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Auringer earns second Hogan Memorial win at Benton County Speedway

By Ryan Clark VINTON, Iowa (July 13) – The last time J.D. Auringer won the Hogan Memorial, he led every lap except one. He did himself one better Sunday night at Benton County Speedway. Auringer, who first won the IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified special in 2007, led all 40 laps Sunday night to earn his second victory in the event’s 20-year history. Auringer earned $1,250 for winning the race, plus $2,250 in lap money and the halfway leader bonus and additional bonus money to bring his total share of the purse to $3,850. He also receives a free wrap from Tenacity Graphics, plus a new Hoosier tire from IMCA. The win also put him on the ballot for the upcoming Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational. Forty-five Modified drivers from six states signed in to compete Sunday at Vinton. From his outside front row starting spot, Auringer pulled away from pole-sitter Jeremy Mills when the green flag waved. Running the high groove, Auringer built a straightaway lead and encountered lapped traffic while Hunter Marriott and Dan [Read More]

Benson stands tallest at SportMod Nationals

BRITT, Iowa (July 4) – Aaron Benson finished first on The Fourth. As a result, he drove out of the pit area at Hancock County Speedway with a check for $3,500 and a trophy taller than himself. Benson led all 25 laps from the pole in the twice-rescheduled, MaxYield Seed-sponsored Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod Nationals. The victory was good for $2,500; Benson also got $500 bonuses for having won previously this season at Britt and for racing at least three times there previously in 2014. “I’ve been second at big-money races before. We finally got a big win here,” said Benson, at 5-8 four inches shorter than the hardware he took home. ”There were a lot of good cars lined up behind me. It was good to win in front of friends, family, my car owner and sponsors at my home track.” Shane Swanson, George Nordman, Greg Sidles and Matt Lettow completed the top five. Benson built a straightaway lead by the 10th circuit and the first 17 laps clicked off caution-free. Cautions late in [Read More]

Lagroon is tops at Salina’s Topless Challenge

By Larry Lowrey Jr. SALINA, Kan. (July 4) – By his standards, Corey Lagroon was struggling coming into Friday night’s Topless Challenge at Salina Speedway. Lagroon has finished consistently near the front almost every single night. But the former IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified track champion is out to win and victory lane had avoided him all season long. Until Friday evening, that is. Lagroon took the lead away from Danny Morrison Jr. on the fifth lap and led to the finish, earning $1,000 and a spot of the Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational ballot. Morrison and Josh Blumer led the topless field to the green flag. Morrison got the jump at the start but Lagroon made all the right moves as he got by Morrison. As he completed the pass, it was evident this was going to be Lagroon’s night. He checked out once in the lead while the crowded tussle for second continued behind him. Morrison held on for second while Mike Petersilie finished third. Point leader Joe Cleveland and Jesse Richter rounded out [Read More]

Phillips tops Stock Car headliner at Cardinal’s Kelly Sheen Memorial

EUNICE, N.M (July 5) – David Phillips was a runner-up at last year’s Kelly Sheen Memorial Topless Shootout at Cardinal Speedway. He was a winner at this year’s event, taking the $3,000 checkers in Saturday’s headliner for IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars. “This was a pretty cool race to win,” he said, after watching the video. “It’s an honor to win it, based on what this show is.” Phillips started fifth and needed seven laps to get the lead. He pulled away from the field following two restarts later in the 30-lapper. Second in the 2013 Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center Southern SportMod main event at Eunice, Phillips is running a very part-time schedule in the Stock Car this season. Now the winner of three of five starts, he and wife Caitlin are expecting their first child in September. Cary White, two-time defending race winner Michael Therwanger, Brandon Hopper and Dustin White completed the top five. Other Sheen Memorial winners were Phillip Houston, who earned $2,000 along with a spot on the ballot for the Fast Shafts All-Star [Read More]

Littlejohn comes up big on night two at HO’T

By J.M. Hallas WACO, Texas (July 5) – Nicholas Littlejohn finished 16 positions better on night two of the Lone Star Series Texas Nationals twinbill than he did on night one. That improvement paid $1,000 and put him on the ballot for the upcoming Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational. Littlejohn won Saturday’s IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified feature at Heart O’ Texas Speedway after race-long leader Dean Abbey suffered mechanical problems following a late restart. Abbey looked to become the only weekend double winner but a stopped car brought the caution out on lap 18. As the green flag waved again, Abbey broke a hub on the left rear wheel stacking up the field and collecting three other cars. Cass took a look low on Littlejohn for the lead, but not able to get by. On the final lap Cass tried one last time, but came up short as Littlejohn took home the victory. “Dean (Abbey) was fast. It was his to lose,” said Littlejohn. “I got a little bit of him after the studs pulled [Read More]

