One of the highest-profile stops on the NASCAR circuit will not be on the schedule next year.<\/p>\n
NASCAR will not run the Chicago Street Race next season, but hopes to resume the event the following year, race organizers said Friday. The race has taken place for three-straight years on the weekend adjacent to July 4, necessitating the shutdown of several roads in the nation\u2019s third-largest city.<\/p>\n
In a statement Friday, race organizers said they would work with the City of Chicago to \u201cexplore a new potential date\u201d for the race.<\/p>\n
The Chicago Street Race was immediately one of the biggest hits in recent NASCAR history, debuting with 4.62 million viewers on NBC in 2023 \u2014 the second-largest audience of that season, behind only the Daytona 500. Viewership slipped to 3.79 million in year two, owing in part to a lengthy rain delay, but that still trailed only the prior year\u2019s race as NBC\u2019s largest NASCAR audience in the past four years.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s edition moved from NBC to TNT, falling to 2.1 million in its cable debut \u2014 a figure that was surpassed by the comparably low-profile Sonoma race a week later (2.2M)<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Chicago Street Race is just one of several unique additions to the NASCAR schedule in recent years, joining the preseason \u201cClash\u201d from Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum \u2014 which was run twice \u2014 and this year\u2019s debut of a race in Mexico City.<\/p>\n