AJ Allmendinger was the lone NASCAR Cup Series driver to break into the 75-second bracket during Saturday's Cup Series practice session at Sonoma and was fastest in practice.

The ratings from the weekend at Chicago are in for NASCAR. And unfortunately they’ve ticked down quite a bit from the last two years. Adam Stern of the Sports Business Journal reported that TNT and TruTV got 2.

TNT takes over for NBC, which aired the race the last two years. Before debuting last week in Atlanta, TNT hadn’t carried a NASCAR race since 2014.

The NASCAR Cup Series comes to the city streets of Chicago, Illinois, with the Grant Park 165 this morning, live on TNT.

The sprawling Sears Point campus has transformed into a three-day hotbed of action that concludes with the sport’s best drivers battling it out Sunday.

With disappointing finishes in the Chicago Street Race, these NASCAR drivers are looking to bounce back in Wine Country.

Letarte thinks Shane van Gisbergen, who won the inaugural Chicago race in 2023, is the favorite. He also won on the Mexico City road course three weeks ago.

The Chicago Street Race gave us drama on the track—and a storm brewing off of it, right on our TV screens. Between missed replays, awkward camera cuts, and silence in key moments, NASCAR fans didn’t hold back with their critiques of TNT’s return to broadcasting the sport.