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Four IMCA divisions featured at Canyon’s Winter Challenge

PEORIA, Ariz. – IMCA Modifieds run for $1,000 to win and berths on the Fast Shafts Allstar Invitational all four nights of the Winter Challenge Series at Canyon Speedway Park. Saturday and Sunday Jan. 21-22 and Jan. 28-29 programs also feature IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars and Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods in $500 to win features while IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock chase $250 top checks. IMCA Speedway Motors Weekly Racing National, regional, Allstar Performance State and special series, but no local track points will be given all four nights. Pill draw is $25 for the Modifieds, $20 for both Stock Cars and Northern SportMods, and $10 for Hobby Stocks. Pit gates will be open throughout both weekends and camping is available. Grandstands open at 11 a.m. and racing begins at 1 p.m. Pit passes are $35 for adults, $20 for kids ages 7-11 and free for six and under. Spectator admission is $20 for adults, $15 for seniors and military, and free for kids 11 and under. Open practice sessions start at 7 p.m. Fridays Jan. [Read More]

Rookie Welshonse finishes close second at Southern Oregon

By Ben Deatherage MEDFORD, Ore. – The IMCA Modified division is considered one of the toughest classes to compete in no matter what the track is. For James Welshonse, he would make his debut in 2016 in this stacked group of drivers at White City’s Southern Oregon Speedway. The nearby Medford native had limited experience prior to the campaign including a handful of SportMod starts and a couple of years in both the street stock and mini stock ranks. The year would feature an unbelievable amount of success beyond Welshonse’s dreams. “It was a really good experience and we had a blast,” commented Welshonse, “it was really just a learning year for me and trying to figure out how these cars work.” The year would see four top-five finishes at White City had just only one finish outside of the top 10, an 11th place result. Without a doubt, Welshonse’s greatest achievement was his main event victory on Sept. 17 to cap the 2016 race season off. In addition to his main event performances, he [Read More]

Speedway Motors announces Racer Appreciation Week

LINCOLN, Neb. (Jan. 17) – Speedway Motors will kick of its 65th anniversary year and help racers everywhere get a head start on the 2017 season with its first-ever Racer Appreciation Week Feb. 6-11. Building on the success of Racer Appreciation Day, an open house event that attracted racers from throughout the Midwest, Racer Appreciation Week will take the celebration online and nationwide with a weeklong series of promotions, social media spotlights, discounts and giveaways. Racers can watch the Speedway Motors Facebook page, sign up for the company’s email club, or simply follow along at SpeedwayMotors.com to get in on all of the action during the week. “Our Racer Appreciation Day event was such a success that we simply outgrew it,” said company spokesperson Damon Lee. “We also had countless customers who were too far away to take part. So we thought, why not open it up to all racers using the power of the internet? We think it will be a great way to get racers excited about the upcoming season.” Racers can expect special offers [Read More]

Day Motor Sports delivers awards to IMCA special events drivers in all eight divisions

TYLER, Texas – Drivers in all eight IMCA divisions chase awards from Day Motor Sports for a 14th season in 2017. Top five finishers in up to 80 designated specials receive $50 gift cards from the Tyler, Texas, circle track warehouse. Those gift cards will be mailed from the IMCA home office within a week after official race results are received. Day also gives gift cards to competitors at the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s and the IMCA Sprint Car Nationals again in September. “Day Motor Sports, your circle track warehouse, is proud to be a sponsor for the 2017 racing season and looks forward to providing IMCA racers the finest quality parts at the lowest prices,” said Company President Joe Francis. “Look for our parts trailer visiting our local IMCA tracks as well as at the Super Nationals in Boone. Also, come by and see us or call for a new 2017 catalog.” Information about the wide range of Day high performance products, safety gear, shop and pit equipment is available [Read More]

TomCat Performance giving special event, Super Nationals contingencies again in 2017

MOORESVILLE, N.C. – Special event winners in all divisions and a new group of Super Nationals heat winners receive awards from TomCat Performance in 2017. The wholesale division and inhouse brand of Carolina Racing Supply in Mooresville, N.C., the six-year IMCA marketing sponsor gives quick disconnect throttle rod assemblies to main event winners at 80 designated specials this season, and to all Stock Car, Northern SportMod and Southern SportMod heat winners at the Sept. 4-9 IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s. Certificates will be mailed from the IMCA home office after special events results are received, and beginning the week after Super Nationals. “The biggest change we’ll see in this program is the distribution of throttle rods to three different divisions at this year’s Super Nationals event in Boone,” noted IMCA Marketing Director Kevin Yoder. “It is always great to get product in the hands of racers and this program allows us to do that on IMCA’s biggest stage.” More information is available by calling Carolina Racing Supply at 704 662-8299, on Facebook [Read More]

