For a brief period of time Saturday night a person snuck onto the Chicago NASCAR Street Race circuit
July 3, 2023 at 21:01
Police charged a man who drove a Corvette onto the NASCAR Street Course after hours Saturday with negligent driving. Whether or not he got to live out the NASCAR fans’ dream of actually lapping the course at speed is unknown. The cars’ graphics might be tied to a local cannabis business.
According to police, the driver of the Chevrolet struck a barrier on South DuSable Lake Shore Drive sometime around 9 p.m. and gained access to the track. Some four hours earlier, officials halted the Xfinity Series The Loop 121 race due to bad weather. By the time the Corvette was on the track, most fans were gone.
Of course, a random car on a racetrack is unlikely to go unnoticed by track officials and workers. If this guy actually managed to complete any hot laps there’s even more chance that people heard him and called the authorities. Reports suggest that police escorted the man off of the track around 9:30 so he may have had enough time to feed his need for speed.
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The 46-year-old driver was cited for negligent driving, lack of a valid registration, and operating an uninsured motor vehicle. He had a passenger though no information about that person was shared by the police. What we do know is that no arrests were made and that the car wasn’t impounded.
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Reports suggest that the Corvette in question has some ties to rapper Vic Mensa. His Chicago-based cannabis brand, 93 Boyz, features similar design cues in its marketing. Notably, Mensa himself is 30 so while he could’ve been the passenger in the car, he evidently wasn’t the driver.
Of all of the wild ways to go about getting a speed fix, this is an odd one. Surely, the owner of the Corvette could afford to attend a track day somewhere without the risk of police interaction on a NASCAR track. At the same time, they now have a story they can tell for decades and all it cost them was a negligent driving citation.