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Is Iowa ready to be a two-groove track?

By John Oreovicz

Friday, June 19, 2009

If the soul of stock car racing is in the Southeast, then the heart of Indy car racing is the Midwest. Maybe that's part of why the aptly named Iowa Corn 250 Presented by Pioneer has caught on so quickly in the Hawkeye State. Modern Indy cars are about as different as a race car can be compared to the brutal sprint cars that compete half an hour away in the famous annual Knoxville Nationals. But that hasn't stopped local fans from filling Iowa Speedway to its capacity of 40,000 to see those f ...

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