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The Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac is a 333-mile (289 nmi; 536 km) annual yacht race starting in Lake Michigan off Chicago, Illinois, and ending in Lake Huron off Mackinac Island, Michigan. It is hosted and managed by the Chicago Yacht Club. The "Mac" (as it is known) was first run in 1898 and is the oldest annual freshwater distance race ...
The Chicago Yacht Club was founded in 1875 to encourage and promote the sport of yachting. In 1898, the first Race to Mackinac was held. In 1900, the club obtained its first clubhouse, the Argo clubhouse located at the Illinois Central Pier #3. Chicago Yacht Club's original Chicago to Mackinac Trophy dates to 1906.
The 2024 Grant Park 165 was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on July 7, 2024, at the Chicago Street Course in Chicago, Illinois.Originally scheduled for 75 laps, the race was shortened to 58 laps due to darkness, on the 2.2-mile (3.5 km) street course, it was the 20th race of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season.
NASCAR Cup Series Chicago race TV schedule, start time Green Flag Time: Approx. 3:30 p.m. CT on Sunday, July 7 TV coverage: NBC (coverage begins at 3 p.m. CT Sunday, watch FREE on Fubo )
The Antioch resident will join more than 50,000 runners expected to make the 26.2-mile trek through the city on Sunday for the city’s 46th marathon, now called the Bank of America Chicago Marathon.
On July 19, the official announcement of the addition of the Chicago street race to the Cup Series schedule took place. [2] After the announcement, NASCAR executive Ben Kennedy confirmed Stern's report of the Chicago street race replacing the race at Road America on the Cup Series schedule in a question and answer session with the media.
The Chicago Street Race is the 177th different track for the NASCAR Cup Series. It's also NASCAR's 100th race in Illinois. It's a return to downtown Chicago after the Cup Series stopped at Soldier ...
However, the first Chicago Race to Mackinac was held in 1898, so it is the oldest annual freshwater distance in the world, the 2017 edition was the 109th running of the race. As for the Super Mac Race as "longest," the Lake Ontario Offshore Racing (LO 600) and the Great Lakes Single-handed Society (Super Mac & Back) are longer.