After months of negotiations and hypothesis surrounding a attainable return of the sequence to Mexican soil, the chance has finally been dominated out for subsequent 12 months.
The group issued an announcement confirming that an occasion in Mexico is not going to be a part of its 2026 schedule, citing the FIFA World Cup — which the nation will co-host subsequent 12 months between June 11 and July 19 — as the principle cause.
“For greater than a 12 months, now we have been working diligently to carry the NTT INDYCAR SERIES to Mexico Metropolis’s Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez,” stated Mark Miles, President and CEO of Penske Leisure Corp.
“Whereas in depth progress was made alongside the venue’s working group and our potential promoter, finally the numerous influence of subsequent 12 months’s World Cup proved too difficult to make sure a profitable occasion given the out there summer time dates.
“Whereas we completely need to race in Mexico, we additionally need to guarantee everybody concerned feels the situations are in place to plan a world-class and extremely partaking race weekend”.
Miles additionally emphasised that the objective stays to carry a race to Mexico sooner or later.
“We’ll maintain working to carry our racing to Mexico and hope the occasion could be on the schedule as quickly as the fitting alternative presents itself,” he added.
In the meantime, Mexican driver Pato O’Ward, who has repeatedly expressed his want to race in entrance of his dwelling crowd in IndyCar, supported the choice and made it clear he’ll proceed to push for the sequence to come back to his nation.
“Nobody needs a race in Mexico greater than me,” stated O’Ward, who drives the No. 5 automotive for Arrow McLaren. “However we need to create an unbelievable occasion that’s constructed to final. That requires the fitting date and the fitting 12 months for followers and sponsors to completely get behind our sport. I’m motivated to maintain pushing this effort ahead and to be a part of a future race in my dwelling nation.”
Conversations between IndyCar and the native promoter had been ongoing for many of the 12 months, together with a go to by sequence officers to the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez final month, which fueled hypothesis about an imminent announcement.
The sequence final raced on the venue — which additionally hosts Method 1 and Method E — again when IndyCar was divided into IRL and Champ Automobile, with the latter competing there till 2007.
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