The Iowa Speedway will reopen just six months after its purchase by NASCAR. NASCAR took the rare step in November of purchasing the track for a reported $10 million, a steep drop from the $70 million it cost to build it less than a decade earlier. The 28-year-old Small is the third person to run the Iowa Speedway in less than three years. ''We knew we only had a short amount of time before our first weekend here in just a few days now.'' Points leader Chase Elliott, Trevor Bayne and Ty Dillon headline the list of drivers in the first stand-alone race of the Nationwide season.
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