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Time in shop puts Henderson on top of Wild West IMCA Stock Car Tour podium

DRAPER, Utah – Being the only repeat winner and staying consistent made Ed Henderson champion of the first annual Wild West Tour for IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars. Being prepared when he got to the track made that title, and Sweetwater Speedway and E3 Spark Plugs Wyoming State crowns, possible. From Draper, Utah, Henderson won features at Diamond Mountain Speedway and Sweetwater and ran in the top five in six of nine tour starts. His season-long statistics show seven wins in 28 starts, at eight different tracks in six states. “I like to be ready when I get to the track. I didn’t have any DNFs this season and that was a result of time in the shop,” said Henderson. “We had decided to follow the tour the second the schedule came out and one of the things I liked best about it was getting to race at tracks I’d never been to before because they didn’t run IMCA Stock Cars weekly.” The former pure stock driver is now a three-year veteran of the IMCA division. [Read More]

After change of plans, Williams corrals Red River IMCA Stock Car Tour crown

BONHAM, Texas – Gary Williams was better than good the first four nights and good enough on the last night of the Red River Tour for IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars. Williams won two features, with second- and fourth-place finishes as well going into the finale at home track Southern Oklahoma Speedway. He started 17th that evening and was up to sixth before breaking a spindle bolt. Wobbly tire and all, Williams still managed to earn the tour title with a 14th place finish. “We weren’t even planning to run the whole tour. Then we won the first night out at Kennedale Speedway Park,” the Bonham, Texas, driver said. “We had been chasing some things and what we found worked. We knew we had a fast car.” How fast? Williams was fourth the next night at Heart O’ Texas Speedway, then duplicated his KSP showing with another flag-to-flag run at 281 Speedway. He was runner-up in another star-filled feature at Big O Speedway. “It was really good to be able to win this tour, racing with the combination [Read More]

Sniper Speed Lone Star Tour crown comes at start of Jeffrey Abbey’s stellar IMCA Stock Car season

COMANCHE, Texas – A first-time accomplishment in an already much accomplished dirt track career made Jeffrey Abbey champion of the Sniper Speed Lone Star Tour. Abbey won the final two IMCA Sunoco Stock Car features, held at 281 Speedway on the same day due to inclement weather. Each checkered was worth $750 while the tour title that accompanied the sweep paid $5,000. The Comanche, Texas, pilot had never won two features in the same division on the same day before. “We’d watched the tour last year. We were looking for some races to go to in February and the tour seemed like a good way to start the year.” He’d won both Stock Car features at Abilene Speedway’s Ice Breaker, the second show doing double duty as opening night for the tour. Minnesotan Curt Lund won the next two events, also at 281. “We did have an advantage over the guys from the Northern Region,” said Abbey. “These were tracks we race weekly or on a regular basis.” Abbey would prove to be a regular [Read More]

Gustin rewrites record book in topping Arnold Motor Supply Dirt Knights Tour

GILMAN, Iowa – The winningest driver in the 10-year history of the Arnold Motor Supply Dirt Knights Tour became its 10th different champion. Richie Gustin opened the IMCA Modified tour campaign with three straight feature wins and ended with a single-season record five victories. “There were a lot of things that worked out for us this year. We weren’t planning to run for the tour championship,” said Gustin, from Gilman, Iowa. “It had been scheduled to open in Fort Dodge and I didn’t know if I’d have been able to make it there that night because of work.” Rain moved opening night to Marshalltown Speedway, however, and Gustin clicked off wins there and the next two events, at Park Jefferson Speedway and at Hancock County Speedway. “Holding court at Marshalltown, which is my home track, was a big one,” Gustin said. “Park Jefferson was probably the coolest. My wife and daughter and I made the trip with the camper. Taylor was excited because she’d never been to South Dakota before and got to cross that off [Read More]

Davis is golden in quests for IMCA state, Red River Modified Tour championships

EUNICE, N.M. – Cory Davis went on the road to win one championship. He raced closer to home to win another. The Eunice, N.M., topped point standings for the May 25-31 Red River IMCA Modified Tour, collecting the checkers at Heart O’ Texas Speedway and 281 Speedway and finishing no worse than seventh in five series starts. “I’d followed the tour last year and had raced at all of the tracks except Big O Speedway before. Winning is what we went out there for but I never expected to win back-to-back features,” he said. “Obviously, winning the tour championship meant a lot to us. Being the first person on the tour to win two in a row was neat, too.” Teammate of defending tour champion Chris Elliott, Davis had shown how fast he was getting around the Waco oval in winning the Dirt Dominator and $10,000 last fall. “The competition on the tour is pretty stiff. I like how we get to travel and have fun racing at different tracks,” he said. “A lot of [Read More]

