Hawkeye Downs Speedway & Event Center

Our mission "is to create an environment where communities find fun opportunities for entertainment, commerce, and employment." Hawkeye Downs is a non-profit organization operated by the All Iowa Agricultural Association, a volunteer 11 member board. Hawkeye Downs is Eastern Iowa’s premiere ½ mile and ¼ paved racing venue offering a weekly racing series that attracts 300,000 visitors annually to the Cedar Rapids area. Hawkeye Downs has been the leading entertainment venue in eastern Iowa for the last 82 years offering; automotive racing, trade shows, meeting, conventions, concerts, consumer shows, motocross events, venues for trade and educational programs, bicycle racing and auctions for individuals and families visiting eastern Iowa . Hawkeye Downs Speedway has been a fixture in Cedar Rapids since 1925 , operating under different names including Frontier Park, and the Cedar Rapids Speedway. From it’s opening, until 1989, the facility was a dirt track. The 1989 season saw Hawkeye Downs become Iowa’s first weekly paved oval, with both ¼ mile and ½ mile tracks, paved pits, an enclosed tech building, MUSCO broadcast quality lighting, electronic message board, and many other outstanding features. In more recent years, a new Daktronics scoreboard and message center has been added, along with a transponder timing and scoring system.