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IMCA’s centennial season is theme for Super Nationals best looking car contest

BOONE, Iowa – The sanctioning body’s centennial season was an easy choice for the best looking car contest theme at the upcoming IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s. Best-looking Modifieds, Stock Cars, Hobby Stocks and Northern SportMods with an IMCA Centennial theme will be selected during the Sept. 7-12 event. Voting will be conducted on Tuesday, Sept. 8 in the Fan Zone south of the main grandstand at Boone Speedway for the Hobby Stocks and Northern SportMods; Modified and Stock Car best looking car entries will pull onto the front stretch and be determined by fan acclamation during pre-race ceremonies on Saturday, Sept. 12. Winners in each division receive trophies. All entries receive mini-doors. Drivers in all four divisions, as well as the Late Models and Sport Compacts bringing tribute cars to Boone receive $100 gift cards from Speedway Motors, marking its 21st year as title sponsor of Super Nationals. “Super Nationals is our biggest event and the perfect platform for celebrating our centennial season,” IMCA Marketing Director Kevin Yoder commented. “We have had [Read More]

Australian driver ending latest American racing vacation at IMCA Super Nationals

HERVEY BAY, QLD. – If there was a long tow award given at the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s, Frank Packer would be a shoo-in. The Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod driver calls Hervey Bay in Queensland, on the east coast of Australia, home. He’ll end his latest extended racing vacation to the United States by racing at Super Nationals for the first time. “I like the close competition. All the cars in this class are fairly even and that’s what attracted me to it,” Packer said. “I originally planned to race about 25 times but now it looks like we’ll be able to get in more than 30 nights.” He’s a teammate of Modified driver Jon Snyder and has lived with Snyder’s parents in rural Boone since arriving in the United States in June. “I helped John at Super Nationals last year,” Packer said. “When we got there the track was flooded. There was water everywhere. I was impressed with how they got the track ready, the number of cars, the driving [Read More]

Saturday night champions get new engines from Karl Performance or Karl Chevrolet

BOONE, Iowa – Saturday night’s champions at the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s are again guaranteed to go home with new engines, courtesy of Karl Performance and Karl Chevrolet. After the Sept. 12 race program is complete, the engines that powered Modified, Stock Car, Hobby Stock and Northern SportMod champions will be sold at a public auction in the infield at Boone Speedway. Modified, SportMod, or Hobby Stock champions who won titles with crate motors receive a new GM 604 or 602 crate from Karl Chevrolet. Drivers in any division winning with claim motors get engines from Karl Performance. All motors will be built to IMCA specifications and any additional services or parts desired are to be taken care of at the new owner’s expense. The Modified champion, if running a claim motor, gets a KPM CPH383-60D engine valued at $6,999. The Stock Car champion will receive a KPM 360 spec engine valued at $6,040.99. The SportMod and Hobby Stock champions, if running claim motors, both get a KPM CC355-60F engine valued [Read More]

Lap money, cash bonuses add more than $6,000 to Super Nationals

BOONE, Iowa – Drivers competing in the Sept. 7-12 IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s will take home more than $6,000 in lap money and cash bonuses. The first bonus of the week will be the $250 paid on Labor Day Monday, Sept. 7 to a qualifier for that evening’s Deery Brothers Summer Series Late Model feature who is participating with Sunoco Race Fuel. Both Modified qualifying feature winners each night Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Sept. 9, 10 and 11 get $100 bonuses from Derr Farms. Gray Machine & Welding of Rock Island, Ill., pays $25 to the frontrunner for each of 30 laps of the Fast Shafts All-Star Modified Invitational Friday evening. The winner also receives an E-Z Bend tubing bender. Four race of champions events are on the Saturday, Sept. 12 card. One hundred dollars is at stake each time one of the 12 laps are scored in the Harris Auto Racing Race of Champions for Modifieds. From start to finish, the companies paying lap money to the leader are Motorsports [Read More]

SportMod Mayhem is Saturday at Dodge City Raceway Park

By Lonnie Wheatley DODGE CITY, Kan. – It will most assuredly be an action-packed night at Dodge City Raceway Park this Saturday, Aug. 29 as the track hosts the second annual IMCA SportMod Mayhem special. While SportMods battle it atop the 3/8-mile clay oval for a $1,000 winner’s share, the night of racing action that goes green at 7:30 p.m. also includes Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modifieds, IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars and IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks. General admission is $15 with children 11 and under admitted free when accompanying a paid adult. For more information, contact the track at 620 225-3277 or check www.dodgecityraceway.com.

