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What makes Iowa Speedway so challenging for IndyCars

IndyCar’s only sub-one-mile track offers a unique challenge in the context of the other races on the series calendar, but what makes it even more demanding is its own evolution, as race engineer Ray Gosselin explains to David Malsher. One of the most enjoyable aspects of IndyCar’s track diversity is that within 10 days of the checkered flag falling at one of the world’s great road courses, four-mile Road America, we can watch the same cars average 180mph around a 0.894-mile oval. It’s every bit as stark a contrast as the switch from Indianapolis Motor Speedway to Belle Isle, Detroit. The Iowa Corn 300 is also one of the most enjoyable events on the schedule. No, I don’t like the...
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