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IMCA.TV TO PRESENT THE BEST APPEARING CAR AWARD TO MODIFIED AND SPORTMOD DRIVERS AT THE VEGAS “DUEL IN THE DESERT”

Dirt track racers from far and wide visit the Duel in the Desert held at The Dirt Track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway every November. The feature lineups boast an expansive representation of different states to certify this event as one of the IMCA “Crown Jewel” events of the year. For the 2015 edition each driver is welcomed to showcase their stomping grounds with the IMCA.TV Best Appearing Car Contest. The graphics theme for 2015 is to represent your state. The IMCA.TV Best Appearing Contest will boast a “winner-take-all” $1000 Prize for the winning IMCA Modified and for the first time ever, a $500 Prize for the winning IMCA SportMod. The winning graphics company (for each class) will get a free social media advertising package on all IMCA.TV major events for 2016, a whooping $5000 value per class! Voting will be conducted on the IMCA Racing Facebook page (www.facebook.com/raceimca). Drivers will have the ability to declare Best Appearing entry at the pit gate of The Dirt Track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway or online at [Read More]

Pounds, Heckman run 1-2, 2-1 in IMCA Modified features at Budweiser Nationals

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (Oct. 9-10) – Brad Pounds and Kyle Heckman both had first- and second-place finishes to show for Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified outings at Bakersfield Speedway’s 30th annual Budweiser Nationals. Pounds led all 40 laps on Friday while Heckman gained the lead midway through Saturday’s main event. Both features paid $1,500 to win. Newly-crowned 2015 and now four-time track champion Pounds worked his way around front row starters Derek Nance and Carla Laney for the early lead on opening night. The seventh starting Heckman moved up into the second spot by lap 15 but was unable to put up a major challenge on Pounds. Bobby Hogge IV, Troy Foulger and Collen Winebarger rounded out the top five. The same pair contested for the Modified win on Saturday night as well. Ethan Dotson led the first lap from the front row before John Piker escaped unhurt from a flip in turn one. Dotson led pole starter Heckman before a yellow on lap 19, then pulled into the infield and out of the race prior to the restart. [Read More]

Double dose of Morrison opens Mid-America Clash

By Dusty Wiegert SALINA, Kan. (Oct. 9) – Announcer Jerry Jones announced Danny Morrison Jr. as the winner of a race not once, not twice, not even three times, but four times on Friday night as the Mid-America Clash 3 opened at Salina Speedway. Two individual clean sweeps were in the works for the Morrison team, starting with the Auto House Mod Lites. Morrison had more of a challenge in the $2,000 to win 1st Class Chassis IMCA Modified feature but was still able to hold off former multi-time national champion David Murray Jr. and Darrick Klima, who returned to an IMCA Modified for the first time in over a year at the speedway and finishing second. Ryan Gaylord finished third while Jerry Phillips’ bid to win three straight at the speedway came up short in fourth. Morrison’s win put him on the Ballot for the 2016 Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational. In a display of true skill, Austin Carter took home the hardware after having to drop to the back early in the Coors Light [Read More]

Abilene Speedway hosts 21st annual Southern Challenge Oct. 16-18 run

ABILENE, Texas – Drivers in four IMCA divisions vie for shares of a $75,000 purse at Abilene Speedway’s 21st annual Ryan Bard Memorial Southern Challenge special Friday through Sunday. Oct. 16-18. Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modifieds chase a $3,000 top prize, with a minimum of $450 paid to start their 2016 Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational ballot qualifier. Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center Southern SportMods race for $2,500 to win and a minimum of $250 to start. IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars vie for $2,000 to win and a minimum of $300 to take the main event green. IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks race for $1,000 to win and $100 to start. Gates open at 5 p.m. and an open practice session will be held from 6-10 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15, with complimentary beverages, barbecue and music at the party to follow. Pit gates open at 3 p.m. and racing starts at 7 p.m. Friday. On Saturday, gates open at 2 p.m. and racing starts at 6 p.m. Worship services at the track are at 10 a.m. Sunday. The [Read More]

IMCA Empire State Series finale is Friday at Five Mile Point

KIRKWOOD, N.Y. (Oct. 8) – Eddie Sites takes aim at a career third title and his fourth tour victory of the season when the Empire State Series for Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modifieds travels to Five Mile Point Speedway this Friday, Oct. 9. Sites was the feature winner when the tour opened at Kirkwood in April and later added checkers at Black Rock Speedway and Skyline Raceway. Also the series champion in 2011 and 2012, he’s got the edge over Matt Cole going into the $400 to win, minimum $100 to start finale tomorrow night. There is no entry fee and the feature distance is 20 laps. Pit passes are $30. Pit gates open at 4 p.m. and the grandstand opens at 4:45 p.m. Racing follows 6 p.m. hot laps. More information is available at the www.5milepointspeedway.com website and on Facebook. Empire State Series top 20 point standings – 1. Eddie Sites, Monroeton, Pa., 303; 2. Matt Cole, Vestal, 267; 3. Brad Sites, Monroeton, Pa., 244; 4. Jason Benjamin, Towanda, Pa., 239; 5. Keith Lamphere, Monroeton, Pa., 238; [Read More]

