MEXICO — Road racing storms into Mexico Friday.

The New England Forest Rally, featuring some of the finest drivers in North America, will compete in one of the event’s stages at the Mexico Recreational Park, located on Route 17 about a mile north of the light on Route 2.

This year’s two-day event features 51 sports cars hurtling through Maine and New Hampshire dirt and gravel logging roads in break-neck competition with one another.

The NEFR, free and open to the public, includes the sports drivers, including last year’s rally car national champion Antoine L’ Estage and last year’s two wheel drive national rally champion, Bethel’s own Chris Duplessis.

The Mexico event is known as a “super special stage” in which organizers seek to bring the race cars as close to the action of rally driving as possible.

Drivers will make two passes through Mexico Recreational Park on Friday afternoon — the first pass at 12:41 p.m. and the second pass at 1:20 p.m. Included in the Mexico “super special” is an airborne jump.

If you wish to cheer on local favorite Chris Duplessis, look for his white Ford Fiesta Team O’Neil rally car No. 70.

The 24-year-old Duplessis has been racing cars since the age of 5, when his father first introduced him to go-cart racing. He began rally car training at the Team O’Neil Rally School in Littleton, N.H., at the age of 12.

While a student at Telstar High School, he built his own rally car through an independent study program. Duplessis said on Thursday evening he is thrilled to be racing in Maine and the Mexico super special stage is regraded as the best in North America.

Friday’s race has additional meaning to him as he has the best co-driver in the world, Carl Atkinson of Ireland, riding with him, he said.