Chicago’s NASCAR Race is a Marvel of Physics
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This video explores the intricate planning and design that transformed the heart of Chicago into a 2.2-mile race track for NASCAR's Next Gen cars. It comes from a combination of cutting-edge technology, historical motorsport legacy, and urban planning to create this unique racing experience. From the car itself to the layout and surface of the streets, everything works together to make the event possible. There’s another key development that helped make it possible as well. Sim racing, specifically iRacing who created a digital twin of the course to design and test the conditions, ensuring the best possible layout for both racers and spectators. Then Chicago made real-world modifications to the streets to address safety, performance, and spectator experience, based on data from virtual races.
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Stewart Hicks is an architectural design educator that leads studios and lecture courses as an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also serves as an Associate Dean in the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts and is the co-founder of the practice Design With Company. His work has earned awards such as the Architecture Record Design Vanguard Award or the Young Architect’s Forum Award and has been featured in exhibitions such as the Chicago Architecture Biennial and Design Miami, as well as at the V&A Museum and Tate Modern in London. His writings can be found in the co-authored book Misguided Tactics for Propriety Calibration, published with the Graham Foundation, as well as essays in MONU magazine, the AIA Journal Manifest, Log, bracket, and the guest-edited issue of MAS Context on the topic of character architecture.
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Incorporating a My Cousin Vinny clip is always a great idea.
I didn't realize my favorite architect is also a car guy. You just went up in my book, sir.
I’m a Chicagoan, former negative critic and now a 100% supporter. More events in downtown Chicago are really needed to keep the city going. It’s in an area outside the center and does not block major through street so doesn’t disrupt downtown too much. Downtown Chicago is huge, several miles long and a couple miles wide in case people don’t know.
I am a 3rd generation chicagoan. I totally disagree with you. Combustion engine racing does not belong in downtown Chicago. Or any downtown. We are trying to get cars out of congestion in urban areas. This is really not the way to do it. We are also having a problem with illegal street racing killing people. So again, really bad idea. We do need events in chicago, but not just downtown. Our whole city is pretty darn amazing. Time to spend on all our neighborhoods.
@@jackieknits61 Agreed - especially with all the illegal street car activities that typically take place during summers. The city could be great for so many other things. This is an interesting novelty, but I would argue more for publicity and remote participation in the form of watching drone footage etc. rather than actually providing a desirable event for city or suburban dwellers to partake in.
I’m a Phoenician
@@StephenCoorlas Maybe not shutting down race tracks and forcing them to adhere to unreasonable rules. Allows individuals to express their love for cars in a safe location. Like locals in my home state of New Hampshire not allowing to put lights for the track.
I currently live in chicago and I love the willis tower
Stewart Hicks doing NASCAR wasn't on my bingo card, but being Chicago I'm not surprised in the slightest!
I think this is a successful move. I'm a big racing fan, but I just never got into NASCAR. This is the first time i'm probably going to watch a race.
I love racing, but always shrugged off Nascar as the stereotypical boring left turn fest. Last year I went to this race with my dad, it was my first ever race I saw in person, as well as the first Nascar race I ever saw, and boy was it fun, even with the horrible weather. I can't recommend it highly enough.
I think of NASCAR a bit like baseball. You really have to get dialed into it or it’s just monotony.
And it’ll be the last, or next to last, lol. The car itself is terrible. The road corse package is their least bad, so this race will be one of the least bad, but then you’ll tune into the next race and see how truly bad the cars are.
They cannot handle the side air stream of a leading car, so they’ll get a run into a corner, pull out to pass, and it looks like they slam into a wall-just stopping.
They also aren’t stable door to door, so they can’t race close through corners, needing almost a full car width between them to stand a chance of stable side by side racing.
And all of that will be compounded when you realize the sport itself is just… gimmicks, not racing. With “stages” and a freaking “playoff” ladder that’s proven itself almost perfectly reliable at crowning not-the-best-team as champion.
@@piedpiper1172the short track and road course car is the worst aero setup for the current cup cars. There's simply too much grip for them to move around.
I'm not real sure how you think the intermediate and superspeedway packages are terrible. The intermediates with the gen 7 car have been hands down some of the best racing NASCAR has had on 1.5 mile tracks in a long time.
Go watch a kansas race from this or last season, and if you don't like the on track action, maybe oval racing just isn't your style.
Miles Kosik literally was planning to write the exact same thing
As a dedicated nascar fan and a fan of yours, you did an awesome job with this video. Thank you for respecting the sport and the different things it’s trying to do.
