Shane van Gisbergen completes Chicago sweep in NASCAR Cup race
CHICAGO — Shane van Gisbergen completed a sweep of the 2025 NASCAR Chicago Street Race weekend with a win in Sunday’s Grant Park 165.
SVG led three times for 26 of the final 44 laps, including the last 16. He won under caution after Cody Ware crashed into the turn six tire barrier.
Shane van Gisbergen, Ty Gibbs, Tyler Reddick, Denny Hamlin, Kyle Busch, A.J. Allmendinger, Ryan Preece, Alex Bowman, Austin Hill and Ross Chastain rounded out the top 10 finishers.
FINAL STAGE
LAP 74: Cody Ware has crashed into the turn 6 wall. No caution, SVG takes the white. Now the caution flies, SVG wins over Gibbs, Reddick, Hamlin, Busch, Allmendinger, Preece, Bowman, Austin Hill, Ross Chastain.
LAP 73: Tyler Reddick passes Denny Hamlin for third. He is on pace to run down SVG for the lead.
LAP 72: After all of this, SVG leads, Gibbs, Hamlin, Reddick, Allmendinger, Preece, Busch, Bowman, Chastain and Austin Hill. Reddick is running fast, trying to chase down SVG. Katherine Legge runs 20th.
LAP 70: Alex Bowman spins Bubba Wallace in a fierce battle to advance in the NASCAR in-season tournament. Hard racing led to that.
LAP 68: Chase Briscoe has a right-front tire flat after contact. He will drop out of the top 10. Top 10 is now SVG, GIbbs, Allmendinger, Hamlin, Preece, Wallace, Bowman, Reddick, Larson, Chastain.
LAP 66: One to green with Shane van Gisbergen, Ty Gibbs, A.J. Allmendinger, Denny Hamlin, Chase Briscoe, Bubba Wallace, Ryan Preece, Kyle Larson, Ross Chastain, Alex Bowman. SVG is trying to be the first driver since Kyle Busch in 2016 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway to sweep the pole and the win on a Cup-Xfinity race weekend.
LAP 64: Austin Cindric is stopped on track, prompting a caution. A TNT replay shows Cindric caused the wreck in turn one that set off the restart chaos. Light rain is now falling on pit road.
TOP-10: Shane van Gisbergen, Ty Gibbs, A.J. Allmendinger, Denny Hamlin, Chase Briscoe, Bubba Wallace, Ryan Preece, Kyle Larson, Ross Chastain, Alex Bowman. Cody Ware runs 11th.
LAP 62: Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Joey Logano, Austin Cindric and Ross Chastain were all involved in incidents on the restart.
LAP 61: Tyler Reddick pits from the top five. He was going to be short on fuel. Nemechek, Busch, Haley, Hill and Blaney pit. Quick caution, Ty Dillon free pass. Top 10 is now SVG, Briscoe, Gibbs, Allmendinger, Hamlin, Wallace, Chastain, Larson, Logano and Preece with 13 to go.
LAP 59: Shane van Gisbergen is looking for the lead on Chase Briscoe. He takes it going in turn three. Caution flies for a “spectator medical emergency.” According to NASCAR PR, they needed to get an ambulance to a part of the track where a fan was having a medical emergency, prompting the caution.
LAP 55: Alex Bowman pits for the final time. His previous stop came 38 laps before on lap 17. Christopher Bell pitted a lap later. Shane van Gisbergen is on the bumper of Tyler Reddick, who runs second to Chase Briscoe.
LAP 52: Ryan Blaney pits with flat tire.
LAP 51: Chase Briscoe and Tyler Reddick run nose-to-tail and have to save fuel to make it to the end. Reddick is reportedly three laps short.
Denny Hamlin, Bubba Wallace and John Hunter Nemechek, in third, sixth and seventh respectively, are also saving on fuel.
