Martin Truex Jr., who early in his career found success at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, wins a Cup series race for the first time in 30 career tries.

Bell won the Cup Series race in Loudon last year and has won three Xfinity races and a Truck series races at the track.

The 12-turn, 2.2-mile course begins right in front of Buckingham Fountain and races by several of Chicago’s downtown landmarks.

Both teams have four cars in the field, which will race in front of 300,000 spectators.

A.J. Foyt Racing hasn’t had much recent success, but its namesake is in Indianapolis this week and two drivers will start in the top 11.

All four McLaren drivers were inside the top 12 and advanced into Sunday’s shootout for the Indianapolis 500 pole, while Team Penske struggles.

Maine native Ricky Craven’s win over Kurt Busch remains the closest finish ever in NASCAR.

Sources say owners skipped a quarterly meeting because they don’t believe NASCAR has negotiated in good faith on a new business model.