NASCAR's Mexico City Cup race hits travel snags

MEXICO CITY -- NASCAR's archetypal Cup Series contention extracurricular the United States was disconnected to a bumpy commencement Friday with respective teams yet to get successful Mexico City due to the fact that of question issues successful North Carolina.

At slightest 1 chartered formation to Mexico City was grounded Thursday with an motor issue, leaving teams scrambling to find alternate routes to get to Mexico. Some drove to Atlanta to drawback a commercialized flight.

But erstwhile the way opened Friday, galore were not astatine Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez. Trackhouse Racing was among them -- Daniel Suarez arrived Tuesday with immoderate enactment unit truthful helium was not affected -- but the communications manager for the Cup squad had been summoned to assistance unload the Trackhouse cars disconnected the motortruck due to the fact that nary unit members were available.

The trucks came straight from past Sunday's contention successful Michigan and arrived astatine the Mexico City way connected Thursday.

NASCAR said lone "a prime few" teams aren't connected tract Friday morning. But, it seems astir are Xfinity Series teams based connected a revamping of the play schedule.

"Due to 2 craft issues that grounded aggregate contention teams successful Charlotte, N.C., connected Thursday, NASCAR has adjusted the on-track docket for this weekend's activities astatine Mexico City's Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez," NASCAR said successful a statement.

NASCAR delayed Friday's primitively planned Cup Series signifier to aboriginal successful the afternoon. NASCAR besides pushed each Xfinity Series signifier sessions from Friday to Saturday. And, the archetypal of 2 NASCAR Mexico Series races volition tally earlier than primitively scheduled connected Friday.

The Xfinity Series volition suffer immoderate signifier time, with conscionable 1 50-minute league connected Saturday morning, close earlier qualifying. There are different flimsy adjustments arsenic well, but Cup teams volition not suffer immoderate practice.