Mexico City, NASCAR Xfinity Series and Daniel Suárez
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In one of the most special moments of his NASCAR career, Daniel Suárez survived a late-race restart to win his home race in the Xfinity Series at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez.Despite crashing early Saturday morning in qualifying and starting at the rear of the field in a backup car,
Suarez, 33, became the first Mexican driver to win a NASCAR national series title when he won the 2016 Xfinity Series title. That ended up being his last full-time season in the second-tier series after Carl Edwards abruptly retired from the Cup Series and Joe Gibbs Racing had an opening for its No. 19 car.
Alex Bowman wasn't sure he was going to make the trip to Mexico City because of lower back pain suffered in the hardest hit of his career at Michigan last week.