The Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez is a race track in Mexico City. It’s the scheduled site of NASCAR’s first Cup Series Race for points in Mexico, to be held June 15th, 2025. (See here and here). It’s the first such race to be held in Mexico and the first to be held outside the U.S. since 1958.
The second-level Xfinity race is scheduled for June 14th.
The Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez racetrack is owned by the city of Mexico City, but operated under concession by OCESA, a subsidiary of the Corporación Interamericana de Entretenimiento (CIE).
The autodromo was first constructed in 1959, as part of the Ciudad Deportiva Magdalena Mixhuca, a sports complex in Mexico City.
The track was originally called the Autódromo Magdalena Mixhuca. It was later named after the Rodriguez Brothers, Ricardo and Pedro, Mexican race car drivers who both died racing.
The racetrack’s circuit was designed in the 1950s by Oscar Fernandez Gomez Daza, a UNAM student. The design was part of his thesis about why Mexico City needed a racetrack. Amazingly, when they actually did build a track, his design was used for it.
And who was in charge of this project’s construction? None other than Pedro Rodriguez, father of the racing brothers Pedro and Ricardo, for whom the track was later named.
The first race at the Autodromo was in December of 1959, and it was won by Pedro Rodriguez Jr., with brother Ricardo placing 3rd.
Tragically, Ricardo was killed in a crash, at the age of 20, in a practice for the Mexican Grand Prix in Mexico City at the same autodromo and Pedro was killed in a race in West Germany in 1971.
So in 1979 the track was renamed the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in honor of the two brothers.
The Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez sits at an elevation of 7,343 feet and the thin air can be a problem for drivers and cars. This also reduces the aerodynamic drag on the race cars. It can seat 110,000 spectators.
Here is an aerial photo of the track:
This is where the NASCAR Cup Series race is to be held on June 15th. Here’s the symbol:
And here’s the track configuration for the race:
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The length of the configuration is 2.429 miles (3.909 kilometers), with 15 turns.