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NASCAR Cup Series

Grant Park 165

Chicago Street Race

July 7th, 2024

Race #20 of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 75
- Shortened to 58 laps
Miles Raced : 127.6
Time of Race : 02 Hours 19 minutes 24 seconds
Average Speed: 54.921 mph
Margin of Victory : 02.863 seconds
Cautions: 5
Caution Laps: 19
Lead Changes: 9

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Driver	ST	50%	10%	FIN	HI	LW	AVG	PC D	Pass	Passed	PS D	Q PASS	Fast	%T15	TOT Led	Laps	Rating	TOT PTS
Alex Bowman	8	12	1	1	1	14	6.3	+7	18	16	+2	14	7	100.0%	8	58	114.4	54
Tyler Reddick	4	5	13	2	2	17	6.8	+2	23	25	-2	19	2	91.4%	0	58	107.5	37
Ty Gibbs	2	1	12	3	1	15	4.4	-1	20	23	-3	17	2	100.0%	17	58	124.1	42
Joey Hand	38	16	2	4	1	38	12.8	+34	35	10	+25	12	1	48.3%	7	58	95.2	43
Michael McDowell	3	28	16	5	3	37	26.0	-2	40	53	-13	12	0	13.8%	0	58	58.5	32
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	33	14	6	6	4	37	17.6	+27	52	31	+21	13	1	58.6%	0	58	84.0	34
Todd Gilliland	26	6	17	7	3	26	9.3	+19	31	21	+10	22	0	82.8%	0	58	101.5	33
William Byron	27	35	20	8	8	39	27.5	+19	47	21	+26	7	1	6.9%	0	58	72.2	29
Kyle Busch	19	9	21	9	9	27	15.6	+10	33	31	+2	9	1	65.5%	0	58	89.5	28
Ryan Blaney	17	27	18	10	9	36	26.5	+7	43	32	+11	7	0	8.6%	0	58	52.3	27
Daniel Suarez	9	39	22	11	9	39	21.4	-2	40	45	-5	9	1	46.6%	0	58	87.8	27
Daniel Hemric	35	22	8	12	7	35	19.9	+23	43	29	+14	7	0	27.6%	0	58	66.2	29
Bubba Wallace	6	32	26	13	5	39	20.8	-7	42	53	-11	8	1	44.8%	0	58	83.2	28
Noah Gragson	28	24	7	14	6	35	20.9	+14	40	35	+5	5	0	27.6%	0	58	60.5	28
Austin Cindric	21	29	28	15	15	39	29.0	+6	36	47	-11	0	0	1.7%	0	58	47.8	22
Justin Haley	23	17	33	16	10	35	19.6	+7	39	18	+21	5	0	20.7%	0	58	76.8	21
Zane Smith	30	4	29	17	1	37	20.0	+13	32	62	-30	1	0	27.6%	3	58	60.0	20
Brad Keselowski	10	18	3	18	3	35	17.0	-8	32	16	+16	7	1	41.4%	0	58	72.2	27
Austin Dillon	15	21	27	19	14	38	24.4	-4	41	55	-14	2	0	6.9%	0	58	54.0	18
Chris Buescher	16	19	34	20	11	36	22.2	-4	45	17	+28	5	0	8.6%	0	58	72.2	17
Chase Elliott	18	8	24	21	6	33	15.1	-3	34	42	-8	8	1	69.0%	0	58	75.5	16
Ross Chastain	14	10	36	22	6	38	15.6	-8	31	26	+5	9	0	70.7%	0	58	81.2	15
Joey Logano	32	34	30	23	22	40	32.9	+9	36	47	-11	0	0	0.0%	0	58	39.7	14
Carson Hocevar	13	23	5	24	4	25	16.0	-11	34	45	-11	6	0	25.9%	0	58	71.0	20
Harrison Burton	31	37	10	25	8	40	29.7	+6	28	28	+0	5	0	20.7%	0	58	46.0	14
Kaz Grala	40	13	35	26	11	40	20.9	+14	40	26	+14	7	0	34.5%	0	58	67.5	11
Corey Lajoie	20	31	31	27	20	39	33.1	-7	45	36	+9	0	1	0.0%	0	58	55.0	10
Josh Bilicki	39	26	25	28	12	40	28.7	+11	50	37	+13	3	0	8.6%	0	58	39.0	0
Erik Jones	25	36	32	29	25	39	34.8	-4	24	18	+6	0	0	0.0%	0	58	36.8	8
Denny Hamlin	11	15	19	30	10	38	22.3	-19	44	73	-29	5	1	24.1%	0	58	50.7	8
Austin Hill	34	20	23	31	13	34	22.9	+3	34	44	-10	1	0	1.7%	0	58	51.8	0
Chase Briscoe	22	38	15	32	4	38	19.4	-10	47	32	+15	17	2	58.6%	0	58	71.3	12
Martin Truex Jr	24	25	4	33	3	37	20.6	-9	51	72	-21	14	0	31.0%	0	58	46.3	10
Ryan Preece	29	30	11	34	10	39	28.1	-5	44	57	-13	5	0	17.2%	0	58	33.8	3
John Hunter Nemechek	12	7	14	35	4	36	11.8	-23	20	48	-28	11	1	81.0%	0	57	73.9	2
Josh Berry	36	33	37	36	16	40	32.0	+0	35	38	-3	0	0	0.0%	0	57	32.7	1
Christopher Bell	7	2	9	37	1	35	6.5	-30	19	47	-28	19	6	93.1%	14	55	91.5	10
AJ Allmendinger	37	11	38	38	6	37	18.6	-1	27	24	+3	7	0	36.2%	0	48	68.2	0
Kyle Larson	1	3	39	39	1	5	19.0	-38	2	4	-2	2	0	56.9%	0	33	90.3	7
Shane van Gisbergen	5	40	40	40	1	6	24.4	-35	9	3	+6	9	3	41.4%	9	24	83.5	0

