JOLIET, IL – The ol’ place looked pretty much the way it did when Ryan Blaney last pulled out through the tunnel seven years ago.
Even the quirks of the roads on his drive in came back to him, even if progress has encroached a bit in the form of warehouses and distribution centers.
Sure, they’ve spiffed up Chicagoland Speedway a bit in preparation for the return of NASCAR to the 1.5-mile oval 45 minutes south of downtown for the Fourth of July weekend, and for the two-day Goodyear tire test to prepare for it…