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281 Speedway starts new season with IMCA Big Chill Throwdown special

STEPHENVILLE, Texas – Four IMCA divisions are on the card for both nights of 281 Speedway’s season-opening Big Chill Throwdown. IMCA Modifieds, IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars, Smiley’s Racing Products Southern SportMods and Mach-1 Sport Compacts will be featured in Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8 and 9 shows. Modifieds race for $600 to win, Stock Cars and Southern SportMods both for $500 and Sport Compacts for $200 each night. IMCA Speedway Motors Weekly Racing National, regional, Texas State and track points will be awarded both nights. There is no entry fee. Pits open at noon on Friday with check-in running from 5 p.m. until the 7:15 p.m. drivers’ meeting. The grandstand opens at 6 p.m. and racing starts at 8 p.m. On Saturday, the pit area opens at 8 a.m. and check-in runs from 4 p.m. until the 6:15 p.m. drivers’ meeting. The grandstand opens at 5 p.m. and the first green flag flies at 7 p.m. Spectator admission both days is $15 for adults, $10 for seniors, military and students, $5 for kids ages 6-12 [Read More]

Fast Shafts qualifier slated Feb. 27 at LVMS Dirt Track

LAS VEGAS, Nev. – IMCA Modifieds run for $1,000 to win and a berth on the Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational ballot at their Wednesday, Feb. 27 show at Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s half-mile Dirt Track. The feature pays a minimum of $75 to start with $50 paid to non-qualifiers. Entry fee is $25. IMCA Speedway Motors Weekly Racing National, Larry Shaw Race Cars Western Region and Nevada State points will be awarded. RACEceivers and transponders are required. World of Outlaws Sprint Cars and USAC Sprint Cars are also on the mid-week card. Pit gates open at 10 a.m. and pit pass sales start at 2 p.m. Front gates open at 3 p.m., the drivers’ meeting is at 3:30 p.m. and the race program begins at 6:15 p.m. More information is available from Chris Kearns at 805 714-8538.

Center scores Sunday SportMod, Stock Car checkers at Canyon’s IMCA Winter Challenge

PEORIA, Ariz. (Jan. 26-27) – After a forgettable opening night, Cody Center had a Sunday to remember Sunday at Canyon Speedway Park’s Winter Challenge Series. A DNS in Saturday’s main event following two early tangles with another car in his heat race, Center started last but still earned his career-first Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod feature win in the second day show at Peoria. He followed with the IMCA Sunoco Stock Car checkers, winning two main events on the same program for the first time. “There were so many emotions after the SportMod win. That was a team effort if I ever had one,” said Center, crediting his father Darin and crewman Garrett Hommel for getting the car race-ready again after nasty heat race dustups both days. “They got my car rebuilt twice so I could win on Sunday.” That victory came ahead of Speedy Madrid and Bo Partain. He took the lead early in the Stock Car feature and won ahead of John Parmeley and George Fronsman. “I absolutely love the Stock Cars. They’re by [Read More]

Unique awards for Late Model, Deery drivers highlight Integra’s 10th season as IMCA sponsor

COOPERSVILLE, Mich. – Integra Racing Shocks continues a unique program of awards for Late Model and Deery Brothers Sumer Series drivers in 2019, its 10th season as an IMCA sponsor. Both the first and second place drivers in combined Late Model national and tour point standings receive $350 product certificates from the Coopersville, Mich., manufacturer. Third and fourth place drivers in combined points each get $250 product certificates and fifth and sixth place drivers both earn $150 product certificates. IMCA Modified, IMCA Sunoco Stock Car, IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock, Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod and Smiley’s Racing Products Southern SportMod drivers also earn Integra awards based on regional or national point standings. Certificates good for $350, $250 and $150 go to top three eligible drivers in each of the five regions for Modifieds, both Stock Car regions and both Hobby Stock regions, and to top three drivers in national Northern SportMod and Southern SportMod standings. Drivers in all six divisions must compete with four Integra shocks and springs, display two Integra decals on their race car and [Read More]

Hyperco gives awards in five IMCA divisions, Deery Series

PONTOTOC, Miss. – Drivers in five IMCA divisions, as well as Deery Brothers Summer Series competitors are in the running again this season for product awards from Hyperco. The Pontotoc, Miss., high performance suspension components manufacturer and 22-year sponsor gives awards based on regional standings for IMCA Modifieds, IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars and IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks, and on national standings for Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods and Smiley’s Racing Products Southern SportMods. “What can we say … we love IMCA racing!” said Hyperco Motorsports Market Manager Justin Cockerham. “From coast to coast, these guys and gals are racing every weekend and racing hard.” “The IMCA market, like all circle track racing on both dirt and asphalt is among Hyperco’s largest core markets for providing spring solutions and these competitors help us grow every day as they race in some of the toughest conditions around the country,” he continued. “If you can develop a product that can survive what they are doing on a nightly basis, then you know you are doing something right.” Top three eligible [Read More]

