When is the NASCAR Road Race 2024? First-ever Chicago road race winner Shane van Gisbergen returns for summer season race

CHICAGO (WLS) — The NASCAR Chicago Road Race is zooming again into downtown this summer season.

Final 12 months’s race across the Loop made historical past as the primary road race in NASCAR’s 75 12 months historical past.

Shane van Gisbergen took house the trophy in 2023 and can be returning to Chicago for this summer season’s road race.

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Van Gisbergen joined ABC7 Chicago to debate what followers can anticipate throughout this 12 months’s race.

“The present that NASCAR placed on for his or her first time was actually spectacular. It is solely going to get higher,” he mentioned. “I believe the course is fairly related, however when the climate can be good, they’re going to have some superior concert events. So, for the followers it will be an superior present.”

In 2023, the occasion was dampened by wet situations that soaked the observe, inflicting live performance cancellations and postponements throughout the race.

Van Gisbergen mentioned that for drivers, he expects this 12 months to be one other distinctive expertise.

“It is powerful, it is like driving by a tunnel with the partitions on both facet. Sharing the observe with 30 different loopy folks is fairly cool. It will get attention-grabbing, however we had numerous enjoyable final 12 months,” he mentioned.

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The race can be happening on July 6 and seven.

Youngsters 12 and underneath can attend the occasion free of charge on the primary day of the race.

Tickets could be discovered at nascarchicago.com.