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Pit Stops : Chicago Street Race

Grant Park 165

Chicago Street Race , Chicago, IL

Sunday, July 6th, 2025 Race 19 of 36 2025 Season
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  • Chicago Street Race
  • Grant Park 165
  • Busch Pole Award Pole Winner: Shane Van Gisbergen
  • Age: 36
  • Team : No 88 - WeatherTech Chevrolet
  • Owner: Justin Marks
  • Crew Chief: Stephen Doran
  • Shane Van Gisbergen won the Pole Award for the Grant Park 165 with a lap of 89.656 seconds, 88.338 mph
  • This is his third pole in 33 NASCAR Cup Series races
  • This is his second pole and third top-10 start in 2025
  • This is his first pole in three races at Chicago Street Race
  • Michael McDowell (second) posted his seventh top-10 start of 2025 and his third in three races at Chicago Street Race
  • Carson Hocevar (third) posted his first top-10 start at Chicago Street Race It is his sixth in 19 races this season
  • Shane Van Gisbergen (first) was the fastest qualifying rookie

  • Sunday, July 6th, 2025
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Reid Spencer
Van Gisbergen Owns Chicago Streets Again with Weekend NASCAR Sweep

Once again, Shane van Gisbergen asserted his superiority on the streets of Chicago, and in doing so, he matched a major NASCAR milestone.

In winning the Grant Park 165 on the Chicago Street Course, the New Zealander completed a weekend sweep of the NASCAR Xfinity and NASCAR Cup races, both from the pole position.

Taking the checkered flag under caution, after Cody Ware plowed into the Turn 6 tire barrier as van Gisbergen charged through Turn 12 on the next-to-last lap, SVG matched Kyle Busch’s sweep of both races from the pole at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in July of 2016. No other driver has won races in NASCAR’s top two divisions from the pole on the same weekend.

The three-time Australian Supercars champion said he was panicked at the possibility of a caution and potential overtime after Ware’s wreck, but he reached the start/finish to start the final lap before NASCAR called the caution.

“What an amazing weekend for me,” said Van Gisbergen, who drove the No. 88 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet to his second Cup victory on the 2.2-mile, 12-turn circuit, his second win this season and the third of his career.

“Lucky guy to drive some great cars. I thank Trackhouse, WeatherTech Chevy and all these guys and girls here—what an amazing weekend. Thanks everyone for coming out, and hope we put on a good show.”

Ty Gibbs ran second, equaling his career-best finish at Darlington last year. Tyler Reddick restarted 15th on fresh tires with nine laps left and climbed to third before he ran out of time.

Van Gisbergen took the lead for the final time on Lap 60, moving to the inside of front-running Chase Briscoe in Turn 2, racing side-by-side with the recent Pocono winner through Turn 3 and out-braking him into Turn 4 to gain the top spot.

From that point, SVG had to survive two cautions and restarts, the first to get an ambulance across the track for a spectator medical emergency and the second for Austin Cindric’s stalled car.

After that sixth yellow, Gibbs, running second, didn’t get a strong launch on the final restart and fell a car-length behind before reaching Turn 1. SVG pulled away from the No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota from that point on.

“Well, it really depends on the restart zone, because it’s right in that last corner, and the dude on the outside gets shafted every single time,” said Gibbs, who restarted on the outside approaching Turn 12.

“If you watch every one of them, the inside guy wins almost every time. He just got a good enough gap, had a good restart. I had a little bit of rear tire degradation that didn’t really help me on my launch off the corner. (He) just got a good gap and got away from me.”

For Reddick, the race was a case of déjà vu. Last year he chased race winner Alex Bowman with a faster car over the closing laps and finished second.

“We kind of ended up in a tough spot there on the penultimate restart, I guess,” Reddick said. “Some of the cars were spinning—I can’t name them all, but unfortunately we kind of just got stuck in the wrong lane where I had to check up. I got behind those cars that we were on the same tire strategy as, so we just lost a bit of time there passing those cars back.

