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"This is going to be certainly a monumental
event for us, the first time we're going south of the border,"
said Ben Kennedy, NASCAR executive vice president, chief venue
and racing innovation officer.
The race will be held on June 15 at the Autodromo Hermanos
Rodriguez road course in Mexico City, which is also home to the
Mexico City Grand Prix F1 race. An Xfinity race will be held on
June 14.
"When we talk as a leadership team about where we feel like our
biggest growth opportunities as a sport is, international is
always one of the first things that comes up," said Kennedy,
explaining that the Mexico event has been a long time in the
making. We brought the Craftsman Truck Series to Canada for a
number of years, we've had the Xfinity Series in Mexico.
"This is a monumental moment for our sport in the sense that
this is our first step of really taking the Cup Series
internationally, and I think it could set us up for the future
in potential new markets."
The Cup Series race will be aired live on Prime Video, with the
previous day's Xfinity race airing on The CW.
The race would come at the expense of Richmond Raceway losing
one of its two races, The Athletic reported Monday.
The race would mark the first international event since NASCAR's
top circuit raced in Toronto in 1958.
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