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Cole Custer declared NASCAR Xfinity Series winner after persistent rain washes out race
Jul 2, 2023 3:29 PM - Cole Custer was hanging out in his pit box when he won the NASCAR Xfinity Series race on Sunday. The whole moment was pretty strange. "It's like how excited can you be because it didn't feel like we did anything today," he said. Custer was declared the winner of the first Xfinity stop in downtown Chicago after persistent rain flooded the street course. -
Inside look at small fraternity: Chicagoans working in NASCAR
Jun 30, 2023 8:23 PM - As the NASCAR series moves into downtown Chicago this weeek, it's not easy to find personnel with local ties. But there are a few. Two suburban natives talked about making a career in NASCAR racing and returning home for Sunday's race in Grant Park. -
Best bets: Anita Baker, CSO's 'Star Wars,' NASCAR Chicago & more
Jun 30, 2023 11:32 AM - Anita Baker hits the United Center, NASCAR roars into Chicago, Straight No Chaser heads to Ravinia, Bryan Adams and Joan Jett play the Allstate Arena, the CSO takes on the music of "Star Wars" and more. -
What suburbanites need to know to attend -- or avoid -- Chicago NASCAR race
Jun 26, 2023 5:30 AM - The 2.2-mile racecourse with 12 turns will wrap around Michigan Avenue, plus DuSable Lake Shore, Columbus, Balbo and Jackson drives. Portions of those roads as well as other nearby streets will shut down with parking restrictions galore.
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Newgarden earns record $3.6M for Indy win; Pedersen gets rookie of year honor
May 29, 2023 5:44 PM - The prize is an increase of more than $500,000 over last year's race winner, Marcus Ericsson. -
Newgarden gives Penske his 19th win in dramatic Indianapolis 500
May 28, 2023 9:44 PM - Josef Newgarden finally captured his long-awaited Indianapolis 500 on Sunday and gave team owner Roger Penske his 19th and first since buying Indianapolis Motor Speedway, making an audacious pass of defending race winner Marcus Ericsson during a frantic 2.5-mile sprint to the finish. -
Lincicome: While the Indy 500 is no longer the greatest anything, it still is a spectacle
May 28, 2023 3:46 AM - Bernie Lincicome says the Indianapolis 500 is no longer the greatest anything, if inarguably still a spectacle. There is no more tasteless, cluttered, loud, rude, self-interested, inhospitable place in sports.
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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. -
Ericsson wins Indy 500
May 29, 2022 4:23 PM - Marcus Ericsson had to leave Formula One to become a global superstar, a goal achieved Sunday when the Swedish driver won the Indianapolis 500.
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