The second round of the 2026 NASCAR México Series at the Súper Óvalo Chiapas produced a race filled with contact and yellow flags where the results had nothing to do with qualifying. Germán Quiroga, Helio Meza, and Xavi Razo had swept the top three grid positions with times separated by just four hundredths of a second, but all three finished far back: Quiroga 21st, eight laps down, Razo 24th, 18 laps down, and Meza eighth, which was the best result of the three.

Rubén García Jr. had qualified fourth in the No. 88 and was the first among those who started up front to cross the finish line. It is his second consecutive victory in 2026, the 26th of his career in the series, and extends a start to the season very different from 2025, when he finished eighth in the championship and was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.

José Luis Ramírez finished second, 443 thousandths behind García Jr., with a clean race on an afternoon where half the field had some kind of issue. Max Gutiérrez was fourth, and among him, Alex de Alba, and Julio Rejón, a tight group of six cars formed within five seconds of the winner. Further back, Rubén Rovelo and Meza finished seventh and eighth, Abraham Calderón ninth, and Eloy Falcón closed out the top 10.

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The race was especially hard on Santiago Tovar, Irwin Vences, and Rodrigo Rejón, who came into Chiapas with good results from the first round and finished 27th, 28th, and 20th respectively, all multiple laps down.

Giancarlo Vecchi won the Challenge Series

Giancarlo Vecchi finished third overall, mixed in with the NASCAR México cars, and with that took the class victory in Challenge. Andrik Dimayuga was second in class, and Víctor Barrales, who had won at San Luis Potosí, finished third. Diego Ortiz, who had started from Challenge pole, finished 30th, 94 laps down, and Mateo Girón was 29th, 83 laps down, meaning both lose ground in an overall standings that will look quite different after Chiapas points are added.

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The points standings before adding Chiapas

García Jr. has 48 points, four more than Gutiérrez and five more than Eloy Sebastián and Rodrigo Rejón, who share 43. In Challenge, Barrales has 37 and Girón 35, with Koke de la Parra third at 30 and Regina Sirvent fourth at 29.

The third round of the calendar will be on April 26th at the Tulum airport as part of the Tulum Air Show 2026, a format completely different from the two ovals that opened the season and will be the series' first experience on a temporary circuit built on a military air base.