{"id":849190,"date":"2026-08-07T08:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849190\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T08:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:34:07","slug":"nascar-reveals-green-flag-times-for-iowa-in-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849190\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR reveals green-flag times for Iowa in August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 6, 2026, 11:50 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">NASCAR is ready for the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/motorsportswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/motor\/nascar\/2026\/08\/03\/how-to-watch-nascar-live-iowa-august-2026-full-schedule\/91145344007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">race weekend at Iowa Speedway<\/a>. The sport returns to Iowa in what is expected to be a fun weekend in Newton. However, when will NASCAR wave the green flags throughout the weekend in Iowa on Saturday and Sunday?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The NASCAR O&#8217;Reilly Series kicks off the action with a 5:07 p.m. ET green flag at Iowa on The CW on Saturday afternoon. The NASCAR Truck Series won&#8217;t compete at Iowa, with the next race taking place at Richmond Raceway next weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Finally, the NASCAR Cup Series race at Iowa will be green at 3:40 p.m. on the USA Network on Sunday. This is Iowa&#8217;s only date on the NASCAR schedule, and the excitement is through the roof. NASCAR is ready to throw the green flags at Iowa, starting with the O&#8217;Reilly Series event on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"http:\/\/motorsportswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/motor\/nascar\/2026\/08\/05\/nascar-odds-cup-series-race-iowa-august-2026\/91171388007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">NASCAR odds for Cup Series race at Iowa in August 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 6, 2026, 11:50 p.m. ET NASCAR is ready for the upcoming race weekend at Iowa Speedway. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[159202,49,48,634,247067,82,161408,160874,160875,180462,295463,160878,159095,159089,159085],"class_list":["post-849190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-accessfree","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sourcemotorsports-wire","tag-sports","tag-sstssportsmotornascar","tag-sstsnnascar","tag-tagauto-racing","tag-tagiowa","tag-tagiowa-speedway","tag-tagnascar","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849190","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=849190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}