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Hibdon is IMCA Modified hero in Dakota Classic Tour opener

By Rebecca Rattei JAMESTOWN, N.D. (July 10) – He was on the late side getting to the track but Kollin Hibdon was quick to find his way back to victory lane at Jamestown Speedway Saturday night. Hibdon won the IMCA Modified feature on opening night of the Corral Sales Dakota Classic Tour, passing Eddie Belec for the front spot with eight circuits left in the 30-lapper. The 17-year-old speedster from Nevada pulled away from that point. Ethan Dotson worked his way to the runner-up spot, crossing the stripe a straightaway off Hibdon’s $2,000 first-place pace. “This was a good race to win. I’ve never had the chance to follow this tour before,” said Hibdon, also the winner of Jamestown’s Don Gumke Racers’ Memorial in June and already on the Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational ballot. “There are a lot of good drivers here from a lot of states.” “Twenty-eight guys started the feature,” he continued, “and any one of them could win one of these races on any given night.” Hibdon had drawn the pole but [Read More]

Online registration, reservations for pit stalls start for 39th annual IMCA Super Nationals

BOONE, Iowa – Online registration is now open for the 39th annual IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s. The Sept. 6-11 Super Nationals is guaranteed to be the biggest, best and richest in event history. The form for pre-registration can be found at www.imca.com and www.raceboone.com under the Super Nationals menu. Drivers who do not already have a MyRacePass account can create one when they go to that link. Registration fee is $50 for Late Models, $40 for Modifieds, $25 for Stock Cars, Hobby Stocks, Mod Lites and Northern SportMods, and $15 for Sport Compacts. Drivers must also pre-register to reserve pit stalls and to compete in the Sept. 4 and 5 Prelude at Boone Speedway. Pit stall application links are on Super Nationals menus on both IMCA and Boone Speedway websites as well. The Prelude and each night of Super Nationals will be broadcast by IMCA.TV.

IMCA Corral Sales Dakota Classic Tour starts Saturday in Jamestown

MANDAN, N.D. – Drivers have been pre-registered from 14 states and Saskatchewan for the upcoming Corral Sales Dakota Classic Tour for IMCA Modifieds and IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars July 10-15, 2021. The six consecutive day tour starts in Jamestown at the quarter-mile Jamestown Speedway on the Stutsman County Fairgrounds, on Saturday, July 10. Jamestown was one of the original three tour tracks when the series began in July of 1990. From there the series heads north to Minot at the 3/8-mile Nodak Speedway on the North Dakota State Fairgrounds for a Sunday-Monday doubleheader on July 11-12. The Monday date was to be held in Estevan, Sask., as it has since 2000, but the border remains closed due to the Covid pandemic, so Minot agreed to host the program. This allowed the rest of the Tour schedule to go on as scheduled. On Tuesday, July 13, the quarter-mile Williston Basin Speedway hosts the fourth date of the Tour that is held at the Upper Missouri Valley Fairgrounds. Southwest Speedway in Dickinson has the Wednesday, July 14, date at [Read More]

Ward, Murty, Carter motor to Granite City Land of Ten Thousand Lakes IMCA wins

SAUK RAPIDS, Minn. (June 27) – Tim Ward and Dallon Murty ended Land of Ten Thousand Lakes 10K Week with $10,000 feature wins while Brayton Carter’s $5,000 checkers bookended the richest week ever of IMCA racing in Minnesota. Ward wired the IMCA Modified 50-lapper Sunday at Granite City Motor Park, chased every time around the quick 3/8-mile Sauk Rapids oval by Cody Laney while Murty made his way to the lead from 10th starting just before halfway of the 50-lap IMCA Sunoco Stock Car main and outdistanced Elijah Zevenbergen. Winner of the opening night feature Thursday at Princeton, Carter led start to finish of the 30-lap Karl Kustoms Northern SportMod main event, besting Colby Fett and hard-charging Jim Horejsi. Fifteen states were represented in the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes 10K finale. Ward found speed on the extreme high line at the start of the Modified main, bringing Laney and Jordan Grabouski into lapped traffic before the only caution of the race came out on the 18th circuit. He caught up with the back of the back [Read More]

Dotson, LaCrosse take home $10,000 from IMCA Land of Ten Thousand Lakes 10K at North Central

BRAINERD, Minn. (June 26) – IMCA drivers with a history of coming up big at big events made some history again Saturday night. Ethan Dotson led all 30 laps of the IMCA Modified feature that brought out the final checkers of the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes 10K show at North Central Speedway while Benji LaCrosse outran home state foe Luke Lemmens in an IMCA Sunoco Stock Car barnburner that ended green, white, checkers. Modified and Stock Car features paid $10,000 to win, while Jake Sachau earned $5,000 for his Karl Kustoms Northern SportMod victory. Night three of the richest week of IMCA racing in Minnesota brought 224 cars, from 17 states, to Brainerd. Already a Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational ballot qualifier multiple times over, Dotson started outside Jordan Grabouski on the front row and ran away from everybody, catching up with the back of the Modified field just after midway. The event ran caution-free and Dotson had lapped cars as a cushion before taking the victory almost five seconds ahead of Grabouski, who’d won [Read More]

