You might think a race at Atlanta Motor Speedway would have been a successful home game for a number of Georgia-based drivers. You’d be wrong. Drivers from all over the map have triumphed at the 1.54-mile speedway, on which NASCAR currently uses the superspeedway competition package—from Florida to Wisconsin to California. Surprisingly, however, in 118 […]

CHICAGO—When the Grant Park 220 turned topsy-turvy at the 49-lap mark, the change didn’t slow New Zealander Shane van Gisbergen, the first driver to win a race in his first NASCAR Cup Series start since Johnny Rutherford accomplished the feat 60 years ago.  Driving the No. 91 Chevrolet under the aegis of Trackhouse Racing’s Project […]

CHICAGO—On his final attempt late in Saturday’s final round of time trials, Denny Hamlin knocked three-time Australian SuperCars champion Shane Van Gisbergen off the provisional pole for the first-ever street course race in NASCAR Cup Series history.  Speeding around the 2.2-mile, 12-turn Chicago Street Course in 88.435 seconds (89.557 mph) in his No. 11 Joe […]

CHICAGO—The grand scale of Chicago is a far cry from bucolic Alva, Florida, but Ross Chastain is embracing his racing experience in The Windy City.  Invigorated by his victory last Sunday at Nashville Superspeedway, Chastain comes to Chicago with a confident mindset balanced by a total lack of experience on a street course. The driver […]

● Event: Grant Park 220 (Round 18 of 36) ● Time/Date: 5:30 p.m. EDT on Sunday, July 2 ● Location: Chicago Street Course ● Layout: 2.2-mile, 12-turn street course ● Laps/Miles: 100 laps/220 miles ● Stage Lengths: Stage 1: 20 laps / Stage 2: 25 laps / Final Stage: 55 laps ● TV/Radio: NBC / MRN / SiriusXM NASCAR Radio ● Ryan Preece and the No. […]