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215 opening night IMCA feature winners, track champs earn EngineQuest awards

LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Two hundred and fifteen opening night winners and multiple track champions in four IMCA divisions earn product or cash awards courtesy of EngineQuest again in 2014. Opening night winners in the IMCA Sunoco Stock Car, IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock, Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod and Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center Southern SportMod divisions all receive $50 product certificates from the Las Vegas-headquartered cylinder head and engine component manufacturer. Drivers in the same four classes winning two or more local track crowns will receive $200 in cash if they compete with EnqineQuest cylinder heads and return a sign-up form to the IMCA home office by Aug. 1. The national Stock Car champion receives a complete set of EQ cylinder heads. Highest finishing Mopar engine drivers, and most improved drivers in national standings for the Hobby Stock and both SportMod divisions meeting eligibility requirements also receive sets of EQ heads. And for the eighth consecutive season, EngineQuest provides a portion of the $3,000 point fund to be paid to top 10 drivers in the Wild West [Read More]

Third straight win for Shute at Southern Iowa

By Jeremy Fox OSKALOOSA, Iowa (May 14) – Todd Shute picked up his third Musco Lighting IMCA Modified feature win as many nights at Southern Iowa Speedway on Wednesday. Cayden Carter and Shute battled it out side by side before Shute took the lead away for good on lap nine and sped to the checkers. Carter was second. Defending track champion Todd Cooney had to contend with Colby Springsteen and Nick Marolf following a lap nine restart but held on to take the IMCA Late Model win. Zack VanderBeek passed long-time leader Damon Murty following a lap 14 restart and led the rest of the way in the Budweiser IMCA Stock Car main event. Carter VanDenBerg became the third different KBOE Radio Northern SportMod winner this season at SIS. Next Up was the IMCA Sport Compacts feature, which saw Trent Orwig take the early lead but just after one lap was completed the caution came out for debris in turn one. Orwig and Bill Whalen began to battle for the top spot and it was [Read More]

Week 2 checkers at Mayetta fly for Holt

By Bill Grit MAYETTA, Kan. (May 10) – Danny Holt denied opening night winner Cory Wray in topping Saturday’s BSB Manufacturing IMCA Modified main event at Thunder Hill Speedway. Blake Peeler and Clay Hale set the pace from the front row but Holt, with a new power plant, took the lead early. Wray started deep in the field and used the same line as last week, racing way high into the turns to make up ground on Holt. After a challenging start to the season, Holt stood victoriously in the Pit Pass Liquor Victory Lane. Wray ran second. The Heinen Repair Service IMCA Stock Car feature looked to be a race for second place as Marvin Griffith Jr. set the pace early with a straightaway lead. Griffith lost steam with possible mechanical problems which allowed the rest of field to catch up. Lance Borgman gained the lead and the eventual win ahead of Brian Labonte. The IMCA Hobby Stocks took to the track under new title sponsorship of Bad Boyz Bail Bonds. Newcomer Tyler Hinrichs [Read More]

McDaniel tops round 2 of Nor-Cal Challenge Series

ANTIOCH, Calif. (May 10) – It wasn’t a pretty win but Randy McDaniel’s run to the $1,000 Saturday checkers at Antioch Speedway put him on the ballot for the upcoming Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational. McDaniel survived a crash-filled IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified main event in the latest installment of the Nor-Cal Challenge Series. He made a pit stop to repair damage early in the race, managed to re-enter the track without losing a lap and found himself in the lead on the final restart, with Troy Foulger chasing him in a very battered car. Third place finisher Tom Purcell was the happiest of the drivers afterwards. A full-time engineering student at the University of Nevada, Reno, had never raced at Antioch Speedway before. It was just the third time out for his new car. “I tried to stay out of the trouble. I came from all the way in the back to third place,” he said. “I’m very happy with my third place finish, even though the car is damaged. I’ll take third place [Read More]

Modified Madness 50 at Davenport Speedway set for May 23

DAVENPORT, Iowa – Fifty laps will be the distance and $2,000 is the winner’s share of the purse for Davenport Speedway’s Friday, May 23 IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified Madness special. Pit gates open at 4:30 p.m., the grandstand opens at 5 p.m., the drivers’ meeting is at 6 p.m. and hot laps are at 6:30 p.m. Racing on the ¼-mile oval starts at 7 p.m. IMCA Speedway Motors Weekly Racing National, Belleville Motorsports North Central Region and Allstar Performance State, but no local track points will be awarded for the draw/redraw show. The $50 entry fee can be paid at the gate. Pit passes are $25. All other weekly divisions, including the IMCA Late Models and Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods, are on the evening’s card and race for all applicable points. Spectator admission will be $16 for adults and $14 for seniors and students, with kids ages 11 and under free when accompanying a paid adult. More information is available from promoter Bob Wagener at 563 652-5302 and at the new DavenportSpeedway.com website.

