For the first time in 75 years, NASCAR held its first-ever street race on the streets of Chicago with the Grant Park 220. With special appearances including three-time Supercars champion Shane Van Gisbergen and former F1 driver Jenson Button spicing up the grid, this is NASCAR unbounded because...this is Chicago after all.
As the green flag waved, the first-ever NASCAR street race in Grant Park, Chicago, is underway. The first stage saw Kyle Busch goes windshield deep into the turn 6 tire barrier, and Noah Gragson crashed into the tire barrier.
As Christopher Bell wins Stage 1, Stage 2 saw a bad case of deja vu for Gragson as he crashed into the tire barrier again, and a double whammy for Alex Bowman with a spin and an engine problem.
As Christopher Bell wins Stage 2 under caution, word from the mouth is the race has been shortened to 75 laps due to the upcoming sunset, meaning the race has 29 laps left, setting the stage for the final stage to determine who will win the first NASCAR Chicago street race. With the final stage kicked off, a massive pileup occurred in turn 11 when William Byron went into the wall, causing Corey LaJoie to check up and be spun by Kevin Harvick and started a chain reaction.
Come Lap 57, Tyler Reddick stuck the tire barriers in turn 6, Martin Truex Jr. slid into the tire barrier in turn 1, and in Lap 73, an overtime-triggering incident when Bubba Wallace gets spun into Ricky Stenhouse Jr., sending the latter into the outside tire barrier.
After an intense street-racing action in the streets of Chicago, Supercars champion Shane Van Gisbergen won his first NASCAR race in Grant Park, Chicago!
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| Screengrab from NASCAR |
And that's it for the first-ever NASCAR street race in Chicago but the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series continues in Atlanta Motor Speedway for the Quaker State 400 this July 9th.
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