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Mike Forde, NASCAR\u2019s managing director of racing communications, isn\u2019t sure about the Cup Series future of Iowa Speedway and he wouldn\u2019t tell you even if he had.<\/p>\n

In addition to his public and media relations role with the Sanctioning Body, Forde also hosts the Hauler Talk<\/a> podcast where he discusses questions from the industry and other hot button topics of the week.<\/p>\n

That includes whether or not the Cup Series will return to the Newton, Iowa speedway for a third consecutive season.<\/p>\n

\u201cTBD. As far as what we\u2019re looking at for next year\u2019s schedule, I think we\u2019re probably three weeks away on when that schedule would drop,\u201d Forde said. \u201cHaven\u2019t heard anything one way or the other on Iowa except all positives. I don\u2019t have any inside information. If I did, I wouldn\u2019t be able to talk about it anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Attendance for the race this year was down from the inaugural race with much of the temporary seating not needing to be constructed this year but Forde still credited fans in that region for showing up.<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/strong> Dale Jr says ‘I don’t love’ NASCAR’s NextGen<\/a><\/p>\n

The race is in doubt due to the reported return of Chicagoland Speedway next year \u2013 both tracks being located in the central Midwest.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey come out, and they show their love for Iowa, and they\u2019re voting with their wallet on whether it should be on the schedule,\u201d he said. \u201cI imagine the powers that be will take that into account.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/strong> Kevin Harvick says NASCAR’s NextGen ‘sucks’<\/a><\/p>\n

And if Iowa Speedway does return for a third season, Forde acknowledges that a conversation about the pavement will need to be had with NASCAR repaving just the bottom of the corners prior to the first race.<\/p>\n

The rest of the surface was laid down in 2006.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen the next step would be on a repave,\u201d Forde said. \u201cWe would get with the industry on that as well and get their opinion. Some like the old surface, or whenever there is an old surface that has this question of do we need a repave or not. Some want to keep it because that does lead to some good racing, but there are parts of that track that are kind of put together. There\u2019s some band-aids on that track that probably need to be the more permanent solution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Forde, NASCAR\u2019s managing director of racing communications, isn\u2019t sure about the Cup Series future of Iowa Speedway…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":128555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-128554","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\/114992146295307146","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128554","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=128554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}