FIA race director Charlie Whiting says the Circuit Hermanos Rodriguez will retain much of its characteristics from its original layout when it returns to the calendar later this year.
The Mexican Grand Prix is back on the F1 schedule for the first time since 1992 and will take place at the same venue that held eight grands prix between 1963 and 1970 and seven races between 1986 and 1992. However, the track has been altered from its previous iterations, most notably with the high-speed Peraltada corner being dropped for a tight stadium section at the end of the lap.
"It's a very interesting circuit," Whiting said in a video on the FIA website. "We've tried to maintain the characteristics of the previous circuit with the exception of the last corner, as I'm sure you are aware.
"The flowing high-speed corners that were a feature of the old circuit will be maintained, but slightly realigned to give us more run-off area and that sort of thing. But the essential character of the circuit will be very similar."
Whiting said he had no concerns over the readiness of the circuit.
"I think it's coming along really well. I've been involved in the build phases of many circuits now over the last 20 years or so and I can see quite clearly the amount of effort that is going into this one, and with the stage they are at I am absolutely confident everything will be done on time and extremely well."