Sunday's Viva Mexico 250 will the first regular-season international race for NASCAR's Cup Series since 1958 (Toronto). It's on Amazon Prime.

The NASCAR Cup and Xfinity series will hold consecutive qualifying sessions Saturday at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, which then will play host to back-to-back races on its 15-turn, 2.42-mile layout. The NASCAR Mexico Series will hold a 40-lap race (with a 70-minute time limit), followed by a 65-lap race for the Xfinity Series.

Alex Bowman wasn’t sure he was going to make the trip to Mexico City because of lower back pain suffered in “the hardest hit of my career”

NASCAR ran into problems in attempts to cross the border into Mexico for this weekend's race at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez

MEXICO CITY — Shane van Gisbergen, who won the inaugural Cup Chicago Street Race in 2023, will look to add a victory in the inaugural Cup race at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez after earning the pole for Sunday’s event.

Denny Hamlin will continue to chase for a NASCAR Cup Series championship in 2025 after he was granted a Playoff Waiver by NASCAR on Friday. Hamlin will not compete in this weekend's Viva Mexico 250 following the birth of his third child on Wednesday.

Scary Start for NASCAR Drivers on Mexico Trip as Blown Engine Forces Aborted Takeoff originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Mexico City race weekend was a date many fans and industry members circled when NASCAR announced last year that the Cup Series would be racing internationally in a points-paying event for the first time since 1958.

Jose Blasco-Figueroa grew up in Mexico City and his mother's home is 25 kilometers from Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez