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Oliver sprints to rare two state championship feat

PENDERGRASS, Ga. – Some day, Jeff Oliver will look back at the 2021 IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Car season and have an even better appreciation for his accomplishments. But right now, he wishes the season wasn’t over and he was still racing. Along with the Carolina Sprint Tour crown, Oliver won KMJ Performance State championships in North Carolina and South Carolina. He’s just the fourth driver to win multiple IMCA state titles in the same division in the same season since the awards program was started in 2000. “It’s very cool. Statistics are cool but they’re something you can get caught up in. They’re something I want to look back at some day,” the San Diego native and Pendergrass, Ga., transplant said. “We had a very good season and I wanted to keep pushing. When you’re running good, you don’t want to stop.” Oliver won seven of his 12 CST starts, taking the checkers at five different tracks. He also saw action with the Southern United Sprints, Pennsylvania Sprint Series and Laurel Highlands Sprint Series. He [Read More]

Pirkle paces IMCA Modifieds at Showdown, feature win is sixth straight at Kennedale

KENNEDALE, Texas (Nov. 6) – Jacob Pirkle has to be sorry his season is over. Pirkle won his sixth straight IMCA Modified feature at Kennedale Speedway Park, topping the Saturday night Summit Racing Equipment Showdown main event. The checkers were good for $1,500. “The car was just hooked up,” said Pirkle, who had started fourth and took over in front following a restart midway through the 25-lapper. “We had a lot of lapped traffic but navigated through those guys.” Track champion Glen Hibbard was runner-up and Razor Chassis South Central Region champion William Gould ran third. Paul White and Buddy Ables completed the top five. Pirkle had won has last five starts at KSP during the IMCA Speedway Motors Weekly Racing point season. He was already Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational qualifying eligible, having won the Fall Finale at Boyd Raceway in October. “I’ve raced Kennedale on and off for probably 15 years,” he said. ”It’s a bullring and that fits my driving style.” Car owner Brandon McElroy pinch hit with regular driver and brother-in-law P.J. [Read More]

Early entry deadline nears for IMCA Duel In The Desert

LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Drivers in four IMCA divisions have until 11:59 p.m. tonight (Wednesday) to pre-enter for the biggest event of the 2021 season in the Shaw Race Cars Western Region. The Dirt Track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway hosts the 24th annual Duel In The Desert Nov. 8-13. IMCA Modifieds race for $10,000 to win their Saturday night main event on the half-mile oval while IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars and Karl Kustoms Northern SportMods both run for $5,000 top checks. IMCA STARS Mod Lites make their Duel debut in a $1,500 to win main event. Entry fees paid online at racexr.com or through the lvms.com website before midnight are $150 for Modifieds, $75 for both Stock Cars and Northern SportMods, and $50 for STARS Mod Lites. Entry fees paid at the track are $200 for Modifieds, $150 for Stock Cars and for Northern SportMods, and $100 for Mod Lites. Early arrivals in Las Vegas can park beginning at noon on Monday. Nov. 8. Grandstands open at 2 p.m. that afternoon and an open practice runs from 6-10 p.m. [Read More]

Sister Act: Marie, Kayla Curtis capture IMCA Nevada State crowns

WINNEMUCCA, Nev. – Marie Curtis liked the handling and the power that came with an IMCA Sunoco Stock Car. Kayla Curtis liked the idea of getting on the track in a Mach-1 Sport Compact when she went to the races. When 2021 IMCA point standings became official, the Winnemucca, Nev., siblings made history as the first sisters to win KMJ Performance State championships. Both were rookies in their respective divisions and neither had made the Nevada State crown a goal at the start of the season. “I was just out there to race and have fun,” explained Marie, 20 years old and a full-time student at Great Basin College and employee at the family construction and excavation business. “I was really excited to race a Stock Car.” She’d previously run in pure stock and hobby stock classes and got a longer look at the sanctioned division last November. “I had seen them around before I went to the Duel In The Desert with my boyfriend (Chaz Baca) and decided I wanted to be in one of [Read More]

Jason Smith, Family Owner of Speedway Motors, Passes Away at Age 60

By Speedway Motors PR Team (Lincoln, Neb. Oct. 16) Speedway Motors, a manufacturer, retailer and distributor of high-quality automotive parts and racing products, is deeply saddened to announce the passing of Jason Smith, second-generation family owner, after a long battle with cancer at the age of 60. “We are devastated by the loss of Jason. He was a leader and innovator in the after-market industry,” said Clay Smith, President & CEO of Speedway Motors. “Jason was truly passionate about the hobby, our customers and our business.” He spent the early years at Speedway Motors stuffing envelopes on evenings and weekends, sweeping the floors, putting away mufflers and taking packages to the Greyhound station on the back of a truck. In a video interview about the company’s rebrand in 2019, he said, “I worked for my dad basically my whole life. The earliest memory is [when I was] about six or seven years old. My pay in those days was a new grape soda. So if I’d help sweep the floor or pick up something, by [Read More]

