Duenas Chases a Podium at Leon
Round seven runs at Leon on September 19 and 20. Duenas arrives eighth, with Europe in view.
Mexico's Súper Copa Roshfrans runs round seven at León on September 19 and 20. Racing tractor units share the program with GTM, Formula 5 and Mexbike. Enrique "Harry" Dueñas takes the number 29 Chevron Racing truck there, eighth in a championship that has not gone his way. A race weekend compresses months of fleet abuse into two days, which is why a truck shop watches it at all.
General admission is 350 pesos, and the premium area with food and drinks is 2,400. That stop is also not where it started out: the calendar the series published in February had León in October, and the date moved.
Why the series went back to León
Series operations director Mauricio Pimentel explained it plainly: the Querétaro circuit was not available, so the series returned to León, a city with a real racing crowd and a track the drivers enjoy.
The detail matters, because it renumbered the season. Chihuahua, run on August 30, became round six, and León is round seven. Two stops remain after this one.
Who number 29 is
On the truck grid is Enrique "Harry" Dueñas, 34, from Guadalajara, driving the number 29 Chevron Racing rig, backed by Chevron Delo, GM Transport, Gaff International, Grúas Dueñas, Solural, Accuride and Travel Viajes. This is his fourth straight season in the class.
He is not filling a grid slot. He finished runner-up in the 2024 championship and closed that year by winning the Yucatán finale from pole. In February 2025 he won at the same track again, that time from the back of the field, by 113 thousandths of a second over Salvador de Alba across fourteen laps.
"The year before we finished first here, so we simply repeated what we did back then," he said that day. "We had the issue of coming from behind, but everything fell into place to move up front."
How he arrives
This season has not gone his way. The standings published before Chihuahua put him eighth with 276 points, in a championship led by Santiago Tovar on 460 and Héctor Aguirre on 420. Round six, at the Francisco Villa circuit, went to Tovar, with Juan Cantú second and "Majo" Rodríguez third.
Dueñas scored a top-five there, according to his own team's release. The series did not publish his exact finishing position, and no updated points table has appeared since that race, so the eighth place above is the last official cut, not today's.
His own summary before León: the season has tested the team in every way, they have had to fix things on the move, and getting back on the podium is still the goal.
The door he opened somewhere else
While the Mexican season soured, Dueñas opened a different door. In 2025 he tested a European-specification race truck at Nogaro, in France, with the Buggyra Academy team and French national champion Téo Calvet coaching him. His German team calls him the first Mexican to do it.
He later visited the ADAC Truck Grand Prix at the Nürburgring as a guest of German racer Clemens Hecker. "That opened the door a lot," he told the European truck racing championship's official site, where he also said his target is a race debut there within the next few years.
On April 14, 2026, Hecker Racing 25 confirmed that Dueñas joins the team as a reserve driver for the European championship season. In April he tested the team's Scania, a truck the Germans gave a name of its own. He put it this way himself: in Europe the trucks have names and earn respect, spend their good years in the continental championship, and then move down to smaller categories and keep racing.
What a bad season teaches
The phrase Dueñas keeps repeating this year is not about speed. It is about details: fixing things on the move, continuing to sort out the truck. Anyone who runs equipment recognizes that diagnosis, because it sounds the same in the yard.
A race truck starts out as the same machine a fleet runs: heavy frame, cab over engine, big diesel, and a lot of mass sitting high. What changes is the duty cycle. A race weekend compresses into two days the abuse a working unit collects over months, with braking at the limit, sustained heat and suspension working without rest.
So what fails on track looks a lot like what fails on the highway, only faster and in front of the grandstands. And a race team lives by the same discipline any serious operator does: inspect before, not after. The difference is that the team has a full crew checking between sessions, and the operator gets one inspection a month if he remembers.
If you want to follow it
Round seven runs this weekend in León. Category schedules and broadcast details have not been published; tickets are already on sale through the series site.
At The Truck Savers™ we do alignment, suspension and brake work in Houston, Dallas and Monterrey, which is exactly the list a race team checks between sessions: thetrucksavers.com.
Photo: Harry Dueñas on Instagram (@harry_duenas).