A lot of eyes will be on Ross Chastain, driver of the No. 4 Chevrolet Camaro, as he competes in the Iowa 250 presented by Enogen at Iowa Speedway, one year after his career best finish.

Last year’s June NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Iowa Speedway was one of the best in JD Motorsports with Gary Keller team history with Chastain finishing in fourth place, his first career top-five.

“This is one of the races that I’ve been really looking forward to this year,” said Chastain. “There’s a lot of pressure going into this one. After the way we ran last year, expectations are through the roof, but my No. 4 team has a great car ready for me to go race. We’re going to give it everything we’ve got and, hopefully, top what we did last year.”

NASCAR Xfinity Series practice is scheduled for 2:05 p.m. and 4:40 p.m. CT Saturday. Qualifying will start at 1:35 p.m. CT on Sunday, and the Iowa 250 will get the green flag at 4:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. ET) on FS1.

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B.J. McLeod will be joining team JD Motorsports with Gary Keller this weekend at Iowa Speedway. McLeod will pilot the No. 15 Chevrolet Camaro for Sunday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series Iowa 250 presented by Enogen.

McLeod has raced at Iowa Speedway five times in the NASCAR Xfinity Series.

“I’m honored to be racing for JD Motorsports this weekend,” said McLeod. “I raced go-karts for Johnny (Davis, team owner) back in the early 90’s, and I have a lot of respect for him and his team. I’m excited to work with the No. 15 team this weekend, and I’m hoping to bring home a good finish for everyone.”

NASCAR Xfinity Series practice is scheduled for 2:05 p.m. and 4:40 p.m. CT Saturday. Qualifying will start at 1:35 p.m. CT on Sunday, and the Iowa 250 will get the green flag at 4:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m.ET) on FS1.

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Gase & Go Green Racing will load up and head to Gase's home track in Iowa Speedway. At the track Gase will be sporting the Iowa Donor Network logo on his hood and two honorees. One being his mother, Mary Gase, who helped save and improve the lives of 66 people by being a organ, eye, and tissue donor, along side Cooper Vozza. Cooper is a kidney recipient and to make the story even more amazing he received this precious gift from his uncle who became a living donor to save Cooper's life. Cooper and his family, including his uncle, will join Gase & the team at the track on Sunday watching the race from the teams pit box.

This Saturday will be Gase's 14th start at Iowa Speedway in the NASCAR XFINITY Series. Joey made his NASCAR XFINITY Series (then named the Nationwide Series) debut at his home track back in 2011 driving for Archie St. Hilaire. In his debut, he gained 14 spots and tallied his first career top 20 finish coming in 20th in front of his hometown crowd. Not only did Joey make his first XFINITY start at Iowa, but Joey has been racing at the Iowa Speedway since he was 15 years old.  He's been racing late models at the track since his teenage years giving him a slight edge on the competition with experience. "I'm always excited to get back home where my NASCAR career started," said Gase. "It's always special when I can have all my family and friends come out to the track and have the hometown support."

Haulers enter the track on Friday evening. Practice for the Iowa 250 begins Saturday afternoon at 3:05pm ET on FS2. Gase and team will look to bounce back strong in front of his hometown crowd.

TV/Radio:
The Iowa 250 can be seen live on Sunday, June 17th on FS1. Race coverage will begin at 3:00 p.m. ET. You can also listen in live on MRN Radio, as well as SiriusXM Radio, channel 90.

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On the first of September the NASCAR XFINITY Series & Go Green Racing will make their way to Darlington Raceway. However, you will notice that the teams may look a little different. That's because every year for the past four years Darlington has played host to NASCAR''s Throwback weekend. Every year teams across the sport choose a popular paint scheme from past decades. This year NASCAR has opened it up to any paint scheme from any decade in honor of their 70th birthday.

With NASCAR opening up their schemes to any decade, Gase wanted to make his scheme extra special. "I want to honor my dad who's been there every step of the way and helped me get to where I am today. So I want to run one of his paint schemes that he used to run on his cars that he raced back at our local track, Hawkeye Downs Speedway," said Gase. Last week he turned to his fans to help him decide between two of his fathers old paint schemes, the 2003 Purple & Black Modified or the 1994 Blue & White Late Model. 

Gase closed the polls on his social media pages last Thursday at 5:00pm. After tallying up all the votes between Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook they had over 500 votes. Later that night he announced that the fans had favored the 2003 Black & Purple Championship Modified scheme over the 1994 Blue & White Late Model. After announcing the winning scheme Gase added, "I couldn't be happier to be running this scheme. This is the scheme I think of the most when I think of my dads old racing days and I had a lot of fans reaching out to be saying the same."

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