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The wrongful death lawsuit, which seeks more than $50,000 in damages, argues that NASCAR, the park district and four rental and production companies contracted for the event failed to take safety precautions.
In this week’s “Polling Place,” your home for Sun-Times sports polls on the social platform X, we gauged your interest in stock-car racing in the city.
Last year, the three-time Supercars champion in Australia and New Zealand was a debuting driver in the Cup Series. Now, having won the Grant Park race in Chicago, he’s the hunted.
NASCAR was celebrating its 75th year, but this would be the first time in the sport’s history that stock cars would barrel on and around city streets, an undertaking about which drivers were wary.