Stewart-Haas Racing: NXS Race Report from Chicago
Cole Custer’s victory at Chicago marked SHR’s 20th Xfinity Series victory, its second of the season, and its first at Chicago.
Cole Custer’s victory at Chicago marked SHR’s 20th Xfinity Series victory, its second of the season, and its first at Chicago.
Cole Custer was declared the winner of this weekend’s rain-shortened inaugural Loop 121 on the streets of Chicago.
John Hunter Nemechek finished second in the first-ever NASCAR Chicago Street Race after the Xfinity Series event was shortened due to inclement weather.
The pass for the lead was bold and risky amid a track getting wetter by the lap, but INDY NXT by Firestone rookie Louis Foster knew he had to make it.
The 25-year-old Custer from Ladera Ranch, California, led all 25 laps en route to being named the inaugural victor of the Xfinity Series' Chicago Street Course event due to inclement weather.
The remainder of the Xfinity Series' inaugural event at the Chicago Street Course will resume on Sunday, July 2, at 11 a.m. ET on USA Network after inclement weather delayed and canceled the planned conclusion of the event on Saturday, July 1.
In his first laps behind the wheel of a Next Gen Camaro ZL1, Shane Van Gisbergen proved to be an early contender as the Chevrolet driver gears up for his NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) debut in the series’ first-ever street course race.
One second-generation NTT INDYCAR SERIES driver edged another Saturday in qualifying at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, and both had Honda behind them.
Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin was made available to media after winning the pole for the NASCAR Cup Series event at the Chicago Street Race on Saturday:
Chevrolet will be represented by three drivers in the top-10 when taking the green flag in tomorrow’s Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio, with Will Power seventh, Scott McLaughlin eighth, and Felix Rosenqvist 10th.
Christian Rasmussen is eager to keep an INDY NXT by Firestone trend going Sunday at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
MICHAEL MCDOWELL, No. 34 Chicago Pneumatic Compressors – “It was a rough day. It was a humbling day, I’m not gonna lie. We unloaded not really where we hoped to be."