NEWTON, Iowa (Aug. 1, 2025) \u2013 For one night, at least, Brenden Queen turned Iowa\u2019s corn country into the new home of Bean Nation. <\/p>\n
In front of a tremendous crowd at Iowa Speedway, the driver known as \u201cButterbean\u201d won the ARCA Menards Series\u2019 Atlas 150 by holding off archrival Brent Crews and endearing himself to a growing list of followers sprouting up from coast to coast.<\/p>\n
It was Queen\u2019s fifth win of the season, but it didn\u2019t come easy as he started the race second his behind Crews. The two drivers were the class of the field and nearly wrecked each other while racing for the lead with six laps left. <\/p>\n
But it was Queen who came out on top, as his Chevrolet survived a last-lap challenge from Crews\u2019 Toyota and crossed the finish line less than half-a-second ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are the battles we\u2019re going to look back on and say they were fun,\u201d said Queen, a short-track ace from Virginia whose leaving his mark this season in the ARCA Menards Series. \u201cWith six to go, we went for the same spot and we were driving the wheels off not to wreck. I\u2019m happy we came out on top.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lawless Alan, Isabella Robusto and Lavar Scott rounded out the top five in the opening race of an exciting weekend of racing at Iowa Speedway. Action continues Saturday with the NASCAR Xfinity Series\u2019 Hy-Vee Perks 250 and NASCAR Cup Series practice and qualifying.<\/p>\n
And then on Sunday, Aug. 3, the stars of the NASCAR Cup Series compete in the Iowa Corn 350 Powered by Ethanol, which will be preceded by a Busch Light Summer Music Series performance by country music star Corey Kent.<\/p>\n
Tickets for the Iowa Corn 350 Powered by Ethanol are sold out, but a limited number of tickets remain for Saturday\u2019s action. Fans should visit www.iowaspeedway.com immediately to secure their tickets while supplies last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWTON, Iowa (Aug. 1, 2025) \u2013 For one night, at least, Brenden Queen turned Iowa\u2019s corn country into…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":113774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-113773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114960877795556614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}