My favorite architecture CZcamsr made a NASCAR video!!!!! I love it when I'm at the center of a Venn diagram that looks like two circles until you zoom in
I've watched you for years, but seeing a video about not only racing but iRacing which i have thousands of hours on is a surprise! Great video
This video is amazingly informational, accurate, and entertaining for an architecture blog taking on auto racing as a topic. My compliments! I consider myself a very well rounded racing fan, and I learned something too. I was extremely skeptical of this event before the initial running. Your discussion of the infrastructure improvements and sim racing exercise helped me understand how they ended up with an exciting but highly functional venue.
That's super cool. Got into Nascar the past 2 or so years. Fairly new to it. Had no idea iRacing played such a big role in the development of the track layout.
You know what's funny though? The step down from the Cup series, the Xfinity series, also races on the Chicago street course and that car still has all of the older tech and it did just fine.
It was one of the best days of my life to see that race. I'd been a NASCAR fan since age 7 and for 13 years I really wanted to see a Chicago street race.
Architecture takes many forms. This is a great video for many of them. I thought I knew something about NASCAR and iRacing, now I know a lot more.
So many people hate on this and I don't know why. I live in the downtown area and thought this was a neat way to bring a different crowd to Chicago so they can see for themselves that it's nowhere near as bad as they think it is. It was pretty fascinating to watch on TV as well.
The first year might've been a net loss in terms of profits. But, rarely do things like this do well in the first 5 years or so. It's an investment that takes time to build upon.
Didn’t he say it costed $50M and brought in $100M?
I think it'll do well. The F1 race in Las Vegas, which was very similar, seemed to be successful.
@@P51DFreak25 It brought $100M into Chicago, I don't think he mentioned the ROI for NASCAR
@@skyerune seems like a good investment for Chicago
It's an awful investment for chicago or any city. Cars don't belong in dense urban areas. They can race other places. As a 3rd generation chicagoan, I want this gone. This was a total mistake.
10:06 The joke in my head when I saw "Designed in Germany"...
Ring racer coaster at Nürburgring
"I wonder why Germany is so good at making Fences.... Oh yeah...."
@@soad3838 oh no 😅😂😂
@@soad3838 I mean, I was referring to the the fly stuck in the glass... Either the glass was made in China or the fly was made in Germany 🙂
Indycar has been racing on the streets of several cities for decades. Street races this year include Long Beach, St Pete, Detroit, and Toronto.
Indy car is not nascar
Nascar was probably the only major racing series to not use street courses.
then let them do it there instead of disrupting the already busy as hell tourist destinations all around Grant Park. the museums last year said they were losing guest attendance and revenue due to how long it takes the track to set up and break down in Grant Park.
@@mileskosik472I mean, they used to. Very sparingly, but they did
And the Detroit one has been great since it came back, its a fun course that brings tourism into the city and brings revenue to nearby businesses and hotels. Its like sporting events idk why people don’t like it
I’m a huge NASCAR fan, your video was amazing and I’m definitely going to subscribe after looking at your other videos
Thankyou for being the first non-motorsport / sim-racing youtuber to make a topical video and respect the sport(s) appropriately
Well done. Your versatility is boundless. Thanks
I wasn't expecting something so far out of your typical wheelhouse, but this was really good! It's actually fascinating how many kinks were worked out of the racetrack ahead of the time thanks to hardcore simulations and analysis
chicago isnt the only nascar race on a track that isnt left turns, watkins glen has been around for ages and was even used for formula 1
Also: Sonama, COTA, Road America, Mid-Ohio, Charlotte Roval, Daytona Road Course, Portland, Mosport, Circuit Gilles Villenueve (Montreal), Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez (Mexico City).... just to name the ones nascar has raced at some point, in at least one of their series, over the past 25 years lol
The “they only turn left” stereotype will prevail no matter how much truth you throw at it.
Can't believe I'm sending a link to one of my favourite Architectural CZcamsrs to all my racing fan friends but here we are! Such a well done video, with such an interesting take on the subject.
Wow, this is a surprise! Very cool! You even talked about iRacing.
Had no idea that you're a nascar or general motorsports guy! If you aren't, and this is purely from solid research and maybe some help with the script, I'd be massively impressed, because this was incredibly well-done. Either way, great video, excellent explanations of various aspects of the cars and track design process. Hope you're at this year's race, excited to see how it races compared to the wet conditions we got last year (assuming the weather is a bit more favorable this time around lol)
I really dislike changing the contest to make it harder for teams to make engineering improvements. Half the point is supposed to be to incentivize R&D that can be later applied to consumer vehicles.
Besides it's just fucking cool when teams come up with nifty improvements to the car.
