Foro Sol

Foro Sol (Sol Forum)

Infierno Solar[1][2][3][4][5]
Location	Av. Viaducto Río Piedad y Río Churubusco s/n Col. Granjas México Delegación Iztacalco, C.P. 08400 Mexico City, Mexico[1]
Coordinates	19°24′17.6″N 99°5′45.4″W / 19.404889°N 99.095944°W / 19.404889; -99.095944Coordinates: 19°24′17.6″N 99°5′45.4″W / 19.404889°N 99.095944°W / 19.404889; -99.095944
Owner	Mexico City Government
Operator	Grupo CIE
Capacity	Concerts: 65,000 Baseball: 26,000
Field size	Left Field: 326 feet (99 m) Center Field: 417 feet (127 m) Right Field: 333 feet (101 m)[1]
Surface	FieldTurf
Opened	1993
Tenants
Mexico Tigres (LMB) 2000–2001 Mexico City Red Devils (LMB) 2000–2014 2019 Race of Champions

Foro Sol (English: Sun Forum) is a sports and concert venue built in 1993 inside the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in eastern Mexico City.^[1][6] It is located near the Mexico City International Airport and is operated by Grupo CIE.^[7]

The venue was originally built for staging large music concerts. Initially called the Autódromo, it could accommodate up to 50,000 people.^[6] Since 2000, it has been used as a baseball stadium as well, because the only other major baseball stadium in Mexico City (Parque del Seguro Social, formerly Parque Delta) was demolished to build a shopping mall (the shopping mall is named Parque Delta and features a baseball theme). Foro Sol is the second largest concert venue in Mexico City; the largest, Estadio Azteca, has a capacity of 105,064.^[8]

Its name comes from a popular beer brand of the Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma group.^[9]

It was home to the Diablos Rojos del México, a Mexican Baseball League team,^[1][6] and hosted Pool B of the 2009 World Baseball Classic March 8–12, 2009.^[10]

Madonna was the first world-class act to perform at the Foro Sol on 12 November 1993, when it was called Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez for her first visit to Mexico in the Girlie Show tour on 10, 12 and 13 November 1993.

From 2015 to 2019 for the Mexican Grand Prix, since 2016 for the Mexico City ePrix and since 2021 for the Mexico City Grand Prix, the venue has become part of the track and has turns within the venue. It also increased the Circuit capacity by 25,000 spectators. The venue has been noted for its unique nature.^[11]

In 2019, the park hosted the Race of Champions and Stadium Super Trucks; the latter served as both a competing ROC category and standalone event to conclude its 2018 season.^[12][13][14]

Notable events[]

The venue is the host of Vive Latino, an annual multi-day rock music festival. It is one of the most important rock en español music festivals in the world, featuring a great variety of Mexican, Latin and Spanish groups of many genres, including performances of bands like Café Tacuba, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Gustavo Cerati, Ozomatli, Sepultura, Ska-P and non-Spanish speaking bands like The Wailers, Jane's Addiction, Deftones, The Chemical Brothers and The Mars Volta. On November 7, 2018, it was confirmed that the Swedish House Mafia will be playing at the venue as the second stop of their 2019 reunion tour.

Panorama of Foro Sol

Concerts[]

References[]

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