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By Mike McGuire DAVENPORT, Iowa (May 22, 2026) — Jed Freiburger captured the Karl Kustoms IMCA Modified feature Friday night at Davenport Speedway, racing from seventh starting position to lead the final 10 laps of the main event. The race started with Charlie Mohr grabbing the early lead from the pole. On lap six, Brandon Durbin took over the top spot. When Mohr attempted to reclaim the lead, he spun and dropped back in the running order. Freiburger, from Dubuque, used the bottom groove to reel in Durbin before making the winning pass on lap 11. The victory was Freiburger’s second Razor Chassis North Central Region win of the season, with triumphs now coming at two different tracks. Durbin held on for second while Brad Dierks stormed from 20th starting position to finish third. Matt Werner crossed the stripe fourth ahead of Eric Barnes, who advanced from 12th. Miles Leads Every Lap in Hobby Stock Main The Sunoco IMCA Hobby Stocks featured plenty of position swapping throughout the field, but not for the lead. Sixteen-year-old Karter [Read More]

By Jerry Mackey COLUMBUS JUNCTION, Iowa (May 22, 2026) — Friday night was another special evening of racing at CJ Speedway as the Sunoco IMCA Hobby Stocks headlined the action with a boosted $1,000-to-win feature, treating fans to outstanding wheel-to-wheel racing on the perfectly prepared 4/10-mile dirt track at the Louisa County Fairgrounds. Daniel Wauters raced to the early lead from the outside front row and paced the field for most of the feature while constantly being pressured by Sigourney’s Brayden Wood, who charged forward from the eighth starting position. A late caution set up a thrilling dash to the finish. Wood got an excellent run through turns one and two as the leaders raced side by side down the backstretch. The pair remained door to door coming to the white flag before Wood edged ahead on the final circuit to secure the hard-fought victory by half a car length at the checkers. The win was Wood’s second of the season in the B&B Racing Chassis Northern Region, with both victories coming at CJ Speedway. Luke [Read More]

By Ben Deatherage LINCOLN, Neb. (May 21, 2026) — Northwest of Lincoln, the pavement eventually gives way to open Nebraska countryside. The towns get smaller. The nights get quieter. And when race day comes around, the traffic starts heading in one direction. Toward Eagle Raceway. For Shayle Bade, those roads have led to dirt tracks for most of her life. What started as an eight-year-old climbing nervously into a go-kart she had never even seen race before, eventually turned into a career spent chasing speed in go-karts, Micro Sprints, and RaceSaver IMCA Sprint Cars. There were wrecks. Tears. Victories. And eventually, one of the best Mother’s Day gifts a racer could ask for. Built Into Racing “Long story short, racing runs through my family,” Bade said. Her cousin Tom raced go-karts years earlier, while another cousin, Billy Alley, competed in Sprint Cars. But it was Tom who helped spark everything. “One day in 2000 my dad just asked me, ‘Hey Shayle, do you want to race a go-kart like your cousin Tom?’” she said. At the [Read More]