NASCAR announces 2025 race in Mexico City: Event will be Cup Series'

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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.

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