Next month, NASCAR will bring its major series to Mexico City.
On June 15, 2025, the NASCAR Cup Series does hold its regular season competition at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodriguez street course. This is the first time the racing industry has hosted a Cup Series event outside of the United States since 1998, when Japan hosted the final of three yearly races.
Individuals may also gain factors outside of the United States for the first time since Lee Petty won a competition in Toronto in 1958. His brother, legendary drivers Richard Petty, made his top-level album at that time.
” This is a huge moment for our activity in the sense that this is our first stage of really taking the Cup Series internationally, and I think it was fixed us up for the future in potential new markets”, Ben Kennedy, NASCAR executive vice president, general place &, racing innovation officer, said in a press conference. It will be a significant initiative for us. There’s a lot of issues that we have. I’m confident that the business will have some issues as well, but excited to take this on, and to go to one of the biggest businesses —not just in the state, but in the world—is going to be great for our game”.
NASCAR is not a man to Mexico, even though this will be the first occasion for the top-level set south of the border. Its second-level journey, the Xfinity Series, ran four tribes at the same trail from 2005 through 2008. That same visit produced one of the main raceway actors in Trackhouse vehicle Daniel Suarez, who was born in Monterrey, Mexico. The day before the Cup function of the following year will be the Xfinity Series race. The Mexico Series, which first appeared in 2004 is even prohibited by the loop.
NASCAR has been looking for ways to grow its international reputation in recent years, just like most American athletics leagues, despite the challenges that come with finding areas with a suitable rectangular monitor.
Yet its international goals have n’t stopped efforts to grow domestically, either. NASCAR held its second Chicago city culture in June, and it has every hosted its season-opening show, The Fight at the Coliseum, in Los Angeles. A new in-season competition that will be broadcast on TNT and Prime Video in the following year will also be present, an idea that driver/owner Denny Hamlin had in mind, which also takes inspiration from the NBA’s personal concept.
The Cup Series race will be streamed on Prime Video, one of NASCAR’s new internet partners, which will supply competitions the following year. ( TNT Sports also signed on as a broadcast partner, joining incumbents NBC and Fox in the seven-year,$ 7.75 billion rights agreement. ) The Xfinity Series culture will air on CW, which picked up right to the second-level races in a separate seven-year offer for$ 800 million.