Abbey takes IMCA Modified Lone Star Series opener

By J.M. Hallas WACO, Texas (July 4) – First-year IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified driver Dean Abbey had the run of his life in picking up the $1,000 Lone Star Series Texas Nationals win Friday at Heart O’ Texas Speedway. For two-thirds of the race Abbey chased veteran Keith Green until finally making the bottom work on a restart. If that wasn’t pressure enough, a late caution set up a green, white, checkered finish that put former IMCA national champion Keith White and his brother Paul, a past USAC Silver Crown champ, on his tail. Abbey was able to get a good jump on green and got some breathing room while the White brothers exchanged slide jobs on each other. Abbey went unchallenged while Paul beat Keith in the second place battle. Josh McGaha was fourth by all of one one-thousandth of a second over Sam Cox. “The bottom finally worked out for me,” said Abbey, already a Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational ballot candidate. “We’ve been here twice this year in the Modified and raced [Read More]

VanderBeek repeats as big gun at Great American Stock Car Shootout

By Jeremy Fox OSKALOOSA, Iowa (July 2-3) – His latest Great American Stock Car feature win put an even bigger check in Zack VanderBeek’s pocket. VanderBeek repeated as winner of the pre-holiday special for IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars at Southern Iowa Speedway. The Thursday victory paid $2,000, $500 more than the 2013 checkers at Osky, and made VanderBeek eligible to qualify for the Sunoco Race Fuels Race of Champions at the upcoming IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s. Damon Murty grabbed the lead at the start of the 19th annual event before giving way to Derrick Agee on lap two. Agee stayed in front until VanderBeek worked his way by up on lap 10. VanderBeek began to pull away and looked as if he was going to take the win going away before the only caution of the race came out on lap 20. VanderBeek had Murty and Agee on his back bumper for the restart. Cayden Carter worked his way to second on lap 23 and battled his Orange Crush teammate the [Read More]

Jimmy Gustin repeats XSAN Hawkeye Dirt Tour heroics at Algona (VIDEO)

ALGONA, Iowa (July 1) – His IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified foes have to be happy the XSAN Hawkeye Dirt Tour doesn’t bring Jimmy Gustin to Algona Raceway more often. Gustin ended a late Tuesday night show by regaining the lead on the final circuit for his second straight series win on the Kossuth County Fairgrounds dirt oval. The victory came during Algona’s Salute to Veterans Spectacular and paid $2,000. Post by XSAN. “I’ve only been to Algona twice and I won twice,” said the understandably happy Gustin, newly qualified for the Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational ballot. “It was a really exciting race. It all worked out great for us.” Forty-three IMCA Modifieds were on hand for the second stop of the 2014 tour. Mike Van Genderen was just a car length off the pace in second with Eric Dailey, Kelly Shryock and Adam Larson rounding out the top five. Larson had led late before getting shuffled back. Dailey and Shryock both qualified from the first of three “B” features, with Shryock advancing 13 positions. [Read More]

Delp, Hansen earn first EQ Wild West Tour wins

VERNAL, Utah (June 27-28) – Two veterans of the EQ Cylinder Heads Wild West Tour made long-awaited stops in victory lane when the series for IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modifieds visited Diamond Mountain Speedway. Casey Delp won his first tour feature on Friday at Vernal. Chase Hansen accomplished the same feat on Saturday, also earning $1,000 and joining Delp as a new candidate on the Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational ballot. Point leader Justen Yeager came into the series weekend with a three-race winning streak and ran second both nights. Michael Hale, Jake Donnelly and Eddie Belec completed Friday’s top five. Belec, Jeff Hunter and Bert Beech ended third, fourth and fifth, respectively, on Saturday. Delp counted three runner-up showings in 36 career Wild West Tour starts coming into the weekend. He started sixth in Friday’s 30-lapper, took the lead from Hale on the 14th circuit and held off three-time series champion Yeager for the checkers. Yeager peeked inside as the front pair ran in lapped traffic the final four circuits. “I went checkers or wreckers [Read More]

Hogge aces Nor-Cal feature at Antioch

ANTIOCH, Calif. (June 28) – Bobby Hogge IV fought his way to the top, picking off the highly competitive field of drivers one by one in winning Saturday’s Nor-Cal Challenge Series main event for IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modifieds at Antioch Speedway. “I had some problems in the middle of the race,” Hogge said in victory lane. “I almost spun out once.” Coming from 12th starting position in the 16-car field, Hogge watched as a battle waged for the lead between Kellen Chadwick and Ryan McDaniel. One row behind, it was archrivals Nick DeCarlo and Troy Foulger, racing so evenly both cars appeared as one. “Nick and I were side by side for 18 laps,” said Foulger. “It was great to be able to race like that.” With three laps to go, Hogge made a daring move coming out of the second turn passing a cluster of cars on the inside to work his way to the top. “I just went straight off the bottom,” he said. “I kept the left front nearly on the [Read More]