NASCAR announces 2025 race in Mexico City: Event will be Cup Series' first outside the U.S. in modern era
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00:00NASCAR announced Tuesday it will race south of the border in 2025 with Mexico City's
00:07Autodromo Hermanos.
00:09Rodriguez hosting a Cup Series race on June 15 of next year.
00:16The event will mark the first Cup Series race outside the United States in NASCAR's modern
00:23era.
00:24The 2.7-mile, 17-turn road course, which has regularly hosted Formula One's Mexican Grand
00:32Prix, will host a NASCAR race weekend from June 13 to 15, featuring the NASCAR Mexico
00:41Series and Zafinity Series in the lead-up to the Cup Race.
00:46The Circuit, a fixture in the Mexico Series since the Tour was launched in 2004, previously
00:55hosted Zafinity Series races from 2005 to 2008, with winners including Martin Truex
01:04JRB, Denny Hamlin, Juan Pablo Montour and Kyle Busch.
01:11The Mexico City race will mark the first Cup Series event outside the United States
01:17in NASCAR's modern era 1972 onward and the first overall since 1958.
01:27The last Cup race on foreign soil took place at the Canadian, a race won by Hall of Famer
01:34Lee Petty.
01:35This is a historic moment for our sport, especially for the NASCAR Cup as it gets to make its
01:40mark in Mexico.
01:42Read a statement by Ben Kennedy, NASCAR Senior Vice President of Racing Strategy and Development.
01:48We've been bold in our global growth strategies.
01:51Ot Dromo Hermanos Roderguez in Mexico City.
01:55Besides bringing the highest level of stock car racing to Mexico City, the race will also
02:01mark a homecoming for Cup Series star Daniel Suarez.
02:05Suarez, a native of Monterrey, Mexico, will race in his home country after becoming the
02:11first.
02:12So there's no better option to take the next step than racing at the iconic foreign-born
02:17champion in NASCAR when he won the Zafinity Series title in 2016.
02:23Suarez has since added two career Cup victories, including earlier this year in Atlanta where
02:29he prevailed in the closest three-wide photo finish in series history.