The final stage is not starting well for Chase Elliott who pitted with damage to the front end of his car. The stage goes green with Chase Briscoe, Tyler Reddick, Alex Bowman, Bubba Wallace, Denny Hamlin, John Hunter Nemechek, Christopher Bell, Shane van Gisbergen, Ty Gibbs and A.J. Allmendinger in the top 10. Ryan Blaney pitted under the stage caution.
STAGE TWO WINNER: Ryan Blaney
STAGE TWO TOP-10 (LAP 45): Ryan Blaney, Chase Briscoe, Tyler Reddick, Alex Bowman, Bubba Wallace, Denny Hamlin, Chase Elliott, John Hunter Nemechek, Erik Jones, Christopher Bell.
LAP 43: A.J. Allmendinger pits. This will likely hand the stage win to Ryan Blaney. He is one of 11 drivers staying out for the stage points. Shane van Gisbergen sits 12th.
LAP 42: Shane van Gisbergen, Joey Logano and Ty Gibbs pit.
LAP 41: Kyle Busch drove through too many pit boxes, pass through penalty coming. Just makes a bad day worse for him. Kyle Larson pits a lap later, likely for the final time of the race.
LAP 40: Katherine Legge spins exiting turn one and gets back going… No caution.
LAP 37: Ross Chastain pits for the first stop of the day… Only Ryan Preece is left among the contenders on the 1-stop strategy. Preece pits a lap later.
LAP 36: Michael McDowell, who led the first 31 laps, is being told to go to the DVP area to fix a throttle pedal cable. That will take him out of contention for what looked like a big win for him.
LAP 34: Shane van Gisbergen leads A.J. Allmendinger… Kyle Busch spins from sixth and drops to 31st.
LAP 32: Leader Michael McDowell pits after leading every lap. McDowell reported a stuck throttle so the team is going to work under the hood. They are going to go “max save” once he gets back on track.
LAP 31: Anticipating a caution for Josh Berry’s crash, Tyler Reddick, Chase Briscoe pit. Caution now flies.
LAP 30: SVG is up to third after restarting 8th on lap 24… Josh Berry has crashed and destroyed the front end of his car.
LAP 27: Tyler Reddick takes second from Kyle Busch. Shane van Gisbergen cracks the top five. Top 10 is now Michael McDowell, Tyler Reddick, Kyle Busch, Ryan Preece, Shane van Gisbergen, Chase Briscoe, A.J. Allmendinger, Ross Chastain, Ty Gibbs, Austin Hill.
LAP 26: Bubba Wallace spun in turn 11 and lost several positions.
The second stage is 25 laps, putting the stage end at lap 45 — 30 to go in the race. Tyler Reddick and Ty Dillon have officially moved on to the third round of the NASCAR In-Season Challenge Tournament after a big wreck early on — pending post-race tech inspection.
STAGE ONE WINNER: Michael McDowell
STAGE ONE TOP 10 (LAP 20): Michael McDowell, Kyle Busch, Tyler Reddick, Chase Briscoe, Ryan Preece, Ross Chastain, John Hunter Nemechek, Zane Smith, Austin Hill, Noah Gragson. According to NASCAR, “only once in the last 23 Cup road course races has the Stage 1 winner gone to win: Michael McDowell, Indy Road Course 2023.” It is also the first-ever Cup stage win for Spire Motorsports.
McDowell now has fourth career stage wins. Two of them came at the Indianapolis Road Course in 2023.
LAP 18: Ty Gibbs, Christopher Bell pit from the top 10. Bell gets a speeding penalty. Shane van Gisbergen pits a lap later.
LAP 17: Ryan Blaney pits from just outside of the top 10 with four laps to go in the stage. Josh Berry and Kyle Larson also pit. They were among the biggest movers early on:
- Denny Hamlin +7 to 23rd
- Kyle Larson +6 to 16th
- Bubba Wallace +6 to 17th
- Josh Berry +5 to 14th
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr. +5 to 21st
LAP 13: Alex Bowman spins exiting the final corner after getting loose behind Austin Cindric.
