ARCA Menards Series / ARCA Menards Series East at Iowa Speedway – Calypso 150 Pre-race Notes

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  • The Calypso Lemonade 150 is race nine of 20 for the ARCA Menards Series and race five of eight for the ARCA Menards Series East; the race is part of both series championships and will pay full points for both.  
  • Jesse Love enters the Calypso Lemonade 150 with a 43-point advantage over Frankie Muniz in the ARCA Menards Series championship standings. Love has won four of the last six races with victories at Talladega Superspeedway, Kansas Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway, and Elko Speedway. 
  • William Sawalich enters the Calypso Lemonade 150 with a 13-point advantage over Luke Fenhaus in the ARCA Menards Series East championship standings. Sawalich has won two of the first four races, at Five Flags Speedway and Flat Rock Speedway, while Fenhaus scored the victory at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway.Sawalich has also won in the ARCA Menards Series, taking the victory at Berlin Raceway. 
  • The ARCA Menards Series has raced at Iowa Speedway 15 previous times with 14 different race winners. Winners include Steven Wallace (2006), Frank Kimmel (2007), Matt Hawkins (2008), Parker Kligerman (2009), Tom Hessert III (2010), Ty Dillon (2011), Alex Bowman (2012), Grant Enfinger (2013), Mason Mitchell (2014), Chase Briscoe (2016), Dalton Sargeant (2017), Sheldon Creed (2018), Chandler Smith (2019), Ty Gibbs (2020, 2021), and Brandon Jones (2022). 
  • There have been 19 previous ARCA Menards Series East races at Iowa Speedway. Winners include Joey Logano (2007), Brian Ickler (2008), Kyle Busch (2009), Max Gresham (2010), Brett Moffitt (2011), Chase Elliott (2012), Corey LaJoie (2013), Cole Custer (2013), Ben Rhodes (2014), Brandon Jones (2014, 2022), Brandon McReynolds (2015, twice), Todd Gilliland (2016, 2017), Tyler Ankrum (2018), Sam Mayer (2019), and Ty Gibbs (2021). 
  • There have been two previous ARCA Menards Series and ARCA Menards Series East combination races at Iowa Speedway, won by Ty Gibbs (2021) and Brandon Jones (2022). 
  • The ARCA Menards Series track qualifying record was set in the track’s first season, 2006, by Steven Wallace. Wallace’s fast lap was 22.932 seconds/137.357 miles per hour. 
  • Kyle Busch holds the ARCA Menards Series East track qualifying record, set in 2009 at 23.285 seconds/135.484 miles per hour. 
  • There will be two five-minute breaks, at or around lap 50 and lap 100, for teams to change tires, add fuel, make adjustments and/or repairs. Teams cannot change tires and add fuel at the same time; teams are allowed six tires in the pit box. 
  • Should the race need to be extended into overtime, there will be unlimited attempts at a two-lap “green-white-checkered” finish. If the yellow flag is displayed after the white flag has been displayed, there will be unlimited attempts at a one-lap “green-and-white-together” finish. 

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