"It saved me a headache." IndyCar's aeroscreen was tested for the first time in race at Iowa Speedway five years ago.

It wasn’t a question of if Team Chevy and Ilmor Engineering would win in 2025, but where it would take place and the Bowtie came through in Iowa with a 1-2-3-4 sweep.

After an afternoon filled with tornado sirens, lightning strikes, torrential rain and visible cloud rotation near Iowa Speedway, IndyCar canceled Friday afternoon practice.

Firestone employs 700 people at the Des Moines factory, where it makes tractor tires. The company tests new products in the IndyCar series at Iowa Speedway.

The idea of developing a modern version with IndyCar’s best racing at maximum attack in a sprint event, with no points to consider or fuel to save, and big money on the line in a all-star-esque event isn’t something that would move in front of trying to make the existing races bigger and better, but Boles isn’t opposed to the challenge concept.

Sure, Scott Dixon's win at Mid-Ohio over teammate Alex Palou topped out north of 1 million viewers, but the average audience size was again fewer than 800,000.