NASCAR announced on Tuesday that they will hold a Cup Series race in Mexico for the first time in 2025. The race, schedule to take place on June 15, will be the first points race outside of the United States for NASCAR’s top series in over 60 years. The last Cup Series race outside the U.S. came in 1958 when NASCAR held a pre-modern era race in Toronto, and they have also held exhibition races in Suzuka City, Japan.
A video was posted to social media alongside a caption reading: “To get where we’re going, we must go where we have never been. 
NASCAR executive vice president Ben Kennedy said in a news release: “This is a historic moment for our sport, and specifically for the NASCAR Cup Series, in being able to expand our footprint to Mexico. We’ve been bold about our intentions to grow on a global scale, and there isn’t a better place to take the next step in that journey than at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez road course in Mexico City.”
The race in Mexico City will be held at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez road course; the 2.7-mile road course includes 17 turns and was built in 1959 at an elevation of 7,342 feet. The same track that currently hosts an annual Formula 1 Grand Prix and hosted the Xfinity Series earlier in the 2000s. NASCAR will hold Xfinity Series and Mexico Series events the same weekend on the road course. The Cup Series race will air on Prime Video, while the other two events will air on The CW.
The final regular-season race of the 2024 Cup Series season will be Sunday at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, S.C., with the Cook Out Southern 500 airing at 6 p.m. EDT on USA Network. The Cup Series playoffs will start with the Quaker State 400 on Sept. 8 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga.
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