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With finishes of seventh at the Chicago Street Race and fourth at Atlanta, McDowell is now 15th in the series standings.

A frantic race at Atlanta with rain threatening saw many interesting names up front and with a chance to win, but in the end it was a familiar driver capturing the checkered flag.

NASCAR returned to LeMans this year with a modified version of the Next Gen Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 race car as a Garage 56 entry, which the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) sets aside for the “technology of tomorrow and beyond” of innovative machinery.

In its efforts to continue to improve the quality of the racing of the Next Gen car on shorter tracks and road courses, NASCAR will test some new aero packages created around a newly designed splitter.

Anheuser-Busch has sponsored Kevin Harvick since 2011, originally with Budweiser and then switching to Busch Light after the 2015 season. The NASCAR veteran is set to retire from competition at the end of the 2023 season, leaving Busch to look for a new representative in the top level of NASCAR.

Waters has been one of two key figures in what is proving to be a fascinating Supercars silly season, the other being NASCAR-bound Shane van Gisbergen.

Balbo Drive from Michigan Avenue to DuSable Lake Shore Drive was expected to reopen Thursday, but it will stay closed as the city prepares for Lollapalooza.

Two weeks ago, Suarez’s teammate Ross Chastain picked up his first win of the year at Nashville and a week later, Trackhouse’s Project 91 driver Shane van Gisbergen pulled off a stunning victory in his NASCAR debut in the inaugural Chicago Street Race.

Sure, Chicago looked great in the TV broadcast of the inaugural NASCAR Chicago street race. But any agreement to bring back the race in 2024 has to start — if it happens at all — with a hefty increase in the $500,000 upfront permit fee.