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Dodge City title chases hit the midway point this Saturday

By Lonnie Wheatley DODGE CITY, Kan. – The state-of-the-art Dodge City Raceway Park will reach the midway point of the 2017 racing season with a full card of championship chase action this Saturday night, July 1. Saturday’s action that fires off at 7:30 p.m. featuring the Precise Racing Products DCRP Sprint Cars along with IMCA Modifieds, IMCA SportMods, IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars and IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks. Thus far, huge fields of cars have been the norm on nights in which all five featured championship chase divisions have been in action with an average of more than 100 cars per night. Tickets for Saturday’s championship chase action are $15 for adults with children 11 and under admitted free when accompanied by an adult. The 2017 season at Dodge City Raceway Park consists of 14 total nights of scheduled racing action, culminating with the Boot Hill Showdown on Oct. 27-28.

Noteboom notches another Modified win at Park Jeff

JEFFERSON, S.D. (June 24) – Saturday’s SignMasters IMCA Modified division saw Jay Noteboom put another notch in the belt between himself and Ron Luitjens as he picked up win number 52 for his career at Park Jefferson Speedway. Noteboom currently sits second in overall feature wins in all divisions at 68, just five behind Joe Kosiski. Bob Moore had strong run to second and Jason Schneiders turned in a strong third place finish. The IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Cars were once again a quick an easy win by Colin Smith. In the Schaeffer Oil IMCA Northern SportMods, veteran Rusty Montagne was again the feature winner. Montagne, like Noteboom, is slowly creeping up the all-time win charts at Park Jefferson, and did so at the expense of Todd Boulware and Karl Brewer, the 2016 kings of the division. Paul Menard put a stop to the Hoffman Train as the 16D was able to cruise to the top spot and keep Andy Hoffman from another IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock victory lane interview. The Fox 620 IMCA Sport Compacts saw [Read More]

Sprint Series of Oklahoma set for Freedom 40 Friday at Red Dirt Raceway

By David Smith Jr. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – The Sprint Series of Oklahoma is set for a huge night of racing this Friday, June 30 as the IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Car tour makes its second appearance at Red Dirt Raceway in Meeker, Okla., and their “Freedom Forty.” Highlighting the program will be a 40-lap championship feature for the SSO with an increased purse from top to bottom and the track will have a huge fireworks display as well. The SSO is coming off a successful two nights of racing action where Texas driver Michael Day earned his first career series victory Friday night in Ardmore while defending champion Andy Shouse scored his third feature victory of the season Saturday night in Ardmore. When the series, presented by Smiley’s Racing Products, first visited Red River Speedway back in May it was Shouse getting the best of a 27 car field to take the victory. Among the series regulars expected to compete include Jake Martens, Shouse, Joe Wood Jr., Chris Kelly, Cody Whitworth, Blake Scott, Loyd Clevenger, [Read More]

Johnson, Probst are double winners at Arlington

ARLINGTON, Minn. (June 24) – Make-up features from the previous week were on the card Saturday at Arlington Raceway and Bill Johnson and Cory Probst both made a pair of trips to victory lane as a result. Johnson swept the two 95.7 the Rock IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Car features while Probst doubled up in the Premier Logistics IMCA Hobby Stocks. Other feature winners were Clint Hatlestad and Trent Loverude in the MN 93 IMCA Modifieds, Dan Mackenthun and Chad Schroeder in the B & B Racing Chassis IMCA Stock Cars, Jeff Lloyd and Dustin Engelke in the Unhinged Pizza IMCA Northern SportMods and Alex Dostal and Ryan Bryant in the Coors Light IMCA Sport Compacts. Jam the Trailer Night brought in 850-plus pounds of food for the Sibley County Foodshare program. More than 120 cars signed in to compete.

Droste checks out at Britt, collects career first Arnold Motor Supply Hawkeye Dirt Tour checkers

BRITT, Iowa (June 27) – Eleven minutes and some odd seconds was all it took for Tyler Droste to win his career first Arnold Motor Supply Hawkeye Dirt Tour feature, and $3,000. Droste started on the pole of the Tuesday night main event for IMCA Modifieds during Hancock County Speedway’s Salute to Veterans special and led every time around the track in a 30-lapper that ran green to checkers. He was half a straightaway ahead of Joel Rust when he caught up with the back of the 24-car field at midway. Rust cut into Droste’s advantage but the leader mastered lapped traffic and won handily. Rust ended in second while tour point leader Kelly Shryock ran third. Twelfth starting Ricky Thornton Jr. and 11th starting Hunter Marriott completed the top five. Droste became the fourth different winner in as many Dirt Tour events so far this season. He was already on the Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational ballot. Dustin Larson was the $2,500 IMCA Sunoco Stock Car feature winner and Austin Luellen earned $2,000 along with the [Read More]

