Road America had held a Grand National (now NASCAR Cup Series) race in the 1956 that was won by Tim Flock.

[3] Carl Edwards won the inaugural 50-lap race, named the Bucyrus 200, after holding off Canadian road course ringers, Jacques Villeneuve and Ron Fellows.

[4] In 2011, the Bucyrus 200 was won by Reed Sorenson after a confusing series of events in which numerous drivers either crashed, were penalized, or ran out of gas.

The next year, in the newly renamed Sargento 200, Brazilian Nelson Piquet Jr. won his first career race ahead of Michael McDowell and Ron Fellows.

[6] Paul Menard took advantage of Blake Koch's ignition troubles to hold off Ryan Blaney for an emotional victory near his hometown in Wisconsin.

[7] In 2016, road ringer Alex Tagliani won the pole while Michael McDowell led the final 24 laps en route to his first NASCAR win.

In the end, independent driver Jeremy Clements took the checkers for his first series win after surviving a late race crash with Matt Tifft.