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Elliott eludes raindrops for Marshalltown IMCA Modified win

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (May 27) – A few raindrops at the Marshalltown Speedway on Friday night didn’t stop the weekly racing action. Eric Elliott went home with his first-ever Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified win at the track, Donavon Smith in the IMCA Sunoco Stock Car class won for the first time in the regular season and Jared VanDeest got win number three in the Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod division. There has been no stopping Eric Stanton in the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock class, as he continued his perfect season’s run, winning for the fifth time. Stanton started ninth and had the lead at lap five, keeping it to the finish for the win. He was tailed most of the distance by Jamie Songer, who finished as the runner-up. Gary Pfantz was third, fourth went to Doug McCollough, who had started 10th, and lady racer Leah Wroten completed the top five. VanDeest returned to victory lane, winning the 15-lap IMCA Northern SportMod feature. VanDeest started seventh and had to run down early leaders Travis Peterson and then Cory [Read More]

IMCA Speedway Motors Weekly Racing National Point Standings Through May 26

Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modifieds – 1. Lance Mari, Imperial, Calif., 864; 2. Chaz Baca, Mesa, Ariz., 838; 3. Jordan Grabouski, Beatrice, Neb., 791; 4. Brian Schultz, Casa Grande, Ariz., 783; 5. Ethan Dotson, Bakersfield, Calif., 752; 6. Cody Laney, Torrance, Calif., 745; 7. Tim Ward, Harcourt, Iowa, 739; 8. Matt Guillaume, Haslet, Texas, 715; 9. Kelly Shryock, Fertile, Iowa, 694; 10. John P. Gober, Poolville, Texas, 690; 11. Tyler Frye, Belleville, Kan., 658; 12. Kyle Brown, State Center, Iowa, 642; 13. Cody Shoemaker, Paradise, Texas, 609; 14. Paul Stone, Winton, Calif., 600; 15. Ricky Thornton Jr., Harcourt, Iowa, 582; 16. Ronn Lauritzen, Jesup, Iowa, 560; 17. Jason Noll, Peoria, Ariz., 549; 18. Anthony Roth, Columbus, Neb., 545; 19. Jesse Hoeft, Forest City, Iowa, 544; 20. Darryl Campbell, Everman, Texas, 540. IMCA Late Models – 1. Rob Toland, Davenport, Iowa, 352; 2. John Emerson, Waterloo, Iowa, 330; 3. Andy Nezworski, Buffalo, Iowa, 302; 4. Ben Seemann, Waterloo, Iowa, 299; 5. Luke Goedert, Guttenberg, Iowa, 293; 6. Joel Callahan, Dubuque, Iowa, 267; 7. Darrel DeFrance, Marshalltown, Iowa, 264; [Read More]

Friday cancellations

VINTON, Iowa – The list of race programs canceled due to wet track conditions or rained out for Friday, May 27 now includes Atchison County Raceway, Beatrice Speedway, Boyd Raceway, the Iowa State Fairgrounds, Lee County Speedway and Oshkosh SpeedZone Raceway.

Atomicwraps.com IMCA Empire State Series at Skyline on Monday

CORTLAND, N.Y. – Skyline Raceway Park is the Memorial Day destination for touring Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modifieds and the Atomicwraps.com Empire State Series. The Monday, May 30 feature at Cortland pays $500 to win. IMCA Speedway Motors Weekly Racing National, Dirt Works Eastern Region, Allstar Performance State and special series points will be awarded. Pit gates and the grandstand open at 2 p.m. Hot laps are at 3:40 p.m. and racing starts at 4 p.m. Entry fee is $35 and includes the driver’s pit pass. Spectator admission is $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and students, and free for kids nine and under. Pit passes are $30. More information is available by calling 607 745-0275. Matt Cole of Vestal was the series winner on opening night at Five Mile Point Speedway and is the point leader heading into the holiday even Outlaw Speedway winner James Cornell of Port Crane and three-time and defending tour champion Eddie Sites of Towanda, Pa., are tied for second, just three points back. Atomicwraps.com IMCA Empire State Series top 20 point standings [Read More]

Wild West IMCA Modified Shoot Out boasts seven $1,000 to win Modified dates

By Ben Deatherage WHITE CITY, Ore. – Seven $1,000 to win tour dates are on the schedule for Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modifieds following the Wild West Shoot Out. All main events over the course of the June 12-19 tour in the scenic Pacific Northwest are Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational ballot qualifiers and drivers with perfect attendance throughout the tour earn shares of a $3,500 point fund. Opening night for the sixth annual tour is Saturday, June 11 at Southern Oregon Speedway in White City. Yreka, Calif.’s Siskiyou Motor Speedway hosts the Sunday, June 12 event. Speedweek travels to Coos Bay Speedway on Monday, June 13, and to Cottage Grove Speedway on Tuesday, June 14. The tour is at Willamette Speedway in Lebanon on Wednesday, June 15 before a designated travel day. Speedweek concludes at Sunset Speedway Park in Banks on Friday, June 17 and at Grays Harbor Raceway in Elma, Wash., on Saturday, June 18. A minimum of $100 will be paid to make 20-car starting fields and IMCA Speedway Motors Weekly Racing National, [Read More]

