Weekly

By Jeremy Fox OSKALOOSA, Iowa (June 25) – Jason Cook tuned up for next week’s Great American Budweiser Stock Car Shootout by winning Wednesday’s main event at Southern Iowa Speedway. Brandon Jay led early in the 18-lapper with Cook knocking on the door before the only caution of the race flew on lap two, when Damon Murty got sideways and collected Todd Reitzler, Doug Sylvester and Brock Welch. Murty got moving before the yellow came out, kept his spot for the ensuing restart and was briefly in second before Cook got the position back, then passed Jay for the lead on lap five. Cook appeared to be heading to the win but Murty and Cayden Carter didn’t make it easy for him. Carter grabbed the lead coming to the white flag but Cook took back coming to the checkered to pick up his first win at Osky. Carter, Murty, Corey Stout and Jay rounded out the top five. Rookie A.J. Johnson led the first lap in the Musco Lighting IMCA Modified 15 lap feature. Andrew [Read More]

CORTEZ, Colo. (June 20-21) – Another Border States Racing Series doubleheader resulted in another sweep for IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified driver Zane DeVilbiss. Jordan Eddleman and Rex Higgins, meanwhile, became the fourth and fifth IMCA SportMod driv­ers to end their night in victory lane when the tour traveled to Fairgrounds Speedway. With a pair of wins from the series’ opening twinbill already to his credit, DeVilbiss raced from ninth starting on Friday and from eighth starting Saturday to take the checkers at Cortez. He used all lines on the multi-groove oval to take the lead on the 10th of 30 circuits on Friday. Aa­ron Spangler and Eddie Farley were next across the stripe. DeVilbiss needed 21 times around the track to reel in brother Shane and Wyatt Howard. Brody Spangler caught Howard for second in the late going. Eddleman raced from eighth at the start to the front 10 laps into Friday’s SportMod main event. He negotiated lapped traffic in the late going to capture his second feature win of the season. “My dad [Read More]

By Greg Grabianowski BRITT, Iowa (June 20) – Heath Tulp and Shane Swanson each won their third feature of the sea­son Friday at Hancock County Speedway while Keith Schmitz and Ken Winkowitsch were first-time winners. Tulp came from the outside of the fifth row in the IMCA Sunoco Stock Car main event. Dan Hansel­man had a nice run to take second with Craig Berhow third, Blake Cole fourth and David Wickman fifth. The scenario in the Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods was the same as Swanson also came from outside the fifth row. Anthony Condit had his best run of the year to take second with Aaron Benson, Nate Chodur and Nate Hughes completing the top five. Schmitz returned to the IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified winner’s circle at Britt as he started from the pole. Another veteran driver, Mark Noble, was the runner-up and Ryan Ruter was third. Mike Jergens was fourth and Rob Hughes rounded out the top five. The Nielsen brothers have been running strong in the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks this summer [Read More]

By Edward Anschutz STURGEON BAY, Wis. – Race fans, old timers and historians this is a night you want to attend as Thunderhill Raceway will induct the first seven members into its Hall of Fame. The inaugural Class of 2014 will be inducted this Saturday, June 28. Hall of Famers are Clyde LeMieux Sr., Irv Ettien, Les Sternard, Dale Knudson, Joe Haferkorn, Butch Georgenson and Fritz VanDuyse. The program is sponsored by Wicked Witch Enterprises. Tom Wagner is hosting the night’s events and will be calling the action on the track as well. Five divisions do battle Saturday, the IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modifieds, IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars, Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods, IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks and the Street Stocks. The bounty for anyone who can beat Bill LeMieux in the Street Stocks now stands at $400. The only rules to the bounty are that LeMieux must finish and it must be clean race. Racing gets underway at 6 p.m. Adult admission is $10 at the front gate.

ARLINGTON, Minn. (June 21) – After they drained the track, Shaun Bruns left the rest of Saturday’s IMCA Sunoco Stock Car field at Arlington Raceway in his wake. Bruns pocketed what turned out to be $1,700 for winning the inaugural Joe Voss Memorial after starting third, going to the bottom to pass front row starters Matthew Schauer and Dan Mackenthun coming out of turn two and leading all 20 laps. He pulled away from the pack following restarts on laps eight and 13. Mackenthun closed while Bruns battled handling issues but ran out of time and had to settle for second. Elijah Zevenbergen, Derek Green and Schauer completed the top five. “They did a great job getting the track ready,” Bruns said. “They pulled an all-nighter pumping water off so we could race.” Feature results – 1. Shaun Bruns; 2. Dan Mackenthun; 3. Elijah Zevenbergen; 4. Derek Green; 5. Matthew Schauer; 6. Jeff McCollum; 7. Ken Tietz; 8. Brent Uecker; 9. Matt Speckman; 10. Jeff Holstein; 11. Dan Dhaene; 12. David Moriarty; 13. Jesse Anderson; [Read More]

CRYSTAL, Mich. (June 21) – Myron DeYoung raced to his first win of the season in the final event of the night Saturday at Crystal Motor Speedway. Brad Stanke shot out front of the Port City Race Car IMCA Modified feature with Brody Bowser and Chad Wernette in tow. Bowser took the lead away as DeYoung and A.J. Ward moved into the top five. DeYoung wres­tled with Bowser for several laps before finally taking the lead. As DeYoung pulled away, Bowser and Ward battled for second with Wernette just behind them. Brennen DeYoung got loose as he entered turn one and several cars were 1nvolved with most able to continue back under green, Myron DeYoung led Bowser, Ward, and Wernette as he slowly stretched his lead out. DeYoung went on to IMCA career win number 93 over Mike Shanteau and Kenny Playter.