Most of the guys still race in Mexico and race here. See what’s different, what can they learn… That’s pretty much what it is. “A lot of guys over there want to come here and just experience the racing over here. “There’s a lot of options, there’s a lot of classes, a lot of series, so you just have to know where to go so you can build that ladder for yourself to prepare them the most for the next level you want to do. “When you get here from Mexico you don’t know how racing works here,” he said.
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Ultimately, Calles said he wanted to help drivers make the transition from Mexico to the U.S. They run stuff different so I just try to teach them as much as possible so they can just be on their own better.” “I just try to teach them stuff that they don’t see a lot in Mexico. “For the first complete year, it’s been good,” Calles said. Rodriguez finished fifth in the Texas state Division I standings.
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Ferrer finished the season fourth in the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series Texas standings and was the highest finishing Division I rookie in the state. “There was a lot of competition so it was a very good weekend.”Īfter that, the team moved to racing at HMP and Mobile International Speedway in Alabama.Īnd the drivers have all found success this season. “They did very good for the lack of experience they had in those cars and also it was a big event,” Calles said. The team started this year racing late models at Speed Weeks in Florida.
MCM has six race cars in total, among pro-trucks, modifieds and late models. The team includes: Rodriguez, Ruben Rovelo (a 2020 NASCAR Mexico champion), Enrique Ferrer, Memphis Villarreal, and JD Legg. Three of the team’s drivers are from Mexico and two are from Texas. Most have established themselves as championship drivers in Mexico but wanted to branch out and try something new. This season, Calles coached five drivers, ranging in age from 29-40. “Just to teach the guys from Mexico the way of racing over here because it’s very different.”
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“So we put something together last minute for the pro trucks so they can start racing and that’s how it really started,” Calles said. One of his friends, Diego Rodriguez, who runs a championship winning NASCAR Mexico team, wanted to join Calles racing at HMP and bring others with him. Max Calles poses in Victory Lane after winning a race at Houston Motorsports Park this season. A lot of drivers from Mexico he knew growing up started reaching out and asking about his success at the track and how they could also get involved with racing in Texas. The idea came to Calles at the end of the 2020 season when was racing for a championship in the pro-modifieds division at HMP.
Now that Calles has become accustomed to racing in the U.S., he’s turning his attention to helping other racers who are new, too.Ĭalles started a development program, called MCM Racing Development, to help other drivers from Mexico learn more about racing in the U.S. Since moving to the U.S., Calles has built a racing career for himself and been competing at Houston Motorsports Park, the only NASCAR-sanctioned asphalt track in Texas, over the last five years in a modified, pro-modified, late model and, most recently, pro truck. “When I came here I struggled a lot because I was learning the language and just the different system that is run over here on the racing side,” he said. But he also realized there was a lot he still had to learn about the sport in the U.S., both on and off the track. He raced Formula cars and road courses and won the 24 Hours of Mexico in 2009 when he was 13.īeing around many styles of racing at a young age had a hand in helping Calles adapt quickly to the different styles of cars and tracks when he moved to the United States in 2010. The 25-year-old raced dirt bikes and go-karts as a kid and began in the lower series of NASCAR in Mexico when he was 12. Max Calles grew up around racing in Mexico.