There’s just no pleasing some guys. Christopher Bell ran a strong race, was beaten fairly by Shane van Gisbergen, and came away with an excellent runner-up finish in Sunday’s race at Mexico City.
From adversity comes achievement. That pretty much sums up things for Hendrick Motorsports driver Alex Bowman. After what he called the hardest hit of his career last Sunday at Michigan, it was questionable whether Bowman would be able to compete in Sunday’s Viva Mexico 250 in Mexico City.
Ryan Truex, filling in for Denny Hamlin during NASCAR’s Mexico weekend, set his sights on echoing his brother Martin Truex Jr.’s winning performance from two decades prior on the same circuit.
Ty Gibbs has probably got to be the driver with the worst luck in the Cup Series right now. Following a missed opportunity to secure victory in Michigan, he lost out on a potential win in Mexico City on Sunday too.
Carson Hocevar has apologized after comments he made about Mexico on a stream went viral. He noted his opinion about the country had changed following Sunday’s race at Mexico City.
The NASCAR weekend in Mexico unfolded as a sonorous success, a showcase of screaming crowds, striking visuals, and Daniel Suárez’s headline-stealing Xfinity victory.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Or in Michael McDowell’s case, try again in three of the next eight races. The distinction of the three in eight is simple: McDowell is one of the best road course racers in NASCAR Cup.
Shane van Gisbergen led a race-high and career-best 60 laps and decimated the field in NASCAR's historic road-course race Sunday afternoon, winning the Viva Mexico 250 at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City, Mexico.
Bubba Wallace is making history on Sunday along with the 36 other NASCAR Cup Series drivers competing in Mexico City, as the series races internationally in a points-paying event for the first time since 1958.
In 2021, Chase Elliott did something all NASCAR Cup Series drivers dream of doing when he won the inaugural event at Circuit of the Americas, a world-class road course facility that had been raced on by Formula One for years.
It is a big weekend for Daniel Suarez, the only Mexican driver in the Cup Series. The local hero has to meet high expectations as NASCAR’s top tier makes its debut at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.