It appears Joey Gase and NASCAR Nationwide Series car owner Jimmy Means will continue their relationship into the next year. The 19-year-old race car driver from Cedar Rapids and the longtime NASCAR driver and owner both confirmed Monday the plan is for Gase to run a full Nationwide Series schedule in 2013 with Means Racing. [...]
continue »Local race car driver Joey Gase, along with his sister, Ashley, made a special contribution to the Tournament of Roses Parade on Thursday in North Liberty. The NASCAR Nationwide Series driver helped decorate an image of his mother, Mary Jo Gase, in the Donate Life float that will be included in the Rose Bowl’s parade [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS – Todd Bodine is in a NASCAR category all by himself. The veteran race car driver reached the elite level after his last visit to Iowa Speedway. Bodine became the first driver in history to reach 200 career starts in each of NASCAR’s three national series – Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Trucks – on [...]
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Iowa Speedway released its race schedule Wednesday for the 2013 season. The track will maintain its schedule of five marquee events, consisting of two NASCAR Nationwide Series and two Camping World Trucks Series races and the IZOD IndyCar Iowa Corn Indy 250. The schedule doesn’t include an addition of NASCAR Sprint Cup. Below is the news [...]
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NEWTON - It isn’t how you start, but how you finish. After earning three straight poles at Iowa Speedway, Elliott Sadler finally has a finish to match. Sadler passed Justin Allgaier with 58 laps remaining and pulled away to win the NASCAR Nationwide Series U.S. Cellular 250 Saturday at the 0.875-mile oval. The win was his [...]
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NEWTON – NASCAR Nationwide Series season points leader Elliott Sadler sits in a familiar position. Sadler captured his third straight pole at Iowa Speedway, leading the field of the U.S. Cellular 250 to the green flag Saturday night. Sadler, who has three wins this season, is trying for his first victory in four starts at [...]
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NEWTON – Joey Gase was introduced to the results of one of the toughest decisions he ever made. The 19-year-old race car driver from Cedar Rapids finalized the decision to donate organs of his late mother, Mary Jo Gase, when she died after a brain aneurysm last year. Sixteen months after that day, Gase and [...]
continue »NEWTON – Ricky Stenhouse Jr. will attempt to do some few other drivers have ever done. With a trip to victory lane after the NASCAR Nationwide Series U.S. Cellular 250 Saturday, the defending Nationwide series season points champion would win his fourth straight race at Iowa Speedway. Stenhouse won last year’s U.S. Cellular 250, which [...]
continue »NEWTON — Michael Annett was sitting at home when a national news item caught his attention. A phone call that came later captured his support. Annett, a Des Moines native who played amateur hockey for the Waterloo Black Hawks, is making an effort to help the search for 10-year-old Lyric Cook Morrissey and 8-year-old Elizabeth [...]
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NEWTON — Joey Gase has butterflies for Saturday, but not for the reason most might think. He is not fazed by making his 16th career NASCAR Nationwide Series start at the his home state’s track in the event he made his series debut a year ago. The nerves are from what is set to happen [...]
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