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Iowa Speedway season begins this weekend

May 12, 2008 By admin

The racing season begins this weekend at the Iowa Speedway in Newton. The action is highlighted by the return of the NASCAR Camping World Series on Sunday afternoon. Track designer Rusty Wallace who says it will be 200 laps with over 65 drivers that he says will be a "heck of a race."

Wallace says this race is becoming the most popular event of the series . He says most of the NASCAR drivers usually run on a shorter track, but here they can get up to 178 miles an hour and race at speeds similar to the Nextel cup races.

The racing begins on Saturday with a couple of events, the ASA car and the super trucks.

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