The Mercedes Formula 1 team is aiming to “limit the damage” at the Mexican Grand Prix, a race it expects will prove its most challenging of the remaining rounds in 20ꩵ19.

Mercedes sealed its sixth consecutive constructor♔s’ world championship last time out in Japan, with Valtteri Bottas claiming his first victory in five months at Suzuka, while teammate and championship leader 🐓Lewis Hamilton came home third.

Despite winning the last two races, the German manufacturer is not anticipating to join ♊its rivals Red Bul♉l and Ferrari in the fight for victory at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez circuit, a venue it has struggled for performance at in recent years.

No Mercedes driver has won the Mexico City race since 2016 and Hamilton and Bottas could only ma☂nage a distant fourth and fifth last year.

“There is no sense of entitlement in t🦄his team for future success, so we were quickly back to our usual race preꦜparation routine after Japan,” Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said.

“We know that the four remaining races are not goi🍎ng 𓆉to be easy and we expect Mexico to be the most difficult one for us.

“The high altitude of the track brings some fair🧜ly unusual challenges as the low air density affects the downforce of the car, the cooling and the engine performance.

“It's a combination that doesn't particularly suit our car, but we will give itꦑ everything to try and limit the damage.”

Hamilton has his first opportunity to clinch a sixth drivers’ woﷺrld title this weekend, providing he can outscore Bottas by 14 points. The Briton has claimed his last two woꦰrld championship titles in Mexico.

Mexican GP title permutations: What Hamilton nꦡeeds to seal sixth F1 world title