Iowa Speedway
"Rusty Wallace Signature Series Track"
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| Location | Newton, Iowa |
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| Time zone | GMT-6 |
| Capacity | 30,000 |
| Owner | Iowa Speedway, LLC (subsidiary of NASCAR) |
| Operator | Iowa Speedway, LLC |
| Broke ground | June 21, 2005 |
| Opened | September 15, 2006 |
| Construction cost | $70 million |
| Architect | Paxton Waters Architecture Rusty Wallace |
| Former names | Quad Cities International Raceway Park (planning stages name) |
| Major events |
IndyCar Series Iowa Corn Indy 300 NASCAR Xfinity Series American Ethanol E15 250 U.S. Cellular 250 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Speediatrics 200 |
| D-shaped oval | |
| Surface | Asphalt |
| Length | 0.875 mi (1.4 km) |
| Turns | 4 |
| Banking | Turns: 12°-14° Frontstretch: 10° Backstretch: 4° |
| Lap record | 17.2283 (Helio Castroneves, Team Penske, 2014, IRL IndyCar Series) |
| Road Course | |
| Surface | Asphalt |
| Length | 1.3 mi (2.09 km) |
| Turns | 9 |
| Banking | Turns 1–2: 12–14° Frontstretch: 10° Backstretch: 4° |
| Lap record | 41.709 (Jon Fogarty, GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing, 2007, Daytona Prototype) |
Iowa Speedway is a 7/8-mile (1.4 km) paved oval motor racing track in Newton, Iowa, United States, approximately 30 miles (48 km) east of Des Moines. The track was designed with influence from Rusty Wallace and patterned after Richmond International Raceway, a short track where Wallace was very successful. It has over 25,000 permanent seats as well as a unique multi-tiered Recreational Vehicle viewing area along the backstretch. It is one of only three tracks on the NASCAR circuit to have a SAFER barrier installed around the entire circumference of the outer wall (with Martinsville Speedway and Atlanta Motor Speedway being the other).
The track opened in September 2006 with the Soy Biodiesel 250, won by Woody Howard, for the USAR Hooters Pro Cup Four Champions playoff. The Indy Racing League announced a race there on June 24, 2007, the Iowa Corn Indy 250, which was won by Dario Franchitti, who barely nipped Marco Andretti at the finish line. The track has secured a combined NASCAR Camping World East-West race where results will count towards both series' championships. That race delivered a dramatic battle between 17-year-old Joey Logano from the Busch East Series, who defeated Daytona 500 champion Kevin Harvick, 1998 West Series champion, who represented the West Series at the end of the race. The track was awarded a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race and a Nationwide Series race in 2009.
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