the car for everything except the last part, and have it waiting at a fixed point that does not move.

Toluca, about sixty five kilometres west of the city, is where most of Mexico's business aviation lives. It operates around the clock, has established private terminals and handling, and does not make private aircraft wait behind airline traffic. Mexico City International is far closer to the circuit but is heavily slot constrained and gives priority to commercial schedules, and Felipe Angeles to the north is set up for larger aircraft and longer parking rather than a quick turn. In a normal week the choice is finely balanced. In race week, when the ramps at MEX are full, Toluca is usually the practical answer even though it costs you an hour on the road.

One more thing that will come up: the whole valley sits at over two thousand two hundred metres. Altitude that high affects take off performance, so payload, fuel and runway requirements are planned differently from a sea level departure. It is not an obstacle, it is a reason to settle the aircraft type early. See private jet charter, ultra long range jets and how charter works.

Dia de Muertos falls on 1 and 2 November, so in 2026 the race Sunday is the first day of it. The centre of Mexico City holds processions and public events around that weekend, with street closures that have nothing to do with Formula 1 and everything to do with whether your car can reach a restaurant in the Centro Historico on the Saturday or Sunday evening.

Treat it as a feature rather than a problem. It is a remarkable thing to see, it is the reason to bring people who have no interest in motor racing, and it simply needs planning around rather than discovering. We watch the published closures as they are released and build the evenings accordingly. Cars in Mexico are arranged through operators we know, with one person at Odyssey responsible for the whole itinerary.