For the primary time in over 60 years, the NASCAR Cup Collection will host a world points-paying race, with a go to to Mexico in June 2025.
Introduced throughout a press convention in Mexico on Tuesday, the occasion will probably be on the two.674-mile, 17-turn Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez street course on Sunday, June 15. The weekend can even function the NASCAR Xfinity Collection and NASCAR Mexico Collection.
Prime Video will air the Cup Collection race. The CW will carry the Xfinity Collection broadcast.
“It is a historic second for our sport, and particularly for the NASCAR Cup Collection, in with the ability to develop our footprint to Mexico,” mentioned Ben Kennedy, NASCAR govt vp and chief venue and racing innovation officer. “We’ve been daring about our intentions to develop on a world scale, and there isn’t a greater place to take the following step in that journey than on the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez street course in Mexico Metropolis.”
The circuit, which was inbuilt 1959 and reworked in 2015, is an annual cease on the Formulation 1 calendar and hosted the NASCAR Xfinity Collection from 2005 by means of 2008 (pictured prime).
NASCAR founder Invoice France Sr. and Curtis Turner participated in La Carrera Panamericana street race throughout Mexico in 1950.
NASCAR has not held a world Cup Collection race since July 18, 1958, at Canadian Exposition Stadium in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The primary worldwide Cup Collection race was held July 1, 1952, at Stamford Park, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
“At OCESA, we’re devoted to entertaining folks, and this has positioned us as essentially the most highly effective dwell occasions platform in Mexico and Latin America, in addition to one of the crucial essential globally,” mentioned Alejandro Soberon, founder and CEO of OCESA. “The arrival of the NASCAR Cup Collection to our nation displays the numerous progress that motorsports has skilled in Mexico, an achievement by which Escuderia Telmex has performed a serious function by selling the NASCAR Mexico Collection and supporting drivers like Daniel Suarez.”
Mexico joins a number of different occasions confirmed for the 2025 season. NASCAR has beforehand introduced the dates for The Conflict at Bowman Grey Stadium (Feb. 2), the Daytona 500 (Feb. 16), the All-Star Race (Could 18), the Coca-Cola 600 (Could 25), Atlanta Motor Speedway (June 28), and Phoenix Raceway (Nov. 2).
The total 2025 schedule has not been introduced.
