NASCAR race in Mexico City: Time, TV channel with Amazon Prime in Week 4 of Cup coverage
Not sure if you'll be able to tell the difference in front of your color TV, but NASCAR is literally in foreign territory this weekend.
Last time it happened for a Cup Series points race, it was 1958 and, unlike this week, it was north of the border, where Lee Petty won in a field of 19 at the Canadian Exposition Stadium in Toronto, where a one-third-mile track held a one-off NASCAR event.
Want some serious trivia? Sure you do. In that most recent big-league international race, the dude finishing 17th out of 19 was Lee's boy, Richard. And guess what. It was the very first of King Richard's 1,184 Cup races.
Where were we?
Ah, Mexico City, and the Rodriguez Brothers speedway, a 14-turn road course at 7,200 feet above sea level. Wanna watch? Well, you can, assuming you've made arrangements with the streamers at Amazon Prime Video. And assuming your CW affiliate isn't showing a Rockford Files re-run.
There's Martin Truex leading the field in 2005 back when NASCAR's Xfinity Series was in the middle of a four-year run on the Autrodromo Hermanos Rodriguez road-course circuit in Mexico City.
Let's go to the lineup.
Friday: Practice, practice, practice
2:05: Xfinity Series practice (CW).
3:30: Xfinity Series practice (CW).
Saturday: Cup Series qualifying, Xfinity Series race in Mexico City
11:05 a.m.: Xfinity Series practice (CW).
12:10: Xfinity Series qualifying (CW).
4:30: Xfinity Series, Chilango 150 (CW).
Sunday: NASCAR's first Viva Mexico 250
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: NASCAR race in Mexico City: Time, TV channel with Amazon Prime in Week 4 of Cup coverage
