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Chicago Motor Speedway

Index Chicago Motor Speedway

The Chicago Motor Speedway at Sportsman's Park located in Cicero, Illinois, just outside Chicago, was built in 1999 by a group including Chip Ganassi, owner of Chip Ganassi Racing. [1]

19 relations: American Speed Association, Champ Car, Chicago, Chicagoland Speedway, Chip Ganassi, Chip Ganassi Racing, Cicero, Illinois, Dover International Speedway, Driven (2001 film), Hawthorne Race Course, Illinois, Illinois Derby, Joe Ruttman, NASCAR, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Scott Riggs, Sears Craftsman 175, Walmart, Wirtz Corporation.

American Speed Association

The American Speed Association (ASA) is a sanctioning body of motorsports in the United States formed in 1968.

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Champ Car

Champ Car is the general name for a class and specification of American professional top-level open wheel cars used in American open-wheel car racing for many decades, associated primarily with the Indianapolis 500.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chicagoland Speedway

Chicagoland Speedway is a tri-oval speedway in Joliet, Illinois, southwest of Chicago.

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Chip Ganassi

Floyd "Chip" Ganassi Jr. (born May 24, 1958) is an American businessman, former racing driver, current team owner and member of the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America.

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Chip Ganassi Racing

Chip Ganassi Racing With Felix Sabates, Inc., Doing business as Chip Ganassi Racing Teams or simply Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR), is a professional auto racing organization with teams competing in the IndyCar Series, NASCAR Monster Energy Cup and Xfinity Series, the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, and the FIA World Endurance Championship.

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Cicero, Illinois

Cicero (originally known as Hawthorne) is a suburb of Chicago and an incorporated town in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

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Dover International Speedway

Dover International Speedway (formerly Dover Downs International Speedway) is a race track in Dover, Delaware, United States.

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Driven (2001 film)

Driven is a 2001 American action drama film directed by Renny Harlin and starring Sylvester Stallone, who also wrote and produced.

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Hawthorne Race Course

Hawthorne Race Course is a racetrack for horse racing in Stickney/Cicero, Illinois, near Chicago.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Illinois Derby

The Illinois Derby is a race in the United States for Thoroughbred horses for three year olds run over a distance of one and one-eighth miles (9 furlongs) on the dirt at Hawthorne Race Course in Stickney/Cicero, Illinois, just west of Chicago in early April each year.

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Joe Ruttman

Joe Ruttman (born October 28, 1944), is a retired American stock car racing driver who competed in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series, Nationwide Series, and Camping World Truck Series.

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NASCAR

National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock-car racing.

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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (formerly the NASCAR SuperTruck Series presented by Craftsman and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series) is a pickup truck racing series owned and operated by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, and is the only series in all of NASCAR to race modified production pickup trucks.

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Scott Riggs

Russell Scott Riggs (born January 1, 1971), known professionally as Scott Riggs, is an American professional stock car racing driver.

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Sears Craftsman 175

The Sears Craftsman 175 was a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race that took place at Chicago Motor Speedway.

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Walmart

Walmart Inc. (formerly branded as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores.

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Wirtz Corporation

Wirtz Corporation is a United States holding company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1922 by Arthur Wirtz as a family-owned corporation to oversee his real estate holdings. The company shortly thereafter expanded into liquor distribution. The company grew significantly throughout the 1900s by purchasing many competing liquor distributors, as well as the Chicago Blackhawks NHL team (becoming full owners in 1966), and the Chicago Bulls NBA team in 1972 (Wirtz Corp. sold the Bulls to Jerry Reinsdorf in 1985). Wirtz Corporation is part owner of the United Center arena, and also owns banking and insurance interests. After founder Arthur Wirtz's death in 1983, his son, William, took control of the corporation and ran it until his death in 2007. The company's current owner and CEO is Rocky Wirtz.

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Chicago Motor Speedway at Sportsman's Park, Sportsman's Park Racetrack, Sportsmen's Park.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Motor_Speedway

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