{"id":1044,"date":"2024-09-07T02:44:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T02:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2024-09-30T04:48:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T04:48:45","slug":"nascar-set-to-run-cup-series-race-in-mexico-city-next-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/07\/nascar-set-to-run-cup-series-race-in-mexico-city-next-june\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Set to Run Cup Series Race in Mexico City Next June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This should be interesting news for NASCAR fans. It’s been announced that NASCAR will hold a Cup Series Race, for points, in Mexico City next June 15th. Here’s a specially tricked out racecar displayed at the official announcement in Mexico City on August 27th:
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Source: Alejandro Alvarez, NASCAR Studios<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The Cup Series is the highest competitive level of NASCAR racing. The race is scheduled for June 15th, 2025, at the Aut\u00f3dromo Hermanos Rodr\u00edguez racetrack in Mexico City. The Cup Series race is to be preceded the day previous by a NASCAR Xfinity Series race. Here is NASCAR’s executive vice president Ben Kennedy at the announcement at the Autodromo in Mexico City:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ben Kennedy. Source:Alejandro Alvarez, NASCAR Studies<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Also on hand was Daniel Suarez, native of Monterrey, Mexico, who races in the NASCAR Cup Series in the United States:
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Daniel Suarez. Source: Alejandro Alvarez, NASCAR Studios<\/a>

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NASCAR already has a presence in Mexico, with its NASCAR Mexico Series, which began in 2004. Also, from 2005 to 2008, NASCAR Xfinity races (the second-highest level) were held in Mexico, at the Autodromo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the race scheduled for June 15th is the first time a highest-tier Cup Series NASCAR race, with points counted, is to be held in Mexico. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One more question – will NASCAR racer Kyle Busch be allowed to participate?
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Kyle Busch. Source: Imago<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Kyle Busch got into trouble in a vacation visit to Mexico last year. Here’s a description in an Essentially Sports<\/em><\/a> article: “While boarding a private jet to return home after a Mexican vacation at Airport Cancun International, officials discovered a .380 caliber pistol with six hollow-point bullets in Kyle Busch\u2019s bag, according to a statement by the Attorney General\u2019s Office. He was then sentenced to 3.5 years in a Mexican prison while also being fined $1,100. Fortunately for him, Busch never actually went to prison<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So will Kyle Busch be allowed into Mexico to race in June?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, according to Bob Pockrass<\/a>, Fox News NASCAR reporter, “Ben Kennedy says conversations have been had and Kyle Busch will be able to race in Mexico next year.<\/strong>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sounds like a go for Kyle Busch and for the first NASCAR Cup Series in Mexico City. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


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