Regardless of being below the climate, Shane van Gisbergen trounced the NASCAR Cup Collection area in Sunday’s Viva Mexico 250 at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, main 60 of 100 laps en path to his first win of 2025 and the second of his Cup Collection profession.
Van Gisbergen took the lead on the restart following the race’s ultimate warning and pulled away to a ultimate margin of victory of 16.567 seconds within the first ever Cup Collection race in Mexico.
The victory vaults van Gisbergen, who was thirty third within the Cup Collection standings going into Sunday’s race, into the playoffs in his rookie season. It is also the second time van Gisbergen has gained on the inaugural operating of a brand new street course race, as he was the victor on the first Chicago Avenue race in 2023.
Christopher Bell, Chase Elliott, Alex Bowman and Michael McDowell rounded out the top-five, with John Hunter Nemechek, Chase Briscoe, Cole Custer, William Byron and Chris Buescher finishing the highest 10.
Different notable finishers embrace Ty Gibbs in eleventh, Stage 1 winner Ryan Preece in fifteenth, Ryan Truex in twenty third, Katherine Legge in thirty second and Kyle Larson in thirty sixth.
The seventeenth race of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Collection season will happen on the Pocono (Pa.) Raceway on June 22. The Nice American Getaway 400 will go inexperienced shortly after 2 p.m. ET, with protection on Prime Video, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. Ryan Blaney is the defending winner.
William Byron stays the Cup Collection factors chief by 16 races, holding a 67-point benefit over Kyle Larson.
