One playoff race down in the Round of 16, two more races to go before NASCAR starts weeding out the championship pretenders from the contenders.

The NASCAR Cup Series' postseason continues Sunday afternoon with the Enjoy Illinois 300 at World Wide Technology Raceway in Madison, Ill., the opening round's second stop.

Elliott Sadler won the inaugural NASCAR outing in 1997, claiming the Xfinity Series race on a brutally hot summer day outside of St. Louis, when the track was called Gateway Motorsports Park.

Three years after its first Cup race, WWTR will hold Sunday's event that is anything other than "just another race."

It's a title-round showdown in a fairly short 300 miles and less than three hours.

Talk about a track's meteoric rise in stock car racing.

Relatively speaking to the o

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