Black stays smart, Grabouski stays fast for IMCA ‘Lakes’ feature wins at North Central

BRAINERD, Minn. (June 25) – Tanner Black stayed smart and led every lap of North Central Speedway’s $5,000 to win Land of Ten Thousand Lakes 10K IMCA Modified feature. Jordan Grabouski stayed fast and doubled his winning margin to almost a full car length, earning a second $5,000 IMCA Sunoco Stock Car victory in as many nights during a Friday show that brought 220 IMCA entries from across the U.S. and Canada to Brainerd. Making his first visit to North Central, Black led all 30 laps from the pole in a Modified headliner that ran green to checkers, staying patient while working through traffic and beating runner-up Tim Ward to the stripe by more than four seconds. “I tried to be smart, stay on the rubber and make things happen,” Black said after his IMCA career-best paying win. “I had never raced there before and it took a couple laps in my heat to figure out (turns) three and four because they’re just shaped a little different.” “We had to guess a little on the [Read More]

Glenz, Grabouski are $5,000 IMCA winners at Princeton’s Siercks Memorial

PRINCETON, Minn. (June 24) – Jesse Glenz led the last three laps. Jordan Grabouski led the last few feet. Both earned $5,000 IMCA feature wins Thursday night at Princeton Speedway’s Bill Siercks Memorial, the first of four rich Land of Ten Thousand Lakes 10K events this week. Glenz put his name on the Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational ballot with his Modified win, sliding past race-long leader Terry Phillips on the 28th of 30 Modified circuits. After a late caution erased Eric Arneson’s big lead, Grabouski made a last-lap run on the high side of the oval to steal the victory away by less than seven one hundredth’s of a second and earn a starting spot in the B & B Chassis All-Star Invitational at the upcoming IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s. Brayton Carter was the $2,500 Karl Kustoms Northern SportMod winner and Rod Manthey topped the $750 to win IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock feature. In all, 224 drivers from 16 states and Canada competed at the fourth annual event. Phillips had led the [Read More]

Reay rules Tri-City, Eastern IMCA Allstars Modifieds

PORTLAND, Mich. (June 23) – After winning $2,000 on Friday night, Jeffrey Reay came up just three dollars short of matching that career-topping total in the second installment of the Eastern IMCA Allstars the following Wednesday. Reay led all 30 laps of the June 18 IMCA Modified feature at Tri-City Motor Speedway. He outran defending Dirt Works Eastern Region champion Mitchell Hunt and former regional king A.J. Ward to the $1,997 checkers on June 23 at Thunderbird Raceway. “We’ve got some tough guys we run against,” said Reay, one of 28 entries at Auburn, one of 37 at Muskegon and already on the Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational ballot. “We’re going to keep taking the wins as we get them and not get a big head on us.” He’d started outside pole at Tri-City and dueled with Ward before winning ahead of Brenten DeYoung. Reay motored from fourth starting and caught Kody Johnson for the front spot en route to his fourth win of the season at Thunderbird. “It was fun. It was a fun track,” [Read More]

Hoosier product bulletin for grooving IMCA tires

LAKEVILLE, Ind. (June 23) – With the recent announcement of the IMCA rules modification to allow grooving on the IMCA G60 tire, we felt it was important to release some guidelines for this process so drivers can avoid common mistakes and get the most benefit from this new rule. The full intent of this rules modification was to potentially help customers get extra life from their IMCA G60’s. Grooving can be a useful tool in recreating the factory edge to the block and reducing block stiffness on a used tire, so its performance more closely matches a new tire. We would NOT recommend grooving brand new tires. New tires are already as aggressive as a tire will ever be, so grooving them will only reduce the block stiffness and INCREASE tire wear on a new tire without dramatically assisting performance. We would recommend that after the 2nd night of racing on an IMCA G60, customers should recut the factory groove lines with a #3 width grooving blade. Cut each block individually for best results as the [Read More]

Looft keeps plugging for career best payday at IMCA MaxYield Seed SportMod Nationals

BRITT, Iowa (June 22) – The driver with the most Karl Kustoms Northern SportMod feature wins plugged his way to his biggest win Tuesday night at Hancock County Speedway. Matt Looft led all 30 laps of the MaxYield Seed SportMod Nationals from his outside row one start, outrunning Colby Fett following a late restart to take the $2,500 checkers. “That was the highest paying win I’ve ever had so that was pretty cool,” Looft said following career win number 175 in the division. “I finally got a good draw. I wasn’t quite sure where I needed to be but I kept plugging along in the same line.” Running the top line in the first set of turns and the bottom groove in the second, Looft stayed in front following a couple key early restarts, first denying Jake Sachau then keeping Jared Boumeester in check. Fett passed four cars in making a big move to third and got to second on the restart with five laps left. He challenged the rest of the way but could [Read More]