After rainout, World IMCA Stock Car Championship back on track Friday

BATESVILLE, Ark. – Thursday’s scheduled World IMCA Stock Car Championship program presented by IMCA.TV at Batesville Motor Speedway was rained out. Qualifying resumes at 7:30 p.m. tonight (Friday) then Saturday at noon, with the $50,000 to win main event bringing the Saturday night show to a close. Ninety-five entries were on hand for opening night of the track’s 50th anniversary special on Wednesday. The World IMCA Stock Car Championship is broadcast by IMCA.TV.

Batesville building weekly race program with World IMCA Stock Car Championship

BATESVILLE, Ark. – The World IMCA Stock Car Championship presented and broadcasted by IMCA.TV will be more than the best-paying event for The Class Too Tough To Tame. The $50,000 to win race will help establish a weekly foundation for the division at Batesville Motor Speedway, which welcomes drivers from across the country for its 50th anniversary season-ending special Oct. 13-16. “The World Stock Car Championship is going to make it happen,” promoter Mooney Starr said confidently. “This is making people around here build ‘em and buy ‘em. It’s going to really make this division take off here.” IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars joined the weekly program at the Arkansas speedplant this season, replacing a local street stock class. “What we had been running had become too expensive,” reasoned Starr. “IMCA Stock Cars are competitive, they’re economical and the fans like them. They are the class of the future.” The World Stock Car Championship will start 30 cars and boasts a main event purse of $125,000 with $15,000 paid to the runner-up, $10,000 for third, $5,000 for fourth, [Read More]

Car photos needed for Allstar Performance heat winner awards

VINTON, Iowa – The 2021 point season may be over but Allstar Performance is still making winners of drivers in all nine IMCA divisions. Drivers who won 10 or more heat races during the season receive $100 gift cards from the Watervliet, Mich., high performance parts manufacturer and heat race winner decal program sponsor. The driver with the most heat race wins gets a $250 gift card. What drivers have to do to make themselves eligible for those awards is email a photo of their car showing proof of heat win decals, as distributed by tracks, to IMCA Marketing Director Kevin Yoder at kyoder@imca.com. Allstar Performance gift cards will be presented during the IMCA national banquet in November or mailed beginning the following week.

Dillon Raffurty dominates at Lakeside’s Rage on the River

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Sept. 24) – Another impressive outing put $1,000 in Dillon Raffurty’s pocket. Raffurty led all 15 laps of Lakeside Speedway’s Friday night Rage on the River special for his 27th IMCA STARS Mod Lites victory of the season. The run to the checkers was delayed an hour or so by two rain delays, then by a caution with two laps left in the main event. Raffurty’s brother Michael was second and Ed Griggs rounded out the top three. “I like the bigger tracks. The track definitely had two grooves. You could run on the very top and you could run on the very bottom,” Raffurty said. “I won running the top. My brother was second running the bottom.” The top three drivers received Yoshimura bonuses of $250, $150 and $100, respectively. Hard charger Nathan Wolfe passed 10 cars to score a Hoosier tire certificate. Yoshimura bonus recipients at Lakeside Speedway’s Rage on the River were, from left, Ed Griggs, Michael Raffurty and Dillon Raffurty. (Photo by Lisa Burlington) David Raffurty, the winner’s father, [Read More]

Call him doctor! Hauck puts on Selinsgrove PASS clinic

By Frank Buhrman SELINSGROVE, Pa. (Sept. 25) – Derek Hauck put on a clinic Saturday night to post an emphatic, start-to-finish victory in the Pennsylvania Sprint Series 20-lap feature at Selinsgrove Speedway. Hauck took advantage of a front-row starting position to grab the lead in the second turn of the opening lap and never looked back, negotiating traffic and holding off a late charge by Austin Reed to win by 1.246 seconds in a nonstop IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Car feature. Work responsibilities have limited Hauck’s racing this season to nine PASS starts, plus a few with the Laurel Highlands Sprint Series, but this was his second win and sixth top-five finish in those nine events. While Hauck was roaring through the field in the lead, a battle including as many as four cars was raging behind him, first for the runner-up spot, until Reed laid claim there, then for third, where a late charge by Doug Dodson gave him that spot. Veteran Fred Arnold, who started on the pole and was in the thick of [Read More]