1989 Mexican Grand Prix

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1989 Mexican Grand Prix was a Formula One race held at Mexico City on May 28, 1989. The Mexican Grand Prix (Gran Premio de Mexico) was a Formula One auto race held at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City. It first appeared as a non- championship event in 1962 before being held as a championship event from 1963-1970 and 1986-1992. Rumors first surfaced in 2003 that the Mexican Grand Prix might return to the Formula One calendar at a new $70 million circuit, dubbed Mantarraya, to be built near Cancun. In 2005, the governor of the Quintana Roo state (where Cancun is in) boldly stated Mexico would have a Grand Prix on the calendar for 2006. The plan was halted, possibly scuttled, later that year as a debate arose about whether the land the circuit was to be built on was properly owned by the right people to do so.