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Devin Smith, Fett, Toppenberg win first of season at Boone

By Joyce Eisele  BOONE, Iowa (July 9, 2022) – Nick Roberts returned to victory lane when he snagged the Friesen Performance IMCA Modified win Saturday evening at Boone Speedway. Devin Smith got his first local win of the season in the IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars and Alec Fett won the Friesen Performance IMCA Northern SportMod main event. Mike Smith repeated in the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks and Jason Toppenberg got a first win in the IMCA STARS Mod Lite division.  The STARS Mod Lites ran their 15-lap feature flag to flag. Early leader was Joel Huggins before Toppenberg snatched the top spot away on lap three. The two swapped the lead back and forth for several laps until Toppenberg was able to finally establish the top spot for good and then went home to take the flying checkers and the win. Huggins held down the runner-up spot and following a distance behind in third was Randy Bryan. Joe Glick and Jeff Stensland rounded out the top five. Toppenberg just returned to racing this season after several years hiatus. Fett started [Read More]

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Roedl, Czarapata capture checkers at Outagamie

By Edward Anschutz  SEYMOUR, Wis. (July 8, 2022) – Dan Roedl and Brandon Czarapata were among the IMCA winners as 127 racers checked in to do battle Friday at Outagamie Speedway.  Shawn Frelich led the opening laps of the Friesen Performance IMCA Modified feature until Marcus Yarie motored to the top spot on lap four. Yarie then paced the field until the caution flew midway through the contest.  Roedl used that his advantage, pulling next to Yarie for the top spot. Roedl rode the top side to perfection, taking the lead on lap 12. Cody Schroeder got to second late in the going but no one had anything for Roedl, who picked up his first win of the season and a clean sweep to boot.  Schroeder had to settle for second at the pay window, rookie Jayden Schmidt was third, Brian Mullen took fourth and Yarie completed the top five. Jeff Steenbergen and Czarapata went to battle from the drop off the green in the IMCA Sunoco Stock Car headliner. Czarapata worked the tires as Steenbergen stormed the [Read More]

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Jones has fans buzzing at Bumble Bee Nationals

By Greg Grabianowski ALGONA, Iowa (July 7, 2022) – Devin Jones had fans buzzing again at Kossuth County Speedway’s Bobby Thilges Memorial Bumble Bee Nationals. Jones won the Thursday night special for Mach-1 IMCA Sport Compacts for the third time, leading from the second lap to the $1,000 checkers.  Neil Forsberg and Mark Smith led the big field of 25 Sport Compacts to the flag stand. Smith was the leader after one trip around the track before Jones took over the top spot.  Jones built onto his lead after restarts on laps eight and 11. Mick Rykhus began closing the gap on the leader before another caution flag came out on lap 17.  The final eight laps ran caution-free. Jade Lange made a nice run late to finish second as Tyler Fiebelkorn was third with Adam Boehme and Charles Prime rounding out the top five. Trinity Landheer-Cambell went from 23rd to 10th to pick up $300 as the hard charger.

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Isaac Sanders scores second Freedom Cup Weekend win

By Ben Deatherage COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. (July 4, 2022) – Cottage Grove Speedway returned to racing on Independence Day for the third straight night of action. Jacob Hoppes blazed the trail early in the Friesen Performance IMCA Northern SportMod main event. Steven Sanders passed Hoppes on lap 12.    Sanders, whose two brothers had visited victory lane the first two nights, had a fast hot rod but brother Isaac proved to have an even faster ride. Isaac Sanders successfully got into first place on lap 28 to win his third race of 2022 at Cottage Grove Speedway. Steven Sanders was second with Trevor Points placing third. Unfortunately, the Mach-1 IMCA Sport Compacts could not run their Froggy 44 main event, which has been rescheduled for a later date.  Racing returns to Cottage Grove Speedway on Saturday, July 9 for Ladies Night. All ladies ages 18 years or older get free general admission, and the first 100 lady guests that enter through the front gates will receive a complimentary gift. Friesen Performance IMCA Modifieds are on [Read More]

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Cain can’t be caught at Dave Riley Memorial

JEFFERSON, S.D. (July 3, 2022) – The money didn’t matter as much as winning the race did when John Cain took the checkered flag at The New Raceway Park’s Dave Riley Memorial.  Piloting a car his friend had helped build more than a decade ago, the Homer, Neb., veteran moved to the front early in the 20-lap main event, avoided contact with a lapped car late in the contest and held off Brandon Bombardo down the stretch for the much hoped for victory.  “Dave and I were close. We talked every day and I think he’s the only one who drove this car other than me. It’s been around the block a few times,” Cain said. “I had to have this win. I was going to pull out all the stops because I had to win it.” “I knew we had tough iron ahead and behind me at the start but we pulled it off,” he continued. “With guys like Tony Fetterman, Joel Magee and Dillon Richards there we knew we were going to have [Read More]

