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Xfinity signs on as a partner for first Chicago Street Race Weekend
May 25, 2023 4:31 PM - Xfinity has signed on as a founding partner for NASCAR's first Chicago Street Race Weekend, giving the event another corporate sponsor. NASCAR announced the agreement on Thursday, providing Xfinity with presenting, marketing, and promotional rights for the July 1-2 race weekend. McDonald's and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois also are serving as founding partners.
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Plan now for the NASCAR race in July: Which major Chicago streets will close before, during, after
Apr 10, 2023 6:09 PM - Not a NASCAR driver? Here are the roads you can't use when the car race comes to downtown Chicago this July. Among the biggies: Michigan Avenue and DuSable Lake Shore Drive. -
Daytona champ Stenhouse says racing in downtown Chicago will be 'pretty special'
Feb 21, 2023 7:46 PM - Two days after winning the Daytona 500, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was in Chicago to help promote NASCAR's first-ever steet race, which will wind around Grant Park on July 2. -
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. wins longest Daytona 500 in history
Feb 19, 2023 6:46 PM - Two overtimes pushed the 65th running of the race to a record 212 laps. -
Miranda Lambert, Chainsmokers to headline July NASCAR weekend in Chicago
Jan 25, 2023 4:03 PM - NASCAR announced Wednesday The Chainsmokers and Miranda Lambert will headline full-length concerts around the inaugural race schedule, with support from The Black Crowes and Charley Crockett. Tickets go on sale Thursday, Feb. 2. -
Elk Grove's NASCAR sponsorship fee is $100K more than it paid for Bahamas Bowl
Oct 26, 2022 5:30 AM - Elk Grove Village officials Tuesday night formally inked a marketing deal worth $400,000 a year to sponsor NASCAR driver Brad Keselowski's car in the upcoming downtown Chicago street race. -
Elk Grove Village's next sports marketing sponsorship: NASCAR
Oct 17, 2022 8:08 PM - With a stock car burnout, the school band and cheerleaders, NASCAR driver Brad Keselowski and passenger Elk Grove Village Mayor Craig Johnson made a grand entrance at the Elk Grove High School front driveway Monday to announce the village's latest sports marketing sponsorship. -
In the clutch: Kyle Busch ends Hendrick win streak at Pocono
Jun 27, 2021 7:26 PM - Kyle Busch raced to his second victory of the season Sunday. -
NASCAR Cup rookie Custer wins in upset at Kentucky Speedway
Jul 13, 2020 7:54 AM - Cole Custer saw an opening and, with help from a friend, squeezed through for the most fulfilling moment of his young racing career. -
Trump sideswipes NASCAR, Bubba Wallace
Jul 7, 2020 6:42 AM - WASHINGTON -- NASCAR's layered relationship with President Donald Trump took a sharp turn Monday when Trump took a sideswipe at the racing organization for banning the Confederate flag and wrongly accused the sport's only full-time Black driver of perpetrating "a hoax" when a crew member found a noose in the team garage stall. Trump suggested Bubba Wallace should apologize after the sport rallied around him after the noose was found in his assigned stall at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. Federal authorities ruled last month the noose had been hanging since October and was not a hate crime. NASCAR and the FBI have exclusively referred to the rope -- which was used to pull the garage door closed -- as a noose.
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