It was hot in Chicago this week, but Shane Van Gisbergen was even warmer.
The AS of the road route rugged at the head of Lake Shore Drive and moved away from the field during a shooting of nine towers, winning the third annual Grant Park on Sunday 165, the Nascar Cup ‘Chicago Street Race series.
The runway pilot, which won the Xfinity race on Saturday and the Cup Race post, obtained his chevrolet number 88 chief, leader Chase Briscoe with 16 laps to play and had a 2.5 -second advance on Ty Gibbs before caution on the last round gave him his second victory in 2025.
The victory was the third of Auckland, a native of New Zealand in 33 career departures and helped Chevrolet to win three victories in the streets of Chicago.
He started the weekend by winning the post for the Sunday race. The 36 -year -old Supercars champion then supported his first career victory in the second city in 2023 starting again.
“What an incredible weekend for me,” said Van Gisbergen, who led 26 laps and dominated the series last month on the disposition of the Mexico City. “We made no mistakes, and there were very fast cars.”
Van Gisbergen said time was a problem.
“It’s so hot this weekend,” he said. “The track was very smooth, and the times were much slower. The margin of error was very small. You just had to do things well.”
Chevrolet was the first at the checkered flag for the third time in the last five races.
Gibbs posted a better finish of the season with the finalist in his black Toyota.
“I feel like I was not free enough to reach my points,” said Joe Gibbs’ driver number 54. “We had a good day overall, we just need to be faster.”
Gibbs were Tyler Reddick, Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch.
Michael McDowell led a summit of 31 laps, but developed an accelerator trapped halfway through the race and finished 32nd.
With the stable Hendrick Motorsports Hendrick Motorsports set from the field of 40 cars due to failed races or qualification repairs, four drivers holding dam points had to work to move through the field.
Alex Bowman finished eighth, while Kyle Larson was 13th. Chase Elliott ended 16th and points manager William Byron arrived last.
In what may have been Nascar’s last race in the windy streets of the windy city, Van Gisbergen, the race favorite, led the land from pole position, but the row starter 1 McDowell caught the advance in less than half a circuit.
Carson Hocevar caused the first prudence in turn 4 when he rebounded on the turn of the turn 10 and hit the outside wall, coming to rest in the form of seven cars, including Austin Dillon and Brad Keselowski, accumulated in car number 77 of Hocevar while it was lateral against the outdoor barrier.
While a large part of the field has opposed, McDowell remained on the 3.54 kilometers (2.2 mile) route, leading each circuit to beat Busch and Reddick for the upper bonus points while Stage 1 ended in the 20 round.
Ryan Blaney put his number 12 Ford in a position to claim 10 segment points while step 2 ended in Tour 45. Briscoe, Reddick, Bowman and Bubba Wallace followed the Penske team driver.
Reuters
