It’s the Enjoy Illinois 300 at World Wide Technology Raceway, formerly known as Gateway Raceway. The layout is just what I think most of us fans have craved over the years when we chanted “less cookie-cutters, more shorts tracks” and then recently chanted “less road courses, more short tracks”. See, NASCAR listens.
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WWT Raceway is a flat 1.25-mile egg-shaped layout with four differing corners. If looking from the air, it looks very similar to Darlington Raceway, but Darlington has steep banking while WWT is flat.
Hey Christopher Bell, what do you expect at the track you won a Truck Series race at in 2016?
“This weekend is going to be new for everybody and it’s going to be really interesting with these transmissions because we’ve done a lot of shifting at tracks that we didn’t expect to be shifting at and we know that we are going to be shifting at Gateway, so that is going to add another element to the race for sure,” said Bell. “It’s definitely a unique race track because turns 1, 2, 3, and 4 are completely different. There is new pavement from the last time I was there, and it will be good to have more time in practice to dial in the car. There are lots of unknowns but I’m excited.”
More on Bell and the great run he’s on lately as he’s being offered to win at 14-to-1 by Caesars sportsbooks. But he’s so right about the unknowns as if we already didn’t have enough unknowns on the season that has produced 11 different winners in 14 races. The unknowns of a brand new car every still are still getting adjusted to as well as the unknown of the new Goodyear tire which seems to be 50-50 proposition it will blow after 25 laps.
We’ll have to take notice of Friday’s practice speeds, especially the 10-consecutive lap averages (5:00 pm ET), as well as Saturday’s qualifying (11:00 am ET), but I still feel solid about the drivers I’ve pre-bet based on what happened at Phoneix and Richmond already, and I’ll add New Hampshire to the group when they race later this season.
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- Date: Sunday, June 5, 2022
- Venue: World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway
- Location: Madison, Illinois
- Distance: 300 miles
- Laps: 240
- Network-Time: FS1 - 3:30 p.m. ET
“I think you can apply a lot of things there that you do at those racetracks, but it kind of has its own nuances that are different than those two. But I think the same general things will apply,” three-time winner at WWT Kevin Harvick said.
Yes, Harvick has lots of experience at WWT beginning with his first career Xfinity Series win in 2000, winning there again in 2001, and then winning a Truck Series race in 2010. It was a prelude to his flat short track greatness that has seen him win a track record nine times at Phoenix, four times at New Hampshire, and three times in Richmond. In 2006 he won four times in the six races between those three tracks. Do well at one on a season,..............
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