{"id":39108,"date":"2025-08-01T10:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T10:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/39108\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T10:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T10:12:11","slug":"nascar-friday-schedule-at-iowa-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/39108\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Friday schedule at Iowa Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa Speedway will open its NASCAR weekend with a full Friday slate of the ARCA Series. <\/p>\n<p>ARCA practice will begin at 3:30 p.m. ET, immediately followed by qualifying. A 150-lap race will begin at 7 p.m. ET on the 0.875-mile oval.<\/p>\n<p>Connor Zilisch won last year\u2019s ARCA race at Iowa. The JR Motorsports driver, who races full time in the Xfinity Series, won\u2019t be in the field to defend the victory.<\/p>\n<p>The Iowa Speedway garage also will open Friday for the Xfinity Series, which will practice, qualify and race Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"Link\" aria-label=\"NASCAR suspends Austin Hill one race for wrecking Aric Almirola at Indy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nascar\/news\/nascar-suspends-austin-hill-one-race-for-wrecking-aric-almirola-at-indy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Syndication: The Indianapolis Star\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754043131_278_\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Austin Hill will miss Saturday\u2019s Xfinity race at Iowa Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>Iowa Speedway Friday schedule<\/p>\n<p>(All Times Eastern)<\/p>\n<p>Friday, Aug. 1<\/p>\n<p>Garage open<\/p>\n<p>11:30 a.m. &#8211; 9 p.m. \u2014 ARCA Series2 &#8211; 7 p.m. \u2014 Xfinity Series<\/p>\n<p>Track activity<\/p>\n<p>3:30 &#8211; 4:15 p.m. \u2014 ARCA practice4:30 &#8211; 4:50 p.m. \u2014 ARCA qualifying7 p.m. \u2014 ARCA race (150 laps, 131.25 miles; FS1, Motor Racing Network)Weather<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/hourly\/us\/ia\/newton\/date\/2025-8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Friday<\/a>: Sunny with a few afternoon clouds. A high of 76 degrees with winds from the east to northeast at 10 to 15 mph. It\u2019s expected to be 74 degrees with a 3% chance of rain for the start of the ARCA race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iowa Speedway will open its NASCAR weekend with a full Friday slate of the ARCA Series. ARCA practice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-39108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}