The Chicago Street Race is back for a second year and with it come big questions for the short and long term. This race can set the tone for NASCAR street races in the future, as well as what the Chicago market’s response to NASCAR is for the long haul. Maybe even the possibility of being back at the Chicagoland Speedway. This is why the 2024 Chicago street race is more important than last year.
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What are you looking forward to most in the Chicago Street Race?
Someone having problems with the turn 6 tire barrier
How pissed off the drivers are gonna be after Nashville
The full race distance being completed
I’m looking forward to seeing SVG going back to back
It could be more interesting for SVG. Yeah, he’s the defending winner but he’s in a Kaulig car, not a Trackhouse car. And Kaulig’s been very underwhelming this year.
AJ has still performed pretty well in his few starts so far so honestly, there’s some promise that they’ll put SVG in a good quality ride this weekend. It doesn’t shock me Hemric and others in the rotational seat haven’t been performing, but I can’t tell if it’s the team or the drivers
It’ll prly be prepped by Trackhouse since it’s Cup.
Trackhouse hasn’t been as good this year too.
@@kevinbrady8207 Trackhouse has still contended for wins, and both drivers are in the playoffs right now. Kaulig is lucky to be running in the top 25 in cup this season
I wouldn’t be surprised either way if SVG wins or loses.
As someone who lives 5 minutes away from Chicagoland, please bring back Chicagoland
Is that a message for NASCAR or something?
Kyle Busch is so trash most overrated sore loser in Nascar history
I would go to this race if I could. May not be something we’ll ever seen again.
maybe show tf up
@@sammodding4609 I did every year….
I would only support brimging Chicagoland back as a part of a double-header with the street course. The season is too long to spend two weeks in Chicago when we can easily do a double-header, and we really should keep doing the street course to keep NASCAR and stock car racing as a whole mainstream. Too many times has stock car racing been screwed over by being a booming real estate market: AutoClub, Nashville Fairgrounds and many historic South Carolina tracks to name a few. We need to keep fighting to maintain our spot in the sports world
That would be a disaster.
I dont think this event AND an event at Chicagoland Speedway coexist in the same season schedule for any reason. For race fans in Chicago, it’s either this or Chicagoland Speedway. We’re just not getting 2 events. The street race has to move somewhere else before they’re back at Chicagoland Speedway
@@Engrphotog21 You are probably right but it’s a shame that people are so pig-headed and devisive. It be cool to have double-headers like that, we could shave two-three weeks off the season and add one-two more off weeks. Think about a Milwaukee Mile and Road America DH, Knoxville and Iowa DH, Chicagoland and Street Race DH, Martinsville and North Wilkesboro, Nashville Fairgrounds and the Superspeedway, IRP and the Brickyard. Tis a shame
@@karlcalvert812 I’d love it if that did happen. I can get to the street course in about an hour by train and I’m 30 minutes from Chicagoland Speedway. That would be a great week. Space on the NASCAR schedule is just too scarce for 2 races in one area. I think it would just split the crowd.
Bring back chicagoland… we revived the fanbase there. Street course racing should stay though, if not twice a year (new fans!)
Hopefully they have great weather. Pretty good concert line up!
The good thing is, unlike SoCal, NASCAR has Chicagoland kept up and updated in case the street race fails this year. Once the deal is up, they should go back, this war against F1 is petty at best
F1 doesn’t need more US races
I like to see them give Oklahoma City a try or long beach maybe Pittsburgh.
if F1 wants it then let them have it
….and if the city is ok with it that tells you all you need to know
I don’t want to burst anyone’s bubbles but looking at the weather, it’s gonna be another rainy street course race. (Rain through Friday, dry-ish Saturday, rain returning Sunday afternoon)
@@TheOfficialBud 🙁
Let them race in the rain like in the 2020 Xfinity Roval. That was fun
@@cartergarrison4952 that was also a bad idea
Shows the skill level of the drivers@@jabber1990
@@jabber1990Yep plus Charlotte was also getting flooded too. It was a lot of rain.
And my friends who were actually race fans who lived in Chicago aren’t going this year because of price.
1:03 Mayor Beetlejuice
Shes not there anymore.
Wasn’t reelected.
This new mayor hates NASCAR.
@@user-jf4nj3ez2k I know
@@user-jf4nj3ez2kHe’s even worse
I’d prefer them race at Road America as an IMSA fan primarily, but the Chicago race was a whole lot better than I was expecting.
Real mystery is how many times is Noah Gragson going to find the tire barriers
O/U 3 times
@@CopeaCola Noah Gragson has been doing better this year compared to last year.
This race last year is what got me back in nascar.
If Chicago drops out, and they still want a Street Circuit.
Grand Prix de Trois-Rivieres in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec is the only option.
I got my mom to watch this race last year she didn’t believe they were actually racing on the streets.
Best case scenario long term, July 4th weekend becomes NASCAR’s annual street course race where they go to the biggest cities in the country to race. I’d say a street race should either get 2-4 years on the schedule before going to another city, or at some point if we’re lucky we can get a consistent rotation of cities where lets say we’d go to Chicago once every 4 years with 3 other cities filling the gap. I just hope NASCAR doesn’t get too crazy with it by adding a bunch of street courses to the schedule. I’d be fine with 2 but 1 is perfectly fine.
I definitely agree that this year’s Chicago street race is more important than last year’s simply because of the fact that it will show if the event is sustainable long term. I think the outreach that NASCAR has done with the local community has helped change people’s views on the event & is the complete opposite of how F1 has approached their street race in Vegas where there has been zero outreach with locals. Instead most people in Vegas absolutely hate F1 with a passion mainly because F1 has created an absolute traffic nightmare with all of the construction that is being done for the race & has negatively affected people’s ability (especially those who work on the Strip) to get to work on time and make a living. This is in addition to the astronomical ticket prices which will prevent many locals from attending. Because of all this, it is very possible that the Chicago street race for NASCAR will outlast the Vegas F1 race as I see F1 cutting their losses after this year & giving the Vegas date to one of two destinations in Southeast Asia, Thailand (at the same track MotoGP races on) or a return to the Sepang circuit in Malaysia next year.
a warning before showing Beetlejuice would be nice…
Great video!