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Car count nears record at Super Nationals

BOONE, Iowa (Sept. 8) – Modifieds and Stock Cars fill the card for the first of two Thursday IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s programs at Boone Speedway. Two hundred and fifty-nine Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modifieds and 191 IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars see heat race action. Those numbers bring the total car count to 872, just four shy of the Super Nationals record set last year. This is the ninth straight year that car counts have exceeded 800 at Super Nationals. Twenty Stock Car and 30 Modified heats set the stage for two qualifying features in both division. Each feature sends four drivers to the inside row of respective main events on Saturday. * Rookie Clay Money of Penokee, Kan., has had the Money Man nickname since his days in a go-kart but he’d trade that moniker for Main Event Qualifier. “With so many good drivers here, it would mean everything for me to make the show in my first year,” he said. “I’ve really enjoyed Super Nationals so far. It’s something everyone needs to [Read More]

Pit pass prices for Thursday programs

BOONE, Iowa (Sept. 8) – Pit passes for today’s IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s race programs at Boone Speedway will be $55 for anyone who does not have a Wednesday wristband or $30 for the scheduled Thursday program for those who purchased Wednesday wristbands. Anyone without a Wednesday wristband will not be allowed in for the first program. Wristbands for Thursday’s show are $30 after the Wednesday show is complete. Wednesday pit wristbands will be honored in the grandstands until Thursday’s show starts.

Two Super Nationals programs scheduled Thursday at Boone Speedway

BOONE, Iowa – Racing will resume tomorrow morning with the first of two Thursday sessions at Boone Speedway. The IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s program rained out early Wednesday night starts at 9 a.m., or as soon as the track is race-ready, on Sept. 8. A ticket purchased on Wednesday will be good for grandstand admission to that show; the pit area will be cleared at 8 a.m. and everyone who does not already have a weekly pit pass will have to purchase a Thursday pass for $30. Modified and Stock Car heat races and qualifying features are on that card. When the Wednesday program is complete, the grandstand will be cleared and admission sold to the scheduled program headlined by the Deery Brothers Summer Series for IMCA Late Models.

Wednesday Order of Events

STOCK CAR HOT LAPS – 6 pm (Approximately) DRIVERS MEETING TRACK PREP FIRST RACE MODIFIED HOTLAPS (100 and Above) SPORTMOD “A” (25 laps) HOBBY STOCK “A” (25 laps) TRACK PREP MODIFIED HOTLAPS (50 to 99) 10 – STOCK CAR HEATS (8 laps) TRACK PREP MODIFIED HOTLAPS (0-49) 10 – STOCK CAR HEATS (8 laps) TRACK PREP 10 – MODIFIED HEATS (8 laps) TRACK PREP (Tuesday Hobby Stock/SportMod winners to Fan Zone) 2 – STOCK CAR B’s (8 laps) STOCK CAR “A1” (25 laps) STOCK CAR “A2” (25 laps) TRACK PREP 10 – MODIFIED HEATS (8 laps) TRACK PREP 10 – MODIFIED HEATS (8 laps) TRACK PREP 2 – STOCK CAR B’s (8 laps) MODIFIED “A1” (25 laps) MODIFIED “A2” (25 laps) 6 – MODIFIED B’s (8 laps)

Wednesday at Super Nationals

Stanton, Mich.’s Myron DeYoung is racing at Super Nationals for the fifth time. He made the main event in his most recent visit to Boone Speedway, finishing 26th in 2005. “We’ve just been running really good this year,” DeYoung explained. “I’ve got a lot of good help and that made it easier to come out.” The winner of Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational qualifying events at both Crystal Motor Speedway and Tri-City Motor Speedway, he’s piloting a 2014 Harris ride this season. “We’ll see a lot of tech support from those people at Boone,” said DeYoung. When he returns to Michigan, he’ll try to wrap up another track championship at Crystal and then set his sights on the $3,000 top prize at the Great Lakes Nationals. * Another veteran returning to Boone Speedway is Regan Tafoya, who makes his 10th consecutive tow from Farmington, N.M. Tafoya became the first New Mexico driver to make the Modified main event in 2006, finishing 19th. “I made the show the first year and I’ve been trying to get back in it [Read More]

Approximate 4 p.m. start for Wednesday race program at Super Nationals

BOONE, Iowa (Sept. 7) – Wednesday’s race program at the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s will get underway later this afternoon. Rain and resulting wet track conditions resulted in moving start time to approximately 4 p.m. “We are hopeful that we will be able to start the race program at that time,” said IMCA President Brett Root. “We will keep fans and drivers updated using Facebook, the website and announcements at the track as we get closer to 4 p.m.” Last-chance qualifying for IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks and Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods, and qualifying heats and features for Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modifieds and IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars are on the Wednesday card.