In most of racing history, the best R&D has been done by those who are trying to cheat so, seems just more of that to me.
Look up a couple VINWiki videos if you want a better idea of what I’m talking about. “The Greatest Cheats in Racing History” and “Racing’s most Legendary CHEATERS”
Amazing video! I’d love to see more like this on motorsports!
Your perspective of how technology blends with the environment is really interesting, and it's got me thinking. I'm a big technology fan keeping up with the latest trends, but it's still surreal when I end up seeing the future of technology a full decade before it ends up being used in the mainstream. For example, I remember looking at the first tech demos of spherical cameras in 2004, and being fascinated and amazed at how incredible it was to watch those videos and have the ability to look in any direction, even on my mediocre 720p monitor. Those are the same type of cameras that now power street view, a ubiquitous part of every day life. It's easy to not realize how different the world is now that you can instantly look at photos from nearly anywhere you'd ever plan on visiting.
I see the utilization of spatial environment capture as one of those next evolutions. While everyone is currently hyping the AI bubble, no one seems to be paying attention to how incredible spatial mapping technology is becoming. I remember first seeing the dirty point clouds that were generated by the spatial mapping software, and now the tools for generating and manipulating those point clouds have become so good that it's become realistic to take full environment scans of an entire section of a major downtown city, and turn it into a fully functional level in a video game. Just this year, Epic Games made reality capture free for small developers.
Those changes are huge. Like, an incredible piece of technology that people aren't understanding. Being able to build levels in a video game sounds like the sort of technology that could be easily downplayed, but you're highlighting the real and practical applications of this type of technology, and how integral it's becoming to event planning, modeling, infrastructure, and all sorts of critical and important fields. Environment mapping is here to stay, and it's subtly but dramatically improving how we build things. None of this technology is "AI", but it's going to end up having a much bigger impact on the way we live our daily lives. Having an AI generate summaries of my emails isn't going to change the way I live my life, but being able to better design and run major events in crowded downtown areas is the type of thing that will definitely improve my life and resculpt the many decaying downtown areas in the US.
It's funny how many of these life changing technologies are already out in the world, but no one is currently using them for anything, or the people who are using them aren't talking about the technology, so no one ever hypes it up and talks about it. I don't need an AI chatbot to recommend me pizza toppings, but almost no one is mentioning the far more important and world changing technologies that are being developed.
This is absolutely fascinating
I remember watching that iRacing broadcast in 2020 on FS1. That was utterly surreal to see that course *virtually* on a national broadcast.
2023 was the first time nascar held a street race for the cup series. The xfinity series technically raced on a street circuit when it raced in montreal at circuit gilles villenueve. Nascar also held a short lived street circuit series in the 1980s i believe.
I actually want to watch this race
Big nbc
What great content for this topic! Thx
So iracing is exactly just a racing game you'd play. Just a high end one.
As a racing game enjoyer, iRacing is to other racing games as an Air Force pilot training simulator is to Ace Combat.
This was not the first NASCAR street race. They raced outside of the LA coliseum in the late 90s
Love your videos! Glad you're getting into autosports as it as fantastic mix of ingenuity and skill.
But just to nitpick, since this an engineering focused channel, banked turns do not generate extra downforce.
What they primarily do is angle the normal force vector of the car so that part of it is in the horizontal direction pointing inwards toward the center of the turn. This creates a centripetal force and reduces the amount of grip required to keep the car turning. In theory, you can design a bank where a car at a known mass and velocity doesn't need any grip at all to make the corner, although this is usually better suited for things like bobsleds than cars.
The amount of downforce (which usually means aerodynamic downforce) does not really change as the surface banks, although the normal force vector does increase, which is why you feel compressed in banked turns.
Great Vid! Cannot wait for the race, hopefully not 7 inches of rain this year! jinx... LOL... Go Nascar!
Chicagoans, how long before the race do the barriers start showing up, and how long do they stick around afterward?
I'd assume the 5 ton blocks at intersections get brought in and taken out as close to race time as possible, but i wonder how long others linger before and after plus how disruptive they are to foot and car traffic.
It's like a month overall.
Not a ton of car traffic passes through Grant Park, but I'd be curious to know how they handle Lake Shore Drive though, they must keep it open until the day of the race, it'd be hugely disruptive otherwise.
Roads closed off this week and won’t be resolved till early August because Lolla comes to town
@@P51DFreak25 So LSD is closed south of Jackson all summer? That seems insane to me.
They're putting up blockades and closing streets a month in advance and taking weeks to put it all back to normal. It's really disruptive to the folks who actually do commute through and use the park all the time.
I love Stewart Hicks videos and how well he breaks down large engineering projects in a fun and understandable way.
