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Four IMCA drivers see victory lane to open season at Outagamie

By Scott J. Owen SEYMOUR, Wis. (May 3, 2024) – Mother Nature was a race fan this week as the 2024 racing season kicked off at the Outagamie Speedway presented by Klink Equipment and Elite Coatings. A full pit area of 132 cars signed in for night one action. IMCA feature winners on the night included Colton See, Brandon Czarapata, Konnor Wilinski, and Taylor Junk. Cole Slezewski led early in the Friesen Performance IMCA Northern SportMod feature before giving way to See. See was soon chased by Derek Fehling. See saw his way through lapped traffic better though and was able to keep Fehling at bay. In the end it was See followed by Fehling and Jake Carpenter. The IMCA Sunoco Stock Car feature was more exciting than Thor at a 2-for-1 hammer sale. Czarapata and Josh Mroczkowski dueled early with Rod Snellenberger and Mike Mullen tight behind them. Mullen soon moved to second and showed the nose of his car to Czarapata multiple times. Mullen took the lead on lap nine but it was Czarapata [Read More]

Spaw celebrates birthday with CJ Speedway win

By Jerry Mackey COLUMBUS JUNCTION, Iowa (May 3, 2024) – The 2024 IMCA Speedway Motors Weekly Racing season got underway on Friday night at the CJ Speedway on a nice night for racing. The headliner of the night was the IMCA Sunoco Stock Car main event with a stellar field of drivers set for the 16-lap feature. Kirk Kinsley led in the early going before sixth starting Johnny Spaw was able to put his no. 00 out front. With Spaw out front, Corey Strothman and Dustin Griffiths joined in a three-car breakaway battling for the lead. Spaw took the win and Strothman crossed under the checkers in second but failed post-race inspection giving second to Griffiths. John Oliver Jr. came on strong in the late going to take third. The Friesen Performance IMCA Modified feature saw Washington driver Brandon Banks score the win. Banks shot into the lead from the outside front row start but was quickly challenged by CJ Speedway hot shoes Kurt Kile and Jarrett Brown. The three put on quite a race [Read More]

Eight more IMCA Stock Car drivers to contend for B & B All-Star honors

VINTON, Iowa (April 30, 2024) – Another eight IMCA Sunoco Stock Car drivers will be in the running for B & B Racing Chassis All-Star Invitational honors this fall. 2021 race winner Kelly Shryock topped Marshalltown Speedway’s King of the Highbanks, earning $5,000 and an automatic berth in the September spectacular. Newly qualifying eligible are Jeffrey Abbey, winner of Heart O’ Texas Speedway’s Baby Blue Harcrow; Frostbuster winners Austin Bouzek at Stuart and Rod Richards at Boone; Clay County Fair Speedway winner Colby Fett; Central California Clash winner Rick Diaz; Jesse Sobbing, winner of the Dirt Crown show at Stuart; and Tathan Burkhart, opening night winner at Saltcity Racing. Also winning qualifying events and already eligible were Troy Burkhart, Jordan Grabouski, Damon Murty and Jeff Ware. Drivers eligible to qualify for the B & B Racing Chassis All-Star Invitational now include: Jeffrey Abbey, Brock Beeter, Tom Berry Jr., Austin Bouzek, David Brandies, Austin Brands, Larry Brigner, Tathan Burkhart, Troy Burkhart, Cole Czarneski, Zane DeVilbiss, Rick Diaz, Levi Feltman and Colby Fett. Jordan Grabouski, Trent Grager, [Read More]

Fast Shafts All-Star eligible list adds six

VINTON, Iowa (April 30, 2024) – Another half-dozen Friesen Performance IMCA Modified drivers became eligible to qualify for the Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational during a month that saw more than its share of rain and too many rainouts. Chad Andersen won on opening night of the Ice Breaker Challenge at Eagle Raceway and Dylan Sherfick topped WaKeeney’s Buzzard Bash Dash. Kellen Chadwick collected the Central California Clash checkers at Antioch and Brett Berry was the winner during Dodge City’s Sprint Car Nationals. Topping weekly $1,000 to win events were Jason Czarapata and Justin Zeitner. Drivers already eligible winning one or more qualifying events were Tom Berry Jr., Ethan Braaksma, Spencer Diercks, William Gould, Dakota Sproul and Tim Ward. The 44 IMCA Modified drivers now Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational eligible include: Chris Abelson, Chase Allen, Curtis Allen, Chad Andersen, Ricky Alvarado, Brandon Beckendorf, Eddie Belec, Brett Berry, Tom Berry Jr., Ethan Braaksma and Kellen Chadwick. Jason Czarapata, Zane DeVilbiss, Spencer Diercks, Trevor Fitz, Troy Foulger, Daniel Gottschalk, William Gould, Jordan GrabouskiTravis Hagen, Toby Herring and Kollin [Read More]

