2025 Enjoy Illinois 300


The 2025 Enjoy Illinois 300 was a NASCAR Cup Series race held on September 7, 2025, at Gateway Motorsports Park in Madison, Illinois on the speedway, it was the 28th race of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season, and the second race of the playoffs.
Denny Hamlin won the race. Chase Briscoe finished 2nd, and Chase Elliott finished 3rd. Ryan Blaney and Joey Logano rounded out the top five, and John Hunter Nemechek, Christopher Bell, Bubba Wallace, Chris Buescher, and Ty Gibbs rounded out the top ten.

Report

Background

World Wide Technology Raceway is a motorsport racing facility in Madison, Illinois, just east of St. Louis, Missouri, United States, close to the Gateway Arch. It features a 1.25-mile oval that hosts the NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, and the NTT IndyCar Series, a infield road course used by the SCCA, Porsche Club of America, and various car clubs, and a quarter-mile drag strip that hosts the annual NHRA Midwest Nationals event.

Entry list

' denotes rookie driver.
  • ' denotes playoff driver. denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.

Practice

Ty Gibbs was the fastest in the practice session with a time of 32.898 seconds and a speed of.

Qualifying

Denny Hamlin scored the pole for the race with a time of 32.330 and a speed of.

Race

Race results

Stage results

Stage One
Laps: 45
Stage Two
Laps: 95

Final Stage results

Stage Three
Laps: 100

Race statistics

  • 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:

Media

Television

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

Radio

MRN had the radio call for the race, which was also simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.

Standings after the race

;Drivers' Championship standings
;Manufacturers' Championship standings
PosManufacturerPoints
1Chevrolet1,026
2Toyota1,000
3Ford932

  • Note: Only the first 16 positions are included for the driver standings.