Cole Custer was declared the winner of the NASCAR Xfinity Series street race in Chicago after persistent rain flooded the course on Sunday.
Race fans protected by trash bags along Ida B. Wells Drive after the NASCAR Xfinity Series race was called due to rain in Grant Park in Chicago on July 2, 2023.The whole moment was pretty strange.“It’s like how excited can you be because it didn’t feel like we did anything today,” he said.
“With standing water and flooding a significant issue at the race track and throughout the city, there was no option to return to racing prior to shifting to NASCAR Cup Series race operations,” NASCAR said in a statement.[Don't miss] NASCAR Chicago Street Race: What to know about the 12-turn, 2.
NASCAR also canceled concerts by Miranda Lambert and Charley Crockett because of flooding in Lower Hutchinson Field.Custer led each of the first 25 laps in his No. 00 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford before Saturday’s weather delay. John Hunter Nemechek was second, followed by Justin Allgaier, Brett Moffitt and Austin Hill.“Today, I mean we definitely wish we could have run all the laps. ... We don’t want to win it this way,” Custer said. “But at the end of the day we have a really fast car.
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