Miller sprints to IMCA RaceSaver East Coast Nationals win

CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (April 27, 2024) – The fourth time was a charm Saturday night for Chris Miller. The Chillicothe speedster was first across the stripe every lap of the inaugural East Coast Nationals Chad Hyatt Memorial, collecting a $2K IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Car payday at hometown Atomic Speedway. “This has been a race we’ve had our eves on for a while, but it got rained out twice last year and again last week,” Miller explained following his first checkers in three Ohio Thunder Sprint Series starts so far in 2024. “To pick up the win means a lot. We’ve been focused on this race for a while.” Miller had run second in his heat and posted the second fastest time before lining up outside pole for the headline 30-lapper. Owen Timm was briefly ahead before Miller regained the lead in lapped traffic. The final caution came with eight circuits to go and defending series champion Wyatt Justice made the race to the finish a close one after Miller got stuck on the lower line. Justice, [Read More]

Shatzer gets to lead late in Winchester RaceSaver win

WINCHESTER, Va. (April 27, 2024) – He didn’t lead the most laps, just the most important one. Dylan Shatzer raced in the top three for the whole feature and was finally able to swoop around the leader in traffic after taking the white flag in second and go on to win in the Saturday IMCA RaceSaver event co-sanctioned by the Virginia Sprint Series and Laurel Highlands Sprint Series at Winchester Speedway. Matt Klien and Ryan Lynn started on the front row of the feature but Klien stopped in turn two with a broken rear axle, which could have been a disaster at speed. After clearing the car, Croix Beasom and Lynn paced the field to green with Beasom out first, Lynn second and Shatzer third. Action would continue after a red flag for three cars bicycling and stopping or flipped in turn one with Beasom out again with Lynn and Shatzer on the really fast clay oval. Lap after lap they chased each other as the pack behind them were changing every circuit. As they [Read More]

Grand opening event held at Saltcity Racing

By Sheldon Wickwar HUTCHINSON, Kan. (April 26, 2024) – Dakota Sproul, Cody Williams, Warren Huffman, Tathan Burkhart, and Taylor Velasquez all picked up historic first IMCA feature wins at Saltcity Racing located at the Kansas State Fairgrounds in Hutchinson. Sixty-five race teams checked into Hutchinson, and the packed grandstands saw some great opening night IMCA racing action, along with the United Rebel Sprint Series. The 15-lap IMCA Sunoco Stock Car feature started with a front row of Craig Miller and Tathan Burkhart. Miller was in front early but down the backstretch Burkhart grabbed the race lead. Meanwhile his father Troy was battling for fourth place with William Nusser. Tathan Burkhart built a big lead right away as Miller and Mike Petersilie were nose to tail for second and third place. At halfway, Tathan Burkhart entered lapped traffic while still holding a big lead over Miller but lap seven saw a caution for a car stopped on the front stretch Miller surrendered second place to Petersilie off the restart. Tathan Burkhart pulled away late and went on to [Read More]

Miller returns to home state for South Dakota IMCA Late Model win

JEFFERSON, S.D. (April 25, 2024) – Fans at Park Jefferson Speedway got to see one of their own in victory lane when IMCA Sunoco Late Models made their triumphant return to South Dakota. Sioux Falls native and now Silvis, Ill., racer Evan Miller passed Jesse Sobbing and then Keegan Nordquist late in Thursday night’s 25-lapper to earn the $1,000 Titan Clash payday. The checkers came in the first IMCA Late Model event held in South Dakota since 2007, the summer before Miller started second grade. “It’s pretty awesome,” said Miller, who’d taken the day off work to make the almost 400 mile tow and became the national points leader with the win. “We’d started thinking about making this race right after Park Jefferson posted about it and we really wanted to come back and race in front of family and sponsors we have here.” The win came in his fourth start of the season. Miller had made 19 starts, with one feature win and eight top five finishes at seven different tracks as a rookie [Read More]

Out of the ashes

After trailer fire cuts 2023 season short, Philpott tops opener at Cottage Grove La PINE, Ore. (April 20, 2024) – Standing by the side of Interstate 5 and surveying what was left of his burned out trailer and blackened remains of his race car last August, Landyn Philpott had to wonder what came next in his motorsports career, if anything. Fast forward to opening night Saturday at Cottage Grove Speedway and the youngster from La Pine was standing in victory lane, following his career-first Friesen Performance IMCA Northern SportMod feature win. “The win meant a lot to me because it was my first, but to be honest it meant more because of everything we had to do just to be able to race this year,” said Philpott, 17 years old and a junior at La Pine High School. “And because Cottage Grove was the last track we raced at last year.” That last start, on Aug. 5, saw Philpott win his first heat race and run second in the main event, the best of his rookie [Read More]

Fantastic finishes highlight season opener at Benton County Speedway

VINTON, Iowa (April 21, 2024) – If Sunday night’s IMCA Weekly Racing season opener was an indication of things to come, it’s going to be an exciting year at Benton County Speedway. Multiple events were decided by late-race passes as fans were provided with 109 race teams in action on the fast, multi-groove quarter mile in an efficient show that took just over three hours to complete. The IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars presented by Christie Door Company led the list of exciting finishes at The Bullring as 18 entries competed in the first night of action. Gage Neal, Dustin Griffiths and John Oliver Jr. shared time out front throughout the 20-lapper before Kaden Reynolds made a last corner pass to work the low side by Oliver to score the opening night win. Kyle Olson raced from a fifth row start to finish third ahead of Jay Schmidt. Reynolds, who started eighth and raced to his career 10th Stock Car win on the Vinton oval Sunday night, was also the winner on championship night last season. The [Read More]