“It’s great to finish third, but it’s for sure a bummer when you look at how much ground you made up.”

For the first time in the three years of the Chicago Street Race, weather in the form of rain didn’t play a role—but anticipation of possible thunderstorms did.

As the race neared conclusion, fog and storm clouds began to roll in from the north, but rain didn’t reach the track until after the checkered flag.

“The strategy was a bit all over the place, as we knew it would be today, racing the weather, racing cars and different (pit) stops,” Van Gisbergen said. “Stephen (Doran, crew chief) did a really good job on the box all day of just painting the picture in my head of who I was up against.

“We had two great pit stops. Just so stoked to get (sponsor) WeatherTech in Victory Lane for their home race.”

Michael McDowell got past SVG at the start of the race and led the first 31 laps, but he had to take his car to the DVP (damaged vehicle policy) area to repair a stuck throttle and lost 22 laps in the garage.

A massive eight-car crash on Lap 3 blocked the track between Turns 10 and 11 and forced a stoppage of 14 minutes, 42 seconds. Carson Hocevar started the melee when he clipped the inside wall in Turn 10 and crashed into the opposite wall with enough force to move the Jersey barrier.

Hocevar’s No. 77 Chevrolet turned sideways, and the cars of Brad Keselowski, Daniel Suarez, Todd Gilliland, Will Brown and Riley Herbst piled into the wreck. Only Herbst and Suarez were able to continue.

“I didn’t see it until the last second,” Keselowski said. “I slowed down, and I actually felt I was going to get stopped, and then I just kind of got ran over from behind. It’s just a narrow street course, and sometimes there’s nowhere to go.”

Keselowski’s early exit made a winner of 32nd seed Ty Dillon in the In-Season Challenge. Dillon will face Bowman in next Sunday third-round event at Sonoma Raceway, after Bowman traded shot after shot with his Chicago opponent, Bubba Wallace, until Wallace spun in the closing laps to lose the head-to-head battle.

John Hunter Nemechek finished 15th, one spot ahead of Chase Elliott, to eliminate the driver of the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet from the In-Season Challenge. Nemechek will face Erik Jones, who advanced when Ricky Stenhouse Jr. retired after colliding with a tire barrier.

Ryan Preece ran seventh and eliminated 30th-place finisher Noah Gragson. He’ll face Reddick, who ousted Hocevar. Gibbs prevailed over sixth-place finisher AJ Allmendinger and will race against Zane Smith at Sonoma.

Smith came home 14th and knocked out 18th-place Chris Buescher, who ran most of the race with an engine down on power.

Series leader William Byron was out of the race with a broken clutch after one lap and finished 40th. His lead in the standings over second-place Elliott shrank to 13 points.

  • Drivers Entered: 41 (1 drivers will not make the race)
  • Laps Scheduled: 75
  • Margin of Victory: Under Caution Seconds
  • Time of Race: 2 Hours 28 Minutes 17 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 66.764
  • Cautions: 7 for 15 laps
  • Lead Changes: 6
  • Green Flag Passes: 1,244 (20.7 passes per green flag lap)

  • Chicago Street Race
  • Grant Park 165
  • Race Winner: Shane Van Gisbergen
  • Age: 36
  • Team : No 88 - WeatherTech Chevrolet
  • Owner: Justin Marks
  • Crew Chief: Stephen Doran
  • Shane Van Gisbergen won the Grant Park 165, his third victory in 33 Cup Series races
  • This is his second victory and third top-10 finish in 2025
  • This is his second victory and second top-10 finish in three races at Chicago Street Race
  • Ty Gibbs (second) posted his third top-10 finish in three races at Chicago Street Race It is his fourth top-10 finish in 2025
  • Tyler Reddick (third) posted his second top-10 finish in three races at Chicago Street Race
  • Shane Van Gisbergen (first) was the highest finishing rookie
  • William Byron leads the point standings by 13 points over Chase Elliott
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Pit Stop Summary Report

Aggregate of each driver's pit stops during the race.

