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Ward wins fourth straight at Tri-City

AUBURN, Mich. (May 20) – A.J. Ward notched his fourth straight Main Street Seed and Supply IMCA Modified feature win Friday night, in front of a near capacity crowd at Tri-City Motor Speedway. Ward started inside row six while Nathan Oswald and Joey Fowler led the opening laps of the feature. Somehow, Ward was able to work the middle groove, creating three-wide battles, and snatched the lead by lap four. Once Ward took the lead, he was never challenged and cruised to his fourth feature win in a row. The remainder of the top five cars were Chad Wernette, Tanner Pray, Todd Matheson and Fowler. A record 115 cars were in the pits at Auburn Friday evening.

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Christofferson wins a close one at Atchison County

By Rick Staley ATCHISON, Kan. (May 20) – Half a car length was the margin of victory for Alvie Christofferson in Fri­day’s IMCA Sunoco Stock Car main event at Atchison County Raceway. Marvin Griffith Jr. had jumped to the early lead and appeared to have the car to beat until contact with lapped traffic sent him to the rear of the field. Greg Keuhn took over the lead until other Brad Whitney made a move of his own to take over the point. Keuhn charged back by Whitney as Christofferson arrived at the front. Christofferson and Keuhn swapped the lead back and forth in the closing laps with Christofferson picking up the feature win. Keuhn finished a close second with Josh Steele a solid third. Week one winner Jim Powell Jr. was the big mover of the race, placing fourth, with Griffith recovering to finish fifth. Jeremy Chambers worked his way through the pack and led the last three circuits in taking the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified victory. Early leader Rodney Schweizer developed mechanical [Read More]

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Pepper prevails at Dodge City 

By Lonnie Wheatley DODGE CITY, Kan. (May 21) – Michael Pepper wasted little time moving to the front in the 12-lap IMCA Sunoco Stock Car feature field to capture his second win of the year Saturday at Dodge City Raceway Park. Starting inside the second row, defending track champ Pepper used the low side to charge into the lead on the opening lap and then held off Dusty Witthuhn the rest of the way as Chris Oliver fought off Marlin Hogie the entire distance to secure show honors. Starting five rows deep in the 20-lap Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified feature did little to deter Cole Traugott. Traugott needed just eight laps to chase down early leader Tom Beavers and then checked out on the field to convincingly capture his third triumph in the last four Dodge City events in a non-stop affair. Mike Roach worked his way from the 10th starting position to add his name to the list of IMCA SportMod feature winners at Dodge City thus far in 2016. Roach, who won [Read More]

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Guinn gets Tri-State triumph

By Rob Nugent POCOLA, OK (May 21) – Arkansas clipper Kevin Guinn went toe to toe with Tate Cole for most of the race before emerging as the victor in Saturday’s Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified feature at Tri-State Speedway. Cole finished in second ahead of Kent Bright. The IMCA SportMod feature saw Ken McCarty make his way to victory lane for the first time of the season over newcomers Dallas Bourland and Luke Leatherman. A highly competitive IMCA Sunoco Stock Car race saw seven different leaders. Kris Vaughn crossed the finish line first ahead of last week’s winner Andrew Bohanan. Keith Heaslet rounded out the top three.

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Fast track, fast cars at Off Road Speedway

By Randy Pospishil NORFOLK, Neb. (May 21) – Off Road Speedway featured a dry slick track Saturday night and drivers took full advantage. The most competitive race of the night belonged to the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks where two hometown drivers at the top of the Off Road Speedway’s standings, point leader TeJay Mielke and Jeremy Hoskinson, dueled for the lead during final seven laps, often side-by-side, before Mielke eked out a win by a matter of inches at the checkered flag. Ironically, Mielke had been second last week in a similar finish after being edged at the line by Derek Husted. “The division is real tough with great drivers, This was a very clean, competitive race,” Mielke said. “I just happened to have the ‘long fender’ on this week after losing last week. The track was pretty nice tonight, slick, smooth.” Hoskinson’s runner-up spot was his fourth top five finish in five nights of racing at the Off Road Speedway. Nate DeSive was third. National point leader Ramsey Meyer won the division’s main event [Read More]

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Krichau is first on Armed Forces Night

