Daniel Suarez expects the NASCAR Cup race in Mexico on June 15, 2025 to be a historic second for the class as the primary points-paying Cup race on worldwide soil since 1958. Nonetheless, for Suarez, personally, it is an opportunity to do one thing he is at all times needed to do — carry his beloved sport to his house nation and race on that very same soil.
“Truthfully, it is like actually a dream for me. As I discussed a short time in the past, since I left my nation in 2011 and clearly went to the U.S. in 2015, I had the chance to race full time within the NASCAR Xfinity Sequence. In that yr, I actually dreamed and considered in the future racing within the prime class of NASCAR in my (house) nation. And to be right here in the present day is one thing unbelievable.”
Daniel Suarez, NASCAR announcement Mexico Metropolis
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Now slated on the calendar, Suarez mentioned that the timing could not be extra excellent. “NASCAR is clearly rising so much internationally with drivers within the U.S. and effectively, coming to race in Mexico Metropolis is one thing that has been deliberate for a very long time,” he mentioned.
It also needs to be an enlightening expertise for followers because the final time Mexico Metropolis noticed NASCAR within the mid-2000s, the vehicles have been very totally different from the Subsequent Gen equipment of in the present day.
“The race goes to be sincerely a present that I hope my Mexican persons are ready (for), as a result of the Subsequent Gen automotive is a automotive that basically has so much to provide within the circuits, as a lot because it does within the ovals”, expressed Suarez in a spherical desk on the presentation in Mexico.
Race winner Daniel Suarez, Trackhouse Racing, Chevrolet Camaro
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When the Xfinity Sequence final visited the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in 2005, the inventory vehicles have been designed for ovals, even these within the Cup class. However in the present day’s Subsequent Gen automotive has been configured to be suited to highway racing.
“The automotive seems to be very good, the automotive could be very, very enticing. It has the essence of NASCAR, however on the identical time [it’s] very trendy. Clearly the automotive has numerous energy, the sound of the engine is one thing that’s going to drive them loopy, however to be seeing 25 vehicles on monitor or extra shall be one thing very spectacular.”
Double obligation in Mexico?
When NASCAR Cup arrives in Mexico in 2025 , it is going to be accompanied by the Xfinity collection. Suarez was requested if many Cup drivers would invade the Xfinity occasion on June 14 to amass extra information of the circuit, however the Mexican highlighted that the foundations should not but clear. The sanctioning physique might elect to use the identical format that was carried out within the first yr within the Chicago Avenue Circuit, which forbid Cup drivers from operating each races.
“We’ve talked so much about that subject, as a result of every time there’s a new monitor, all Cup drivers need to race and that’s one thing regular, all of us need to. I’ve received right here on the Hermanos Rodriguez, however I’ve by no means raced on the F1 circuit. I’ve by no means raced it. So all of the Cup drivers are going to need to do the invasion.
“Nonetheless, there are nonetheless numerous issues we’ve got to speak about with the NASCAR folks to see if that is actually a superb factor for the occasion or not. We need to see eight, 10 Cup drivers in Xfinity, possibly even in Nascar Mexico it is going to be one thing constructive. So there are actually numerous issues that need to be fine-tuned. If the likelihood opens up, I shall be racing, however [they’re still deciding] if they’ll authorize the drivers of the [Cup] class to race in Xfinity and NASCAR Mexico. One thing very comparable occurred in Chicago […]. So let’s examine what occurs.”
