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Track champions crowned at Maquoketa

By Jerry Mackey MAQUOKETA, Iowa (Aug. 24, 2024) – Dynamic Tube of Maquoketa hosted the 2024 season championship races on Saturday as Maquoketa Speedway hosted 122 race teams for another exciting night of racing action. IMCA Sunoco Late Models provided another action-packed headliner as drivers used every inch of the perfectly prepared track. Travis Denning used both the high side and the low groove as he worked his way to the front in the 25-lap main event, advancing from the ninth position. Denning took the checkers ahead of Mitch Morris and Evan Miller. With the season championship win, Denning also earned the 2024 track title. Drew Janssen made his second appearance at Maquoketa Speedway racing his Friesen Performance IMCA Modified. Janssen started at the tail of the invert due to the fact that he did not have an established point average. A fifth row start did not bother Janssen as he was able to work through traffic en route to the 20-lap main event win ahead of Spencer Diercks and Mitch Way. Jeff Larson was the track [Read More]

IMCA Super Nationals Modified, Hobby, SportMod champions get coveted Karl Kustoms crate engines

BOONE, Iowa (Aug. 26, 2024) – Their checkered flag runs will be career highlights for three of the champions crowned on Saturday night at the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s. Getting a crate engine from Karl Performance will make those Sept. 7 title runs even more memorable. The Modified champion receives a 604 crate engine, the Hobby Stock and Northern SportMod champions both 602 crates from the Des Moines high performance parts manufacturer and distributor, designated as The Preferred Engine Supplier of IMCA Racing. “Our marketing partnership with the Karl Companies originated with the Northern SportMods and has seen steady growth since,” observed IMCA Marketing Integration and Sponsorship Director Carson Becker-Gramm. “The 42nd annual Super Nationals marks the 11th consecutive year Karl will award crate engines to three of our Saturday night champions.” “Winning a Super Nationals crown is a pinnacle achievement for any dirt track driver,” he added. “We very much appreciate Karl adding even more luster.” Karl Performance and Chevrolet Performance will be located in adjoining booths on manufacturers’ row throughout the week. [Read More]

Champions crowed in exciting finale at Ocean

By Steven Blakesley Blakesley Sports Media WATSONVILLE, Calif. (Aug. 23, 2024) – Ocean Speedway in Watsonville concluded its 2024 IMCA Speedway Motors Weekly Racing point season Friday night at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds on an exciting night on the dirt. Jim Pettit wrapped up back-to-back Friesen Performance IMCA Modified titles while 18-year-old Emali VanHoff claimed her first Friesen Performance IMCA Northern SportMod championship. The Modifieds had an outstanding quality field for a 25-lap feature. Robert Marsh went through the middle down the backstretch to lead lap one after starting third. Marsh then spun in turn two, sparking a chain reaction crash. Fred Lind flipped side over side wildly to draw a red flag. Lind was uninjured. Bobby Hogge drove into the lead on lap seven with former champ Cody Burke and Pettit in pursuit in second and third. A series of cautions over the next 10 laps kept the field in close quarters. Hogge survived an onslaught of challenges from Burke and Pettit to score the championship finale win over Pettit, Burke, eighth-starting Jacob Mallet [Read More]

Final night of racing at Kossuth County Speedway

By Greg Grabianowski Sports Editor ALGONA, Iowa (Aug. 22, 2024) – The final evening of exciting dirt track racing at the Kossuth County Speedway for 2024 took place on Aug. 22 wrapping up a crazy season that saw Mother Nature the only feature winner on seven different Thursday nights. The evening was also for the final night for track manager Ron Reefer as he announced after doing a great job at the oval for the past nine years that it was time for him to spend more time with his family and have more time to enjoy some of his outdoor hobbies. IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks were led to the flag stand by Brayton Kajewski and Joe Doran. Doran jumped out front after the first lap around the track and led the whole race until a late race surge by hard-charger Mike Smith gave the Lake City driver his fifth local feature win. Although Doran maintain the top spot early in the race, the battle for second place saw Jade Lange, Josh Sidles and Brandon [Read More]

Track champion VanHoff back at Boone to race with best of the best

CHOWCHILLA, Calif. (Aug. 26, 2024) – Emali VanHoff had no shortage of adjectives in describing the feeling when she turned her first laps at Boone Speedway last September. The young hotshoe from Chowchilla, Calif., returns to Iowa’s Action Track as a Friesen Performance IMCA Northern SportMod track champion, looking for much better results at the 42nd annual IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s. “Last year was my first year racing at Boone. It was exciting,” said VanHoff, 18 years old and previously a spectator at Super Nationals each year since 2020. “It was overwhelming, it was crazy and I was nervous. To experience Super Nationals and just experience it was awesome.” While her 2023 results weren’t enough to get her into the Saturday show … DNF’s in both heat races and mid-pack finishes in both ‘B’ features … the opportunity to race with the best had VanHoff counting down the days until this year’s Nationals. “I never thought in a million years that I’d be able to go to Boone and race with the best of the [Read More]