By Greg Soukup EAGLE, Neb. (May 21) – R.J. Maas and Cole Krichau battled door handle to door handle all the way to the finish of Saturday’s Mountain Dew Kick Start IMCA Sport Compact feature at Eagle Raceway, with Krichau coming home first. The win was Krichau’s second this season at Eagle and came on Armed Forces Night. “I thought the track slowed down a little this week, so I decided to work my way down from the top,” he said. “I used the bottom for the win.” One hundred and thirty-nine race teams were entered. Dustin Andersen prevailed in the time-shortened Kaplan University IMCA Modified feature. Adam Gullion held off Tyler Drueke for his first IMCA EMI RaceSaver Sprint Car feature win this season at Eagle. Scott Bivens scored his first local NAPA IMCA SportMod feature win since the 2014 season. Ninth starting Damon Richards took the lead with six circuits remaining in topping the Valentino’s IMCA Hobby Stock headliner.

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LaCrosse is King of the Ring at Oshkosh

OSHKOSH, Wis. (May 20) – The fact that Benji LaCrosse couldn’t qualify for the main event out of his heat race gave no consolation to his Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified opponents Friday at Oshkosh SpeedZone Raceway. LaCrosse ran second in his “B” feature, lined up 18th on the main event grid and promptly raced to the $1,000 King of the Ring checkers. The win put him on the ballot for the Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational. Mike Wedelstadt set the opening lap pace before R.C. Whitwell took over and started to open a lead. Many eyes were on the rear of the field, however, as transfers Brian Drexler, Todd Dart, LaCrosse and Brian Mullen began working through the tight field. A lone caution appeared on lap 11 and Whitwell again pulled away from the field on the restart, opening a quarter-lap lead as the battle for second saw Marcus Yarie, Steve Schneider and La­Crosse mix it up with Kevin Baldry and Wedelstadt. Yarie was the first to break out of the group, taking second on lap 16.  [Read More]

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Luxemburg win is career first for Schroeder

By Greg Aregoni LUXEMBURG, Wis. (May 20) – Cody Schroeder wrestled the lead away from Ryan Lemieux for good on lap six and put his racer on checkout mode in winning for the first time in his Karl Chevro­let Northern SportMod career Friday at Luxemburg Speedway. Schroeder left the field in the dust while Chris Budzban, Scott Boyea and J.J. Anderson worked from the back of the field. Time ran out on all three to take a crack at Schroeder. Budzban started 17th and finished in the second spot as he was right on the leader’s bumper at the checkered flag. Randy Lemieux Jr. moved up from his eighth starting spot to finish third.  Boyea finished fourth after starting 18th. Anderson finished fifth after starting 19th. Other winners included: Shawn Kilgore in the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modifieds and Brian Ambrosius in the IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars. One hundred and fifty-two cars saw action Friday on the 1/3 mile.

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Shryock prevails at Southern Iowa Speedway 

By Jeremy Fox OSKALOOSA, Iowa (May 18) – Kelly Shryock was the driver in victory lane following the green, white, checkered finish that brought Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified main event to its conclu­sion Wednesday at Southern Iowa Speedway. Jason Hall grabbed the initial lead in the 20-lapper ahead of Dennis LaVeine. Josh Foster made it a three-car battle for the top spot before causing a seventh circuit caution. Hall had LaVeine and Shryock right behind him on the ensuing restart. Shryock took second from LaVeine and then passed Hall for the lead on lap nine. Cayden Carter worked his way into the runner-up spot at midway. Shryock and Carter were running a close 1-2 before the caution that came out just after the comple­tion of lap 18 that forced the green, white, checkered finish. Shryock held off Carter to take the win. Colt Mather edged Zack Vander Beek out for third and LaVeine came home fifth. Other winners were Carter in the IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars, Dustin Griffiths in the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks, Colton [Read More]

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Fast start has Ward planning ambitious NY race schedule

COBLESKILL, N.Y. – Will Ward made a name for himself in the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modi­fied ranks last season, with a career-best eight feature wins and a spot on the starting grid for the Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational. As work and weather permit, you’ll see his name in results from IMCA events across New York this year. “If they’re holding an IMCA Modified race in the Northeast, we’re going,” said the Cobleskill clip­per, already the winner of four features, most recently on back-to-back nights May 12 at Outlaw Speedway and May 13 at I-88 Speedway. “I like that the rules are going to be the same wherever I go. I can run here in New York, then go to Boone for Super Nationals and not have to change anything,” he continued. “If I wanted to go to Arizona and race, I could do that, too.” Now in his fifth Modified season, Ward has spent his entire racing career in the IMCA division. He pi­loted a 16-year-old chassis as a rookie – his dad Billy [Read More]