Travel issues involving multiple teams have forced NASCAR to change the weekend schedule in Mexico City.
All Xfinity Series on-track sessions will now move to Saturday while the Cup Series Friday sessions will move to a later time. The NASCAR Mexico Series race will also shift to a later time on Friday.
Additionally, NASCAR stated that the Xfinity Series teams will now only have one practice session before competing in Saturday afternoon's race.
Updated schedule for Mexico City
Friday, June 13 (All times Eastern)
- 1:30 p.m. -- NASCAR Mexico Series race No. 1 (MRN Radio)
- 4:05 p.m. -- Cup Series practice No. 1 (50 minutes, Prime Video, Radio coverage on MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)
- 5:30 p.m. -- Cup Series practice No. 2 (25 minutes, Prime Video, Radio coverage on MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)
Saturday, June 14 (All times Eastern)
- 11:05 a.m. -- Xfinity Series practice (50 minutes, CW app)
- 12:10 p.m. -- Xfinity Series qualifying (CW app)
- 2:05 p.m. -- Cup Series qualifying (Prime Video, Radio coverage on MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)
- 4:30 p.m. -- Xfinity Series race (65 laps, 157.3 miles. CW, Radio coverage on MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)
- 7 p.m. -- NASCAR Mexico Series race (40 laps, 96.8 miles. 70-minute time limit. NASCAR Mexico Series YouTube channel, Radio coverage on MRN)
The reason for the updated schedule is that two of the chartered planes for the industry did not depart Charlotte Douglas International Airport for two separate reasons.
One was a delayed flight from Singapore. The other grounded airplane was caused by what passengers described as a "small boom" as they headed down the runway for takeoff.
Whatever the cause of the noise, it caused major problems with one of the airplanes engines. This forced members of Haas Factory Team to hop in a van and travel to Atlanta, where they could secure a commercial flight to Mexico City.
Other industry members left grounded in Charlotte attempted to find alternate travel plans. Many were unsuccessful, as DGM Racing's Ryan Ellis noted, due to the inclement weather in the area. Ellis posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, and said that his commercial flight kept getting delayed, which sent him home from the airport.