Shane van Gisbergen completed a Sweep on the Chicago Street Course on Sunday and won the Nascar Cup Series -Race on the difficult downtown circuit.
It was the second victory of the Van Gisbergen season and his third win of the career. The Trackhouse Racing Driver Also won in Chicago in 2023 and became the first driver to take his own Cup series Debut Since Johnny Rutherford in the second qualifying race in Daytona in 1963.
Ty Gibbs became second and Tyler Reddick finished third. Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch have completed the top five.
It was a dominant weekend for Van Gisbergen, a triple champion in the supercars of Australia. The 36-year-old New Zealand resident won the Xfinity Series race from the pole Saturday. He was also the top qualification for the cup race.
Michael McDowell came to Van Gisbergen in the front row and quickly went in front. He won phase 1 and led 31 laps before he was derailed by a problem with the gas cable.
Van Gisbergen recovered the lead when he passed Chase Brisco with 16 more laps. While missing to the center of Chicago moved with thunderstorms in the prediction, Van Gisbergen checked the action the rest of the road.
AJ Allmender was sixth and Ryan Preece finished seventh. Ryan Blaney, who won the second phase, was 12th.
The day of William Byron was demolished by a coupling problem. The Hendrick Motorsports driver started the day on top of the classification of the series.
After McDowell took the lead in the race, Carson Hocevar caused a multicar crash when he hit the wall and sparked between turns 10 and 11. Brad Keselowski, Austin Dillon, Daniel Suárez and Will Brown belonged to the drivers collected in the Wrak.
“I’ve only seen it the last second,” said Keselowski. “I delayed and I actually felt that I would be stopped and then I was just run over a bit from behind. It’s just a narrow street track and sometimes there is nowhere to go.”
Ty Dillon and Reddick moved to the third round of Nascar’s inaugural tournament in the season When Keselowski and Hocevar could not end the race. Dillon, the No. 32 Seed, eliminated Keselowski after being overthrowed the best placed Denny Hamlin in Atlanta last weekend.
Gibbs, Preece, Alex Bowman, John H. Nemechek, Zane Smith and Erik Jones have also improved. The winner of the tournament with five race, Bracket-style tournament takes a prize of $ 1 million home.
Bowman, the 2024 champion on the street track in the city center, won his head-to-head matchup with Bubba Wallace. Bowman and Wallace made contact while they fought for the position in the race after they were also entangled in Chicago last year.
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