In 2005, 20-year-old Kyle Busch becomes youngest driver to win a NASCAR Cup Series race when he out duels Greg Biffle in the Sony HD 500 at California Speedway.
The nationally televised Cup Series race and Xfinity Series preliminary will hit the streets July 5-6, fulfilling the city’s three-year deal with NASCAR to turn Grant Park into a pop-up race course.
NASCAR will take its top Cup Series international for the first points-paying race outside the United States next year with a June stop in Mexico City.
NHRA drag racing great John Force has been discharged from the hospital where he was undergoing rehabilitation for a traumatic brain injury.
John Force has left a Virginia hospital to move to a rehabilitation center closer to his home in California and the NHRA great celebrated the news by taking his daughter for ice cream on her birthday.
Sunday’s NASCAR race fell nearly a million viewers short of last year’s national television audience.
The contract for an annual NASCAR street race in Chicago was secured by Lori Lightfoot, but she lost her reelection bid last year. The Johnson administration opted to keep the same schedule this summer.
Shane van Gisbergen was knocked out of the rainy NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday, ending his chance for another win on the street course in downtown Chicago.
The motorsport organization has no plans for an EV-only racing series at this time.
Attendees find warm, sunny weather a welcome contrast to last year’s torrential rains.