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Benton County XSAN Hawkeye Dirt Tour race postponed

VINTON, Iowa (May 13) – Blame all that rain on Monday and this morning’s unseasonably cool temperatures for postponement of tonight’s XSAN Hawkeye Dirt Tour event at Benton County Speedway. The fifth annual tour for IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modifieds was to have opened Tuesday at Vinton. That race will now be rescheduled on a date to be determined. First night for the series will now be on Memorial Day Monday, May 26 at I-35 Speedway in Mason City. The feature pays $1,000 to win, a minimum of $150 to start and is a qualifier for the Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational ballot. Pit gates open at 4 p.m. and the grandstand opens at 5 p.m. Hot laps are at 6 p.m. with racing to follow. IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars, Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods, IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks and Mach-1 Sport Compacts are also on the holiday card.

Pounds races to ‘awesome’ 100th career IMCA Modified win at home track Bakersfield

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (May 10) – The winning driver might not even have been the happiest person in victory lane Saturday night at Bakersfield Speedway. Brad Pounds raced to the 100th feature victory of his IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified career and then shared in the accomplishment with his father Scott, IMCA’s national champion in 1994 and an 82-time winner in the same division during his own career. “My dad was just on top of the world about it. It means a lot to both of us to have the top two win totals in the state,” Pounds said. “We work real hard at this. He’s given me 100 percent of his knowledge. We’ve learned together and tried to have fun.” Pounds started sixth in the main event and caught Roger Holder for the lead on the 17th of 25 laps. “I was hoping I wouldn’t get stuck trying to get to 100,” he admitted. “I showed up at the track Saturday pretty confident and ready to do what I needed to win.” “I wasn’t nervous [Read More]

Dailey delivers with late pass in Fairmont North Star show

FAIRMONT, Minn. (May 9) – Tenth starting Eric Dailey was first following a green, white, checkered finish to the IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified feature in Friday’s Redline Racing Parts North Star Series feature at Fairmont Raceway. After running third much of the way, Dailey had slipped into second before getting caught in a multi-car tangle on the 25th and final circuit. He went low and caught leader Josh Meyer on the final turn for the victory, his series career and division-leading fifth. Meyer, Jay Noteboom, Roger Nielsen and Tad Reutzel completed the top five. Nielsen also advanced nine positions while Reutzel was a plus seven spots. Derek Green started on the pole and led all 15 times around the track in topping the IMCA Sunoco Stock Car main event. Devin Smith chased Green before ending a couple car lengths off the pace. Jim Larson advanced eight places to finish third. Trent Schroeder was fourth and Andy Altenburg fifth. In control from the initial start, Jared Boumeester took the Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod checkers ahead [Read More]

Thornton Strikes again at Canyon

By Lonnie Wheatley PEORIA, Ariz. (May 10) – Ricky Thornton Jr. continued his mastery of the 3/8-mile Canyon Speedway Park clay oval by winning the IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified portion of Saturday night’s Fourth Annual Mother’s Day Race for the Cure. A dominant force in Winter Challenge action before wins at both the Copper on Dirt and Spring Speed event, Thornton padded his point lead by taking the win from the pole position. Thornton won the Mother’s Day Race for the Cure event for the second year in a row ahead of Cody Center with Mike Strobel, Chris McCurdy Jr. and Mark Stewart rounding out the top five.

Emerson, Sherbon, Brown continue trend of first-time winners in Independence

By Ryan Clark INDEPENDENCE, Iowa (May 10) – For the third straight week, three drivers became first-time winners at Independence Motor Speedway. For two of them, the victories were the first of their careers in their respective divisions. John Emerson had won numerous IMCA Sunoco Stock Car features in recent years in Independence, but it took just the third night of the season for the first-year IMCA Late Model driver to find victory lane. From his second row starting spot, Emerson quickly worked past front row starters Joel Brasch and Rick Wendling to assume command. He paced the field through a handful of cautions over the first six laps before the race went non-stop over the final 19 circuits of the 25-lap feature. Emerson held the point while Wendling and Dean Wagner tussled for second following the final restart. He pulled away from the pack until Wendling broke free from Wagner. Wendling chased down the leader and pulled to within a car-length as Emerson worked lapped traffic late in the event. Emerson held on to [Read More]

