During Sunday’s Iowa Corn 300 pre-race show, NBCSN pit reporter and technical insider Jon Beekhuis provided an insight into how big of a challenge it is to change over the configurations from the Road America permanent road course, the Verizon IndyCar Series’ longest track on the calendar at 4.014 miles, to the Iowa Speedway bullring, the shortest on the calendar at 0.894 of a mile.
It’s worth noting that in one lap of Road America, at over one minute and 40 seconds for a lap time, you can complete five and a half laps at Iowa - where lap times are just 17 seconds per lap.
Watch the video above for a further analysis. The configuration changes again this weekend, as the series heads from the Iowa bullring back to the final street course season of the year in Toronto, which measures just under 1.9 miles.