Iowa Speedway lands ARCA race for 2021

The ARCA Menards Series will be making its return to Iowa Speedway in 2021.

The series announced its schedule on Tuesday and it will return to Iowa Speedway next summer on July 24.

It marks the seventh straight and 15th time in the past 16 years since 2006 that the ARCA Racing Series race will be staged at the 7/8-mile track.

The race is one of 20 on the 2021 series schedule, which will be contested at 19 different venues.

The season will commence at Daytona International Speedway on February 13 and conclude with the championship race in October at Kansas Speedway, the only site which will play host to the series twice in 2021.

Ty Gibbs led 140 of the 150-lap Shore Lunch 150 at Iowa Speedway on July 18 en route to easily taking the checkered flag this past summer.

The list of past ARCA Menards Series winners at Iowa Speedway is quite impressive. Three of the last nine winners are currently driving in the NASCAR Cup Series, including Ty Dillon (2011), Alex Bowman (2012) and Chase Briscoe (2016).

Sheldon Creed, the 2018 Iowa Speedway winner, was the 2020 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion.

Tickets for the July 24 event are expected to go on sale in early 2021.