For the first time since 1958, NASCAR’s premier series went to battle in a foreign country for points. We all had our race winner picks, and I went with the safe choice, the Kiwi, Shane van Gisbegen. SVG would go on to absolutely dominate in the wet early in the race, then would back that up by running back up the field to win the inaugural Viva Mexico 250.
SVG would lead 60 of the 100 laps this weekend as the dominant car, Ty Gibbs showed a ton of road course speed as well, leading 27 laps. Christopher Bell and Ryan Preece would lead 4 laps each, Michael McDowell would lead 2 with Austin Cindric, Cole Custer, and William Byron each leading a single lap.
With the race being at the Autodroma Hermanos Rodriguez, host to many F1 and Formula style races, NASCAR went all in with that kind of hype. One instance was the podium as we’ve really only seen at the LA Coliseum. van Gisbergen took the Gold, Christopher Bell takes home the Silver and Chase Elliott takes home the Bronze.
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| 1 | Shane van Gisbergen | 50 | 60 |
| 2 | Christopher Bell | 44 | 4 |
| 3 | Chase Elliott | 36 | |
| 4 | Alex Bowman | 41 | |
| 5 | Michael McDowell | 45 | 2 |
| 6 | John Hunter Nemechek | 31 | |
| 7 | Chase Briscoe | 30 | |
| 8 | Cole Custer | 29 | |
| 9 | William Byron | 28 | 1 |
| 10 | Chris Buescher | 31 | 1 |
| Ty Gibbs | 26 | 27 | |
| Bubba Wallace | 28 | ||
| AJ Allmendinger | 24 | ||
| Ryan Blaney | 39 | ||
| Ryan Preece | 32 | 4 | |
| Ross Chastain | 29 | ||
| Erik Jones | 25 | ||
| Austin Cindric | 19 | 1 | |
| Daniel Suarez | 20 | ||
| Tyler Reddick | “`17 | ||
| Joey Logano | 16 | ||
| Todd Gilliland | 21 | ||
| Ryan Truex | 0 | ||
| Justin Haley | 13 | ||
| Brad Keselowski | 12 | ||
| Josh Berry | 11 | ||
| Ricky Stenhouse Jr | 10 | ||
| Austin Dillon | 14 | ||
| Riley Herbst | 11 | ||
| Noah Gragson | 7 | ||
| Cody Ware | 6 | ||
| Katherine Legge | 5 | ||
| Ty Dillon | 4 | ||
| Carson Hocevar | 9 | ||
| Zane Smith | 2 | ||
| Kyle Larson | 2 | ||
| Kyle Busch | 1 |