Mills, Swearingen, Fett, Nielsen earn Hancock County crowns

By Chad Meyer BRITT, Iowa (Aug. 23, 2024) – Season championship night at Hancock County Speedway on Friday night was sponsored by Doug Studer Farms and KIOW 107.3 Radio. In the Friesen Performance IMCA Modifieds, Jeremy Mills entered the night with a sizable point lead and was crowned the track champion. In the feature, he worked the top side repeatedly until he was able to get past Cody Knecht in the second half of the main. Knecht, who led the first half of the event, used a late-race caution to make one last attempt to get past Mills but had to settle for second. Kelly Shryock gained six spots to finish third ahead of Nick Meyer. The closet point battle of the night was in the IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars. Troy Swearingen entered the night with a three-point lead on Heath Tulp. Tulp led the entire feature and collected the trophy but had to fend off a charging Swearingen, who fell back several spots early in the race. Swearingen finished a close second and secured [Read More]

Off-track Super Nationals activities centered at NAPA Fan Zone

BOONE, Iowa (Aug. 23, 2024) – The NAPA Racing Fan Zone is again the locale for many of the special off-track events during the week of the 42nd annual IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s at Boone Speedway. Located south of the main grandstand at Boone Speedway, the Fan Zone will be site of scheduled and perhaps some spontaneous activities beginning with the Sunday, Sept. 1 Prelude show and continuing through the Sept. 2-7 Super Nationals. “What’s new this year is the Tuesday afternoon Women in IMCA presented by NAPA and Dynamic Drivelines,” noted Carson Becker-Gramm, marketing integration and sponsorship director for IMCA. “Female drivers have played an important role in this organization for more than 40 years. There’s no better time than to recognize them, and maybe get an autograph or two, than during our biggest event.” All female drivers competing at Super Nationals will be invited to display their cars at the fan zone and sign autographs; NAPA will provide shirts they can sign and autograph for fans as well. More than a dozen [Read More]

Whisler wins Wednesday bout at Cottage Grove

By Ben Deatherage COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. (Aug. 21, 2024) – Eston Whisler, who was on the verge of victory at Cottage Grove Speedway earlier this month, was granted redemption in the fifth leg of the prestigious Midweek Mayhem Series. He earned his first win of the season in the Shaw Race Cars Western Region in the Friesen Performance IMCA Modifieds after making the pass for the lead around the midway point and holding on to the coveted top spot after a late-race restart. The main event was a showcase of intense competition. Kevin Williamson set a rapid pace in the early stages but the race was far from decided. The pack remained close due to two cautions, and the tension escalated when Whisler began his impressive run on the bottom after a restart with eight complete. Whisler made the appropriate pass for the lead on lap 12 and took off from there. His hard work would be washed away due to a caution on the 22nd circuit. When things got back to full speed, Whisler, [Read More]

Kepner goes high for Path Valley win

By Frank Buhrman SPRING RUN, Pa. (Aug. 17, 2024) – Sometimes you just have to stand out in the crowd. The field for Saturday’s River Valley Builders Pennsylvania Sprint Series feature at Path Valley Speedway was hugging the inside of the quarter-mile bullring, so Kruz Kepner went high, made the outside work and earned the checkered flag for the 25-lap IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Car event. The six-year veteran worked hard to make his no. 19 ride work near the top of the high-banked oval, but it paid off, enabling him to slip past rookie Kyle Hart on lap 15. Hart was looking for his first PASS win in only his ninth start, but he couldn’t get his car through lapped traffic at the bottom. Nor, for that matter, could anyone else, except the winner, who took the checkered flag by 1.363 seconds. Drew Young passed Hart on the last lap to take second, with Hart finishing a career-best third. Jarrett Cavalet came from ninth starting to finish fourth, with Austin Greenland posting a PASS career-best fifth. The feature ran non-stop, taking [Read More]

Harris saves best for last at Natural Bridge

By Jim Haines NATURAL BRIDGE, Va. (Aug. 17, 2024) – On a very warm, humid summer race night Jerald Harris waited until three laps to go to sweep into the lead for his fourth Virginia Sprint Series win of the season. Saturday’s IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Car feature at Natural Bridge Speedway was paced to the green with Chris Humblet and Dylan Shatzer on the front row as the flag waved. Shatzer went to the cushion and it was the quick way around as Harris was racing with Humblet. Harris got by and started to close in, but a quick caution for a stalled car tightened up the field went green. Shatzer stayed fast with Harris behind and Humblet, Daren Bolac and Caleb Harris staying close as the laps clicked off and the back of the field came up to the leaders. With three to go, Jerald Harris got a run on the outside and went to the front going into turn three, then charged the rest of the way to the checkered flag with Shatzer [Read More]