Winter Heat Challenge Series starts season at Perris

PERRIS, Calif. – Pit gates open at noon and racing starts at 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21 when the Winter Heat Challenge Series starts the 2017 season at Perris Auto Speedway. The grandstand opens and hot laps for the IMCA Modifieds start at 2 p.m. There is no entry fee; pit passes are $50. Grandstand admission is $15 for adults, $5 for active military personnel and students ages 13-18 with ID, and for kids ages six through 12. Youngsters five and under get in free. Free parking during the series, which continues Feb. 11 and 12, is courtesy of the Lake Perris Fairgrounds. More information is available by calling the track office at 951 940-0139.

Northern SportMods become fourth IMCA division featured at Canyon Speedway Park

PEORIA, Ariz. – A fourth IMCA division will be featured beginning this season at Canyon Speedway Park. Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods are new in 2017 at the Peoria, Ariz., venue, running each night of the Winter Challenge Series in January and the Desert Classic in February. The SportMods join sanctioned Modifieds, a Canyon staple for more than a quarter century, and IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars and Hobby Stocks, both added last season, on regular Saturday race programs. First local track points for the SportMods, as well as the Stocks and Hobbies, will be given for Feb. 24 and 25 Desert Classic shows. “With the growth of IMCA and the number of people buying cars, we felt like this would be a good time to sanction the Northern SportMods,” said Canyon owner and co-promoter Doug Gabbard. “It’s a win-win situation. There’s definitely going to be opportunities for racing Northern SportMods in Arizona.” Arizona Speedway and Central Arizona Speedway both crowned their first local track champions in the class last year. Northern SportMods will run for a [Read More]

Brinn Transmission gives special events awards in 15th season as IMCA partner

BAY CITY, Mich. – Brinn Transmission keeps its focus on Modified special events and special series competitors, in its 15th season as an IMCA marketing partner. The Bay City, Mich., manufacturer again gives $50 product certificates to top five place finishers at 30 designated Modified specials. Those 150 drivers will be entered in a post-point season drawing, with the winner receiving a new Brinn transmission. Champions of IMCA Modified special series, the Kupper Chevrolet Dakota Classic Tour and Hawkeye Dirt Tour among them, receive transmission rebuilds from Brinn. Product certificates will be mailed from the IMCA home office after official results from specials are received; certificates for rebuilds will be presented during the national awards banquet in November. The pole starter in the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s Saturday night main event also receives a new transmission. All 33 qualifiers for that event and the 12 Harris Auto Racing Race of Champions starters receive $50 product certificates, upping the total amount of Brinn certificates to be given this year to nearly $10,000. This [Read More]

IMCA Modified, Late Model drivers vie for Sweet steering boxes again in 2017

KALAMAZOO, Mich. – The manufacturer of the official steering box of IMCA returns to its very integral role in contingency awards programs for two divisions in 2017. Champions in each of the five Modified regions and the top driver in national Late Model point standings all earn steering boxes from Sweet Manufacturing. Second through fifth place finishers in each Modified region receive $50 gift certificates. Drivers in both divisions must compete with two Sweet Manufacturing decals on their race cars to be eligible. Recipients of steering boxes awarded at the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s will include Modified and Late Model champions, plus the Modified front row starters, longest tow qualifier, top non-qualifier in points, the Harris Auto Racing Race of Champions and Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational winners, and best appearing car contest winner. The final steering box to be awarded as part of the 2017 Sweet program will go to the Modified winner of the Duel In the Desert at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in November. “Sweet Manufacturing is honored to [Read More]

IMCA Stocks, Hobbies, Sport Compacts new at I-76

FORT MORGAN, Colo. (Jan. 10) – Three more IMCA sanctioned divisions join regular race programs at I-76 Speedway this season. New are the IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars, IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks and Mach-1 Sport Compacts. The season opener for all three classes, as well as Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modifieds and Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods at Fort Morgan is the Sunday, April 30 Ice Breaker. Eleven Saturday shows are scheduled through Sept. 16. All five divisions are also on the Monday, July 3 card. Promoter Butch Speicher anticipates sharing cars with Phillips County Raceway at Holyoke. “We ran four Stock Car shows last year and they put on a good show,” said Speicher, optimistic about building car count numbers in 2017. “Our existing econo class already had rules that were pretty close to the IMCA Hobby Stocks and our hornet class was pretty close to the Sport Compacts.” Stock Car points earned at I-76 apply in IMCA’s EQ Cylinder Heads Northern Region. I-76 is part of the Big Daddy Race Cars Northern Region for Hobby [Read More]