Earlier this year, while speaking on his podcast, Dale Earnhardt Jr. shared his frustrations with NASCAR’s traditional commercials for international dates. “There’s nothing wrong with Richmond, you know, and let’s go … let’s go from Richmond and go to the race in Mexico. Let’s leave all these traditional ovals and go to a road race.” Junior said.
Junior said it’s getting harder and harder for him to be happy with NASCAR putting new tracks and venues in place of old tracks and races. He recalled that after the Richmond race earlier this year, which he said was “a really tough race,” he predicted that NASCAR would drop that event from the Mexico schedule. And according to recent reports and speculation, that’s the direction NASCAR appears to be headed. That said, it will be interesting to see how fans react when the schedule is finally released and races like Richmond are possibly replaced by races in new markets like Mexico.
“They’re adamant about it”: NASCAR’s Mexico City pursuit causing 2025 schedule holdup as per Jordan Bianchi
In recent weeks, there has been speculation about when NASCAR will release the schedule for the 2025 season. According to journalist Jordan Bianchi, the reason it has not been released and is causing delays is due to a particular factor.
During a recent appearance on Dirty Mo Media, Bianchi addressed the topic of the upcoming NASCAR season schedule. He revealed that the reason why the calendar has not been published is also the rumored discussions about the international parties. “The current problem is to get the international date. “NASCAR is in ongoing discussions with Mexico City and Montreal, they want to have an international race on the schedule next year. They are very committed to it, that is their stated goal,” said Bianchi. [10:30]
He said the teams also want to have an international race on the schedule and NASCAR is working “really, really hard” to make that happen. “All those involved in this project are encouraged, they are optimistic, they have hope that it will be like this, but it is August, it has not happened yet. They want it to be on the agenda. And until this document is finalized, the schedule will not be published,” he added.
It’s worth noting that a few weeks ago, journalist Bob Pockrass shared his views on the calendar’s release date. Pockrass wrote in
