Posts Tagged ‘Iowa Speedway’

A lot of things seemed to suit Matt DiBenedetto well about Pizza Ranch’s home track, Iowa Speedway.  Those good vibes culminated with a Nationwide series career best, top-ten finish.  Despite racing at Iowa Speedway for the first time, Matt took right to it and posted the fastest time in Saturday morning’s delayed practice.  Although none of the double-duty drivers practiced, it was a good sign that Matt was ready to rebound after back-to-back frustrating outings.

Matt started ninth in front of a sold out crowd of over 50,000, including 400+ Pizza Ranch friends.  Matt battled hard all night with cup and nationwide series regulars to keep the Pizza Ranch No. 20 Toyota solidly in the top ten and as high as 7th.  With 47 laps to go, and in 8th place, a caution came out that shook up the top ten.  Matt dropped back to 14th, after a handful of cars made a position grab going with just 2 tires.  Matt steadily worked back into the top-ten and went door-to-door with Justin Allgaier for the last 20 laps of the race and settled out in ninth place.  Matt’s next race will be Gateway’s curtain closer on October 23.

Congratulations to JGR’s Kyle Busch and the No. 18 crew with their ninth win of the year.  Pizza Ranch victory lane was excited to have Kyle back since his victory last year in the K&N East-West All Star Race.

Friday’s practiced got washed out at Iowa Speedway with persistent showers all day.  Matt and the No. 20 Pizza Ranch Toyota will get 1 hour of practice Saturday morning (instead of the 2 hours of practice scheduled for Friday).  It’s Saturday and it’s sunny… “Let’s go racin’ boys!”

Do you want to see what Matt and the other drivers will be facing at Iowa Speedway this weekend?  Check out this virtual lap around the track.  Click this link – Virtual Lap

Don’t miss out on the racing action this summer!

Pizza Ranch is giving away 10 ticket packages (4 tickets per package) to the Pizza Ranch 100 – Star Mazda Series race at Iowa Speedway on Saturday, June 19, 2010!

Be one of the first 10 people to send us an email at prracing@pizzaranch.com with the subject line reading Pizza Ranch 100.  Your email must include the following items in the body to qualify for the ticket giveaway:  your name, your e-mail address and your home address.

If you are one of the first 10 to respond, you will be going racing at Iowa Speedway!

Please visit www.iowaspeedway.com for detailed schedule information for the Pizza Ranch 100-Star Mazda Series Race.

Good Luck!

It’s getting more exciting every day in Pizza Ranch Racing land.  The JGR team had another great week winning both the Sprint Cup & Nationwide Series down in Texas.  The #20 team also had a great week winning the pole and coming home in 2nd place in the Nationwide Series.

Latest updates…

1) We are just days away from unveiling the #20 Pizza Ranch Show Car Tour Dates/Locations.

2) #20 Pizza Ranch Racing/Matt D. Merchandise will also be available at participating Pizza Ranch locations in early Summer.  We will be selling officially licensed #20 hats, t-shirts, decals and 1/24th diecast cars.  And if you can’t get the gear at your local ranch we plan to make it available to you via a new online merchandise store.

3) And to thank you for continuing to visit www.pizzaranchracing.com we are going to be rolling out a new Pizza Ranch Racing giveaway promotion via this website before anywhere else in the next week… so please come back.

Thanks to our great guests and fans!

Pizza Ranch Racing got its season off to an exciting start at Iowa Speedway this past weekend.  Kyle Busch won the NASCAR Camping World Series East/West Challenge at Iowa Speedway the day after a great race in NASCAR’s Sprint All-Star Race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.  There was lots of other great racing in Newton this past weekend for racing fans to enjoy.  And of course there was also some great pizza being served along with that racing.  I enjoyed meeting so many people in Newton this weekend who love racing and who LOVE Pizza Ranch.