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WIN-DY CITY: Hendrick Motorsports enters Sunday’s Chicago Street Race having won three of the last four NASCAR Cup Series road course events.

One year ago, the NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) and NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) made history by competing in the sport’s first-ever street race.

In 21 Cup Series road-course starts, Haley has two top-five finishes and three top-10s. In addition to last year’s runner-up finish in Chicago, Haley finished fifth at the Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway Roval in 2022.

Wood Brothers Racing announced that Josh Berry will drive the No. 21 Motorcraft Ford Mustang Dark Horse in the NASCAR Cup Series starting in 2025.

In last year’s inaugural Chicago Street Race, Spire Motorsports finished 14th and 35th with drivers Corey LaJoie and Ty Dillon.

Josh Berry, a five-time winner in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and a current Sunoco Rookie of the Year candidate in the NASCAR Cup Series, will pilot the famed No. 21 Ford Mustang for Wood Brothers Racing in 2025.

NASCAR returns to the streets of Chicago for the second time with the Cup and Xfinity Series on Independence Day Weekend. The ARCA Menards Series West holds two races this weekend at Irwindale Speedway out in California.

Heading to Chicago, the 33-year-old NASCAR Cup Series rookie is 19th in the 2024 driver standings, 53 points behind the 16th and final playoff position. Berry sits atop the Sunoco Rookie of the Year standings, 25 markers ahead of second-place Carson Hocevar.

Kaulig Racing earned a runner-up finish last year in the inaugural Grant Park 220 at the Chicago Street Course, after leading a total of 23 laps with Justin Haley.

Joey Hand will be making his 2024 NASCAR Cup Series debut this weekend as he pilots the Stage 60 Ford Mustang Dark Horse for RFK Racing in the Chicago Street Race.