Iowa State Fair Speedway

10/22/2025

They'll be racing in Marshalltown this weekend. In honor of Karl

09/29/2024

Out of the thousands of photos I shot of racing over the years. This is still one of my favorites Carl, living on the edge. I was asked by someone who wasn’t there what happened to the rest of the rollover photos. I simply replied, He put it back on all four and drove away.

09/29/2024

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I was saddened to hear the news this morning about the passing of this true racing supporter he'll be surely missed. Carl Moyer has taken his final checkered flag. 🙏
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Outside of work, he was a husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother and uncle.

08/19/2024

I ment to post this earlier in the week. As the fair wraps up for the year. I'm taking a moment to remember a good man that lost his life in a racing incident during the state fair 20 years ago.
I still remember everything from that day as if it was yesterday. They say you die 2 times, the day you leave this earth & the last time says your name.

Maynard (Bud) Franklin Davis III
19 Feb 1968 - 14 Aug 2004

01/16/2024

RIP John Pat Dorrian
Thank you for everything you did for the iowa state fair speedway & for the city of Des Moines.

08/14/2021

Walking into the fairgrounds today I can’t help but think about what happened in 17 years ago today. It was the last race of the day. I was standing down at the exit of turn 4 taking pictures of a race team by their car. Out of the corner of my eye I can see the modified feature go by taking the green flag. Within seconds there was commotion on the front stretch and the red flag was thrown. I started walking towards the track. I can see two cars down by the stage one on its roof and one on its wheels. I take a few photos of the car on its roof as I walk towards the scene. At that point I realized the car on the other side was Maynards. I took one maybe two photos from a distance of the car. One of the tow truck operators walking past me said don’t take any more photos it’s not good. 17 years after the fact I can still remember a lot of what I saw and heard through my headset, like it happened yesterday.

10 years ago this week we had our first Maynard Davis III Memorial. This should be the seventh year for that race.

The tradition of racing at the fairgrounds may be long gone but we should stop today and remember the Davis family.

Maynard (Bud) Franklin Davis III
19 Feb 1968 - 14 Aug 2004

06/24/2021

It’s throwback Thursday. Check out the names that were running back in 1994 at the Iowa State fair speedway.

Channel 5 Race Week June 1994

10/09/2020

For some reason they would rather spend 12 million on a track for Tractor pulls that would be used once or twice a year. I'm not sure if any local media still keeps up with this page, but it would be nice if they would look in to this.
KCCI KCWI Todd Magel KCCI WHO 13 News

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