2025 Enjoy Illinois 300 presented by TicketSmarter

Race details[1][2][3][4][5]
Race 28 of 36 in the2025 NASCAR Cup Series
Date	September 7, 2025 (2025-09-07)
Location	Gateway Motorsports Park inMadison, Illinois
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	1.25 miles (2.01 km)
Distance	240 laps, 300 mi (480 km)
Average speed	98.262 miles per hour (158.137 km/h)
Pole position
Driver	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing
Time	32.330
Most laps led
Driver	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing
Laps	75
Fastest lap
Driver	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing
Time	32.944
Winner
No. 11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing
Television in the United States
Network	USA
Announcers	Leigh Diffey,Jeff Burton andSteve Letarte
Radio in the United States
Radio	MRN
Booth announcers	Alex Hayden,Mike Bagley, andRusty Wallace
Turn announcers	Dave Moody (1 & 2) and Kurt Becker (3 & 4)

The2025 Enjoy Illinois 300 was aNASCAR Cup Seriesrace held on September 7, 2025, atGateway Motorsports Park inMadison, Illinois on the 1.25-mile (2.01 km) speedway, it was the 28th race of the2025 NASCAR Cup Series season, and the second race of the playoffs.

Denny Hamlin won the race.Chase Briscoe finished 2nd, andChase Elliott finished 3rd.Ryan Blaney andJoey Logano rounded out the top five, andJohn Hunter Nemechek,Christopher Bell,Bubba Wallace,Chris Buescher, andTy Gibbs rounded out the top ten.

World Wide Technology Raceway (formerlyGateway International Raceway andGateway Motorsports Park) is a motorsport racing facility inMadison, Illinois, just east ofSt. Louis, Missouri, United States, close to theGateway Arch. It features a 1.25-mile (2 kilometer) oval that hosts theNASCAR Cup Series,NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, and theNTT IndyCar Series, a 1.6-mile (2.6 km) infield road course used by theSCCA, Porsche Club of America, and various car clubs, and a quarter-mile drag strip that hosts the annualNHRA Midwest Nationals event.

• (R) denotes rookie driver.
• (P) denotes playoff driver.
• (i) denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.

Ty Gibbs was the fastest in the practice session with a time of 32.898 seconds and a speed of 136.786 mph (220.136 km/h).

Denny Hamlin scored the pole for the race with a time of 32.330 and a speed of 139.190 mph (224.005 km/h).^[6]

Stage OneLaps: 45

Stage TwoLaps: 95

Stage ThreeLaps: 100

• Lead changes: 15 among 9 different drivers
• Cautions/Laps: 10 for 52
• Red flags: 0
• Time of race: 3 hours, 3 minutes and 11 seconds
• Average speed: 98.262 miles per hour (158.137 km/h)

USA covered the race on the television side.Leigh Diffey,Jeff Burton andSteve Letarte called the race from the broadcast booth. Kim Coon, Marty Snider and Dillon Welch handled the pit road duties from pit lane.

MRN had the radio call for the race, which was also simulcast onSirius XMNASCAR Radio.

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 1 Denny Hamlin 2,120 1 2 Chase Briscoe 2,115 (–5) 3 Kyle Larson 2,103 (–17) 1 4 Bubba Wallace 2,093 (–27) 2 5 Ryan Blaney 2,085 (–35) 6 William Byron 2,082 (–38) 3 7 Tyler Reddick 2,080 (–40) 2 8 Christopher Bell 2,075 (–45) 2 9 Chase Elliott 2,071 (–49) 3 10 Joey Logano 2,064 (–56) 3 11 Ross Chastain 2,062 (–58) 3 12 Austin Cindric 2,054 (–66) 1 13 Austin Dillon 2,043 (–77) 2 14 Shane van Gisbergen 2,039 (–81) 15 Alex Bowman 2,019 (–101) 16 Josh Berry 2,009 (–111) Official driver's standings

Manufacturers' Championship standings Pos Manufacturer Points 1 Chevrolet 1,026 2 Toyota 1,000 (–26) 3 Ford 932 (–94) Note: Only the first 16 positions are included for the driver standings.

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