This video confused me though. He mentioned NASCAR brought over 100M dollars to Chicago's economy, but he seems to be quoting a figure from the Chicago Tourism Board that has an interest in making this event look successful.
He doesn't mention how it cost the city over 3M dollars in expenses to host an event for which they were paid 500k, an absurdly low number for shutting down the City's front lawn for an entire month. Or that it was over 4th of July, so most of the time that local citizens would be enjoying the lakefront, a large part of Grant Park was surrounded by high chain link fence.
I don't know a single Chicagoan who wanted this. We love tourists and tourism is great, if all steakholders can gain something.
From this article, below, from a local PBS station, most of the 47k attendees came from out of town and the entire event generated 29.5k hotel nights, including the staff who were in town for an entire month during the setup and tear-down.
Contrast that with the Taylor Swift concert that generated a record 44k hotel nights for a two night concert.
Or Lollapalooza which brings in about 300M overall revenue to the city every year over 4 days (and a little longer for the massive setup). Also, it's not held during the summer's biggest holiday.
I just don't know where they are getting that 109M figure.
They mention a 23M boost in "media value" to the city, but that just seems like a way of saying "we have no idea how much the city made, we're making it up, but check out how cool we look! "
The numbers are just dubious, and now we are doing it all over again. On the week of July 4th. Again .
news.wttw.com/2023/10/04/nascar-added-109m-chicago-s-economy-city-tourism-officials-say
I may be moving to Indiana soon, so I’ll be able to see the race at Indy, and this one now, cool
Nice vid!
I think your understeer/oversteer and weight bias demo is backwards though
Definitely backwards.
Stewart Hicks and NASCAR crossover is what I needed in life.
I like the idea that all those kids that grew up playing play Gran Turismo are now in charge and they're just bringing there dreams to life.
Definitely something F1 and Circuit de Monaco could learn from. F1 drivers have to manoeuvre huge cars through a narrow and short track at incredible speeds with tight corners with barely no opportunity to overtake makes the race telecast so boring to watch.
I don’t look at Monaco is a race so much as a very high speed parade…
Thats the max with there
I really, really hope the race comes back next year.
NASCAR made the right choice with a street race, it's definitely a lot better than the dime-a-dozen speedway in Joliet. If they want to stay relevant in the growth of American F1 fans they need to keep doing interesting and unique races like Chicago, COTA, and the Bristol dirt race. I'd personally love to see NASCAR at the Long Beach Indycar track.
Calling a stock car a “NASCAR” is akin to calling an F1 car an “FIA” . NASCAR is the sanctioning body, not the car.
Car refresh enabling a decade's worth of new tech development epitomizes NASCAR.
Those fences you talked about also where covered from top to bottom with black out curtains, making the fact that it was in the middle of the city pointless because unless you bought an over priced ticket you still couldn’t see anything.
Figure-8 races are awesome!
That cross-over should be made a real crossing.
I'm looking at all of these cutting edge technologies introduced into NASCAR, realising that you only find it in extremely high end road cars like the 2023 Dacia Duster. That'll set you back a whopping £19,000, but it does get you that sweet, sweet independent rear suspension.
i love non NASCAR CZcams channel talking about NASCAR
This makes it sound like last year’s Chicago race wasn’t the unmitigated disaster that it actually was.
It would be really cool if cross country long distance races become the norm like the ones seen in the early year's of the automobile
I hope they get better weather this year
Great video.
Missed opportunity in not calling our skyscrapers "concrete mountains" at 9:54.
Very cool engineering
Shoulda had a control base! Chicago Commuters behind the wheel!! Haha😂
Great video! Also nascar has raced at road courses since 1948
Some of this information is bogus, the Xfinity series has a solid rear axle and it does fine.
this is not the 1st road course
You should do more racing videos!!
It certainly sounds like this was handled and received better than F1s introduction to Las Vega
Not the first street race... they did in 2000. Video: czcams.com/video/TJuQ6AdFc-U/video.html
Always wondered, how street races for motorsports worked
F1 said hold my beer. Check out what they do in street circuits if you want to be Impressed
What kind of sucks is that this race replaced on the schedule, I believe, the Road America race up here in Wisconsin
Turns out the new cars didn’t make it any harder for the bigger money teams to dominate. Rather than building better cars they just hired more of the best engineers
I'd rather have Taste of Chicago back...
0:12 incorrect. The first Daytona Beach races were also a street course, run on public roadway
Wow if I had a nickel for every channel I watch that's unexpectedly cranking out racing content, I'd have...10 cents but huh it's surprising for sure.
