Crews have been hard at work getting the makeshift track ready for Chicago's NASCAR Street Race next month.
The 2.2 mile track stretches from Jackson Drive to Roosevelt Road and Michigan Avenue to Dusable Lake Shore Drive.
"They've been tested and we are very confident they will do their job," NASCAR engineer Jeremy Casperson said. Meanwhile, with a little more than a week to go before race weekend, the course is starting to take shape. The cars, drivers and crews will arrive in Chicago in a week. Until then, the only experience they'll have with this first-ever NASCAR street race will be on a simulator. They will get very little time to test out the course in-person.
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