Casey’s continues IMCA Super Nationals, Deery Series support through 2021

ANKENY, Iowa – The premier event in all of dirt track racing and the longest running Late Model series in the Midwest will enjoy their association with Casey’s General Store through the 2021 race season. Casey’s, the Official Convenience Store of IMCA, will return as presenting sponsor of the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals, to be held Sept. 2-7 at Boone Speedway, and as title sponsor for the redraw at each main event in the 33rd annual IMCA Late Model tour. The latest agreement takes Casey’s through its ninth year as an IMCA sponsor. “Casey’s is excited to continue its partnership with IMCA through the year 2021,” said Promotions Manager Angela Wood. “We have a long history of supporting racing in communities we operate and providing fans and competitors with locations to stop for fuel, pizza, snacks and drinks when traveling to and from race events.” The first Casey’s location opened 51 years ago in Boone. A new store was built and opened late last year in Vinton, hometown of the International Motor Contest Association. The Ankeny, Iowa, [Read More]

IMCA Modified, SportMod drivers chasing Bob Harris Enterprises special event awards

AMES, Iowa – Special events drivers in three IMCA divisions are in the running again this season for awards from Bob Harris Enterprises. Harris, of Ames, Iowa, will give two free shock rebuilds to a top five finisher at each of 30 IMCA Modified specials, and at 15 Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod and Smiley’s Racing Products Southern SportMod specials. A drawing will be held following the regular point season to award Race Tech Info Dirt Chassis School packages to one Modified driver and one SportMod driver. Drawing winners last year were Kody Scholpp and Josh Appel. Certificates for the shock rebuilds are mailed after special events results are received at the IMCA home office. Race Tech Info seminar certificates will be mailed in December. BHE begins its seventh season as an IMCA sponsor. Owner Bob Harris has been associated with the sanctioning body since the early days of the Modified division and also promotes the Harris Clash. “This will mark my 37th year being involved with IMCA and the competitive teams that participate in weekly races [Read More]

IMCA Late Models gain new Thursday home at Nebraska’s U.S. 30 Speedway

COLUMBUS, Neb. – Another sanctioned division has joined weekly race programs at one of the longest IMCA tenured tracks in Nebraska. U.S. 30 Speedway presented by O’Reilly Auto Parts adds the IMCA Late Model division to its regular Thursday shows. The 1/3-mile clay oval at Columbus is one of four newly sanctioned tracks in eastern Nebraska. “We sat down with officials from the other tracks and agreed to go with the same set of rules,” explained Bobby Lincoln, co-promoter at U.S. 30 with his wife Janelle. “It made sense to go with IMCA. We were already sanctioned by them for everything else.” “The sanction gives Late Model drivers the opportunity to race for national and state points and point fund shares,” he added. “It’s a way we can give back to them more.” Opening night at Columbus is set for April 18. Season championship night is Aug. 29 and the National Auto Sales-sponsored Late Models see action on one night of the Abe Lincoln Memorial in September. Part of the Jet Racing Central Region, U.S. [Read More]

New-look logo created for IMCA Speedway Motors Weekly Racing

VINTON, Iowa – New season, new look. The new IMCA Speedway Motors Weekly Racing logo was unveiled today. Incorporating the new Speedway Motors logo with the familiar red IMCA logo, it will appear on decals to be mailed in 2019 drivers’ packets for all eight divisions. The new logo will also accompany many of the releases posted on the IMCA website and published in the IMCA newsletter. “We have released the new weekly racing logo in conjunction with Speedway Motors’ rebranding,” said IMCA President Brett Root. “We’ve had a great partnership with Speedway Motors and we look forward to continuing that relationship for many more years.” Speedway Motors is the longest tenured IMCA sponsor, as part of a business partnership that dates to the 1950s. The Lincoln, Neb., speed shop, founded by ‘Speedy’ Bill Smith and his wife Joyce in 1952, has paved the road for drivers for the past 67 years through innovation, grit, and good old-fashioned heart. Now the world’s largest manufacturer, distributor and retailer of street rod, muscle car and racing products [Read More]

Junction Motor Speedway adding IMCA Late Models, Stock Cars to Saturday shows

McCOOL JUNCTION, Neb. – IMCA Late Models and IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars will be new to Saturday night programs this season at Junction Motor Speedway. They’ll become the fifth and sixth divisions, respectively, sanctioned by IMCA at McCool Junction. Promoter Delmar Friesen noted he’d gotten positive input from drivers in both divisions about the possibility of sanctioning. IMCA Late Models last ran weekly in Nebraska in 2004. “It’s great to have them back. We need to keep this division economical and we need to give drivers a place to race,” he said. “There has to be a sanctioning body to make sure the rules are the same at every track and now there is one.” Opening weekend at the 3/8-mile dirt oval is March 22 and 23 with the Mike Chapin Memorial Spring Thaw. The IMCA Speedway Motors Weekly Racing season championship night for all divisions other than the Late Models is Aug. 31 with the Barb Nunnenkamp Memorial McCool 100 on Sept. 27 and Sept. 28. IMCA Modified points earned at Junction figure toward [Read More]