Rounds 5 & 6: revised calendar. Iowa IndyCar 250s, Newton, Iowa. July 17-18.

**bjohnsonsmith** · 16 Jul 2020, 14:39 (Ref:3988733)

Rounds 5 & 6: revised calendar. Iowa IndyCar 250s, Newton, Iowa. July 17-18.

This weekend's event wail be the second double header in as many weekends. The last time that happened was in 1968, when USAC sanctioned the series, with rounds 15 & 16, the Indy 200 on July 28th and rounds 17 & 18, the Langhorne Twin 100 on July 4th, with the double headers taking place on the same day

The last time there were back to back double headers but not on consecutive weekends, was in 1979 the first CART sanctioned season, with rounds 5 & 6, the Trenton Twin Indy on June 10th and rounds 7 & 8, the Norton Twin 125 on July 15. As in 1968, the double headers took place on the same day.

The AAA, (American Automobile Association) held it's first race in Iowa at the Tri-State Fair Grounds, in Burlington on July 9, 1915, with a distance of 100 miles (160 km). The AAA also hosted events at Des Moines Speedway in Valley Junction, on a one mile (1.60 km) wooden board track, in 1915 and 1916. The track though was closed and dismantled soon after.

Construction of the current speedway began towards the end 2005 and was completed in July 2006. It is modeled after the Richmond International Raceway, with a track width of 60 feet and 12-14 degree compound banking in the turns. The front stretch features 10 degrees of banking and the backstretch has 4 degrees of banking.

Iowa Speedway was the first track to install SAFER Barrier around the track's perimeter and to subsequently use the second generation of the barrier, which doesn't use a concrete wall behind the energy absorbing structure.

The first major event to be held at the venue, was also the Indy Racing League's inaugural Iowa Corn Indy 250, on June 24, 2007, which was won by Dario Franchitti, driving a Dallara IR05-Honda HI7R V8 for Andretti Green Racing. From 2014, the race distance was increased to 262.5 miles (422.45 Km) or 300 laps.

Iowa Speedway is the shortest track on the IndyCar calendar, at 0.875 miles (1.408 Km) long, with an average lap time of under 18 seconds. Qualifying is decided by a two-lap speed average.

Track Layout:

Length:
0.894 miles - 1.408 km
Turns: 4

Lap record:
Helio Castroneves, July 12, 2014 17.2283 seconds, 186.809 mph (300.64 km/h).
Team Penske,
Dallara DW12-Chevrolet Indy V6.

Some trivia:
Driver with the most wins: Ryan Hunter-Reay, 3: 2012, 2014, 2015.
Team with most wins: Andretti Autosport, 7: 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015.

Last year's race:
https://www.motorsport.com/indycar/n...Bvalue%5D=2243

Last Year's Pole - Two lap average.
Simon Pagenaud, 35.7455 sec. 180.073 mph (57.526 km/h)
Team Penske,
Dallara IR18-Chevy IndyCar V6

Last year's winner:
Josef Newgarden
Team Penske,
Dallara IR18-Chevy IndyCar V6

Laps: 300
Distance: 262.50 Miles (422.452 km)
Race Time: 1:56:53.575
Average Speed: 137.664 mph (221.548 km/h)
Fastest lap: Josef Newgarden, Team Penske, lap 202, 18.1160 sec, 177.655 mph (285.908 km/h )

Cautions: 5
Laps 43: 1-1, 16-23, 51-64, 187-198, 264-273.

Broadcast: NBCSN.
Race 1, July 17, 8:30pm ET, UTC 0:30am
Race 2, July 18, 8:30pm ET. UTC 0:30am

NaBUru38 · 16 Jul 2020, 20:02 (Ref:3988813)

When was the last Indy car race on a Friday?

**bjohnsonsmith** · 16 Jul 2020, 20:12 (Ref:3988817)

Quote:

Originally Posted by NaBUru38

When was the last Indy car race on a Friday?

Last Sunday at Road America.

rustyfan · 17 Jul 2020, 07:25 (Ref:3988879)

Thanks for the intro and thanks for the heads up, I had completely missed the first race is "today'ish" (the broadcast starts 3 am my time). As I'm getting old I think I'll just set the TiVo to record it and watch it while having breakfast tomorrow

tux · 17 Jul 2020, 10:26 (Ref:3988928)

Same Rustyfan, in the past id have stayed up, not these days.

**bjohnsonsmith** · 17 Jul 2020, 10:44 (Ref:3988937)

I'm quite happy to stay up until stupid o'clock to watch both races.

gert · 17 Jul 2020, 12:19 (Ref:3988981)

Quote:

Originally Posted by rustyfan

Thanks for the intro and thanks for the heads up, I had completely missed the first race is "today'ish" (the broadcast starts 3 am my time). As I'm getting old I think I'll just set the TiVo to record it and watch it while having breakfast tomorrow

That's 3 am for me too, twice.
I can't get Indycar on TV so there's nothing to record. It's a stream or nothing.