LAP 11: Chris Buescher is told he’s going to have to ride out the issue as they suspect is something internal. He is one lap down and about 1-2 seconds off the leader’s pace after the crew looked the car over.
TOP-10: Michael McDowell, Shane van Gisbergen, Kyle Busch, Tyler Reddick, Chase Briscoe, Ty Gibbs, Ryan Preece, Christopher Bell, A.J. Allmendinger, Joey Logano.
LAP 7: Green flag! Michael McDowell quickly takes control of the lead over Shane van Gisbergen. Brad Keselowski, Austin Dillon, Will Brown and Carson Hocevar are all out after the big wreck.
LAP 6: Chris Buescher is going to pit with engine issues. “We had an exhaust leak a couple of weeks back, but we didn’t lose this much power. That’s all I’m able to compare it to,” he said, adding the engine is backfiring.
TOP-10 AT LAP 5: Michael McDowell, Shane van Gisbergen, Kyle Busch, Tyler Reddick, Chris Buescher, Chase Briscoe, Ryan Preece, Ty Gibbs, Christopher Bell, Joey Logano.
LAP 4: Carson Hocevar hit the inside wall in turn 10 and bounced into Brad Keselowski, Austin Dillon, Daniel Suarez, Will Brown, Riley Herbst, Todd Gilliland and A.J. Allmendinger. Allmendinger drove away. The big crash triggered a red flag.
LAP 2: William Byron is going to the DVP area with clutch issues after starting in the rear.
Green flag is in the air! Michael McDowell has taken the lead from Shane van Gisbergen right away on the first lap. Kyle Busch moved from sixth to third, Chris Buescher jumped from eighth to fifth, Carson Hocevar dropped from third to seventh.
RACE START
The engines are fired under cloudy skies in Chicago. For the third year in a row, rain is likely to play a factor in the race.
:20 PM CT #Weather – @NASCARChicago update – Showers are 30 Miles west of circuit – 2:30- 3:30 PM CDT arrival, heavy line 45 miles – moving 20-25mph. While they have rain tires 🛞, heavy rainfall is possible & may cause delays.
— RaceWeather (@RaceWeather) July 6, 2025
Currently, there is no lightning within 75 miles.… pic.twitter.com/FEVEuux7xB
All four Hendrick Motorsports cars will go to the rear of the field for Sunday’s race after issues Saturday in practice and qualifying. In the back of the pack, they will join Bubba Wallace who also showed speed in practice but couldn’t put together a good lap in qualifying and even crashed.
Wallace will also be in the rear of the field with team owner Denny Hamlin who blew an engine right at the start of practice. Noah Gragson, Ty Dillon, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Katherine Legge will also start in the rear of the field.
Not in the field is Corey Heim. Katherine Legge bumped Heim and the third 23XI Racing entry from the field in qualifying.
Alex Bowman and Shane van Gisbergen are the former Cup Series winners in the field. Cole Custer also earned a NASCAR Xfinity Series win here in 2023.
The NASCAR Cup Series’ Grant Park 165 in Chicago is 75 laps with the stages ending on laps 20, 45 and 75 for the checkered flag. The fuel window is 40 laps. Here is when everything is set to get started:
- Invocation: 2 p.m. (All times Eastern)
- Command: 2:10 p.m.
- Green Flag: 2:25 p.m.
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Jonathan Fjeld is the co-owner of the The Racing Experts, LLC. He has been with TRE since 2010.
A Twin Valley, MN, native, Fjeld became a motorsports fan at just three years old (first race was the 2002 Pennsylvania 500). He worked as a contributor and writer for TRE from 2010-18. Since then, he has stepped up and covered 24 NASCAR race weekends and taken on a larger role with TRE. He became the co-owner and managing editor in 2023 and has guided the site to massive growth in that time.
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