Kansas Thunder Series opens this weekend

By Mike Hughes STOCKTON, Kan. – The Kansas Thunder Series half-mile Shootout will kick off its season this Sunday evening, July 2 at Rooks County Speedway in Stockton. There is a total of six races in the series. The 2017 schedule includes: Sunday, July 2 – Rooks County Speedway, Stockton; Wednesday, July 26 – Osborne Speedway, Osborne (fair); Thursday, July 27 – Osborne Speedway, Osborne (fair); Saturday, July 29 – Elmwood Park Speedway, Norton (fair); Thursday, Aug. 17 – Rooks County Speedway, Stockton (fair); Friday, Aug. 18 – Rooks County Speedway, Stockton (fair). Race time each night is 7 p.m. with the pits opening at 4 p.m. All races will be draw-redraw. IMCA-sanctioned Modifieds, Stock Cars, Northern Sport Mods and Hobby Stocks will compete each night, with the exception of the Friday, Aug. 18 race at Stockton which will feature the United Rebel Sprint Series 305 Sprint Cars, Bombers, Cruisers, and the Kansas Antique Racers. For more information, contact Don Bolt at 785 678-8121 or Dean Kester at 785 425-8432.

Radivoy defends CRSA territory at Orange County

By Edward Kochersberger MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. (June 24) – A dramatic late-race move gave Thomas Radivoy his second CRSA IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Car win of the season at Orange County Fair Speedway Saturday night. The main event was shortened from 20 laps to fifteen due the threat of rain in the area and challenger Bret Jaycox knew he had to make things happen quickly because of the race length. Jaycox used the outside starting lane to work through turn one and two to take the lead away from Radivoy early and dominate a majority of the event. The move of the race was seen when Radivoy and Jaycox were rolling out of turn four toward the white flag. Jaycox drifted a little high and lost just enough momentum for Radivoy to point his car underneath Jaycox and take command of the race lead during the final lap of the evening. The win was Radivoy’s CRSA third on the season and second at Middletown. Sydney Prince and Christian Rumsey snuck by Jaycox to finish second and third, [Read More]

Lutz wins Mid-Atlantic Sprint Series thriller at Grandview

By Erika Palmai Wagner BECHTELSVILLE, Pa. (June 24) – Scott Lutz earned his trip to victory lane Saturday at Grandview Speedway after being pressured by second-running Tommy Carberry the majority of the 25-lap Mid-Atlantic Sprint Series feature event. Carberry was rim-riding his way around the 1/3 mile high-banked oval and took over the lead as the field was crossing the start-finish line for the white flag. That lead was short-lived as he came into contact with the outside guardrail going down the back stretch, handing the top spot back to Lutz. “I really just drove as hard as I could,” Lutz said. “When the top started to go away for me, I thought to myself that my only shot was getting around the lap cars and getting them in between us, but that actually almost cost me the race in the final laps there.” “I know he had gotten by me but when we got to the back stretch on that final lap, I dove in front of the lap car and that’s how I [Read More]

Saturday SSO win goes to defending champion Shouse

By David Smith Jr. ADA, Okla. (June 24) – Defending champion Andy Shouse took the lead on lap two and never looked back in capturing his third victory of the season when the Sprint Series of Oklahoma visited Oklahoma Sports Park on Saturday night. Chad Koch and Chris Kelly started on the front row for the 20-lap IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Car feature and it was Koch who quickly jumped into the lead. The fourth starting Shouse quickly moved into the runner-up position and was on the leader’s rear bumper entering turns three and four. Shouse got a run underneath Koch exiting turn four to take the lead on lap two and quickly opened a half-stretch lead. The leader encountered slower traffic on lap 10 which allowed Koch to cut the deficit in half. With three laps remaining, Shouse followed a slower car for the remaining laps allowing Koch to close to three car lengths. That was as close as he got, however, as Shouse held on to score his fourth career series victory. Gary Owens [Read More]

Design 500 giving new Lady Eagle awards in addition to Deery, IMCA Modified prizes

TUKWILA, Wash. – The company that popularized IMCA’s Lady Eagle award goes above and beyond for female drivers again in 2017. The Tukwila, Wash., driver suit and apparel manufacturer will give $250 product certificates to the top female competitor in each of the eight IMCA sanctioned divisions. The top driver in overall Lady Eagle point standings also receives a set of No Fly Zone SFI underwear. Design 500 is in its 19th year as an IMCA sponsor. Lady Eagle awards have been part of that sponsorship program for 11 years. “Though the evolution of the Lady Eagle program, it is important to not only crown an overall champion but to recognize our outstanding female drivers in each division,” IMCA Marketing Director Kevin Yoder said. “Design 500 continues to do that in 2017 and based on early results it will be a great battle all season.” Two hundred and twenty-three drivers vied for Lady Eagle honors in 2016. Mach-1 Sport Compact competitor Kaytee DeVries repeated as the overall Lady Eagle champion. Design 500 also awards gift certificates [Read More]