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Frostbuster bonus wins to Ward, Jerovetz and Carter

By Joyce Eisele BOONE, Iowa (April 8, 2023) – Saturday night became bonus night for three drivers as Boone Speedway kicked off its 2023 racing season with a Frostbuster special that saw 166 racing machines checked into the pits. Friesen Performance IMCA Northern SportMods kicked off the feature racing with the running of their 20-lap main event. Brayton Carter started second on the lineup grid and immediately grabbed the lead. Carter had the field covered as he would go on to lead all laps on his way to victory. Taylor Kuehl, last year’s Frostbuster winner, was runner-up ahead of Cam Reimers, Adam Armstrong and Braden Richards. Carter had won the first night of the Frostbuster on Friday at Marshalltown and earned the double bonus payout of $1,000 for Saturday’s win. Tim Ward won the Friesen Performance IMCA Modified 25-lap main and he, too, earned a double bonus of $2,000 after his win at Marshalltown on Friday. Ward started seventh and worked his way to the lead with 15 laps in the books after a dandy [Read More]

Ward rewarded with $1,000 for Marshalltown Frostbuster win

By Joyce Eisele MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (April 7, 2023) – Tim Ward, the Arizona native who now calls Harcourt, Iowa home, was the class of the field in Friday’s Friesen Performance IMCA Modified 25-lap feature during the season opening Frostbuster at Marshalltown Speedway. Ward passed lap one leader Jimmy Gustin on lap two and never looked back. Already Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational qualifying eligible, Ward captured the Frostbuster $1,000 win, finishing well ahead of second running Todd Shute. Gustin held third place, holding back Jeff Aikey and Jake McBirnie. The IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars, The Class Too Tough to Tame, ran a 25-lap, $750 to win main. It was no contest as Tom Berry Jr. jumped to the lead on lap one, after starting sixth. Berry pulled away from the field until Troy Jerovetz closed in at the halfway point, but could not overtake the leader. Berry crossed first under the checkered flag, with Jerovetz taking second and Dan Mackenthun, Johnathan Logue and Cole Czarneski rounding out the top five. However, post-race inspection deemed that Berry and [Read More]

Grabouski soars to Topless Nationals win at Eagle

EAGLE, Neb. (April 2, 2023) – New car, same results. Jordan Grabouski made his first start in a new JGR Chassis a winning one, topping the Sunday feature for Friesen Performance IMCA Modifieds at Eagle Raceway’s inaugural Topless Nationals. The five-time and defending national champion battled Jeremy Mills in the late going before capturing the $1,000 victory, his career 278th in the division. “I was a little nervous. This is a new design and Justin Clark, Josh Houseman and Robert Brinkman have spent hundreds of hours in the shop,” Grabouski said. “Winning the first night out is always your goal but you don’t always achieve that.” Mills, the Saturday winner at RPM Speedway’s Mike Hughes Sunflower Classic, had the fastest car much of the night while Grabouski worked his way up from fifth starting. The two traded sliders before Mills’ engine expired late in the race. Grabouski went on to get the W ahead of Ryan Jenkins and Cole Wayman. “One hundred percent, it’s tough to win at Eagle,” said Grabouski, already Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational qualifying [Read More]

Everything comes up roses for Mills at RPM’s Sunflower Classic

HAYS, Kan. (April 1, 2023) – Jeremy Mills had good finishes to show for his previous handful of visits to RPM Speedway. Now he’s a Friesen Performance IMCA Modified feature winner at the Hays speed plant. Mills topped Saturday’s Mike Hughes Sunflower Classic main event, earning $1,000 for his first checkers of the season and career 121st in the division. “They reworked the track before the Modified feature and it was very racy,” said Mills, the 2022 Iowa State champion and thus already Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational qualifying eligible. “There was lapped traffic and some cautions that we had to deal with.” After starting third and falling back a couple spots, he raced his way back toward the front and took the lead by taking advantage of one of those yellows.” “We had an early restart and I decided it was go time,” Mills said. “I went to the top and took the lead from there.” Clay Money started 13th and finished second and 11th starting Dakota Sproul was third. Tathan Burkhart, already B & B Racing Chassis [Read More]

Superior Customs IMCA Red River Sprint Series set to launch in 2023

By Mike Spieker WEST FARGO, N.D. (March 31, 2023) – In 2021, Nick Skalicky and Jake and Sharnel Bitker, promoters of Red River Valley Speedway and Norman County Raceway, took the leap to start a brand new division in the area, the IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Cars. After having a handful of cars for the first season, the class more than doubled in its second season in 2022, often having two heat races and up to 12 cars. As the class continues to grow, more opportunities will be available for its drivers in 2023 with a brand new traveling series, which already has a title sponsor. The Superior Customs IMCA Red River Sprint Series is set to hit the road this season with 15 dates on its schedule at five different tracks. All tracks are within 75 miles of the series’ home track, Red River Valley Speedway in West Fargo. The series schedule does not include every IMCA Sprint Car event in the area this season as Red River Valley Speedway will host the class 15 times this [Read More]

