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Abbey ends on high note with Southern Challenge checkers

ABILENE, Texas (Oct. 18) – After putting his Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified in victory lane, Dean Abbey put $3,000 in the bank. Abbey took the lead from Josh McGaha after midway at Abilene Speedway’s Ryan Bard Memorial Southern Challenge and led to the end of the Sunday headliner. He’d started the 30-lapper from inside row two. “We knew we had a good car. I just tried to stay close to him (McGaha),” Abbey said. “He was good but he finally slid up just high enough and left me enough room to get by.” After a complete restart, the race saw just one caution. Abbey had one lapped car behind him and was coming up on another coming to the checkers. McGaha, a former race winner and now four-time track champion at Abilene, was the runner-up. Charles Brewer, Chris Elliott and Fred Wojtek completed the top five. “We wanted to end our Modified season on a high note,” said Abbey, who’d won the Southern SportMod feature at Abilene in 2011 and is already on the [Read More]

Outlaw’s OctoberFest special boasts $5,000 IMCA Modified payday

MUSKOGEE, Okla. – Outlaw Motor Speedway’s Oct. 22-24 OctoberFest brings Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified drivers to Muskogee in pursuit of a $5,000 payday. The Saturday, Oct. 24 feature is 60 laps and a Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational ballot qualifier, with a minimum of $400 paid to start and a $150 entry fee. An open practice is from 6-9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22. Qualifying starts on Friday, Oct. 23 with last-chance qualifying and the main event on Saturday. Grandstand admission is free for the practice night and $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and military, $5 for kids ages 6-12 and free for five and under both race nights. Pit passes all three nights are $30 or $50 for Friday and Saturday. Transponders can be rented for $5. More information is available from promoter Chris Smith at 918 625-6200 and at the www.outlawmotorspeedway.net website.

Spooker gives Cole IMCA Modified bookend win at Tri-State

POCOLA, Okla. (Oct. 17) – The bookend win to Tate Cole’s 2015 campaign came Saturday night in the Tri-State Speedway Spooker finale. Cole started outside the front row, led all 30 laps and went home with $2,000 for taking the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified checkers. He’d also led the distance in topping the season-opening Cecil Harlan Memorial Kegger and had another seven feature wins in 2015 at Pocola. “It was exciting to be able to win another big race. It was just a fun all-around deal,” the new 2016 Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational ballot qualifier said. “We knew we had a good car but never thought we’d win that many times and both big races.” Running a lane off the bottom, Cole was into heavy lapped traffic just after midway. A handful of cautions interrupted the main event, the last time with five laps left. Cole pulled away again to win by nearly a straightaway over Shannon Reheard. Johnny Bone Jr., 10th starting Nick Lawrence and 14th starting Zane Hunter rounded out the top five. Michael [Read More]

Iron Man Challenge checkers yield gold for Gemmill, Elliott

LONGDALE, Okla. (Oct. 10) – Troy Gemmill and Robert Elliott both proved their mettle in winning IMCA main events at Longdale Speedway’s Iron Man Challenge. Gemmill scored Saturday’s $6,000 Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified checkers, along with a berth on the ballot for the 2016 Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational. Elliott took home the $3,000 top prize for IMCA SportMods. The mandatory pit stop halfway through the 60-lap main event came at the best possible time for Gemmill, who had led the first 28 circuits from the pole before getting together with a lapped car and spinning into the infield. Still rolling, he fired the engine back up and got back on the track having lost just two positions. More importantly, the stop at midway gave him the opportunity to change a tire that was slowly going flat as a result of the incident two laps earlier. “I was amazed that I was in third,” admitted Gemmill. “We changed the tire, I drank a lot of water and conferred with my son Brendon (who would go [Read More]

Cancer can’t keep DiMeo from returning to Dacotah Speedway for Drive to Survive night

MANDAN, N.D. – Every night at the track is special for a race car driver. Dacotah Speedway’s seventh annual cancer awareness and fundraising Drive to Survive Night was especially so for Mach-1 Sport Compact driver Nylee DiMeo. The Aug. 21 show at Mandan marked the first time this season the diminutive Dimeo has raced this season. Diagnosed with breast cancer in November of 2014, she returned to the track and won her heat race just three and a half weeks after undergoing a double mastectomy. Fellow drivers Jason Berg and Stan Thompson built the car, painted white and decorated with pink handprints, she raced that night. “My car is still on a trailer. I cried because they had a car done for me,” she said. “I told them I just needed a doctor to clear me and I was going to be out there. It meant a lot to be back with the fans, drivers and track officials.” Younger sister to veteran wheelman Joren Boyce, DiMeo has raced in the thunder-4 and later Sport Compact [Read More]

