The third round of the 2026 Súper Copa Roshfrans saw the GTM Pro 1 victories split between Emiliano Richards and Salvador de Alba Jr. at the Óvalo Aguascalientes México, which drew a smaller crowd than expected, a poor turnout compared to what was seen in Chiapas just three weeks earlier. Richards took the first race on Sunday, De Alba appeared for the first time this year to take the second, and Paul Jourdain went from a third-place finish in the morning race to an eighth in the afternoon, his worst Sunday result since the season began.

Richards won Race 1 with a scare along the way

Emiliano Richards qualified first for the opening race and started at the front of the grid, but Pablo Pérez de Lara took the position in the early laps and stayed ahead for several laps, forcing Richards to run second and wait for his opportunity. The fight for the lead was intensifying when a wheel came off Pérez de Lara's car, forcing him to retire. Richards regained the lead, managed the advantage, and took his second win of the year in GTM Pro 1.

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José Arellano finished second, just two-tenths behind, close enough that the race's finish maintained real tension until the checkered flag. Paul Jourdain finished third in the Andretti-Jourdain Autosport No. 9. From fourth to seventh came Gerardo "Grillo" Nieto, Javier González, Franco Zanella, and Irán Sánchez, with Sánchez making his first appearance of the year in the category and scoring points he needed to enter the championship.

De Alba returned from Indy NXT with the weekend's best lap time

Salvador de Alba Jr. had not raced in Súper Copa 2026 because his commitments in Indy NXT in the United States prevented him from being at Yucatán and Chiapas, so Aguascalientes was his first weekend of the season. In qualifying for the second race, he set the fastest time of any GTM Pro 1 driver all weekend, and from pole position he held the lead throughout the 40 minutes in the No. 48 car, with no one able to get close enough to threaten him.

Pérez de Lara recovered from his Race 1 retirement and finished second, José Arellano took third for the second time in the day, and Javier González was fourth. Manolín Gutiérrez finished sixth, an improvement over Chiapas where he had finished ninth in the second race.

"It's my first race win this year, it has a very special taste. These points put us in a good overall position," said De Alba, who with this result enters the fight for a title that still has seven rounds remaining.

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Jourdain had a second race very different from the first. With the same car that had earned him third place in the morning, he finished eighth, more than 33 seconds behind De Alba, a significant drop from the pace he had been showing in the first three rounds where he had not finished outside the top three.

Arellano and six consecutive races in the top 6

José Arellano has now three consecutive rounds finishing in the top three or top six. At Yucatán he was third twice, at Chiapas he never finished outside the top six in either race, and at Aguascalientes he secured second and third place, a consistent performance that allows him to score strong points at every round without relying on a single good race to stay near the top of the championship.

"It was an extremely important weekend for us, a comeback after how complicated Tuxtla turned out. We were able to be among the top three and we just have to keep working to be able to reach victory," commented Arellano. His Chevron Racing team has five weeks of preparation before the fourth round at León on May 3rd.

GTM Light

GTM Light had a different winner in each race. Rafael Villazón took advantage of the pole position in the first race to secure the victory, with César Jiménez second and Javier Campos third, but in the second race it was Jiménez who took first place, with Fercho Urquiza and Jerónimo de Yturbe joining him in the top three.

Santiago Tovar, Juan Cantú, and Héctor Aguirre, all under the same team structure, finished first, second, and third in a Tractocamiones race that had nine entries and a half-second gap between the winner and third place. Tovar started from pole and maintained control of a race where the front group ran together until the flag, with Paul Jourdain finishing fourth in a category where he also competes alongside GTM Pro 1. Enrique "Harry" Dueñas, from Chevron Racing, had an incident on the first lap that sent him into the wall and took him out of the competition, reducing the field to eight.

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Tovar has now won two consecutive races in Tractocamiones.

The fourth round of the 2026 Súper Copa Roshfrans will be on May 3rd at the Autódromo de León. For that event, the organization will change the air restrictor model, a component that directly affects how much torque the engines deliver and how quickly they respond to the throttle. It's not a minor adjustment, and it remains to be seen whether the order we saw at Aguascalientes holds with that variable in play.