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Fans ready to welcome IMCA STARS Mod Lites to Texana Raceway Park

EDNA, Texas – IMCA STARS Mod Lites can look forward to a warm welcome from fans at Texana Raceway Park. The division makes its debut on the 5/16-mile dirt oval at Edna and runs along with IMCA Modifieds on every weekly program beginning with opening night March 6. The IMCA Speedway Motors Weekly Racing season championship night is scheduled for Sept. 25. “We had a local mod lite class with rules that were similar to STARS the last three or four years. We like the competition and entertainment value. These cars are extremely fast on this track and the car count is very good,” Promoter Owen Pittman said. “We jumped on sanctioning the division as soon as we saw the announcement by IMCA.” “I’m an IMCA fan. They have consistent rules and a consistent way of business,” he added. “You need that consistency to grow and not become stagnant, and I believe our Mod Lite class is going to continue to grow even more.” Their distinct appearance is part of the division’s appeal. “Mod Lites [Read More]

Mackenthun adds pink to Stock Car, promotes breast cancer awareness in 20th IMCA season

HAMBURG, Minn. – Weeks before the first race of his 20th IMCA Sunoco Stock Car season, Dan Mackenthun was already getting compliments on his 2021 ride. The Hamburg, Minn., driver debuts a pink-themed breast cancer awareness car, complete with ribbons in the hood and side panel schemes, when he heads south for the Ice Breaker Challenge at Abilene Speedway and the Sniper Speed Lone Star Tour. “A group of us were sitting around, trying to decide what color to go with this year. I never thought I’d have a pink car but it turned out pretty nice,” said Mackenthun. “The tie-in is breast cancer awareness. We’ve had family and friends deal with it in the past and present and this is one way we can pay tribute to them.” Car owner Don Gosch jumped on board with the idea and the compliments have in come steadily since the car was finished. “We’ve had a lot of people stop by and they’ve really liked it,” Mackenthun reported. “I can’t wait to get to the track where people [Read More]

I-30 Speedway lightning quick to sanction IMCA STARS Mod Lites

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Promoter Tracey Clay caught lightning in a bottle last season with the addition of IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars to weekly programs at I-30 Speedway. She’ll do that again in 2021, sanctioning the new IMCA STARS Mod Lite division at her central Arkansas speedplant. “We have run this class 15 years or so. They started as dwarf cars and became Mod Lites. I love the class – they’re a great group of drivers,” Clay said. “I talked to (STARS president and now division director) Jimmy May at our Mod Lite special last fall about the IMCA sanction. I told him I was pro-IMCA and would definitely do it.” “They announced the Mod Lites would be IMCA sanctioned in December and I said I’m in.” I-30 is IMCA’s longest sanctioned Modified track in the state, at 31 years. The IMCA Speedway Motors Weekly Racing point season for Modifieds, Stock Cars and STARS Mod Lites opens on March 20 and continues through Sept. 18, the second night of Mod Lite Madness. “IMCA Modifieds have [Read More]

Antioch Speedway signs on for new IMCA Stock Car sanction in California

ANTIOCH, Calif. – Watching IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars in action at other tracks gave promoter Chad Chadwick a pretty good idea they’d be just as entertaining at his Antioch Speedway. Two races last fall confirmed that and the division joins IMCA Modifieds and Karl Kustoms Northern SportMods on select Saturday night race programs at the Contra Costa County Fairgrounds venue this season. “We had watched them race in the Midwest. IMCA Stock Cars put on good racing,” Chadwick said, “and we thought they’d be a good class to have here. This is a division that’s going to grow every year.” IMCA Stock Cars ran both nights of Antioch’s Bill Bowers Memorial last October, and again at the 2021 season opener on Jan. 2. Drivers and fans alike were much impressed by the class at each show. “We’ve had a real good response to the announcement that we would sanction Stock Cars with IMCA,” said Chadwick. “There’s been a lot of people talking about it and what they like are the rules. They know they can [Read More]

Gaylord, Skyberg up to IMCA Modified challenges at Canyon

PEORIA, Ariz. (Jan. 30-31) – Tripp Gaylord and Casey Skyberg proved up to the challenge in winning Winter Series Challenge features for IMCA Modifieds at Canyon Speedway AZ. Gaylord led the last 20 circuits in topping the Saturday event while Skyberg paced Sunday’s show from green to checkered. Both pocketed $1,000 and each later compared Canyon favorably to a track closer to their respective homes, I-76 Speedway in Fort Morgan, Colo. Runner-up in the Saturday IMCA Sunoco Stock Car feature, Gaylord more than made up for the DNF four years ago that resulted from his one previous Modified outing at Canyon. Already a Fast Shafts All-Star candidate, the Colorado driver led Brandon Schmitt and Zachary Madrid to the stripe on opening night. He’d become one of three double winners of the weekend by topping Sunday’s IMCA Sunoco Stock Car main. Roughed up in an early first-night tangle, Skyberg dominated on Sunday, pulling away from the pack following a restart with five to go in the 25-lapper. “We needed that,” the new All-Star ballot qualifier said. [Read More]

IMCA.TV to broadcast $5,000 to win STARS Mod Lite Winter Nationals at Hendry Co.