Rage Chassis reigns as new title sponsor for Super Nationals Modified Race of Champions

WEST UNION, Iowa (March 31, 2023) – A chassis builder that’s seen continued success at IMCA venues around the nation takes a new title at the biggest IMCA event. Rage Chassis becomes the new sponsor of the Modified Race of Champions, to be held during the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s. The West Union chassis builder, owned by Justin and Holly O’Brien, provides a portion of the point fund to be paid for the 12-car, 12-lap, $1,000 to win race. The 35th annual RoC will be Sept. 9 at Boone Speedway. Previous RoC winners as well as 2023 track champions or point leaders, and former Modified national, regional and Super Nationals champions competing at the 41st annual Super Nationals are eligible to qualify for the Rage Chassis Race of Champions. “The race of champions is one of IMCA’s premier races and one of the coolest events at Super Nationals,” O’Brien said. “It honors drivers who put in the effort all season long. It’s cool to be part of that and Super Nationals in general.” O’Brien built [Read More]

David Murray Jr. joining Nebraska Auto Racing Hall of Fame

LINCOLN, Neb. (March 27, 2023) – The winningest driver in Friesen Performance IMCA Modified history can add Hall of Famer to his resume. David Murray Jr. is one of six members of the Nebraska Auto Racing Hall of Fame induction class of 2023. In addition, the hall of fame board has announced this year’s Gordie Shuck Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to a long-time racing family, the Lincoln Family of US 30 Speedway in Columbus. The Lincolns have been a staple in the racing community for many decades promoting racetracks, setting the standard of racing safety and lending a helping hand to other racing facilities, helping them to be successful. A Nebraska native, Murray’s career began at Platte Valley Speedway in Lexington racing a street stock. He began his IMCA Modified career after moving to Kansas in 1989. Murray became the winningest driver in division history with 557 career feature victories. He was national champion in 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005, earning nine regional crowns along with 25 track and two special series titles. During [Read More]

DeVilbiss Racing Chassis takes title sponsor role in IMCA’s Eastern Region for Modifieds

FARMINGTON, N.M. (March 14, 2023) – Instead of racing for a regional championship himself this season, Zane DeVilbiss will help crown one. The long-time and much-accomplished driver owns DeVilbiss Racing Chassis, new title sponsor of the Eastern Region for IMCA Modifieds. “We started talking to IMCA about getting more involved with them eight or nine months ago,” explained DeVilbiss. “We have been building Modified chassis for 17 years now and have cars in more than 20 states. Becoming a regional title sponsor is a good way for us to get our name out to a lot of potential customers and in a part of the country that is both relatively new for us and a new opportunity.” Friesen Performance IMCA Modifieds running weekly in Florida, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania are in the DeVilbiss Racing Chassis Eastern Region. Points earned in the recently completed Clash on the Coast, and in the upcoming NY-Penn Series will also figure toward Eastern region standings. The champion earns a $2,500 share of the $6,000 point fund to be paid [Read More]

Smith’s IMCA Lone Star Tour success continues with Heart O’ Texas sweep

WACO, Texas (March 8, 2023) – While the track was new, the story was the same when the Cody Smith show traveled to Heart O’ Texas Speedway for round four of the Sunoco Race Fuels Lone Star Tour presented by Sniper Speed. Smith won for the fourth time in as many $750 to win Smiley’s Racing Products IMCA Southern SportMod starts, then outran Jesse Sobbing to the $3,000 checkers following a late-race stoppage in the 30-lap IMCA Sunoco Stock Car headline event. “We’ve been fortunate and gotten some pretty good draws,” acknowledged Smith, who nonetheless had to work his way to the front from seventh starting in Wednesday’s Stock Car feature. “We were excited to win this race. I can’t believe we won two tonight.” Twentieth starting G.W. Egbert IV, Benji Kirk Patrick and early race leader Paul White rounded out the top five. White drew the pole and led through the first 10 laps before two-wheeling his way high out of his line and watching Smith speed by following a lap 11 restart. Gould [Read More]

Egbert answers when Lone Star Tour opportunity knocks at Devil’s Bowl

MESQUITE, Texas (March 6, 2023) – Opportunity knocked and G.W. Egbert IV answered Monday night, in the third installment of the Sunoco Race Fuels Lone Star Tour presented by Sniper Speed. Egbert drove to the inside to pass Angel Munoz and race-long leader William Gould coming to the line on the 19th of 25 laps, then kept Munoz and Cody Smith at bay for the $2,000 IMCA Sunoco Stock Car checkers at Devil’s Bowl Speedway. “I was just waiting and sizing them up,” said Egbert, who had worked his way into contention from the ninth starting spot. “As long as I hit my marks, I knew I would be right there.” Gould and Munoz had run 1-2 through three early cautions. Egbert was in third for good by lap 15 and took advantage when an open lower line presented itself four laps later. The new B & B Racing Chassis All-Star Invitational candidate got the win just under a tick under a second ahead of Munoz, with Sunday winner and tour points leader Smith, Gould and [Read More]