- 500 Speedway Blvd.
- Joliet, IL 60433
- (815) 722-5500
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The outside of Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, IL
My final stop in Illinois this week was at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, IL for the IRL Peak Antifreeze Indy 300. I went to school in Joliet and this track was being built during my senior year. The first race was the summer after I graduated. Chicagoland doesn’t sell individual race tickets. The only way to get tickets to any of the races is to buy tickets to all the races. That first year, a buddy was able to get Busch series tickets off eBay, and until this weekend, that was the only race I had been to other than NASCAR qualifying. My dad’s cousin buys the track pass every year to get tickets to the Nationwide and Sprint Cup race, but they couldn’t care less about the ARCA/IRL weekend. For the last few years, I’ve wanted to get their IRL tickets, but I always had something going on. This year, it just worked out that I was going to be in town, so my dad asked for the tickets and he and I finally got to go to an IRL race.
Chicagoland is great for the Indy Cars. It’s the last race of the year and for some reason, the track provides a really racy surface for the open wheelers. The two closest finishes in IRL history have come at Chicagoland and this year added another one as Helio Castroneves edged out Scott Dixon by .033. The race saw a lot of three wide and side-by-side racing and that’s not just for half a lap. This was going on for 10 to 15 laps at a time. Read the rest of this entry »
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