Records and facts

There has never been a NASCAR Cup Series race at Iowa Speedway. However, there have been 20 NASCAR Xfinity Series races there. 15 of those races have been won by drivers that will be in the race Sunday. Both Brad Keselowski and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. have three Iowa victories, tops all-time. Christopher Bell has two wins, while Chase Briscoe, Chris Buescher, Kyle Busch, William Byron, Erik Jones and Ryan Preece each have one. 

In the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series at Iowa, Jones has two wins there in addition to his one Xfinity victory. Blaney, Byron, John Hunter Nemechek and Austin Dillon also have Truck wins there.

Track Facts
Track / Race Length: .875-mile D-shaped oval, 350 laps (306.25 miles)
Banking: 12-14 degrees
Frontstretch: 1,075 ft., banked 10 degrees

Backstretch: 869 ft., banked four degrees

Grandstand Seating: 40,000
Pit Road Speed: 40 mph
Pace Car Speed: 45 mph
Opened: 2006

Website: http://www.iowaspeedway.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IowaSpeedway

Twitter: http://twitter.com/iowaspeedway
 

Pre-Race Schedule:

Practice: Friday, June 14, 5:30 - 6:25 p.m. ET on USA Network

Qualifying: Saturday, June 15, 1:05 p.m. ET on USA Network

Say What?!

"Yeah, it’s a new track for the Cup car and we’ll all be learning together. There’s some repaved spots from the last time some of us were there for Xfinity and Trucks, so it has been a while for me and for most of us.

"[It will be an advantage for those who have raced there before]. If nothing else, it makes you feel more confident when you’re driving out through about 20 miles of corn fields, and bean and wheat and ag. Most people are going to think they’re going the wrong way, but go 20 miles past the last building and you’ll get there." - Ross Chastain
 

"I always thought it was kind of a big Richmond with the curved front straightaway and the progressive banking. It’s gotten to be pretty wide over the years. I know they did some repaving, which will be interesting to figure that out. That’s always a unique challenge. The place has put on some great racing over the years and I think we are all looking forward to going there, and hopefully we have a good shot to run well there this weekend with our Reser’s Fine Foods Camry.

"I tend to like tracks that are similar to Iowa, medium-sized tracks that are pretty fast and hopefully a few grooves we can run in and move around and make passes. Richmond, Loudon, Phoenix, those kind of tracks I really enjoy and I think Iowa is kind of in that ballpark, and our cars have been really fast at those types of tracks this year, as well. We are going there looking to win the inaugural event. Anytime you go somewhere new, you always want to be the guy who wins that first one, it’s always extra special if you can do that." - Martin Truex Jr.
 

"I think everybody just knows how great of a racetrack Iowa is. When they designed that track, Rusty Wallace was involved with it, and he had emphasis on how that place was built and shaped, the amount of degrees of banking in the corner. What I love about that racetrack is that there are so many options for a driver. There’s a lot of character. It’s a progressive-banked racetrack, so you can take away a lot of distance running the bottom in the corner, but it’s flatter so you can’t go as fast, or you can get up against that outside wall – the further each lane you move up, the more banking. And you can run three- or four-wide around that whole track just because of the way it’s shaped, the way the banking is. It’s a perfectly designed racetrack to put on a great show for the fans. I always loved running up in that top lane up against the outside wall and felt like I could make a lot of speed there. It might be a little bit different with the repave. They repaved certain sections, so that’ll be interesting. But overall, they did a great job designing that racetrack. It’s obviously new on the schedule and Cup’s never been there, so there’s excitement there. I would say 95 percent of the Cup drivers have been to Iowa at least once in their career and just know how good of a racetrack it is and how fun it is to drive." - Noah Gragson