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2025 Grant Park 165

The 2025 Grant Park 165 was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on July 6, 2025, at the Chicago Street Course in Chicago, Illinois. Contested over 75 laps on the street course, it was the 19th race of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season, as well as the second race of the inaugural NASCAR In-Season Challenge.

Shane van Gisbergen won the race. Ty Gibbs finished 2nd, and Tyler Reddick finished 3rd. Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch rounded out the top five, and A. J. Allmendinger, Ryan Preece, Alex Bowman, Austin Hill, and Ross Chastain rounded out the top ten.

Report

Background

The Chicago Street Course is a street circuit located in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It hosts the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series. The track was initially a conceptual track on iRacing made for the eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series in 2021.

The track for the race ended up being the exact same layout as the version used in 2021 for the eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series. The start/finish line is located on South Columbus Drive in front of Buckingham Fountain in Grant Park. The cars will go south and then turn left onto East Balbo Drive and then right onto South Lake Shore Drive (also part of U.S. Route 41), which is alongside Lake Michigan. The cars will then turn right onto East Roosevelt Road and then make another right, which gets them back onto South Columbus Drive where they are going north. They will then reach the intersection of South Columbus Drive and East Balbo Drive again and will make a left turn. When they are back on East Balbo Drive, they will cross a bridge over the Metra Electric District tracks. Next, the cars will turn right onto South Michigan Avenue and go north, onto East Congress Plaza Drive, and back onto South Michigan Ave. Lastly, they will make a right turn onto East Jackson Drive, go back across the Metra Electric tracks, and right back onto South Columbus Drive to the start/finish line.

On October 20, 2023, NASCAR announced that the Cup Series Chicago Street Race would be shortened from 220 miles (354.056 km) and 100 laps to 165 miles (265.542) and 75 laps.

Entry list

  • (R) denotes rookie driver.
  • (i) denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.

Practice

Bubba Wallace was the fastest in the practice session with a time of 1:30.951 seconds and a speed of .

Practice results

Qualifying

Shane van Gisbergen scored the pole for the race with a time of 1:29.656 and a speed of . Corey Heim failed to qualify. This was the first time a car failed to qualify since the 2018 AAA Texas 500.

Qualifying results

Race

Race results

Stage Results

Stage One Laps: 20

Stage Two Laps: 25

Final Stage Results

Stage Three Laps: 30

Race statistics

  • Lead changes: 6 among 5 different drivers
  • Cautions/Laps: 7 for 15
  • Red flags: 1 for 14 minutes and 42 seconds
  • Time of race: 2 hours, 28 minutes and 17 seconds
  • Average speed:

Media

Television

TNT covered the race on the television side. Adam Alexander, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Steve Letarte called the race from the broadcast booth. Marty Snider, Danielle Trotta, Alan Cavanna and Mamba Smith handled pit road for the television side.

Radio

Radio coverage of the race was broadcast by Motor Racing Network (MRN) and was also simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings
Manufacturers' Championship standings
  • <small>Note: Only the first 16 positions are included for the driver standings.</small>
  • <small><span style="padding:1px 4px; color:#FFDEAD; background:#FFDEAD;">.</span>&nbsp;– Driver has clinched a position in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs.</small>

NASCAR In-Season Challenge bracket

Notes

References