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New Lottery Promo Offers Chance To Win Tickets With Your Crew To INDYCAR Races + Concerts

Players in 3 Iowa Lottery scratch games have a chance to win tickets in a luxury suite at this summer’s Hy-Vee INDYCAR Race Weekend in Newton!

We’re calling our newest promotion Concerts & Cars with a Crew because the winners won’t just get tickets for themselves for INDYCAR racing and concerts at Iowa Speedway. They’ll win a set of 4 tickets so they can take their favorite crew with them for an exclusive day of fun!

We’re giving away 11 sets of 4 tickets in a VIP suite for each day of the Hy-Vee INDYCAR Race Weekend at Iowa Speedway.

The promotion’s entry period opened this morning and runs through 9:59 a.m. on June 19. We’ll hold the promotion’s drawings on June 20.

First up will be 11 sets of 4 suite tickets with food and full hospitality for the INDYCAR races on July 13 plus – new this year – VIP infield access near the stage for the pre- and post-race concerts. The headline performers that day are Luke Combs and Eric Church.

Then we’ll select the winners of 11 sets of 4 suite tickets with food and full hospitality for the INDYCAR races on July 14 plus VIP infield access near the stage for the post-race concerts. Kelsea Ballerini and Post Malone will both perform after that day’s races.

You can enter the promotion with eligible tickets from any of these $20 scratch games: Lucky 7 Bonus, Lucky Numbers Gamebook and Payline. You’ll select the Race Weekend date of your choice when you make a promotion entry.

Remember that to enter the promotion, you’ll need to join or already be a member of the lottery’s free VIP Club.

Good luck in the promotion, and maybe we’ll see YOU this summer at the INDYCAR Race Weekend!

Lottery’s Summer of Music = Your Chance to Win Tix to Big-Name Concerts in Iowa

We started off the season by giving you a chance to win prize packages to some of Iowa’s top auto-racing events, and now we’re turning our attention to music. And specifically, giving you the chance to win ticket prize packages to big-name concerts this summer in Iowa.

The Iowa Lottery’s eight-week Summer of Music promotion opened for entries this morning. Players can enter it with nonwinning tickets in the $10 “Wild Cherry” scratch game for a chance to win prize packages to 14 Iowa concerts by headline artists at the Hy-Vee IndyCar Race Weekend in Newton and the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines.

The promotion will have two entry periods, with the first for race-and-concert packages at the Iowa Speedway in Newton, and the second for Iowa State Fair concert packages.

Up for grabs in the promotion’s first drawing date on July 6 (from entries accepted through 9:59 a.m. July 5) will be 95 prize packages to the IndyCar race and Carrie Underwood and Kenny Chesney performances on July 22, and 95 prize packages to the IndyCar race and Zac Brown Band and Ed Sheeran shows on July 23 in Newton. Players will select the Race Weekend concert of their choice when they enter tickets in the promotion.

For each day of the IndyCar Race Weekend, 20 prize packages will be in a VIP suite and 75 will be grandstand prize packages. Winners will receive tickets for that day’s IndyCar race as well as the pre- and post-race concerts at the Speedway.

The promotion’s second drawing period runs from 10 a.m. July 5 through 9:59 a.m. July 31. Up for grabs in the promotion’s second drawing date on Aug. 1 will be 20 VIP grandstand concert prize packages at the Iowa State Fair for these artists:

• For King + Country
• Tyler Hubbard of Florida Georgia Line
• New Kids on the Block
• Eric Church
• The Black Keys
• Lindsey Stirling
• Maren Morris
• Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges
• The Chicks
• Jason Aldean

Players will select the Iowa State Fair concert of their choice when they enter tickets in the promotion.

Entries will not carry over from the first entry period to the second. However, a player could win a concert prize package in each category drawing they enter.

Weekend Destination: See You At The Iowa Speedway In Newton!

We’re gearing up for a weekend of fun in Newton! The Iowa Lottery will be at the Iowa Speedway starting later today for the Hy-Vee INDYCAR Race Weekend.

We’ll have a tent in the vendor area behind the Grandstand at the Iowa Speedway where we’ll be selling tickets and giving away fun merchandise prizes to the folks who get to spin our prize wheel. And with tonight’s huge Mega Millions® jackpot on the line, it’s a perfect time to get a ticket! We’ll be selling lotto tickets, scratch tickets, and InstaPlay tickets at our tent.

We also get to be part of presentations on the Speedway’s main stage to highlight the Iowa Veterans Trust Fund, one of the most important uses of lottery proceeds in our state. The Iowa Lottery has raised more than $34.8 million for the Veterans Trust Fund to date, and that money goes directly to help Iowa veterans and their families in need.

Sure, you play for the fun and the chance to win a prize. But you also know that a portion of every $1 spent on lottery tickets in Iowa goes to worthy state causes. We’re excited to join veterans and their advocates for these presentations tomorrow and Sunday!

And of course, the winners from this spring’s Powerball® INDYCAR Race Weekend promotion will be at the track for the headline concerts and races. Some of our promotion winners get VIP infield access for tomorrow’s concerts while another group of winners get to take two-seater race car rides on Sunday. It should be an action-packed weekend, all the way around! (Will Iowa will see a big jackpot winner to add to the excitement?!)

The Iowa Lottery’s tent at the Iowa Speedway will be open during these hours at the Hy-Vee INDYCAR Race Weekend:

• 2-9 p.m. on Friday, July 22
• 8 a.m.-7 p.m. on Saturday, July 23
• 9 a.m.-7 p.m. on Sunday, July 24

We hope to see you there!

190 INDYCAR Race Weekend Prize Packages In Newton On the Line In Powerball Promotion

The INDYCAR Series is staging back-to-back races this summer in Newton, and Iowa Lottery players can have the chance at tickets to the race weekend in a Powerball® promotion that started this morning.

VIP Club members can enter eligible Powerball tickets in the promotion with 190 prize packages to the INDYCAR Race Weekend on the line. Up for grabs are 20 VIP Suite Experiences and 75 single-day prize packages for the Hy-VeeDeals.com 250 at the Iowa Speedway on July 23, and 20 VIP Suite Experiences and 75 single-day prize packages for the Hy-Vee Salute to Farmers 300 on July 24.

Each VIP Suite Experience includes two suite tickets (for either the Saturday or Sunday race), food, non-alcoholic beverages, $100 spending cash, lottery swag, and concert tickets. Each single-day prize package includes two grandstand race tickets (for either Saturday or Sunday), concert tickets, food vouchers, $100 spending cash and lottery swag.

All promotion winners get to attend the day’s pre- and post-race concerts. Tim McGraw will put on a pre-race concert on Saturday while Florida Georgia Line will put on the post-race concert the same day. Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton will be in concert on Sunday.

If you’re a VIP Club member, you can enter winning and nonwinning Iowa Powerball tickets today through the morning on May 3. Each Powerball ticket entered equals one entry in the prize category you choose, regardless of the price of the ticket or the number of plays it.

The entry period runs through 9:59 a.m. on May 3, with the drawing to follow on May 5.