Race Trax

Krista Voda, a Clinton, Iowa, native, returns to her home state this weekend for the Lucas Oil 200 NASCAR Camping World Trucks Series race.
She hosts Trucks Series race coverage on Speed TV. Earlier this week she took some time to talk motorcycle scars, UNI football and women in broadcasting, among other things. Here are the [...]

Rusty Wallace talked about the possibility of a Nationwide Series race hangover at Iowa Speedway, a return to racing, and the difficulties of watching his son race during an exclusive interview with me on Wednesday. Here are some excerpts from the interview.
How will the Trucks race on this track, what do you expect?
It’ll probably be [...]

Iowa Speedway finally hit the big time Saturday and not just because it hosted a Nationwide Series race.
No, the track joined the elite tracks becasue it had a tire controversy, albeit a little one. All of the top drivers said the tires were rock-hard, potentially contributing to a series-high 12 cautions.
“The reason there were so [...]

7:30 p.m.: Brad Keselowski couldn’t be happier to win, and Kyle Busch couldn’t be more ticked off at his second-place finish. This guy doesn’t care about anything other than winning races. He lengthened his points lead in the series, but the only thing he focused on after the race was the fact that he has [...]

Overlooked no more: At Andretti Green Racing Danica Patrick and Marco Andretti get most of the attention. But it was Hideki Mutoh who turned in the best finish Sunday.
Mutoh didn’t shy away from a question about being overlooked.
“I’m really enjoying with my teammates. I mean, T.K. (Tony Kanaan) has a lot of experience and he [...]

The IndyCar Series will compete at the Iowa Speedway through the 2011 season. Series and track officials announced they had reached an agreement in principle to sign a two-year deal.
“We are very excited about this, we’re excited about being here every year,” IndyCar Series commercial division president Terry Angstadt said. “When we’re here, we’re treated [...]

What do you expect at Iowa this weekend, the track has changed quite a bit since you last ran there?
I think the big difference will be the track, not so much the cars. They’re very similar to how they were when we raced last time. The track has aged for sure since when we were [...]

Defending Iowa Corn Indy 250 winner took time away from hanging out with his new son and adding to his 300-plus pair shoe collection to talk to me. Here’s what he had to say:

Can you defend your Iowa title with this team?
I think so. The biggest thing this year is when you look at [...]

I will talk with Dario Franchitti on Friday morning as he prepares for this weekend’s third Iowa Corn Indy 250 at Iowa Speedway in Newton.
If there’s anything you’d like me to ask him, please post it here in the comments. I’ll post excerpts from the interview here.
Franchitti won the first Iowa Corn Indy 250 in [...]

With all apologies to Sports Illustrated’s Peter King and his “Ten things I think I think,” here’s 10 things I know after the biggest racing weekend of the year:
1. I know the IndyCar Series needs help at promoting its races and has needed that help for a long time.
It might finally get that help as [...]