IMCA Modified, Stock Car, Late Model drivers pursue Penske Racing Shocks prizes

READING, Pa. – Penske Racing Shocks builds on a strong first season of sponsorship with renewed contingency awards for three IMCA divisions in 2014. Product certificates good for $350, $250 and $150, respectively, go to top three eligible finishers in each of the five regions for IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modifieds and in both IMCA Sunoco Stock Car regions. Certificates in the same increments will be awarded to eighth, ninth and 10th place finishers in national standings for IMCA Late Models. Modified and Stock Car competitors must compete with four Penske shocks, display two Penske decals on their race car and return a sign-up form to the IMCA home office by Aug. 1. Awards will be presented during the national IMCA banquet in November or mailed beginning the following week. “We are excited to renew the relationship with Penske Shocks for the 2014 racing season and I have already had new drivers return contingency sign-up sheets and register for the program,” said IMCA Marketing Director Kevin Yoder. “Anyone using Penske shocks should definitely let me [Read More]

DeYoung denies Shanteau in Crystal Modified main

CRYSTAL, Mich. (May 10) – Saturday’s Port City Racing IMCA Modified feature at Crystal Motor Speedway proved to a battle of attrition due to and when the last lap was put in the books, JohnDeYoung, Jr. chalked up the win over Mike Shanteau. Brody Bowser, A.J. Ward and Chad Wernette rounded out the top five. More than 125 cars were in the pits for one of the best race nights of the young season at Crystal.

Watts holds off Cook for first trip to victory lane

By Dana Royer/34 Raceway WEST BURLINGTON, Iowa (May 10) – Shane Watts has been racing stock cars for eight years and never won a feature. That changed Saturday night when Watts held off Jason Cook to get his first IMCA Sunoco Stock Car victory at 34 Raceway. Watts took the lead from John Brockway on lap five while there was a three and sometimes four car battle going on behind him. With five laps to go, Cook moved into the second spot. Watts and Cook passed the flagstand nearly bumper to bumper with just two laps to go. On the final lap Watts was able to get some breathing room and took the checkered flag for the first time. Despite having a fire in his car during heat race action, Cook was still able to make the field and moved up from his sixth row start to finish second. Rich Smith was the IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified feature winner. Bobby Anders topped the Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod main.

Riviera races proceed with ‘cautions’

By Randy Pospishil sports@norfolkdailynews.com NORFOLK, Neb. (May 10) – The yellow caution light was a determining factor throughout the four main events run Saturday night at Riviera Raceway as multiple restarts kept races up-for-grabs. Winning his first Riviera race ever was Karl Brewer, who took the lead with seven laps remaining in the Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod division and held off a late challenge from Cameron Meyer. “I was here a couple times last year but didn’t do very good,” Brewer said. “Those two guys got out in front of me quite a ways at the beginning, but I was able to reel them back in when they were fighting it out with each other and it worked out. I don’t know about skill, but it was maybe luck.” Brewer’s “luck” began with a third-row starting position but, following two restarts needed to get the race underway, he found himself five cars behind leader Neil Bruns, who soon became locked in a duel with Meyer. After slipping past Meyer during lap eight, Brewer went by [Read More]

Wanninger is the main man for Marshalltown Modifieds

By Jeremy Fox MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (May 9) – Luke Wanninger was the IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified winner on UAW 893 Cliff Chambers Memorial Night at Marshalltown Speedway. Rookie Eric Elliott led to lap 14 before giving way to Wanninger, who started to pull away before a caution produced a four-lap shootout. Wanninger got a great restart and went on to take the win over 10th place starter Joel Rust. Persistent Donavon Smith stayed in the chase. Saw his opportunity with two laps to go and passed long-time leader Steve Meyer for the IMCA Sunoco Stock Car checkers. Austin Luellen held off late-race challenges from John Watson to win the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock feature. Brett Lowry was promoted to first when the apparent Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod winner was disqualified in post-race tech. John Gill made a much-anticipated return to victory lane following the Mach-1 Sport Compact main. Roger Ceilsiski was the Nostalgia Car winner. Charlie Brown topped the mod lite main. Next Friday night, all Scouts are asked to wear their uniforms as [Read More]