Holm handles Hobby Stock competition in Super Nationals qualifying

BOONE, Iowa (Sept. 6) – After being challenged early for the lead, Trevor Holm ran away with the Tuesday qualifying feature for IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks at Boone Speedway. As a result, he’ll start on the front of the outside row in Saturday’s IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals main event. Holm dueled with Jason Kohl, who pulled into the infield, then returned and restarted at the back of the field. Second-running Justin Luinenburg retired on lap 18 and two-time and defending champion Jason Wilkinson exited from a transfer spot and followed him to the pits on the next circuit. Solomon Bennett, Matt White, Andrew Bertsch, Jeff Ware, TeJay Mielke, Andrew Borchardt and Bill Bonnett followed Holm across the finish line and will line up in that order behind him on Saturday. Holm is in the big show for the second time and Bonnett counts the 1998 championship among his nine previous Super Nationals appearances; the other six drivers start their first Saturday show. Justin Wacha was disqualified in post-race tech. Last-chance qualifying on [Read More]

Barnes is champion on record-setting night for Sport Compacts at Super Nationals

BOONE, Iowa (Sept. 6) – Joshua Barnes put on a clinic on racing in lapped traffic Tuesday night at Boone Speedway. Then the champagne flowed as Barnes and his crew celebrated winning the Mach-1 Sport Compact championship at the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s. Barnes started on the pole and led all 25 circuits of a main event that ran caution-free. He was running with lapped cars by midway and negotiated traffic the last 12 times around the track with Mitch Bolton and Kimberly Abbott close behind. “We worked hard just getting better after finishing second at Super Nationals last year,” said Barnes, whose $335 win included the Speedway Motors Weekly Racing bonus. “We wanted to get better and there’s only one way to do that. We race against a lot of good drivers and there were a lot of them here tonight.” A Super Nationals record 84 Sport Compacts, from eight states, competed Tuesday. That’s 20 more than the previous mark. Bolton, Abbott and Ramsey Meyer completed the top four. Defending [Read More]

Tuesday Results

IMCA Sport Compacts A-Main 01 — 1. Joshua Barnes, Keokuk; 2. Mitch Bolton, Grand Junction, Colo.; 3. Kimberly Abbott, Olin; 4. Ramsey Meyer, Pierce, Neb.; 5. Nate Coopman, Mankato, Minn.; 6. Ron Kibbe, Danville; 7. Austen Becerra, Camp Point, Ill.; 8. Jake Newsom, Sioux City; 9. Zachary Bohlmeyer;; 10. Dustin O’Brien Jr, Glidden; 11. Jake Benischek, Durant; 12. Corey Stapleton, Denison; 13. Luke Jackson, Sioux City; 14. Brandon Reu, Donnellson; 15. Todd Hine, Davenport; 16. Cory Peters, Spencer; 17. Brandon Lambert, Carthage, Ill.; 18. Trent Orwig, Ottumwa; 19. Brooke Fluckiger, Columbus, Neb.; 20. Terry Blowers, Waseca, Minn.; 21. Brett Marshall, Maquoketa; 22. Shaun Bangart, Chilton, Wis; 23. Dan Markham, Murray, Neb.; 24. Grady Shearer, Fargo, N.D.; 25. Lance Mielke, Norfolk, Neb.; 26. Cody VanDusen, Atalissa; 27. Jarad Gross, Spencer; 28. Chuck Fullenkamp, West Point; 29. Nathan Chandler, Norway; 30. Luke Benischek, Durant. B-Main 01 — 1. Cody VanDusen, Atalissa; 2. Alec Stapleton, Denison; 3. Mick Rykhus, Le Center, Minn.; 4. Craig Bangert, Golden, Ill.; 5. Levi Heath, Wilton; 6. Evan Hrabik, Omaha, Neb.; 7. Billy [Read More]

Record 84 Sport Compacts race Tuesday at IMCA Super Nationals

BOONE, Iowa (Sept. 6) – Fans of the 4-cylinder class will get their money’s worth and then some Tuesday night at the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s. A record 84 Mach-1 Sport Compacts race tonight with eight heats and four “B” features setting the field for the 25-lap main event at Boone Speedway. Sport Compacts have been part of the Super Nationals program since 2011; the previous car count record of 64 was established two years ago. Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and Wisconsin are represented. * Also on the night two Super Nationals program is qualifying for both the BSB Manufacturing Northern SportMod Race of Champions and Stephenville Starter Hobby Stock Race of Champions, a Hobby Stock qualifying feature and two Northern SportMod qualifiers. * Brendon Yamry brings a ton of momentum to his first Super Nationals, after sweeping Mighty Axe Nationals features at North Central Speedway. He just won’t get to take advantage of that momentum until the eighth and final Sport Compact heat. “The number [Read More]