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Wilson pockets Tex Myers 8Ball Classic cash

By Justin Newman MURFREESBORO, Ark. (July 2, 2022) – Blake Wilson repeated his performance, this time not so easily, in the second annual Tex Myers 8Ball Classic presented by Myers Supply Saturday at Diamond Park Speedway. Wilson was able to top a field of 27 IMCA STARS Mod Lite drivers from Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana en route to his second $888 payday in the second year of the event at the proclaimed Mod Lite Capital of the World. Wilson started on row two of the 25-lap affair and had some work to do early on, contending with TWR teammate J.J. Borden, Louis Harris and Jace Reid. It was Reid who got out to the point early with Borden, Harris and Wilson in tow. Quick work put Wilson digging behind Borden for third and on lap three he settled in for second. On lap seven he slid under Reid and it was off to the races. The lead duo pulled away and started working the back of the field by lap nine before the race’s single caution flew [Read More]

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‘Bad’ Brad best in Bradford NY-Penn Series July 3 show

By Todd Burgess  BRADFORD, Pa. (July 3, 2022) – It had been more than 20 years since Bradford Speedway had seen a sanctioned Friesen Performance IMCA Modified race, so the banked bullring nestled in the hills of rural Bradford, Pa., was a fresh face to most of the Close Racing Supply NY-Penn Series presented by Precision Hydraulic and Oil competitors. The July 3 Freedom 25 presented by Liberty Seamless Gutters & Roofing marked stop number six for the series and if anyone had predicted that defending series champion Brad Sites would be rolling into the pits at Bradford winless in 2022, they’d have gotten some strange looks.  After winning his heat race from the pole, things kept rolling Sites’ way as he reached in and pulled chip number one for the 25-lap main event and at the drop of the green, Sites immediately jumped out to a three car length lead over Jake McConnell, with Rodney Morgan close behind in third.  An early caution bunched the field back up and put it squarely on Sites’ rear [Read More]

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Funeral services are Thursday for Casey Arneson

FARGO, N.D. (July 5, 2022) – Funeral services will be held July 7 for Casey Arneson. Arneson, 27, died as a result of a UTV accident late Friday, July 1. The driver of the number 2 Modified and nicknamed The Flying Deuce, he’d begun racing with IMCA in 2018 and was the Jamestown Speedway track champion the following season. Friends may call beginning at 10 a.m. Thursday with racing casual attire requested and services are at 11 a.m. at Hope Lutheran Church (South Campus). The service will be live streamed on the Boulger Funeral Home website for those unable to attend. Burial will be at Sunset Memorial Gardens. A celebration of Casey’s life will follow at The Race Shop at 15 S 14th Street in Fargo. Survivors include his fiancée, Alison Goplen; parents, Dell (Virginia) Arneson and Jackie Arneson; brothers Cale (Jill) Arneson, Levi (Hannah) Arneson and Austin (Angela) Arneson; grandparents Bob and Joanne Arneson; nieces and nephews Kate, Cooper, June, Emmett, Leo and Walker; several aunts, uncles and cousins; and close friends. In lieu of flowers, memorial [Read More]

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Sanders, Drake win on night two of Freedom Cup

By Ben Deatherage  COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. (July 3, 2022) – IMCA winners on night two of Cottage Grove Speedway’s Freedom Cup were Isaac Sanders and Scarlett Drake. Sanders took care of business in the Friesen Performance IMCA Northern SportMods, parking his mount in victory lane for the second time at Cottage Grove. Kevin Williamson beat Matt Sanders for second. Drake tamed the field in the Mach-1 IMCA Sport Compacts. The Salem racer won her first race of the year at CGS this season. Jack Vicari was the runner-up, followed by Burnie Bryant in third.

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Mullins saves best for last in Langley RaceSaver win

By Jim Haines HAMPTON, Va. (July 2, 2022) – The annual Fourth of July Weekend event for the Virginia Sprint Series was a show case for patience as Matt Mullins led early, gave it up to save his tires and then blasted back by with a few laps to go for the win Saturday at Langley Speedway.  Chris Humblet and Mullins had paced the IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Car field to green with Mullins out first and Humblet and Jerald Harris in tow.  Mullins was smooth out front as Harris got to second and Billy Hubbard followed. Hubbard made it to second and took off like a jet after Mullins, who was catching the back of the pack as the pavement laps really clicked off. Mullins stayed smooth and straight as Hubbard showed speed but also tire smoke and at lap 15 he found the lead as Mullins stayed on plan.  Hubbard was on it lap after lap as Mullins kept him in range and as the tires were going away he pounced. Mullins really closed in [Read More]