page_title: Camping World 400
section_title: Race history
hierarchical_section_title: Camping World 400 / Race history
caption_attribution_description: English: Race action on the frontstretch at Chicagoland Speedway in the Chase Race 2012.
context_page_description: The Camping World 400 is a NASCAR Cup Series stock car race held annually at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois. The inaugural race was held in 2001. Previously, the race was held in July from 2001 through 2010, with night races held from 2008 to 2010. Then from 2011 to 2017, the races was held as the first race of the Cup Series playoffs in the round of 16. In 2018, as part of the schedule realignment, the race was held on the last weekend of June. Alex Bowman is the defending winner of the race, having scored his first Cup win in a race that ended at sunset due to a rain delay.
context_section_description: In May 2000, as Chicagoland Speedway was under construction, it was announced that the track would hold a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race beginning in the 2001 season. Tropicana served as the race's sponsor from 2001 to 2004, followed by USG Corporation from 2005 to 2007, LifeLock.com from 2008 to 2010, GEICO from 2011 to 2013, Johnson & Johnson's Janssen Pharmaceutica from 2014 to 2015, and Nickelodeon has sponsored the race through the network's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series since 2016. Kevin Harvick won the first two runnings of the race in 2001 and 2002, while Tony Stewart has the most wins in the race's history, having won it three times, in 2004, 2007 and 2011. Traditionally run in early to mid July, the race became the opening race of the NASCAR playoffs in 2011, moving the race to mid September in the process. Since a schedule realignment in 2018, the race returned to a July race weekend. On May 8th, 2020 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, it was announced that the race would not take place in 2020.
caption: Race action in 2012.
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