IndyCar: Will Iowa see 5th team win in last 5 seasons?

Four different teams have won the IndyCar race at Iowa Speedway in the last four seasons. Will the race feature a fifth different team winning it this year?

Entering the 2019 IndyCar season, two races on the schedule had featured four different teams winning in the last four seasons. One of these races is the Iowa 300 at Iowa Speedway, and it is scheduled to take place this Saturday, July 20.

Four different teams have won this 300-lap race around the 0.894-mile (1.439-kilometer) Iowa Speedway oval in Newton, Iowa over the course of the last four seasons.

You have to go all the way back to the 2014 season before reaching the most recent team to win the race twice. Andretti Autosport’s Ryan Hunter-Reay won this race, and he went on to win it for the second consecutive season and for the third time in four seasons the following year.

Ed Carpenter Racing’s Josef Newgarden won the race in the 2016 season before Team Penske’s Helio Castroneves won it in the 2017 season and Schmidt Peterson Motorsports’ James Hinchcliffe won it in the 2018 season.

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This means that six teams have a chance to end this trend of different teams winning this race each season this Saturday night. Will one of them pull it off?

These six teams are Chip Ganassi Racing, Harding Steinbrenner Racing, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Dale Coyne Racing, A.J. Foyt Enterprises and Carlin.

IndyCar races have been contested at Iowa Speedway in each of the last 12 seasons going back to 2007. The four teams that have combined to win each of the last four races at the track are four of only five teams that have ever won there.

Chip Ganassi Racing are the only other team that have won at the track and they haven’t won there since Dan Wheldon and Dario Franchitti won the races there in the 2008 and 2009 season, respectively.

Andretti Autosport went on a six-year run of winning races at Iowa Speedway after that, as Tony Kanaan, Marco Andretti, Ryan Hunter-Reay and James Hinchcliffe won the races at the track in the 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 season, respectively, before Hunter-Reay won consecutive races at the track in the 2014 and 2015 seasons.

The six teams that have a chance to end this trend in this Saturday night’s race account for 11 of the race’s 22 drivers. Don’t be surprised to see a few of them, Chip Ganassi Racing, Harding Steinbrenner Racing, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing and Dale Coyne Racing in particular, with at least one driver contending at the front of the pack with a great chance of keeping this trend alive.

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Be sure to tune in to NBC Sports Network at 7:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, July 20 for the live broadcast of this year’s Iowa 300 from Iowa Speedway.