Want to test drive the NASCAR Street Race course? Crews wrapping up downtown repaving

NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace drives a stock car around downtown Chicago in July 2022. Crews are repaving streets around Grant Park for the course. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file)

n a little over six weeks, the tranquil gardens around Grant Park will be overcome with the roar of NASCAR stock cars in the racing company’s first-ever street race.

And as Chicago crews finish repaving the streets in the coming days in preparation for the July 1-2 races, regular Joes will get a chance to drive along the soon-to-be official race course.