Thunderhill Raceway opener this Saturday; huge improvements for 2014

By Edward Anschutz STURGEON BAY, Wis. – One of the nicest racing facilities in Wisconsin readies for the 2014 season opener this Saturday night, May 17 at Thunderhill Raceway brought to you by Dave Hatch Racing and WDOR. Staff and management are crossing their fingers in hopes mother-nature will play nice and allow the men and women to strap in their racers and drop the hammer this weekend. Racing starts at 6 p.m. Track IMCA rep John Sternard is asking drivers to show up early for pre-race tech inspection. Dan Lewis will be on hand for Hot Shot Photos. Track promoter Woody Wodack has worked since championship night last season to make 2014 the best he can for drivers and fans. The hard work and dedication has certainly paid off as drivers will be competing for $28,000 in contingencies that include a boat load of racing parts for every division, thousands in cash and a 602 crate engine. The track known as the “Circle of Death” received a huge makeover for 2014. Hundreds of yards [Read More]

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Trip to Desert Thunder yields 100th career win for DeVilbiss

FARMINGTON, N.M. (May 9) – After a relatively short five-hour tow, one of IMCA’s most traveled drivers could cross off another item on his racing to-do list. Zane DeVilbiss journeyed the Desert Thunder Raceway in Utah to win the Friday, May 9 IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified feature. The victory was the career 100th for DeVilbiss, the 2010 national champion and four-time defending king in the Larry Shaw Racing Western Region. “Winning the national championship is the biggest thing I’ve done in IMCA but getting 100 wins is the next. It blows my mind that we’ve been able to win that many times,” he said. “It’s something I never thought about being able to do.” “I can remember maybe five years ago reading about Brad Pounds (who won his 100th career feature the next night) getting his 50th win and thinking that was a crazy number,” DeVilbiss added. “When IMCA called me this year and said I was getting close to 100, that was crazy, too.” DeVilbiss got his first wins in the sanctioned division [Read More]

Frye starts his own win streak at Salina

By Larry Lowrey Jr. SALINA, Kan. (May 9) – For the first two races of the season in the M&H Motors IMCA Northern Sport Mod division at Salina Speedway, Austin Carter came away with the victories. The big question Friday night was could he get three in a row? If so, someone forgot to let Tyler Frye in on it that Carter was supposed to get the hat trick. From his third row starting spot, Frye wasted little time getting to the front of the pack. At the front he would click off lap after lap while the 11ith starting Carter systematically worked his way up. Frye was too strong and he had built up enough of a lead that he wasn’t going to give it up, however, and picked up his first local win of the season. For the second straight week Brian Knoell was standing tall in victory lane after another strong win in the Belleville Motor Sports IMCA Modifieds. After three weeks of competition in the Budweiser IMCA Hobby Stock class there [Read More]

Woods makes most of late race restart in SST feature at Abilene

ABILENE, Texas (May 10) – A restart with five laps left proved to be the opportunity Dustin Woods needed Saturday night at Abilene Speedway. Woods went all the way to the top of the oval after the Sprint Series of Texas main event went back to green, passed Sean Mayfield for the lead and stayed in front to the finish of the 20-lapper. The victory was his IMCA Eagle Motorsports RaceSaver Sprint Car tour first and second of the season. He’s in the same Triple X Chassis as last year while armed with a new Russell Shoulders Racing Engines package. “I finally got it figured out,” Woods said following the win. He’d started fifth and stayed near the front from the first circuit on. Jason Howell, Rodney Henderson, Mayfield and Danny Merrell completed the top five. “Sean drove a heck of a race,” Woods said. “He and (sixth place finishing) Gary Kelley both did.” Feature results – 1. Dustin Woods; 2. Jason Howell; 3. Rodney Henderson; 4. Sean Mayfield; 5. Danny Merrell; 6. Gary Kelley; [Read More]