I don't think i'm going to stick around until 03:00 just hoping that I can find a stream.
Got one for Road Am 2, not for Road Am 1 -- but the timing for those races was much more favorable.

**bjohnsonsmith** · 17 Jul 2020, 12:25 (Ref:3988984)

IndyCar to try a new cockpit cooling system.

https://racer.com/2020/07/16/indycar...vice-for-iowa/

NaBUru38 · 17 Jul 2020, 14:09 (Ref:3989020)

Road America had a Saturday and a Sunday race. I'm asking about the last race on a Friday.

**bjohnsonsmith** · 17 Jul 2020, 15:06 (Ref:3989046)

Quote:

Originally Posted by NaBUru38

Road America had a Saturday and a Sunday race. I'm asking about the last race on a Friday.

I googled, IndyCar races held on a Friday, and it came up with today's race. So, not wanting to trawl through every season, I'm going to make an educated guess and say this is the first IndyCar race to be held on a Friday.

NaBUru38 · 17 Jul 2020, 18:06 (Ref:3989079)

The Indianapolis 500 was originally held on May 31 (but not on Sunday). The last one on a Friday was in 1969.

**bjohnsonsmith** · 17 Jul 2020, 18:48 (Ref:3989090)

Quote:

Originally Posted by NaBUru38

The Indianapolis 500 was originally held on May 31 (but not on Sunday). The last one on a Friday was in 1969.

So much for my educated guess but the date for the 1969 Indy 500 was the 30th of May.

broadrun96 · 17 Jul 2020, 21:33 (Ref:3989131)

Well the kid is fast this week, Colton up front and Connor just behind him in first practice.

https://racer.com/2020/07/17/herta-t...ycar-practice/

**bjohnsonsmith** · 17 Jul 2020, 23:20 (Ref:3989139)

Daly gives Carlin their first IndyCar pole for Race 1, while last year's pole sitter Simon Pagenaud had a fuel problem, which kept him in the garage.

broadrun96 · 18 Jul 2020, 00:24 (Ref:3989142)

Feel like I'm ready for short track night fun this evening, 3 hours of Roadkill with the Blasphemi rebuild in parking lots before the race. Cigar and Bulleit 12 year rye on the porch, thanks for the iPad pro COA, it's been nice on the porch with streaming.

**bjohnsonsmith** · 18 Jul 2020, 00:43 (Ref:3989143)

There's a rabbit on the track.

**bjohnsonsmith** · 18 Jul 2020, 01:18 (Ref:3989147)

A clean start. Daly in the lead.

broadrun96 · 18 Jul 2020, 01:20 (Ref:3989148)

Conor has bounced around so much he feels like he's in the group with Colton and Pato not the group with Marco and Newgarden.

Daly has checked out early

Edit, must have caught traffic, failing back fast from 2 seconds to half in 3 laps

Edit again, Daly picked up some cinder blocks cause damn he's falling

**bjohnsonsmith** · 18 Jul 2020, 01:54 (Ref:3989151)

That was bad luck for TK, just got a little too high.

broadrun96 · 18 Jul 2020, 02:03 (Ref:3989152)

Tire deg is F1 super soft tire levels. Fuel can go 90 laps I think they said but tires seem to be done at 40-50

**bjohnsonsmith** · 18 Jul 2020, 02:08 (Ref:3989153)

An unusual number of mistakes with the pit stops.

broadrun96 · 18 Jul 2020, 02:09 (Ref:3989154)

And the commentators curse hit Power. No cautions just but the break and then.

Power in to the marbles, looks like wheelnut didn't get set. Then wheel got suck and he couldn't get out so quick. Wow that steering wheel was going crazy after the outside front tire got grip on the track again

**bjohnsonsmith** · 18 Jul 2020, 02:09 (Ref:3989155)

Power into the wall, first FCY. He should have changed tyre strategy.

broadrun96 · 18 Jul 2020, 02:19 (Ref:3989157)

Waived off restart and Herta in to the fencing over Veekay

Colton rode Veekay's aeroscreen (first report was aeroscreen, looks like he rode the roll structure like a ramp on replay) damn that was close to vicious. The Safer get him just out of the fence and possibly saved that car and Herta from much worse

Looks like Ericsson took an end plate to his screen too. Be interesting to see if NBC caught the pit stop to see where it hit.

**bjohnsonsmith** · 18 Jul 2020, 02:19 (Ref:3989158)

Colton Herta goes airborne, blimey.

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