Report: Date revealed for NASCAR Mexico City Race, Xfinity Series to be included
More details about the NASCAR Cup Series race in Mexico City next year have been revealed. According to Bob Pockrass of Fox Sports, the date for the race weekend is June 14-15, 2025. He also shared a photo of a banner that indicates there will also be an Xfinity Series race in Mexico City.
It was reported on Monday that NASCAR was finalizing a deal to race in Mexico City, and it will be fist Cup race for points outside the United States in 67 years. It’s likely a press conference will happen on Tuesday.
The race is set to be held at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, and it will be a road course. NASCAR announced the Cup Series race will air live on Prime Video while Saturday’s Xfinity Series will air live on The CW.
NASCAR explains why its hosting Cup Series race in Mexico City
“This has been on our radar for a long time,” Ben Kennedy, NASCAR executive vice president, chief venue & racing innovation officer, said in a statement, per NASCAR.com. “We’ve been talking about the continued iteration of our schedule, right? You can go back a few years, went to new markets like Nashville and Austin, Texas. We went to the Coliseum for the Clash. … We went to our first street race in downtown Chicago, and this is going to be another first for us in a lot of ways. This is going to be certainly a monumental event for us, the first time we’re going south of the border.”
Kennedy added, “It’s huge, when we talk as a leadership team about where we feel like our biggest growth opportunities as a sport, international is always one of the first things that comes up. … We brought the Craftsman Truck Series to Canada for a number of years, we’ve had the Xfinity Series in Mexico.
“This is a monumental moment for our sport in the sense that this is our first step of really taking the Cup Series internationally, and I think it could set us up for the future in potential new markets. I think we’ve been honest about our interest in taking our Cup Series abroad, whether that’s north of the border or south of the border, and then as we talk about some of our other races, there are opportunities for us to take the Cup Series even further than that.”