{"id":777035,"date":"2026-07-03T05:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/777035\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T05:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:56:08","slug":"nascar-cup-series-team-withdraws-from-chicagoland-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/777035\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Cup Series team withdraws from Chicagoland race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See the full statement from the team after withdrawing from the event<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This weekend, the NASCAR Cup Series is heading to Chicagoland Speedway. It marks the resurrection of the 1.5-mile track as the last race was hosted at the track in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Josh Bilicki was on the entry list at the driver of the No. 66 car. On Thursday, Garage 66 withdrew their entry in the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team has run 8 races so far in the 2026 season. Their last event was at Nashville Superspeedway in May.<\/p>\n<p>Garage 66 \/ MBM Motorsports statement<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is the full team statement:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUnfortunately Carl had to make the call to withdraw Garage 66 from this weekend\u2019s race at Chicagoland due to lack of sponsorship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are sad to miss out on NASCAR\u2019s July 4th weekend, but we look forward to the No. 66 returning very soon!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews.co\/2026\/07\/02\/nascar-tv-schedule-chicagoland-speedway-july-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR TV Schedule: Chicagoland Speedway (July 2026)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Links<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagolandspeedway.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicagoland Speedway<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nascar.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"See the full statement from the team after withdrawing from the event This weekend, the NASCAR Cup Series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,6681,275423,275424,80753,127187,3140,634,3628,8354,10031,82],"class_list":["post-777035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-il","tag-chicago-illinois","tag-chicagoland","tag-chicagoland-speedway","tag-cup-series","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-nascar-cup-series","tag-ncs","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}