NASCAR has informed the city of Chicago that it will not hold a street race there next year but leaves open the possibility of returning in 2027.<\/p>\n
This month’s race marked the third consecutive year that NASCAR competed on the streets of Chicago. NASCAR’s agreement with the city was for three years (2023-25) with the option of two additional years (2026 and 2027).<\/p>\n
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Julie Giese, president of the NASCAR Chicago Street Race, sent a letter Friday to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson informing him of NASCAR’s decision to not race there next year.<\/p>\n
In the letter, Giese wrote that by skipping the event in 2026 it will “afford us the time necessary to work collaboratively with your office and other community leaders to explore a new potential race date and to develop a plan that further optimizes operational efficiencies on the course build and breakdown while continuing our presence in the local community.<\/p>\n
“Our goal is for the Chicago Street Race to return in 2027 with an event that further enhances the experience for residents and visitors alike, as we work together towards a new potential date, shorter build schedule, and additional tourism draws.”<\/p>\n
The Chicago Street Race was held near July 4 weekend each of the past three years.<\/p>\n
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Giese explained in the letter to the Chicago mayor that the reason to “pause” the event is that “as we reflect on three successful years in Chicago, it is a priority for us to continue to be responsive to the feedback we\u2019ve heard from residents, downtown stakeholders, and your administration.”<\/p>\n
Shane van Gisbergen won the inaugural Chicago Street Race in 2023 in his series debut. That race averaged a Total Audience Delivery of 4.795 million viewers on NBC and Peacock, making it the most-watched NASCAR Cup Series race on NBC since the 2017 Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis. Viewership peaked at 5.383 million when van Gisbergen took the checkered flag.<\/p>\n
Alex Bowman won the race in 2024 and van Gisbergen won this year’s event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR has informed the city of Chicago that it will not hold a street race there next year…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,24969,51500,5386,1818,51501,1406],"class_list":{"0":"post-73735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-mayor","10":"tag-city-of-chicago","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-julie-giese","14":"tag-nascar"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114876501369662666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}