The stars were out at Iowa Speedway on Tuesday afternoon, and it wasn’t even a race weekend.

Some of the top names of the IZOD IndyCar Series were present for testing and media advances, discussing anything from the Indy 500 to this year’s heat races before the Iowa Corn Indy 250 to Iowa Speedway’s future with IndyCar.

The series will make a stop in Milwaukee this week, the second in a line of three oval races concluding with Iowa Speedway next week. With a close points race that has first and 10th place separated by 100 points, any given race could shoot a driver into a top spot or see them fall because of a bad performance.