Trackhouse Racing's Shane van Gisbergen won Sunday's inaugural NASCAR Cup Series race on the Mexico City Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez road course. Teammates Ross Chastain finished 16th and Daniel Suárez 19th.
Van Gisbergen led 60 of 100 laps and won by 16.5 seconds, the largest margin of victory in the Cup Series since Texas in November 2009. It is his first victory of the season and second career victory, and this win qualifies him for the 2025 playoffs.
Van Gisbergen's first victory came in his NASCAR debut at the Chicago Street Circuit in July 2023, driving for Trackhouse Racing's PROJECT91 program.
The Auckland, New Zealand native is one of four drivers not from the United States to win at least two NASCAR Cup Series races: Marcos Ambrose (Australia), Juan Pablo Montoya (Colombia) and Daniel Suárez (Mexico).
It was Trackhouse Racing's 10th victory since it began NASCAR Cup Series racing in 2021. It started as a single-car Chevrolet team before expanding to two full-time cars in 2022 and three cars in 2025.
Van Gisbergen is the fourth different Team Chevy driver to earn a playoff berth. The rookie driver delivered the Bowtie brand its sixth victory in 16 points-paying races thus far this season.
Chastain was fast early, earning stage points, but he had to overcome a stall in the pits and a spin after contact with another car to finish 16th.
Suárez, a day after driving from first to last to win the Xfinity Series race in front of his raucous home fans, raced in the top five and took the lead for part of a lap, but handling and ill-timed cautions hurt the No. 99 team's strategy, leaving him with a 19th-place finish.
Suárez's Xfinity win and Van Gisbergen's Cup win mark the first time international drivers have swept a NASCAR weekend since 2010. Suárez was the first driver in any of the three top NASCAR series to start from last and win on a road course.
All three Trackhouse drivers qualified inside the top-10 at Mexico City. Van Gisbergen won the pole position, his first of the 2025 season and second career pole in 30 Cup Series starts. Chastain started third, his best qualifying effort of the season, while Suárez started in 10th position.
The Trackhouse Chevrolets were fast in the early going on Sunday. By lap two, all three cars raced in the top five.
Chastain led Trackhouse Racing with a third-place finish in Stage 1. Suárez ran near the front throughout the segment and finished 10th. Van Gisbergen started from the pole and led 11 laps. He made a scheduled pit stop with two laps to go in the stage and finished 17th.
Van Gisbergen won Stage 2, taking the lead with two laps to go. Suárez (10th) and Chastain (11th) rallied from deep in the field during the stage to score respectable finishes when the segment ended on lap 45.
The NASCAR Cup Series returns to action on Sunday, June 22, at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway.
SHANE VAN GISBERGEN
You faced so much adversity this entire weekend. Travel issues, not feeling well before the race and then the rain. What was the biggest challenge you faced?
“You listed them all man. What a week. I have really enjoyed myself here. I felt pretty rubbish today. Thank you to SafetyCulture, Trackhouse, Chevy and these guys right here. I think the 54 was close, but that last stint, what a pleasure to just be ripping lap after lap and to watch them all get smaller in the mirror. Unreal.”
Was this maybe the best race car you have ever sat in?
“It’s certainly up there. I have been privileged to have some great ones in my time, but when I go slower, I just lose my concentration, so I was just trying to stay in a rhythm and a routine. Josh (Williams, spotter) and Stephen (Doran, crew chief) were doing a great job of keeping me calm and focused.”
ROSS CHASTAIN
"We started strong today and the rain quickly played a role. We were doing pretty well and then I got spun under green and had to wait for the field to go by so that put us behind and changed our strategy. We were on a long run at the end in our Wendy’s Chevrolet and my tires kind of went away. We’ll take 16th and move on to Pocono next weekend."
DANIEL SUAREZ
“NASCAR coming here to Mexico, I think we all had an amazing time, not just on-track, but also off-track. I think we were in the fight, we were in the hunt. We had a top-five, top-10 No. 99 Telcel Chevrolet. There were a lot of different strategies out there and, unfortunately, ours just didn’t work out. It’s nobody’s fault, it just wasn’t meant to be today.”
