{"id":17055,"date":"2025-07-18T18:42:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/nascar-chicago-pause-in-2026-return-to-the-windy-city-in-2027\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T18:42:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:42:52","slug":"nascar-chicago-pause-in-2026-return-to-the-windy-city-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nascar\/nascar-chicago-pause-in-2026-return-to-the-windy-city-in-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR: Chicago Pause in 2026, Return to the Windy City in 2027!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chicago Street Race Takes a Break in 2026, but Plans to Return<\/h2>\n\n\nThe exciting Chicago street race will not be part of the NASCAR schedule in 2026, organizers announced this Friday.\n\nHowever, speed and adrenaline enthusiasts can breathe easy. NASCAR authorities and city officials are working together to ensure the return of the competition to the &#8220;Windy City&#8221; in 2027.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Following the success of the first three years, the Chicago Street Race will take a break in 2026 to give us the time needed to collaborate with the City of Chicago and explore a potential new date, and develop a plan that further optimizes operational efficiency, with the aim of returning to the streets of Chicago in 2027,&#8221; was published on the event&#8217;s social media account on X.<\/p><cite>Chicago Street Race Organization<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe publication also highlighted gratitude towards the followers: &#8220;Together, we have built and grown an expanded community of fans consisting of long-time NASCAR enthusiasts and first-time race viewers from all over the world, and for that, we are immensely grateful.&#8221;\n\nFrom 2023 to 2025, NASCAR Cup Series and Xfinity Series drivers competed on a 12-turn, 2.2-mile circuit, which stretched from Columbus Drive to DuSable Lake Shore Drive and Michigan Avenue.\n\nNew Zealand driver Shane van Gisbergen dominated the streets of Chicago, winning the Cup Series races in 2023 and 2025, and the Xfinity races in 2024 and 2025.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Street Race Takes a Break in 2026, but Plans to Return The exciting Chicago street race will not be part of the NASCAR schedule in 2026, organizers announced this Friday. However, speed and adrenaline enthusiasts can breathe easy. NASCAR authorities and city officials are working together to ensure the return of the competition to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1211,1204,182,4220],"class_list":{"0":"post-17055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-1211","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-street-race"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}