Burch, Gaylord rumble to top IMCA Modified paydays at Thunder on the Hill

By Larry Lowrey Jr. MAYETTA, Kan. (Oct. 9-10) – Corey Burch and Ryan Gaylord rumbled to $2,000 Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified feature wins at Thunder Hill Speedway’s season-ending Thunder on the Hill special. Burch captured opening night honors, overcoming lapped traffic and late cautions to take his first win this season at Mayetta. Gaylord outran track champion Steven Bowers Jr. in a tightly contested Saturday feature. Once in front of the Friday night field, Burch put a stranglehold on the top spot and refused to let go. Bowers mounted an assault at Burch on a late race restart but it was deemed that both he and Johnny Saathoff jumped the start and were penalized and put to the rear of the field. That left Jet Racing Central Region champion Dylan Sherfick and Jordy Nelson to try and unseat Burch at the top. It was all Burch down the stretch while Sherfick, Nelson, Eddie Ingram and Jay Noteboom rounded out the top five. The Saturday finale went down to the final lap. The eighth starting [Read More]

$2,000 is top IMCA Modified prize at Tri-State’s Spooker

POCOLA, Okla. – Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modifieds are in the running for $2,000 to win at this weekend’s 36th annual Tri-State Speedway Spooker. A minimum of $300 will be paid to start the Saturday, Oct. 17 Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational ballot qualifier. Distance for the main event will be 30 laps. There is a $125 entry fee. The top eight qualify on Thursday, Oct. 15 and positions nine through 16 will be set on Friday, Oct. 16. Last-chance qualifying precedes the main event on Saturday. Pit gates open at 3 p.m., the draw closes at 6:45 p.m. and racing starts at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday. Pit passes are $30 for adults and $15 for kids; spectator admission is $10 for adults and $5 for kids ages 6-11. On Saturday, the gate opens at 3 p.m., sign-in concludes at 5:45 p.m. and racing starts at 6 p.m. Pit passes are $35 for adults and $20 for kids; grandstand admission is $15 for adults and $8 for kids. There is a $2 discount on grandstand [Read More]

Harris tops Virginia Sprint Series finale

By Jim Haines SHENANDOAH, Va. (Oct. 10) – Jerald Harris wrapped up the Virginia Sprint Series crown with his third straight feature win Saturday at Shenandoah Speedway. The race stayed green from start to finish and Harris was unchallenged at the checkers. The Extreme Motorsports IMCA Sprint Car victory was his sixth of 2015 and second this season on the asphalt at Shenandoah. Glenn Worrell and Brian Lawson paced the field to green with Lawson out first. Harris shadowed him for seven laps before taking over the lead and ran in front to the finish. Tom Humphries and Lawson were next across the stripe. Feature results – 1. Jerald Harris; 2. Tom Humphries; 3. Brian Lawson; 4. Tony Harris; 5. Anthony Linkenhoker; 6. Charlie Ware; 7. Glenn Worrell; 8. Chris Ware; 9. Ron Moyers.

IMCA.TV TO PRESENT THE BEST APPEARING CAR AWARD TO MODIFIED AND SPORTMOD DRIVERS AT THE VEGAS “DUEL IN THE DESERT”

Dirt track racers from far and wide visit the Duel in the Desert held at The Dirt Track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway every November. The feature lineups boast an expansive representation of different states to certify this event as one of the IMCA “Crown Jewel” events of the year. For the 2015 edition each driver is welcomed to showcase their stomping grounds with the IMCA.TV Best Appearing Car Contest. The graphics theme for 2015 is to represent your state. The IMCA.TV Best Appearing Contest will boast a “winner-take-all” $1000 Prize for the winning IMCA Modified and for the first time ever, a $500 Prize for the winning IMCA SportMod. The winning graphics company (for each class) will get a free social media advertising package on all IMCA.TV major events for 2016, a whooping $5000 value per class! Voting will be conducted on the IMCA Racing Facebook page (www.facebook.com/raceimca). Drivers will have the ability to declare Best Appearing entry at the pit gate of The Dirt Track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway or online at [Read More]

Pounds, Heckman run 1-2, 2-1 in IMCA Modified features at Budweiser Nationals

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (Oct. 9-10) – Brad Pounds and Kyle Heckman both had first- and second-place finishes to show for Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified outings at Bakersfield Speedway’s 30th annual Budweiser Nationals. Pounds led all 40 laps on Friday while Heckman gained the lead midway through Saturday’s main event. Both features paid $1,500 to win. Newly-crowned 2015 and now four-time track champion Pounds worked his way around front row starters Derek Nance and Carla Laney for the early lead on opening night. The seventh starting Heckman moved up into the second spot by lap 15 but was unable to put up a major challenge on Pounds. Bobby Hogge IV, Troy Foulger and Collen Winebarger rounded out the top five. The same pair contested for the Modified win on Saturday night as well. Ethan Dotson led the first lap from the front row before John Piker escaped unhurt from a flip in turn one. Dotson led pole starter Heckman before a yellow on lap 19, then pulled into the infield and out of the race prior to the restart. [Read More]