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By Dru Brown BILLINGS, Mont. (June 4) – A strong run from start to finish put Travis Davis in Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified victory lane Saturday at Billings Motorsports Park. Davis rocketed to the top spot at the drop of the green while Beau Nave was quickly in second with Jeremy Meirhofer in third, moving to the bottom line to try to make things happen. Hank Berry started all the way back in the 10th position but that hardly slowed him down.  Berry challenging Nave for second and eventually wrestled it away.  Another yellow flag halted the ac­tion, and on this restart Meirhofer again stuck his car to the bottom lane but to no avail. Berry was sizing up Travis Davis in every corner, but the laps were quickly ticking away. He fi­nally got a run on Davis but lapped traffic caused Berry to slam on the brakes and Davis flew by again. A quick yellow waved and on the restart Davis and Berry again separated from the field.  Berry gave it everything he had in the [Read More]

By Lonnie Wheatley DODGE CITY, Kan. (June 4) – Daylon Bergeron outdueled Mike Roach for IMCA SportMod hon­ors Saturday at Dodge City Raceway Park, while Angel Munoz posted his first local win of the year in IMCA Sunoco Stock Car action and Matt O’Hair made a late move to take his second IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock win of the year. After leading the opening 16 rounds, Bergeron bested Roach over the closing circuits to capture his first Dodge City SportMod win. Bursting into the lead from the pole position, Bergeron cruised out front until Roach battled his way past Slade Roach to take over second just past midway. Following a caution with seven laps to go, Roach put the pressure on Bergeron and finally slipped un­der to take command on the 17th lap after splitting a lapped car on the backstretch.  Bergeron battled right back, pulling even as the white flag flew after. Dodging a spinning car in turn two, Bergeron used the high side of turns three and four to edge Roach. Slade Roach, Jeff [Read More]

BOONE, Iowa (June 4) – John Logue put his ride back in victory lane following the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified feature for the second time in a row Saturday at Boone Speedway while Jay Schmidt scored another victory in the IMCA Sunoco Stock Car ranks. Logue started seventh and had his familiar number 69 in the lead by lap eight of the 20-lap Modi­fied feature. He never relinquished that lead on his way to the checkers and the win.  He had big time company behind him fighting it out tooth and nail for position. It was Jimmy Gustin, the 11th place starter, winning the battle to take the runner-up spot.  Point leader Mike VanGenderen finished third from his 12th place starting spot.  Russ Dickerson came from 18th to finish fourth and Kyle Brown rounded out the top five. Schmidt captured his second win of the season in the Stock Car class. He wasted no time in get­ting to the front, grabbing the lead by lap two from his sixth starting spot. He stretched his lead, looking comfortable [Read More]

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (June 3)– Two drivers, Ricky Thornton Jr. in the Xtreme Motor Sports Modified division and Jeff Wollam in IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars, scored first wins of the 2016 sea­son at the Marshalltown Speedway on Friday night. Thornton, the Chandler, Ariz., driver who is calling Iowa home for the summer, made his pres­ence known in the 20-lap Modified feature. He started 13th and grabbed the lead away from last week’s winner Eric Elliott on lap nine. From there on, Thornton took his ride to the top side and never looked back on his way to the check­ers. Jake Murray finished second from starting ninth, and third went to 11th starting Jimmy Gustin with a late race charge. Kyle Brown finished fourth and Ronn Lauritzen came from 10th to round out the top five. Wollam, who had run in the top three all night long, made the last-lap pass on the back stretch, slipping under Donavon Smith and beating him to the checkers for the Stock Car win. Smith had to settle for the runner-up [Read More]

AUBURN, Mich. (June 3) – After a week away, A.J. Ward returned to victory lane following Fri­day’s Main Street Seed and Supply IMCA Modified feature at Tri-City Motor Speedway. The co-point leader with Todd Matheson, Ward started alongside Matheson in row five for the 20-lap feature. Matt Szecsodi and Rusty Zeigler brought the field to the green flag. Szecsodi beat the field to lap one before spinning in turn two and restarting at the rear of the field. Zeigler led the next two laps before Ward grabbed the lead on lap four.  He was unchallenged the re­maining 16 laps for his fifth local feature win of the year. Heath Grizzle, Myron DeYoung, Chaz Pray and ‘B’ winner Craig Vance were the rest of the top five finishers.

By Dusty Wiegert SALINA, Kan. (June 3) – After a three week lull in the action at Salina Speedway due to unfavora­ble weather the 3/8-mile oval came back to life on June 3. Michael Pepper rallied late to pick up his second feature win in the Coors Light IMCA Stock Car division in as many visits. A late caution allowed Pepper to catch up and work past Tanner Porten­ier for the win. Tanner Thiel picked off the runner-up spot with Portenier third and Scott Mil­ler fourth. Coming from the furthest back of all the divisions to win was Daniel Gottschalk in the M & H Mo­tors IMCA Northern SportMods. Gottschalk came from 11th to slip past Dakota Sproul for another triumph. Sproul finished second, Tyler Watts third, and Brian Davidson fourth. Eighth starting Mike Traskowsky held off Tommy Fose to win the feature for the Budweiser IMCA Hobby Stock division. Shay Simoneau came in third with Tony Slothower fourth. Tyler Frye continues to impress in his rookie season and picked up another feature win in [Read More]