 
DRIVER
START
FINISH
STATUS
# STOPS
DRIVER / PIT CREW
FASTEST
SLOWEST
AVG TIME
RANK
DRIVER
AVG TIME
RANK
PIT CREW
AVG TIME
RANK

Ty Gibbs
9
2
Running
2
41.131
43.064
42.097
1
30.227
2
11.870
1
Chase Elliott
39
16
Running
2
42.255
43.506
42.880
2
30.960
13
11.920
2
Ricky Stenhouse Jr
32
31
Accident
1
43.391
43.391
43.391
3
30.931
11
12.460
5
Michael McDowell
2
32
Running
1
43.548
43.548
43.548
4
31.588
26
11.960
3
Bubba Wallace
37
28
Running
2
43.023
44.110
43.566
5
31.407
24
12.160
4
Shane van Gisbergen
1
1
Running
2
43.668
43.727
43.697
6
31.207
20
12.490
6
Zane Smith
26
14
Running
2
43.684
44.043
43.864
7
30.694
6
13.170
9
Justin Haley
28
22
Running
3
43.491
44.544
43.877
8
31.250
21
12.627
7
Erik Jones
34
25
Running
3
43.263
44.790
44.249
9
30.829
10
13.420
11
Denny Hamlin
40
4
Running
2
43.445
45.094
44.270
10
30.660
5
13.610
13
Kyle Larson
14
13
Running
2
42.917
45.630
44.273
11
30.933
12
13.340
10
Joey Logano
12
11
Running
3
43.580
45.890
44.360
12
30.367
3
13.993
14
Ryan Blaney
17
12
Running
3
42.013
46.222
44.416
13
31.689
28
12.727
8
AJ Allmendinger
16
6
Running
2
42.632
46.651
44.642
14
31.091
17
13.550
12
Tyler Reddick
4
3
Running
2
42.374
48.280
45.327
15
30.437
4
14.890
19
Alex Bowman
11
8
Running
2
43.197
47.476
45.337
16
30.706
7
14.630
17
Cody Ware
35
26
Accident
2
42.568
48.509
45.538
17
31.198
19
14.340
15
Ross Chastain
22
10
Running
1
45.878
45.878
45.878
18
30.718
8
15.160
22
Christopher Bell
13
24
Running
3
40.921
55.672
45.995
19
29.769
1
16.227
28
Austin Hill
30
9
Running
2
43.744
48.554
46.149
20
31.609
27
14.540
16

Pit Stop Detailed Report

Each 2- and 4-wheel pit stop during the race.

DRIVER
LEADER LAP
DRIVER LAP
DRIVER TIME
CREW TIME
TOTAL
TYPE

AJ Allmendinger
17
16
31.232
11.400
42.632
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
AJ Allmendinger
42
42
30.951
15.700
46.651
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Denny Hamlin
31
31
30.485
12.960
43.445
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Denny Hamlin
17
16
30.834
14.260
45.094
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Joey Logano
42
41
30.300
13.280
43.580
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Joey Logano
17
16
30.631
12.980
43.611
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Joey Logano
65
64
30.170
15.720
45.890
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Kyle Busch
47
46
31.057
13.020
44.077
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Kyle Busch
60
60
30.696
16.820
47.516
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Kyle Busch
38
37
30.680
17.340
48.020
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Michael McDowell
61
38
31.588
11.960
43.548
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Ricky Stenhouse Jr
17
16
30.931
12.460
43.391
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Kyle Larson
16
15
31.217
11.700
42.917
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Kyle Larson
41
40
30.650
14.980
45.630
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Alex Bowman
55
54
30.557
12.640
43.197
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Alex Bowman
17
16
30.856
16.620
47.476
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Ryan Blaney
16
15
30.853
11.160
42.013
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Ryan Blaney
46
46
31.833
13.180
45.013
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Ryan Blaney
60
59
32.382
13.840
46.222
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE
Ty Dillon
17
16
31.134
13.280
44.414
FOUR WHEEL CHANGE