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Winebarger tops finale, Williamson is Wild West Modified Shootout champion

By Ben Deatherage LEBANON, Ore. (June 20) – After catching Jon DeBenedetti, Collen Winebarger raced to a $1,000 payday in the final event of the Wild West Modified Shootout at Willamette Speedway. Once in front, Winebarger cruised to the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified victory and a spot on the ballot for the Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational. Jesse Williamson clinched his third career tour title in four years with a 10th place showing. DeBenedetti began building what appeared to be a comfortable lead before Winebarger drove by coming to the stripe on lap eight. Winebarger took off from the main pack from that point. A long green flag run that lasted 29 circuits put traffic into the mix but Winebarger would handle the traffic with ease. A caution on lap 30 bunched up the field one last time with no lapped traffic between the frontrunners. Winebarger maintained his lead following the ensuing restart and ran in front the rest of the way for his career first Wild West Modified Shootout victory and fourth win at Willamette in [Read More]

Eakin breezes to IMCA Sprint win at I-90

By Steve Zwemke HARTFORD, S.D. (June 20) – Six weeks have produced six different winners in the Coffee Cup IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Car division at I-90 Speedway. Nate Eakin dusted the field by leading all 20 laps of this week’s feature. “You had to adapt to the track and we did,” said Eakin, who started from the pole. It didn’t take him long to form a rather large lead and it stayed that way until Jeff Edgington spun on the final lap. Eakin again showed his dominance over the final two laps for his first win at I-90 Speedway. Point leader Colin Smith was second.

Pruitt picks up first Stock Car win at Stuart

By Josh Reynolds STUART, Iowa (June 21) – Brandon Pruitt became a first-time IMCA Sunoco Stock Car feature winner Sunday at Stuart Speedway. Pruitt wasted little time in taking charge from his front row start. Marcus Fagan got up to second before a lap four caution but there was no catching Pruitt once the race was re-started. Fagan ended as the runner-up and Josh Daniels took third. Josh Gilman held on following a late caution to take the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified victory in green, white, checkered fashion. Nick Roberts made it a contest but settled for second. Completing the top three was Luke Wanninger. Shannon Anderson scored his second straight Father’s Day win at Stuart. Kody Havens prevailed in the Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod main event and Jacob Reiter swept heat and feature wins in the Mach-1 Sport Compacts.

Photo finish Wild West Shootout win for Stanford at Willamette

By Ben Deatherage LEBANON, Ore. (June 19) – The outcome was decided by all of .017 of a second Friday night as defending Wild West Modified Shootout champion Alex Stanford continued his tour success at Willamette Speedway. Ryan Gaylord led most of the way in the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified main event before Stanford moved from the middle to the higher line. The front pair came out of the final turn door handle to door handle. Stanford eked just inches ahead to take the $1,000 victory, The Shootout victory was his first this season, Stanford’s tour career sixth and fourth straight win at Willamette during Speedweek competition in a streak dating from 2013. Jesse Williamson, hard charger Jeremy Shank and Collen Winebarger completed the top five. Stanford was already on the ballot for the upcoming Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational. Winebarger raced his way back through the field after spinning out of the lead on lap four. Gaylord inherited the point and stayed in front through two restarts, for debris on laps seven and 28, [Read More]

Hogan nabs IMCA Modified checkers at Benton County Speedway

VINTON, Iowa (June 21) – Although the 21st annual Hogan Memorial isn’t scheduled until July 12, Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified driver Scott Hogan served up his own version of the event Sunday night at Benton County Speedway. While the July 12 event is held in honor of the memory of his parents, Hogan delivered his first win of the season on Father’s Day, which also would have been his mother’s 78th birthday. Mike Burbridge built a big early lead in the 20-lap feature while Jerry Dedrick pursued and Hogan raced from a fourth row start. Hogan settled into the top three in time for a pair of restarts on laps eight and nine, however Burbridge powered away from the field each time racing resumed. After action was slowed for caution a final time with three laps to go, Hogan went to work on the top groove and was able to pull even with the leader down the back stretch. He led the final two circuits to race to the memorable win ahead of Burbridge [Read More]

