NASCAR to hold 2025 Cup Series race on June 15 in Mexico City

The NASCAR Cup Series comes to Mexico City in 2025.

The June 15 race will be the first points race outside the United States for NASCAR’s flagship series in more than 60 years. While the 2025 schedule has not yet been officially announced, The Athletic broke the news about the race in Mexico City on Monday, and NASCAR officially announced the race on Tuesday.

The race will be held at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez — the same track that currently hosts an annual Formula 1 Grand Prix and previously hosted the Xfinity Series in the 2000s. The last Cup Series race outside the U.S. was in 1958, when NASCAR held a pre-modern race in Toronto.

NASCAR’s second division raced on the street circuit for four years, from 2005 to 2008. Current Cup Series contenders Martin Truex Jr., Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch have won three of those four races, but Truex is expected to retire from full-time racing at the end of the 2024 season.

According to The Athletic, the Mexico City race will replace a race in Richmond. The 0.75-mile track has hosted two race weekends per season since 1959.

The news of the Mexico City race isn’t exactly a surprise. It’s an open secret that NASCAR has been working on hosting an international points race, and the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez and the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve — also a current F1 venue and former Xfinity Series race site — were two contenders.