One of the biggest pieces of the NASCAR schedule was set Tuesday with the announcement that Chicagoland Speedway will return for another year of racing.Both the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series and Cup Series will compete at the 1.5-mile intermediate in Joliet the weekend of June 25-27. The ARCA Menards Series...

For NASCAR, the prestige of competing at IMS is no longer enough to make up for one simple fact: The racing is awful.

Denny Hamlin first offered a deadpan answer about the number of road courses on the NASCAR Cup Series schedule.“More road courses, for sure,” Hamlin said.Then he gave a tight smile. When the follow-up question came about whether that was sarcastic, he laughed and said, “I don’t know, is it?”. Then...