Jan Philipp Krüll Wins 2026 Trucks México Series Championship, Digi Mart USA News (Mexico City, Mexico): Jan Philipp Krüll won the 2026 Trucks México Series championship with a victory in the final at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez. The Mexico City driver passed Santiago Cruz on the final restart of the Sunday, November 8 race and held the lead to the checkered flag.
Cruz finished second and Valeria Aranda completed the podium.
Krüll arrived at the SpeedFest with 1,142 points in El Chase, five fewer than Roberto “Bob” Espinosa, the regular-season winner. His victory at the previous round in Mérida had placed him as the closest challenger to the leader.
At the Mexico City oval he needed to cut into that gap in a race scheduled for 75 laps, with points available from the intermediate stage onward.
The first sign came on Saturday. Krüll led both practice sessions and, in qualifying, was 0.289 seconds behind Carlos Novelo, who took pole with a lap of 36.300 seconds.
The No. 7 truck started second, with Cruz in third and Espinosa in sixth.
Novelo held off early pressure, but Cruz worked his way into the lead and set the pace over an extended stretch under green flag conditions. Krüll stayed in the leading group and added five points by winning the intermediate stage.
That result allowed him to reduce his deficit while the race for victory remained open.
Interruptions again bunched the field at the end. A red flag on lap 62 halted the competition, and a later incident involving Espinosa and Sebastián Rodríguez changed the title fight.
Krüll and Cruz arrived at the final restart with the win still in contention. There, the Feniks Developments driver found room to pass Cruz and took the lead through the decisive corners.
Cruz held second place and Aranda moved up to third after a penalty was assessed against Everardo Fonseca. Krüll, who had entered El Chase as a wildcard, closed out the postseason with two victories, in Mérida and Mexico City.
Together with his win in Querétaro, the Hermanos Rodríguez result was his third of the year and gave him his first championship in the category.