CLEWISTON, Fla. – The stars of the IMCA STARS Mod Lite division will have an international audience for the Sugar Bowl Winter Nationals weekend at Hendry County Motorsports Park. The Friday, Feb. 12 $750 to win and the big $5,000 to win show Saturday, Feb. 13 at Clewiston will be broadcast by IMCA.TV. “It is fitting that one of the highest paying STARS Mod Lite events of the season will be broadcast by IMCA.TV,” stated IMCA President Brett Root. Cost is $24.99 each night or $39.99 for a two-day pass. Viewers can watch at IMCA.TV. Both programs from The Southern-most dirt track in the United States start at 7 p.m. EST.

$5,000 top prize at stake for Saturday Winter Nationals IMCA STARS Mod Lite main event at Hendry County, FL

CLEWISTON, Fla. – The big money is at stake on the final night of February Winter Nationals doubleheader dates for the newly IMCA sanctioned STARS Mod Lites. The Saturday, Feb. 13 feature at Hendry County Motorsports Park, part of the Sugar Bowl program at Clewiston, pays $5,000 to win and a minimum of $250 to start. Pit gates open at 11 a.m. and racing starts at 1 p.m. The non-qualifier race that evening pays $250 to win and $125 to start and tow is $100. Bubba Raceway Park in Ocala and Hendry County host the first Mod Lite events sanctioned by IMCA. The Feb. Friday, Feb. 5 feature at Bubba pays $750 to win, $100 to start and $50 tow while the Saturday, Feb. 6 feature sports a $1,500 top prize with $200 paid to start and $100 tow. A practice night and $300 to win, $100 to start race of champions kick off the Sugar Bowl Winter Nationals weekend Thursday, Feb. 11 at Hendry County. The Friday, Feb. 12 feature pays $750 to win and $225 [Read More]

IMCA Stock Cars new to Saturday programs at Eagle

EAGLE, Neb. – Fans who have enjoyed watching IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars run as part of the season-opening Ice Breaker Challenge special at Eagle Raceway will get to see The Class Too Tough To Tame every week at the Nebraska speedplant beginning in 2021. “This is a class we’re adding while looking to the future,” said Promoter Roger Hadan. “There are a number of drivers in the area I know who are building Stock Cars now to race on Saturdays with us.” Stock Cars run on opening night of the Ice Breaker Challenge on April 16 and see their first IMCA Speedway Motors Weekly Racing action on April 24. The division is on every Saturday card through season championship night on Aug. 21 with the final action of the season at Eagle during the RaceSaver Nationals Weekend Sept. 5. “We’ve gotten a lot of positive response from a lot of different people since announcing the sanction,” noted Hadan. “It’s going to be a very good addition to our weekly IMCA program.” The flagship track for [Read More]

Friday nights are right for IMCA Modifieds at The Hill Speedway in PA

MONROETON, Pa. – Eddie McKernan liked IMCA Modifieds as a driver. He likes them as a promoter, too, with the division penciled in for more than 20 Friday night shows this season at McKernan’s The Hill Speedway in Monroeton. “I ran IMCA here (for two years) and what I liked best as a racer was the national set of rules,” McKernan said. “As a promoter, the division is pretty big around here. We probably have 20-25 guys in the area and some of them have been IMCA for years.” “IMCA Modifieds,” he added, “are just an all-around good class.” An April 2 practice precedes opening night the following Friday. The point season at the newest track in the Dirt Works Eastern Region begins on April 16, with the IMCA Speedway Motors Weekly Racing season continuing through Sept. 3. The Hill Speedway hosts two NY-Penn IMCA Modified Series dates, the $750 to win event on June 4 and the $1,069 to win Billy Maynard Memorial Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational ballot qualifier on July 2. A street [Read More]

PASS honors champion Bard, other top performers at 2020 banquet

By Frank Buhrman MECHANICSBURG, Pa. (Jan. 23) – The Pennsylvania Sprint Series found a way to hold its 2020 awards banquet – just as it had been able to race 28 times last year despite COVID-19 restrictions and concerns – and it honored 2020 champion Garrett Bard and other top finishers from that against-the-odds successful season. Bard, the Wells Tannery driver, also won the IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Car national championship, the KMJ Performance Pennsylvania State championship and the division title at four tracks the series frequents. Because the IMCA national banquet was canceled last year, PASS attempted to have IMCA Vice President of Operations Jim Stannard connect via Zoom to congratulate Bard, but technical gremlins interfered. Also honored in person were the other drivers finishing in the top five in the 2020 PASS standings: Doug Dodson of Middletown (second); Ken Duke Jr. of Selinsgrove (third); Landon Price of Fleetwood (fourth); and John Walp of Wapwallopen (fifth). Duke was the 2019 PASS champion and also claimed the national IMCA RaceSaver title, the first driver from Pennsylvania [Read More]