RACER has learned a deal has been reached for NASCAR to return to Southern California next year, and the announcement of the event could come as soon as next week.

Although in the initial announcement of the NASCAR Chicago street race set for next July that there would be an IMSA series on the schedule, it has now been confirmed that there will be no sports car race in the inaugural event.While it was never expected that one of the...

In the winter of 2020, in the dead of night, and surrounded by towering skyscrapers, iRacing scanned the roads in and around Chicago’s Grant Park. By scanning Grant Park, iRacing was scanning its own virtual sandbox to play in.Unlike traditional racetracks with clearly defined turns and walls that iRacing recreates...

NASCAR Cup Series cars will roar through the streets of Chicago in early July 2023.NASCAR officials and the city joined together on Tuesday afternoon to announce the deal to bring stock cars to the country’s third-largest television market. The launch was held at the NBC Tower/Cityfront Plaza, where the cars...

The city of Chicago is getting a NASCAR race – at least virtually.Wednesday, NASCAR and iRacing jointly announced with the City of Chicago and the Chicago Sports Commission that the eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series will compete on a street course in Chicago. It will be the fifth race on...

F1 has confirmed the date for its promotional Festival in Chicago, which is to be held on the weekend of the Canadian Grand Prix.The Emirates F1 Chicago Festival "allows fans to immerse themselves in the world of Formula 1 by bringing the Grand Prix atmosphere to the heart of Chicago,"...

The final race of ABC’s Verizon IndyCar Series saw a small uptick in viewers from the same weekend in 2017.Race 2 of the Dual in Detroit earned a 0.63 rating, up a tad from the 2017 race that scored a 0.62. Saturday’s race drew a 0.55, down slightly from the...

This afternoon on the outskirts of Chicago, Illinois, Darrell "Bubba" Wallace will climb into the No. 98 Nickelodeon Slime Ford Mustang and chase the first NASCAR Xfinity Series win of his career.Yeah, we all know Wallace is the first African-American racer to roll into Victory Lane since the intrepid Wendell...

Martin Truex Jr. wasn't in a celebratory mood Saturday night even though he was presented with the trophy for winning the regular season championship and goes into the playoffs as the number one seed."Tonight sucks, plain and simple," Truex said. "Just the way it ended up."The way it ended was...

Denny Hamlin held off Kyle Larson and Martin Truex Jr. late on to win his third NASCAR Sprint Cup race of the season.In a race blighted by tire failures, featuring a record breaking 16 caution periods and a red flag interruption, Hamlin got an excellent getaway at the final restart...