The spotlight will shine brightly on Trackhouse driver Dan🍃iel Suarez as the NASCAR Cup Ser🅺ies visits Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City.

This weekend’s race will be a landm🍨ark moment for NASCAR as it hosts its first Cup Series race outside of the United States s꧑ince 1958.

Butꦍ it will also be significant for🌺 33-year-old Suarez, who will be driving the #99 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet Camaro in front of his adoring home fans.

Suarez is the only Mexican driver on the Cup Series grid and the only foreign-born driver to have won a NASCAR natio🀅nal title, having triumphed in the Xfinity Series in 2016.

"There are going to be new fans, the fans that don't really know me and they just love racing and they know that there is a Mexican driver,” he said. “𒐪They're going to be there wit♉h me and there is going to be these fans that they've been supporting me in all my journey.”

The 2025 season has been a tough one so far for two-time Cup Series race winner Suarez, who♏ sits 28th in the championship standings after registerin🅺g a single podium in the first 16 races.

More concerningly, he doesn’t hav𝔉e a drive for 2026, with his contract with Trackhouse expiring at the end of the year.

While admitting the situationꦅ is ‘distracting’ for him, Suarez says he won’t let anything stop him from enjꩲoying his home race.

"It’s not the first time that I've been in this position,” he said. Definitely the first time with the Mexico race, b🌱ut it's not the first time that I've been in the position that we have to win or in the position that we have a contract negotiation in the middle [of the season].

"It’s definitely a distraction. I won't sit here and tell you thatღ it doesn't really matter. I'm trying to be as smart as possible and to put all this stuff on the side and just do my thing on the track."

He added: "The Mexico race is something that I'v🌸e been hoping and waiting on for many, many years, and I'm not going to let anything else from outside take that week and that moment from myself.

"We have to just continue to put one foot in front of the other and continue to move forward. I think that in Trackhouse, we have found some decent speed in the last few ♕weeks, so that's promis🎀ing, and hopefully we can continue to move in that direction."

With three of t☂he next five ra꧙ces running on road courses or street circuits, Suarez is confident that he can turn around his fortunes near the midway point of the season.

"We ju💜st have to execute," Suarez said. "We have to do the little 𒀰things right, and I believe that we're capable of doing that. We win next week, and all these conversations are going to be out of the window."

Suarez has already played a major role in promoting the new Mexico race over the last 12 months and willꦉ continue to do so in the run-up to the event.

"There is going to be more on my plate [in Mexico] and I have to ✨accept that," Suarez said. "With that being said, Iᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ have to protect my space for the competition stuff because if we don't do the competition stuff, everything else, it doesn't really matter.

"We have to put a balance on everything🍸. [So by] Friday, I can try to focus as much as possible only on racing. I'm going to have still a few things here and there, but for the most part, it is going to be racing."

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