We are less than a month away from the NASCAR Cup Series race weekend in Iowa. It's June 14-16 at the Iowa Speedway in Newton.Sign up for our NewslettersKyle Larson, in the No. 5 car, tested out the seven-eighths of a mile track on Tuesday.

One of the feature attractions of Cup qualifying was Kyle Larson, who made his way to Charlotte for practice and qualifying on Saturday before he seeks on Sunday to become the fifth driver in history to race in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on the same day.

During arguably the biggest weekend in racing, popularly known as “Motorsports Christmas,” NASCAR stays true to its roots. While Formula 1 holds its yearly spectacle at Monaco and more than 300,000 gather for the Indy 500, stock car racing’s four main circuits assemble in Concord.