Grant Park 165
It makes sense that the NASCAR Cup Series would spend the July 4 holiday in one of America’s greatest cities, Chicago. The Grant Park 165 on the Chicago Street Course is the second race of NASCAR’s in-season tournament and the one and only street race of the season.
All of these races for the in-season tournament are still for regular season points and drivers are not eliminated from running in the following week’s race. They are just eliminated from the bracket-style contest and we did see a handful of upsets last week during a fascinating race at Atlanta. This race is sure to be interesting as well, as the drivers do a 2.14-mile loop around the streets of the Windy City.
This is the 19th race of 26 scheduled for the regular season and there are 36 total races on the books, including the Cup Championship Playoffs.
How to Watch The Grant Park 165
When: Sunday, July 6, 2025
Where: The Streets of Chicago, IL
Time: 2 p.m. ET
Channel: TNT
2025 NASCAR Cup Series Standings
It took a long time, but Chase Elliott made his way to the winner’s circle for the first time this season with his triumph last week at Atlanta. The win pushed him up into second place, but he is still a good distance behind points leader William Byron. Kyle Larson, Denny Hamlin, and Christopher Bell round out the top five.
Tyler Reddick, Ryan Blaney, Ross Chastain, Chris Buescher, who is on a run of four straight top-10 finishes, and Chase Briscoe fill out the top 10.
The race winners so far are Byron, Larson (3), Bell (3), Hamlin (3), Blaney, Chastain, Joey Logano, Austin Cindric, Josh Berry, Shane van Gisbergen, Briscoe, and Elliott through 18 points races with 16 playoff spots in total up for grabs and 12 taken by race winners as of now. That means some winners may not make it, if they don’t have enough points relative to other race winners. The most at risk would be van Gisbergen, who goes into this week 32nd in points. He is known as more of a road/street course guy, so he could make up some ground this week.
Grant Park 165 Winners
Speaking of van Gisbergen, he won the inaugural version of this race back in 2023. Alex Bowman won it last year. Chevrolet is 2-for-2 in this race, so we’ll see if that trend continues.
When van Gisbergen won, Bell won Stage 1 and Stage 2 before finishing 18th. Bell also won Stage 2 last year before finishing 37th. Maybe he’s a guy to look at this week. Last year’s top five included Joey Hand and Michael McDowell. Justin Haley finished second in 2023. This is a race where throwing a couple of darts may not be a bad idea.
Grant Park 165 Predictions
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