NASCAR to race in the streets of downtown Chicago
But the road course race at Road America is off the schedulewill celebrate its 75th season with an unprecedented street race through downtown Chicago in yet another radical change to the once staid schedule.
The new venues come as NASCAR has made sweeping changes to its oval-heavy schedule, first by adding both a dirt race at Bristol Motor Speedway and additional road courses and now a completely new concept.race the day before, as well as music and entertainment options located along the 12-turn, 2.2-mile street course.
NASCAR last month confirmed the Coliseum would return next January, but the rest of the 2023 schedule has yet to be announced. Kennedy, however, confirmed to the AP that the Chicago street course will replace the road course race at Road America on the Cup schedule.
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