First-ever New Jersey state champion Haggenbottom sprints into IMCA record book
LEVITTOWN, Pa. – A racer through and through wrote his name in the IMCA record book this season. Mike Haggenbottom finished second in the national point standings for IMCA Eagle Motorsports RaceSaver Sprint Cars. A four-time feature winner, he finished outside the top five twice in just 21 sanctioned starts in earning Tri-State RaceSaver Series and New Egypt Speedway titles. He also became the first driver in any sanctioned division to win an Allstar Performance New Jersey State championship. “I had no clue how the IMCA point system worked,” admitted the Levittown, Pa., pilot. “A friend, Cody Mallicoat, texted me and said I was in the top two nationally. That’s pretty neat.” He’s raced Sprint Cars since 1991 and has won a championship of some sort in each of his four RaceSaver seasons. “I started racing quarter midgets when I was five years old and have driven just about every kind of race car in the last 40 years. It’s a neat feeling to wheel an open-wheeled car. With the way the tracks are, you [Read More]