This weekend we move from the "Granite State" to the "Windy City" of Chicago, Illinois for the Enjoyillinois.com 300 at Chicagoland Speedway. This 1.5-mile, D-shaped oval speedway is the largest sports facility in Illinois. The NASCAR Nationwide Series will race at the speedway, under the lights on Saturday, July 19th.
Saturday night's 300-mile race atChicagoland Speedway will mark Eric McClure's 242nd-career Nationwide Series start and his 11th at the 1.5-mile speedway. In 10 starts, all of which have come under the Hefty®/Reynolds Wrap® banner, McClure has completed 91.5% of the total laps run and has an average finish of 27.8. His track-best finish of 18th came in 2011.
Ryan Blaney has made six previous NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) starts with Team Penske in the 2014 season. In his six starts, Blaney has scored top-10 finishes in five races including a fourth-place result at Bristol and a fifith-place effort at Kentucky. This season, Blaney had led a total of 82 laps, including 80 laps at Iowa Speedway, where he finished a season-best second place.
The No. 51 team that competes in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series has been penalized for a rules infraction discovered in post-race inspection July 11 at Iowa Speedway.
.James Buescher comes to Chicagoland Speedway with one previous NASCAR Nationwide Series start under his belt. That start came in 2012 when Buescher secured a 15th-place finish. Buescher has five NASCAR Camping World Truck Series starts at the 1.5-mile oval. In those five starts Buescher has one win, and two-top-10s.
Starting from the ninth-spot the No.60 EcoBoost Ford Mustang fell a lap down early, but benefited from the “lucky dog” when a caution came out on lap 106. This yellow would mark the second and final stop of the day for Buescher as the team filled their machine with as much fuel as possible. After another caution on lap 139, Crew Chief Scott Graves instructed the Roush Fenway Driver to stay out in an attempt to make it to the end on fuel.
Trevor Bayne makes his seventh NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) start at Chicagoland Speedway on Saturday evening. In six previous starts at the 1.5-mile oval, Bayne has recorded one top-five and two top-10 finishes.
Roush Fenway Racing rookie Ryan Reed visits Chicagoland Speedway for the first time in his NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) career. This is the first of two races at the 1.5-mile track this season.
Elliott Sadler and the No. 11 OneMain Financial team travel to Joliet, IL, this weekend to compete in the NASCAR Nationwide Series event at Chicagoland Speedway. In nine Nationwide Series starts, Sadler has one win in 2012, earned two top-five and four top-10 finishes with 151 laps led. In addition, the veteran driver has 10 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts at Chicago, with one top-10 finish with eight laps lead.
Celebrating the accomplishments of those drivers who will contend for the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship, NASCAR has released several new elements to the paint schemes of race cars making the 16-driver Chase Grid.
The Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals is always a special race for six-time Pro Stock world champion Greg Anderson and this year’s trip to Summit Motorsports Park gives him a chance to add two more trophies to his extensive collection
