{"id":782241,"date":"2026-07-05T17:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782241\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T17:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:57:09","slug":"heavy-rain-delays-nascar-race-at-chicagoland-speedway-in-joliet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782241\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rain delays NASCAR race at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Chicago-area <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/jori-parys-nascar-racing-chicagoland-speedway-joliet\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASCAR race<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/rain-nascar-chicago-fans-sunday\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">once again<\/a> faced off with severe weather this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy storms and rain rolled through Joliet on Saturday as fans returned to the Chicagoland Speedway for a NASCAR race for the first time in seven years.<\/p>\n<p>The O&#8217;Reilly Auto Parts series race the Cuervo 3000 was supposed to get under way at 4:30 p.m. Saturday. After the rain finally subsided, it took an hour and a half to get the track dry.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Brandon Jones would take the win, holding off Chase Elliott.<\/p>\n<p>Cup drivers have seemed to enjoy the return to Joliet, and hope to return to the Chicago area in the future \u2014 either in a reboot of the NASCAR Chicago Street Race, or back at the Chicagoland Speedway again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hate to abandon any racetrack. Every one of them has character, and this one definitely has a lot of character. I would say it&#8217;s going to put on a great show for TV,&#8221; said Austin Dillon, driver of the No. 3 car. &#8220;I think we just, the only other factor is show up, you know? We&#8217;ve got to make sure that everybody shows up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Cup Series race is still scheduled for 5 p.m. Sunday to close out the weekend of racing. Denny Hamlin, a previous winner at the track, grabbed the pole for the race.<\/p>\n<p>The Cup Series race will be the second race of NASCAR&#8217;s five-race In-Season Challenge, with drivers competing head-to-head in a bracket-style competition for a $1 million prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chicago-area NASCAR race once again faced off with severe weather this weekend. Heavy storms and rain rolled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,276847,634,82],"class_list":["post-782241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-joliet","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782241","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=782241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}