Tafoya named to Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational field

BOONE, Iowa (Aug. 25) – Regan Tafoya has been named to the Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational field. The Farmington, N.M., driver takes the place of Californian Bobby Hogge IV in the Friday, Sept. 11 Modified event during the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s at Boone Speedway. Hogge, who had been elected from the Larry Shaw Racing Western Region during the second round of All-Star voting, notified IMCA officials this afternoon that he would now be unable to race at Super Nationals. Tafoya had the next highest vote total from among the Western Region drivers on that ballot and becomes one of 11 first-time starters in the initial field of 28. Completing the 30-car grid will be All-Star candidates with the top national point total and with the most 40-point feature wins as of Sept. 4 who are competing at Super Nationals. The 12th annual invitational is 30 laps and pays $1,000 to win and $200 to start.

Brown is best on Championship Night at Dawson County

By Kelly Ninas LEXINGTON, Neb. (Aug. 23) – The racing was for all the marbles as Dawson County Raceway hosted Championship Night on the high banks at Lexington on Sunday evening. Finishing their 2015 season with trips to the winner’s circle were Charley Brown, Josh Leonard, Mike Nichols and Jacob Olmstead. Brown drove to the point on the fourth lap and never looked back to capture the victory in the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified feature. Brown powered past early leader Mike Densberger and cruised to the win. Working his way through the traffic, Jeremy Herbst scored a runner-up finish. Leaving no doubt while driving away from the field, Mike Nichols sailed to the IMCA Sunoco Stock Car checkers. Nichols pulled away after every restart as he secured the victory. Kyle Clough went from fourth to second during the final lap to earn the runner-up honors. Going to the high side and riding the cushion for all that it was worth paid off for Josh Leonard. Leonard started on the outside of row one and [Read More]

Wedelstadt storms at Seymour

By Dave Panske SEYMOUR, Wis. (Aug. 23) – After one rain delay, a track prep session and three tries at starting the race, Mike Wedelstadt was the Budweiser IMCA Modified winner at Seymour Speedway. Rain early in the day and then again right as the first feature was taking the green flag caused track work headaches. Modifieds helped work the surface back in and were bumped back later in the program. Trevor Spaulding led the opening lap. Wedelstadt took command on the second circuit and immediately opened a lead on the bunched field behind. Benji LaCrosse pulled into the runner-up and set out to reel in the leader, nearly a straight away ahead. The lone caution on lap nine set up a great battle up front. Wedelstadt continued to lead with LaCrosse right behind. LaCrosse tried several lines to get an advantage on Wedelstadt but it wasn’t until lap 14 when he was able to pull inside and set up a five-lap, side-by-side battle with the lead going back and forth. Wedelstadt prevailed and again took sole possession of the [Read More]

Seventh starting spot leads to victory lane at Eagle

By Greg Soukup EAGLE, Neb. (Aug. 22) – Jason Martin was one of three seventh-starting drivers to win Saturday features at Eagle Raceway. Martin passed Shayle Bade for the RaceSaver IMCA Sprint Car lead following a lap nine restart. Trevor Grossenbacher passed Bade for second with six to go for what proved to be the final change in the top four. Trent Roth raced from seventh starting to win the NAPA IMCA Northern SportMod feature. The victory was his second this season at Eagle. After taking the initial green from inside row four, Adam Armstrong took the lead on lap 12 of the Valentino’s IMCA Hobby Stock feature and drove to his seventh local checkers of the season. Jeremy Bohlen’s Sam’s Club IMCA Sport Compact win came from the outside front row starting spot and was his second of 2015. Another second-time winner in 2015 was Jesse Sobbing, who raced his way from 10th to take the Kaplan University IMCA Modified checkers.

Luellen doubles up at Stuart

By Josh Reynolds STUART, Iowa (Aug. 23) – Austin Luellen tamed not one but two divisions Sunday at Stuart Speedway, topping both the Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod and IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock features. Luellen took over on lap two and his brother Clint moved into second on lap three of the SportMod main. For the next 12 laps, the Luellen brothers stole the show with Clint working high and low, pulling alongside Austin time after time. Try as he may, Austin held the top line around the track and went on to the win. Clint finished second. Luellen made it to second on lap four of the Hobby Stock feature and made the pass to the front on lap six. With a SportMod win already under his belt he looked to take the hardware in a second class. One last yellow on lap 11 slowed the field, but no one was stopping Luellen as he went on to take his second win of the night. Other winners were John Emerson in the IMCA Late Models, [Read More]