Banks earns first Southern Iowa checkers of 2015

By Jeremy Fox OSKALOOSA, Iowa (June 17) – Brandon Banks won for the first time this season at Southern Iowa Speedway, in the Wednesday night Musco Lighting IMCA Modified main event. Banks jumped out to the lead at the start and never looked back, taking the checkers a full straightaway over Colt Mather, who was making his first appearance at SIS. Carter VanDenBerg finished third. Cayden Carter held off challenges from Brad Pinkerton, Damon Murty, Nathan Wood and Mike Hughes in topping the Budweiser IMCA Stock Car feature. Curtis VanDerWal won his fifth local KBOE Radio IMCA Northern SportMod feature this season, passing Cory Van Zante on the last lap. Dustin Griffiths took the lead on lap 11 en route to his third SIS Pepsi Cola Hobby Stock win of 2015. Bill Bonnett settled for second. Bill Whalen Jr. held off a late-race charge from his brother John to take his second Mach-1 Sport Compact win at Osky. John Girdley rounded out the top three. VanDerWal and Nathan Wood won the Australian pursuit for the SportMods [Read More]

Williamson collects third Wild West Modified Shootout win at SSP

By Ben Deatherage BANKS, Ore. (June 17) – Jesse Williamson’s drive to a career third Wild West Modified Shootout crown continued with his third feature win of the 2015 tour Wednesday at Sunset Speedway Park. B.J. Wild was the man to beat for much of the first half of the $1,000 to win Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified race. Wild was under constant pressure from Williamson but each time it seemed the challenger had the position secured the yellow would come out resulting in Wild retaining the lead. On lap 21, defending champion Alex Stanford negotiated his way into the lead and took right off. Stanford was catching lapped traffic before getting into the wall after contact was made with a lapped car on lap 37. Stanford was towed off the track and Williamson moved to the front for the restart. With a handful of laps to go, Williamson stayed in front the rest of the way for his third main event of the 2015 Shootout and second career Shootout win at SSP. Wild ended [Read More]

Ahlers, Holm win first North Star Touring Series features

WORTHINGTON, Minn. (June 16) – Two drivers scored IMCA North Star Touring Series career first victories Tuesday at Nobles County Speedway. Dan Ahlers took the Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod win in front of Jason Andrews and Dany Myrvold. Trevor Holm led the way in the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock feature with Justin Nehring in second and Dustin Gulbrandson third. Defending champion Brandon Beckendorf became the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified wins leader with his tour career seventh checkers. Jeffrey Larson and Josh Rogotzke completed the top three. Luke Sathoff won his second straight IMCA Sunoco Stock Car tour outing, beating Jim Larson and Chris Palsrok across the stripe. Nate Coopman racked up Mach-1 Sport Compact win number four. Second went to Jay DeVries and third was Kaytee DeVries. Feature Results Modifieds – 1. Brandon Beckendorf; 2. Jeffrey Larson; 3. Josh Rogotzke; 4. Jeff Joldersma; 5. Jason Fisher; 6. Josh Bonnstetter; 7. Randy Klein; 8. Mike Fogelman; 9. Corey Bosma; 10. Nicholas Ober; 11. Jeff Ignaszewski; 12. Justin Anderson; 13. Mat Hollerich; 14. Aaron Krohn; 15. Tyler [Read More]

Williamson is first to repeat Wild West Modified Shootout checkers

By Ben Deatherage COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. (June 16) – A two-time tour champion became the first two-time winner in the 2015 Wild West Modified Shootout Tuesday at Cottage Grove Speedway. Jesse Williamson rallied to win the fourth installment of the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified tour, and $1,000. He’d also topped the opener at Southern Oregon Speedway on June 13. Forty-three cars from eight states and Canada were on hand for the Tuesday show. Californian Troy Foulger was the early leader before giving way to Williamson on lap five. Williamson appeared to have checked out and had the race won until going off of turns three and four on lap 16. He got back on the track but relinquished the front spot to defending champ Alex Stanford. Cautions took lapped traffic out of play while Stanford continued to lead and Williamson worked his way through the field. Williamson found his way around Stanford on the 28th circuit, just before the caution flag came out. Shortly after the restart, Mark Carrell came out of nowhere on the [Read More]

Hensley flawless in first Northern SportMod win

By Don Martin II CHOWCHILLA, Calif. (June 13) – Josh Hensley ran a smooth race up front and was rewarded with his first career 20 lap Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod victory Saturday at Chowchilla Speedway. Hensley had to deal with pressure from Rick Diaz and Keith Brown Jr. throughout the race. However, Hensley kept his cool and led every lap in victory. Diaz suffered a flat right rear tire with seven laps remaining and surrendered second to Brown. Brown tried making the low pass for the win but settled for second. Diaz charged back to finish third ahead of Nick Tucker and Marisa Odgers. Watsonville visitor Tim Clark Jr. won the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA IMCA Modified 20-lapper. Clark grabbed the lead from early leader Ray Mayer on a lap 11 restart and led the rest of the way. Contact sent Mayer spinning from second on lap 18. Harley Turner finished second.