Streaking DeVilbiss speeds to Wild West Modified Tour crown

FARMINGTON, N.M. – The stars aligned again this season for Zane DeVilbiss with the return of the Wild West Tour. DeVilbiss owned a dozen wins and a championship from the tour’s initial 2007-2014 run. He won seven of nine events, including a record six straight in capturing the 2019 IMCA Modified tour crown. “We won the tour in 2010 but I think we were a lot more prepared for a traveling series this year,” said DeVilbiss, from Farmington, N.M. “Everything worked in our favor. The car was really good every night – the consistency of the car was huge – and having raced at all the tracks before is never a bad thing.” DeVilbiss got his first tour win of the season on May 4 at Aztec Speedway, in the 100th event in Wild West history. The record-setting streak came with wins at Diamond Mountain Speedway, Winnemucca Regional Raceway, Battle Mountain Raceway, a doubleheader sweep at Sweetwater Speedway and Idaho Falls Raceway. “Rock Springs has always been one of my favorite tracks and the Idaho Falls [Read More]

Vacation to Pacific Northwest ends with Chadwick’s 2nd Wild West Shootout title

OAKLEY, Calif. – Kellen Chadwick took his family on another June vacation to the Pacific Northwest and came home with a second Wild West IMCA Modified Shootout championship. Chadwick won two features and was runner-up in another four starts in eight northern California and Oregon tour starts. “This is kind of a cool event. We get a chance to make some money and race a bunch,” said Chadwick, from Oakley, Calif., and also the 2016 tour champ. “I like being able to race for $1,000 to win each night and a point fund share, plus you get a lot of racing in during a week of vacation.” His wins came on night four at Cottage Grove Speedway and in the night eight finale at Willamette Speedway. “Cottage Grove is one of my favorite tracks for sure,” said Chadwick, who also earned one of his four 2016 tour wins at that venue. “We’ve been there six or seven times and won four or five times. Cottage Grove has been very good to us.” He made another [Read More]

Lone Star streak continues as Bevills is latest Texan to pace Mach-1 Sport Compact rookie point standings

GRANBURY, Texas – The third Texas driver to earn national rookie of the year honors in as many seasons, Steven Bevills has already set a goal of becoming the first Lone Star State speedster to win the Mach-1 Sport Compact national crown. From Granbury, Bevills won 10 features and finished a Texas-best fourth in the 2019 national point standings for the 4-cylinder division. Self-funded and with a crew that consisted of himself and sons Christopher and Nicholas, he was track champion at 281 Speedway and Boyd Raceway and the E3 Spark Plugs Texas State king as well. “We have a lot of fast drivers in this class in Texas. There are at least five or six guys who can win on any given night, depending on how they draw,” said Bevills, also third in the points at Heart O’ Texas Speedway and sixth at Kennedale Speedway Park. “We ran with some pretty stiff competition and it looks to be even better next year.” Bevills grew up watching races and helping in the pits at dirt tracks in [Read More]

Goal accomplished: Richards is youngest to top Karl Kustoms Northern SportMod rookie points

LINCOLN, Neb. – Opportunities to race closer to home and at more tracks got Cade Richards into a Karl Kustoms Northern SportMod. Five feature wins and consistent top-five finishes wherever he raced landed the Lincoln, Neb., hotshoe the national rookie of the year award. “Rookie of the year was our goal from the start,” said Richards, who celebrated his 15th birthday just two weeks before the end of the point season in becoming the youngest driver to win that award in division history. “We raced against a lot of good drivers and that helped us out. We learned a lot from good competition.” The son of IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Car driver Matt Richards and a freshman at Lincoln East High School, he made 55 starts at 10 different tracks in four states, finishing third at Park Jefferson Speedway and US 36 Raceway, fourth at Raceway Park and 17th nationally. Richards drove a homemade chassis his dad built 17 years ago, powered by a homebuilt engine he helped maintain. Career win number one came on July 14 at [Read More]

Smiley’s Racing Products Southern SportMod award is Underwood’s second IMCA rookie prize

TEMPLE, Texas – Larry Underwood will add a second IMCA rookie of the year award to his trophy case. The Temple, Texas pilot paced point standings for first-year Smiley’s Racing Products Southern SportMod drivers this season. He’d won rookie of the year in the Big Daddy Race Cars Southern Region for Hobby Stocks in 2016. “When we started racing this year, I put my mind to running for national rookie,” said Underwood, sixth nationally and driver of that sharp-looking ride with the Bradley Poor designed Day of the Dead themed wrap. “I knew I had to be consistent, I knew I had to race twice a week and I had some good people behind me to help me accomplish it.” “The best way to run for points is to run with people you’re running for points against,” added Underwood, who made 22 of his 45 starts in feature fields that included rookie runner-up Austin Moore. He was third in the points chase at 281 Speedway, behind national champion James Hanusch and Lady Eagle winner Taylor Florio, and [Read More]