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Enjoy Illinois 300

Enjoy Illinois 300

NASCAR Cup Series race at World Wide Technology Raceway (Gateway)

This article is about the NASCAR Cup Series race at Gateway. For the NASCAR Xfinity Series race in July at Chicagoland Speedway, which was called the EnjoyIllinois.com 300 in 2014, see Owens Corning AttiCat 300. For the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Chicagoland Speedway, which was called the EnjoyIllinois.com 225 in 2009, 2010, and 2013, see Camping World 225.

The Enjoy Illinois 300 is a NASCAR Cup Series race at World Wide Technology Raceway (formerly Gateway Motorsports Park) in Madison, Illinois in the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area, first held in 2022. This race replaced the Pocono Organics CBD 325, one of the two Cup Series races at Pocono Raceway.

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A NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race, the Toyota 200 presented by CK Power, which was previously a standalone race on the series' schedule before the track received a Cup Series date, is held on the same weekend as this race.

History

On August 21, 2021, Adam Stern from Sports Business Journal reported that NASCAR was in talks to have the track host a Cup Series race in 2022.[1] On September 8, he reported that Gateway would be on the 2022 Cup Series schedule and would replace one of the two races at Pocono Raceway.[2] The schedule was released on September 15 with Gateway on Sunday, June 5.[3]

The race length is 300 miles (240 laps).[4] The stage lengths for the race were confirmed to be 45-95-100 laps for the Cup Series. The 2022 event was the first Cup race at the track, and also the first for the new Next Gen car at the track.[5]

Past winners

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Notes

References

  1. [1]
    "Cup to race Gateway in 2022?". Jayski's Silly Season Site. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. August 21, 2021. Retrieved February 10, 2022.
  2. [2]
    "2022 Cup Schedule Released Next Week? Adding Gateway? Pocono losing a race?". Jayski's Silly Season Site. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. September 8, 2021. Retrieved February 10, 2022.
  3. [3]
    "2022 NASCAR Cup Series Schedule". NASCAR.com. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. September 15, 2021. Retrieved February 10, 2022.
  4. [4]
    "2022 NASCAR Cup Series Schedule". NASCAR.com. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved February 10, 2022.
  5. [5]
    "(Twitter post)". Twitter. Bob Pockrass. January 27, 2022. Retrieved February 10, 2022. Tentative stage lengths for national series. Cup stage lengths for races later in the year TBD as NASCAR sees what fuel mileage is with new car (try not to have a fuel mileage race to end of stage).
  6. [6]
    "2022 Enjoy Illinois 300". Racing-Reference. Retrieved June 6, 2022.
  7. [7]
    "2023 Enjoy Illinois 300". Racing-Reference. Retrieved June 4, 2023.
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