Results

TUCSON, Ariz. – The first female driver to win IMCA regional rookie of the year honors knew all about going someplace fast long before her first Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified season. Kelsie Foley, 19 years old and the top rookie in the Larry Shaw Racing Western Region, completed EMT certification during her senior year of high school. She started attending summer fire academies at the age of 16, going on ride-alongs during eight hour shifts with local fire crews and emergency personnel. On track, Foley follows in the tire tracks of her father John, who raced on asphalt and then dune buggies before taking over as her crew chief. They traveled in an old Dodge pickup and towed an open trailer to six different tracks in Arizona and California. “Our goal this season was to win the Western Region rookie. We looked at this year as a learning experience,” said Foley, who logged 28 starts. “My dad and I both had asphalt backgrounds so we came out with our eyes open and our ears [Read More]

BAXTER, Minn. – Billy Kendall didn’t hesitate to answer when asked about the highlight of his first Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified season. The BMS North Central Region rookie of the year won the night two main event at North Central Speedway’s Mighty Axe Nationals, earning $1,200 and a spot on the Fast Shafts All-Star Invita­tional ballot. “I finally got a win at the Mighty Axe and it came in a Modified,” said Kendall, who celebrated his 18th birthday a month after the point season ended. That was a pretty big deal for me.” Now a senior at Brainerd High School, Kendall started racing go-karts at the age of six and worked his way through the hornet, pure stock, street stock and Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod ranks. He won five of his 37 Modified starts this season. “It was time for us to go to a new car and with the crate engine option, we decided to make the jump to a Modified. We had a really good season,” he said. “At the start of the [Read More]

CLIO, Mich. – A former track champion on asphalt is now a rookie of the year on dirt. Aaron Spearling paced first-year drivers in the Dirt Works Eastern Region despite being forced to limp to the end of his first Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified season by a late August wreck. “We learned a lot this season and that’s what we expected,” said Spearling, from Clio, Mich., and a regular at Tri-City Motor Speedway and Crystal Motor Speedway. “We knew what we were get­ting into when we signed up for this class. You know you’ve done something when you have a good finish running with these guys.” He started racing in 2004 and won the pure stock championship at Spartan Speedway in Lansing three years later. After Tri-City re-opened, Spearling raced a street stock there on Friday nights and made two or three visits to Crystal every season. “We had decent success in the street stocks and were ready for a new challenge. The big thing we had to learn with the Modified was keeping [Read More]

MOORHEAD, Minn. – Luke Johnson accomplished the rare feat of winning his first race in a new division. After the May 6 victory at Norman County Raceway, he followed with six more checkers on the way to earning the national Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod award. “Winning rookie of the year and my first-ever feature were definitely the highlights of my season,” said the Moorhead, Minn., driver. “It didn’t get any easier after the first win but after we got some more things figured out with the car, we got six more wins.” He won three times in all at Norman County and twice each at Buffalo River Race Park and Red River Valley Speedway. Johnson has been a regular at all three tracks since his mod-4 days and is partial to the West Fargo oval, where he finished third in the point standings this season. “I wanted to go to a Northern SportMod and made the switch to IMCA, and I’m glad I did,” said Johnson. “I like the way these cars drive and handle. [Read More]

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. – A car rescued from the weeds carried Richard Crow to the national rookie of the year award in IMCA’s Mach-1 Sport Compact division. “I had wrecked late in the season so I got my old car out of the weeds to finish the year,” he said. “I won three times in that car, twice at RPM Speedway and once at Salina Speedway.” From Grand Island, Neb., Crow had opted to race with IMCA because of the number of sanc­tioned tracks. He collected nine wins in all, with victories at five of the 10 different tracks in four states that he raced at. “We didn’t decide to race for rookie points until about a month into the season,” said Crow, sparked by back-to-back April checkers at U.S. 30 Speedway and Lincoln County Raceway. “We told ourselves ‘Let’s go for it.’” RPM ranks as his favorite venue. “It’s like my home track that I used to race at but has way more cars,” explained Crow. “I’d rather race against a lot of cars. [Read More]

AMES, Iowa – Joel Rust and Adam Armstrong were winners of drawings to attend Bob Harris Enterprises Race Tech Info dirt chassis schools next month. Winners of 30 designated events for Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modifieds and 15 specials for Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods and Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center Southern SportMods were entered in that drawing. Rust will attend the Jan. 13-14 session while Armstrong can look forward to the Jan. 27-28 school. All race winners received certificates good for two shock rebuilds. Modified winners were Chris Abelson, Kyle Brown, John Corell, Myron DeYoung, Tracy Domagala, Kevin Green, Richie Gustin, John Hansen, Bobby Hogge IV, Jeff James, Justin Kay, Benji La­Crosse, Josh McGaha, Hunter Marriott, Jay Noteboom, Jeremy Payne, Reed Payne, Travis Peery, Robby Sawyer, Johnny Scott, Brad Sites, Dylan Smith, Alex Stanford, Kevin Sustaire, Ricky Thornton Jr., A.J. Ward and Justin Zeitner. And SportMod drivers included Jeffrey Abbey, Justin Addison, Travis Arenz, Lance Borgman, Dar­ren DeLoach, Kinzer Edwards, Daniel Gottschalk, Shawn Harker, Levi Kiefer, Johnathon Logue, Tony Olson, Tyler Soppe and Nick Spainhoward.