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Iowa Corn 250 or Chicagoland?

My lovely wife will be giving me tickets to the IndyCar race of my choice. Living in Minnesota, and having to drive to the race with my 8 year old son, I am pretty limited in my options. We did the 500 last year, and have a conflict with the date this year. The Milwaukee race is close, but the timing of the race is bad as the boy is still in school, and it runs late on a Sunday afternoon. So I am down to Iowa & Chicagoland.

I've never been to either track, and am looking for advice or suggestions from folks that have. They are two different types of ovals. I have enjoyed watching races at both of them on TV. Iowa seems like a wide open race each year. Lots of action and you can see the whole track from the grandstands. Chicago looks like an awesome speedfest though, and they'll be racing in the dark this year. If you could pick only one, which would you pick and why?

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Permalink Reply by CC8820 on April 23, 2009 at 5:04pm

I have never been to Iowa but I have been to chicago a couple of times and wow what a great place to see a race. lots of passing and side by side racing and some of the closes races in the history of the series happened there. just my 2 cents

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Permalink Reply by Tabatha Patterson on April 24, 2009 at 7:09am

I would choose Chicago just to see the night race!

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Permalink Reply by Joe on April 27, 2009 at 2:03pm

I have been to Chicagoland the last few years, and have not been disappointed, excellent racing, and you can also see the entire track from the grandstand there as well. This year we will be going to Iowa in addition, so it will be interesting to see how the two compare.

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Permalink Reply by Wilsonfan on April 29, 2009 at 7:41pm

I'm very big on the Iowa Speedway, and there are only three tracks I haven't been to in this country. The 7/8mile facility makes for awesome racing. Holiday Inn Express in Pella (fifteen minutes from Newton) has a couple of rooms left for around $80.00 a night--and you are just twelve minutes from the Knoxville facilityi. Easy decision in my opinion--Iowa.