Restart sets stage for Stanford’s late-race heroics at Pat Pettit Memorial

WATSONVILLE, Calif. (Oct. 2-3) – A restart with two laps left set the stage for Alex Stanford’s late-race heroics Saturday at Ocean Speedway. Stanford drove by Friday winner Bobby Hogge IV to capture the $3,003 Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified checkers on night two of the Pat Pettit Memorial. A spot on the ballot for the 2016 Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational accompanied the big check. Stanford led the first four laps from the pole before Hogge came from second row start to take lead. Passing continued through mid-pack and the light stayed green until fourth running Andy Obertello brought out the caution with a couple laps to go. Stanford outgunned Hogge for the lead on the restart and paced the pack for the win ahead of Hogge, Ryan Porter, Kellen Chadwick and Paul Stone. Chadwick had drawn the Friday pole spot and took the immediate lead over Brian Cass and Hogge. He led the first 16 laps before Hogge led a pair. Chadwick was scored first again on lap 19 before Hogge took over for [Read More]

Timing is right for Guillaume at Kennedale Showdown

KENNEDALE, Texas (Oct. 3) – Timing was everything for Matt Guillaume. The leader of the Kennedale Speedway Park Showdown main event for Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modifieds, Guillaume left his preferred line to pass a slower car late in the contest, then led Jeff Emerson in the race to the checkers. “There was a late caution with about three laps to go,” said Guillaume, who took home a $1,500 share of the purse, plus a $300 bonus from Chase Allen Motorsports. “There was a lapped car in the same line I was running but I was able to sneak by him in the center if the first set of turns.” The new Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational ballot qualifier, twice a winner during his rookie Modified campaign, was three car lengths ahead of Emerson at the finish. Justin McCoy, Dean Abbey and John Gober completed the top five. Guillaume had started outside row four in the 25-lapper and was in the lead for good by the fifth circuit. Chad Wilson repeated his winning ways in the [Read More]

Marriott hurries to Fall Nationals IMCA Modified feature win at RPM

By Mike Hughes HAYS, Kan. (Oct. 3)– Hurryin’ Missourian Hunter Marriott took advantage of his front row starting spot Saturday night, taking a lead he would not relinquish and driving away for the $5,000 Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified win at RPM Speedway’s Fall Nationals. A couple cautions gave the rest of the field a chance but Marriott, already on the ballot for the 2016 Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational, was up to the challenge in topping the 40-lapper. Ryan Gaylord prevailed in the close battle for second over Cody Gearhart. Eddie Belec was fourth and Kyle Rohleder fifth. More than 220 race teams from 13 states converged on the 3/8-mile oval for the season-ending Fall Nationals. Seventy-one Modifieds saw action. Other winners included Angel Munoz in the IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars, Tyler Frye in the Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods, Brandon Beeter in the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks and Randy Murphy in the Mach-1 Sport Compacts. Casey Woken led the opening lap of the $3,000 to win Stock Car main, followed by Munoz and Nick Tubbs. [Read More]

Thunder on the Hill IMCA Modified features pay $2,000 to win

MAYETTA, Kan. – A pair of $2,000 to win Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational ballot qualifying features are on the ticket for Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modifieds at Thunder Hill Speedway’s Friday and Saturday, Oct. 9 and 10 Thunder on the Hill. A minimum of $200 will be paid to start each night. Purses will be based on minimum 20-car fields. IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars race for $700 to win and $150 to start each night, Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods for $700 to win and $150 to start, and IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks for $400 to win and $75 to start. Entry fees per show are $100 for Modifieds, $75 for Stocks and SportMods, and $50 for Hobbies. A late fee of $10 will be applied after Oct. 1. Tow money is $75 for Mods, $50 for Stocks and SportMods and $25 for Hobby Stocks. Pit gates open at 5 p.m. for the Thursday, Oct. 8 practice that runs from 6-9 p.m. Pit passes are $15. Gates open at 5 p.m. and the draw closes and [Read More]

Six states represented by IMCA’s 2015 national champions

VINTON, Iowa (Oct. 2) – Five first-time kings join Chris Abelson and Nate Coopman in a diverse group of 2015 IMCA Speedway Motors Weekly Racing national champions. Abelson adds the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified crown to his 2007 Northern SportMod crown and becomes just the sixth driver to win national titles in different divisions. Coopman paced the Mach-1 Sport Compact standings for the second straight season and the third time in his career. Racing to career-first national crowns were Chad Wilson in the Eagle Motorsports IMCA Sprint Cars, Travis Van Straten in the IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars, Tyler Frye in the Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods, Jesse Baldwin in the Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center Southern SportMods and Justin Luinenburg in the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks. In all, six states were represented by national champion drivers in IMCA’s centennial season. Abelson earned 32 feature wins and his second straight Belleville Motorsports North Central prize, along with the Shelby County Speedway, Crawford County Speedway and Raceway Park track championships. He’s the first Iowa driver since Ron Pope in [Read More]