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“So I had a really fun weekend scheduled and unfortunately the Midwest weather put an end to it. After Iowa, I was planning on – well, I did fly straight to Ohio and I was going to do the Ohio Speedweek Monday through Saturday. I was supposed to get six races in. We flew up, rained out Monday, rained out Tuesday so I flew home and didn’t get to race. Very rare weekend off for me.”

“Chicago is always a blast. It is one of the best mile-and-a-halves that we go to. There isn’t that many wrecks. It definitely produces top, bottom and middle groove racing. For a driver, that’s what we love. We love being able to move around. We don’t have any big Cup drivers in this race. Those guys do a great job of knowing when the top is not good and going to the bottom. And when the bottom isn’t good, they know when to go back to the top. Those are big things that those guys know what to do with their experience.”

"We’re heading to Chicagoland Speedway this weekend. We’ve got two cars – the No. 10 and No. 11, with teammate, Ross Chastain, who just came off a win. We’ve had really fast mile-and-a-half cars and we had speed at Iowa last race. Hopefully we can catch another Top-5 and maybe go for the win."

“We’ve been pretty consistent here lately, and stringing together top-five and top-10 finishes is a good way to keep building for the Playoffs. The last race of the regular season is on a 1.5-mile oval and there are four of them in the Playoffs, so what we learn now is going to help us then, when it really counts. Our Pilot Flying J team is clicking on all cylinders, and I look forward to another race in the Midwest on a track I’ve done well on in the past.”– Michael Annett

John Hunter Nemechek and GMS Racing will utilize chassis no. 224 this weekend at Chicagoland Speedway. This chassis has been run once this season by Nemechek at Atlanta Motor Speedway (start: 10th/finish: 20th)

For the first time since scoring a 17th-place result last fall at Road America for B.J. McLeod Motorsports, 29-year-old Ryan Ellis will return to the cockpit this weekend at Iowa Speedway.

Joey Logano’s victory in Monday’s weather-delayed race in Michigan was the perfect Father’s Day send-off for the Team Penske driver. The father of one-year old son Hudson retook the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series points lead from Kyle Busch and gets to bask in victory for two weeks instead of one because of the Cup off-weekend.

Baker’s Dozen… Toyota drivers have 13 NASCAR national series victories at Iowa Speedway, including six NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) and seven NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series (NGOTS) wins.

"We’re going to Iowa Speedway this weekend and racing Sunday on Father’s Day. I’m really looking forward to it. We tested there a few months back and had a really successful test. We’re coming off another Top-10 in Michigan and heading to Iowa, one of my favorite short tracks on the circuit, and looking for another Top-10. We’ve been having speed, having fun and bringing great racecars, so tune-in this weekend!"

In 50 NXS starts at Iowa Speedway, JR Motorsports has earned three victories, 12 top fives and 28 top 10s. Brad Keselowski scored the organization’s first victory at the .875-mile oval in the inaugural event in 2009, with William Byron and Justin Allgaier going to Victory Lane in this event in 2017 and 2018.