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Race Fast Facts

Chicago Street Race
Grant Park 165
Race Winner: Alex Bowman
Age: 31
Team : No. 48 - Ally Chevrolet
Owner: Rick Hendrick
Crew Chief: Blake Harris
Alex Bowman won the Grant Park 165, his eighth victory in 309 Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and 11th top-10 finish in 2024.
This is his first victory and first top-10 finish in two races at Chicago Street Race.
Tyler Reddick (second) posted his first top-10 finish in two races at Chicago Street Race. It is his 13th top-10 finish in 2024.
Ty Gibbs (third) posted his second top-10 finish in two races at Chicago Street Race.
Zane Smith (17th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Kyle Larson leads the point standings by 11 points over Chase Elliott.

Race Recap

Alex Bowman earns NASCAR Cup Playoff berth with strategic Chicago win

July 7th, 2024

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

On a wet-and-dry day on the streets of Chicago, crew chief Blake Harris made the right call, and driver Alex Bowman promised to wet his whistle after ending an 80-race drought.

“The last time we won, we didn’t really get to celebrate—we’re going to drink so much damn bourbon tonight,” said Bowman, who clinched a spot in the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs with his victory in Sunday’s Grant Park 165 at the Chicago Street Race.

“It’s going to be a bad deal. I’m probably going to wake up naked on the bathroom floor again. That’s just part of this deal sometimes.”

Driving the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, Bowman claimed the eighth victory of his career with a pass of sports car ace Joey Hand on Lap 51—moments before Josh Berry plowed into the tire barrier in Turn 2 of the 2.2-mile, 12-turn course to cause the fifth and final caution.

At that point, the race was on the clock, thanks to a heavy rain that had caused a lengthy stoppage after Lap 25. Facing a deadline of 8:20 p.m., with two laps to follow that point in the race, Bowman held off runner-up Tyler Reddick to win an event shortened from 75 to 58 laps because of the delay.

Harris got his first win as a crew chief by keeping Bowman out on older wet tires after the final caution. Neither Christopher Bell, who arguably had the best car in the race, nor Reddick could catch Bowman over the closing laps.

Bell’s charge to the front was blunted by a five-car melee, and Reddick nicked the wall and lost momentum on the final lap.

“We were catching Alex by a large margin there, and, I don’t know, that puzzles me,” said Reddick, who finished second for the second straight week. “I clearly just screwed up. Trying to stay in the dry groove, and I had more than enough of dry groove… I cut the wheel a little too hard.”

Bowman crossed the finish line with a 3.447-second edge over Reddick to score his first win since March 6, 2022 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

“Man, I broke my back (in a sprint car accident), had a brain injury, and we’ve kind of sucked ever since,” Bowman said. “I didn’t… you start to second-guess if you’re ever going to get a chance to win a race again.”

Enhancing Bowman’s opportunity on Sunday was the ill fortune that befell the top two contenders.

Halfway through the restart lap for Stage 2 (Lap 25), the complexion of the race changed dramatically. Chase Briscoe, out of control in his No. 14 Ford, slid toward the tire barrier in Turn 6 and clipped the rear of the Chevrolet of defending winner Shane van Gisbergen.

The impact propelled van Gisbergen’s Camaro nose-first into the outside wall at the exit from the corner, and the car came to rest, unable to continue. Van Gisbergen’s exit suddenly raised the stakes for the drivers who trailed him to the finish line in Stage 1.

After leaving the infield care center, van Gisbergen watched a replay of the incident.

“Just sort of turned in, looked pretty good and then just got smashed by someone (Briscoe),” the New Zealander said. “Just gutting. The car was really good. We were in the lead for a lot of that race and, you know, felt good taking off in the rain. That sucks—an unfortunate mistake by him, but I’m sure he didn’t mean it.

“But, yeah, when he just clipped me, there was nothing I could do. Of course I’m disappointed. We had a pretty amazing Camaro there… I felt like I was driving well within myself. It’s a shame to be out so early and a shame we couldn’t have a proper crack at it at the end.”

By the time Briscoe delivered the coup de grace to the No. 16 Chevy, Gibbs had wrested the lead from Zane Smith, who stayed out on older wet tires, and Bell, who was first off pit road during the stage break.

The field didn’t complete Lap 25 before NASCAR called the second caution of the race for heavy rain. After a red-flag period of 1 hour, 43 minutes, one second, the race resumed and went green on Lap 31, with Bell retaking the lead from Gibbs before completion of that circuit.

On Lap 34, pole winner Kyle Larson, in pursuit of Gibbs, hydroplaned into the Turn 6 tire barrier, damaging his No. 5 Chevrolet beyond repair.

In a race where late strategic calls scrambled the field, Gibbs led a race-high 17 laps and came home third, followed by Hand and Michael McDowell. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Todd Gilliland, William Byron, Kyle Busch and Ryan Blaney completed the top 10.

Bell led 14 circuits, but he, Gibbs and Reddick pitted for slick tires on Lap 43 and couldn’t get back to the front.

For the second straight year, rain shortened the NASCAR Cup race at the Chicago Street Race, but the wet weather did little to diminish the festival atmosphere that captivated the Windy City throughout the weekend.

“I’ve raced about every street course in the country and a lot around the world, and you won’t find a backdrop like this,” said Hand, who led seven laps on wet tires before Bowman led the final eight.