Woah, hey, I come here for architecture and you're teaching me car stuff too?
cool
I want NYC to get a street race too
With all due respect, larger wheels (grouped in with other new features) do NOT help the car with, "...grip, cornering, and slowing down...." In theory, you're actually correct, save 1 variable, weight. Unsprung wreight is a killer to all three goals listed above. Formula 1 went from a 14" wheel to an 18" wheel and reduced its performance in all three categories. Why? Because bigger wheels weigh more. NASCAR did it for looks.
Never thought id hear about NASCAR on this channel! Very cool about the new cars and building a race course on streets. Bet the people who live in Chicago were annoyed as hell though lol.
Would be cool if WRC rally was hosted in the states…
Might have to add width for drifting
As a parent required to watch the Pixar classic Cars™ daily... This make sad. Lightning McQueen was designed for track racing without headlights or rearview mirrors for a reason. Pleanty of other forms of racing use streets, why does NASCAR need to shut down several blocks for events there are already perfectly good track designed with them in mind?
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Would love a look at Formula 1 in Miami or Vegas! (Or Chicago if the rumors are true!)
It only disrupts traffic for tourist, real cook county troopers know the ways
I know for a fact this will be impossible in NYC.
Ain't the netting barrier basically F1 barriers? Pretty sure they used some techniques from FIA for their _Formula_ class of races...
When is nascar going to race in Central Park, NYC ?
Do you have any plans to talk about the destruction of the Zimmerman house, or other houses like it?
People will complain just like Vegas but tell me you don't want people thinking how to drive cars and traffic fast efficient look good and safe in ur city
Chicago only doing useful road work for nascar 😂
Nascar has put itself in a tough spot. I think races like this are WAY out of their league and are extremely different than the skillsets the drivers posses. This is evident from last years race. The flip side is they need to do crazy stuff like this to stay relevant as a sport.
Unfortunately, this new Gen 7 car has multiple flaws when it comes to the nature of nascar racing on most of its tracks.
They were so focused on designing it to race in multiple different disciplines that they completely left behind the art of oval racing in the dust.
The car does not do well in dirty air comma the card cannot run ovals like it used to comma the best it can do on an oval is a one point five mile track leaving super speedways and short tracks with lackluster racing performance
If you ask any real nascar fan what they think of the next year in car they will say bring back at the gen 6, and I am right there with them
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I’ve been dreaming about a system that would be a hybrid of SimCity & iDrive for (re)creating our cities in a digital twin, THEN creating the policy & regulations that allow for this to happen
Blender 🤷♂️
I remember building cities in SimCity and then using them in Streets of SimCity. Good times. Fewer missile launchers in iDrive probably.
@@TheOfficialOriginalChad for images maybe, not for analysis
@@ttopero Wait what are you looking to analyze?
@@TheOfficialOriginalChad how different development decisions would affect the area they’re in. Transportation, utilities, economic, etc
"More safer" he says
SVG baby
Come race at Marina Bay circuit
As a European I don't get NASCAR. Going full speed on an ovalesque shaped track sounds rather boring to me. Sharp corners, braking down, accelerating out of them is what makes racing so exciting to watch. Before clicking on the video I thought this wasn't going to be so special. I mean we got the Nordschleife, Spa Froncorchamps, le Mans and many others which use normal streets as part of the race track. But this whole story behind it with the new technologies being used to build a new city track is very interesting.
As a brit it took me a while, but as I understand it, the main point of NASCAR is to make motor racing more like athletics. The series puts the focus on the driver's competitive skills against other drivers by making an extremely level playing field, literally with very simple tracks built like athletic circuits, and with the cars regulated very heavily. The cars are basically standardised and effectively equal (all fiberglass bodies over space frame chassis with fully standardised engines, drivetrains, suspensions and tyres) and there's very little if any tech advantage in one car over another. European-style circuit racing concentrates more on manufacturer-supported teams developing innovative tech, and the driver's ability to read the road and use that knowledge, where NASCAR minimises those aspects and focuses on the driver's competition with the other drivers.
We just here for the crashes. Where are the crashes ? lol
Watch f1 for crashes
5:00 not yet at least
I'm probably wrong, but did the course look like it crossed at a point? 😳
There are two 90 deg turns with a diagonal barrier where it looks like it crosses
@@neilamsberry9841 - Oh, okay, thanks...
Just a little piece of advice, you will sound like an idiot if you refer to the cars as “nascars” to any NASCAR fan. The “CAR” part of NASCAR is part of the acronym. If you need to refer to the cars, you can say “Stock Car,” “NASCAR Car,” or if you really want to “hot rod.”