Inaugural Dakota Track Side Northern SportMod series is July 1-4

MINOT, N.D. – Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod drivers have four more reasons to celebrate the upcoming Independence Day holiday. The inaugural Dakota Track Side-sponsored tour travels to three different North Dakota tracks from July 1-4 for $700 to win, minimum $100 to start events. Nodak Speedway hosts Friday, July 1 and Monday, July 4 dates, with Southwest Speedway hosting the Saturday, July 2 show and Williston Basin Speedway rolling out the red carpet for the Sunday, July 3 event. IMCA Speedway Motors Weekly Racing National and Allstar Performance State points, but no local track points will be awarded each night. Racing starts at 7 p.m. each night and fans and drivers are reminded that Dickinson is in the Mountain Time Zone. Charlie’s Service of Arnegard provides additional payouts. There is a one-time registration fee of $25 for all cars. There’s a $500 bonus for any driver who can win three of the four events and $250 bonuses for the longest tow and the highest finishing driver with an open trailer over the course of the [Read More]

Edelbrock renews awards program for five IMCA divisions

TORRANCE, Calif. – Claim engine competitors in general and Stock Car regional champions in particular are beneficiaries of Edelbrock’s 2016 contingency awards program with IMCA. Highest finishing claim drivers in point standings for each of the five Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified regions receive 2975 Victor Jr. intakes from the Torrance, Calif., company. The highest finishing claim engine drivers in both IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock regions and in national Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod and Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center Southern SportMod points have a choice between 2701 Chevrolet, 7121 Ford and 2176 Chrysler intakes. Second through fifth place claim engine drivers in each Modified, Stock Car and Hobby Stock region, and in national Northern and Southern SportMod standings all receive $50 product certificates. Modified and Stock Car regional rookies of the year receive $25 product certificates. And for a second consecutive year, top drivers in Northern and Southern Stock Car regions receive Edelbrock- 2701, 7121 or 2176 intakes. All awards will be presented during the national banquet in November or mailed beginning the following week from the [Read More]

Thornton wins again at Southern Iowa

By Jeremy Fox OSKALOOSA, Iowa (May 25) – For the first time this season, Mother Nature cooperated and Southern Iowa Speedway got two consecutive nights in. Feature winners were Ricky Thornton Jr. in the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modifieds, Cayden Carter in the IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars, Dustin Griffiths in the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks, Brett Lowry in the Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods and Jake Benischek in the Mach-1 Sport Compacts. Dennis LaVeine had the Modified lead early with Andrew Schroeder running second and Zack Vander Beek and Thornton working their way through the field. Vander Beek had worked his way to the front just before a caution on lap seven. Thornton used the ensuing restart to his advantage, driving by for the lead and eventual win. Vander Beek, Todd Shute, Carter and Colt Mather completed the top five. Carter took the lead on the fourth circuit and motored to his fourth consecutive Stock Car win at Osky. Mike Hughes, Todd Inman, Todd Reitzler and Louis Lynch were next across the stripe. After making the race [Read More]

Can-Am Shootout passing clinics pay off for Hagen and Schroeder

WILLISTON, N.D. (May 20-21) – After putting on a pair of passing clinics, Travis Hagen and Chris Schroeder proved they knew how to stay at the front. Hagen won the Friday opener and Schroeder took the Saturday checkers at Williston Basin Speedway’s Can-Am Shootout. Both drivers earned $1,000 for their Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified victories and a berth on the ballot for the Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational accompanied Schroeder’s checkers. Hagen was already vote eligible, having won a Can-Am show last summer. Jason Wolla was runner-up both nights, by half a car length on Friday and by two car lengths on Saturday. Hagen started 13th in Friday’s 25-lapper. He made the middle line work in getting to the front, passing Wolla with two laps to go and then hanging on for the win. “I’d gotten a good restart after a caution with five or six laps to go,” said Hagen, the winner for the first time this season Sunday at Nodak Speedway. “Both Jason and I were able to check out on the rest of [Read More]

Dominator Race Products expands IMCA program with new awards for Hobby Stocks

LYONS, Ohio – Drivers in a sixth sanctioned division are in line for awards from Dominator Race Products this season. The Lyons, Ohio, manufacturer gives nosepiece kits to 11th and 12th place drivers in both Northern and Southern regions for IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks. Nosepiece kits again go to 11th through 20th place finishers in the Deery Brothers Summer Series for IMCA Late Models, ninth and 10th place finishers in each of the five regions for Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modifieds and in national point standings for Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods and Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center Southern SportMods, and to 11th and 12th place finishers in both IMCA Sunoco Stock Car regions. “As we enter our eighth season as an IMCA sponsor, it is our pleasure at Dominator Race Products to be able to award nosepiece kits to the addition of the Hobby Stock division. This is a great way to let racers from all over know that we appreciate all their work and dedication to the sport,” said Bentley Shaw. “Thank you to IMCA for the continuing work and thank you to [Read More]