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IMCA Modifieds race March 9, 10 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

LAS VEGAS, Nev. – The half-mile Dirt Track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway hosts a pair of $750 to win events for IMCA Modifieds next Thursday and Friday, March 9 and 10. IMCA Speedway Motors Weekly Racing National, Larry Shaw Racing Western Region and Allstar Performance State points will be awarded both nights. Features pay a minimum of $75 to start with $50 paid to non-qualifiers. There is a $20 entry fee each night. RACEceivers and transponders are required. World of Outlaws and West Coast USAC Sprint Cars are also on the weekend card. Pit gates open at 2 p.m. and the grandstand opens at 5 p.m. both days. Modified hot laps are at 7:15 p.m. Thursday and at 7:45 p.m. on Friday.

4 Wide Promotions partnership takes charge of IMCA weekly racing at Hancock Co. Speedway

BRITT, Iowa – Friendships forged at the track led to the partnership that will promote weekly race programs this season at Hancock County Speedway. 4 Wide Promotions will be in charge of Friday shows featuring IMCA Modifieds, IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars, IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks, Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods and Mach-1 Sport Compacts. “We’re really excited. It’s a new venture for all of us,” said Josh Omans, who partners with Brian King, Kyle Roose and Doc Sande. “It’s going to be pretty sweet to be back at the race track every weekend.” Roose will be the race director and Sande will work with sponsors and in the VIP booths, while King and Omans handle a myriad of chores on both sides of the track. Omans drove for Sande during his own career, which included stints in both the sanctioned Modified and Late Model divisions. King and Roose are co-owners of the Midwest Dirt Kart Challenge series. “This was something we had talked about for a while. This time the timing was right and we put [Read More]

Clay County Fair Speedway moves to Sunday night racing

SPENCER, Iowa – The tradition of IMCA racing will continue this summer with Sunday night action at the Clay County Fair Speedway. Ten dates are on the IMCA Speedway Motors Weekly Racing weekly schedule this summer. Special events will include two fair dates, IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock and Stock Car specials, and a stop by the Arnold Motor Supply Hawkeye Dirt Tour for IMCA Modifieds in August. Sunday June 4 will kick off the speedway’s third full season, which will run weekly through Aug. 13. Sprinkled in will be two Tuesday night dates as well as the Monday, Aug. 7 Hawkeye Dirt Tour event. “We’re really excited about our move to Sunday racing here at the fairgrounds,” said Clay County Fair Manager Jeremy Parsons. “We’ll be one of the few tracks running on Sunday nights in the area, which should make for great racing for the drivers and fans alike.” Adult general admission for regular season races will be $12; youth ages 12 and under are admitted free. Pit passes for regular season races are $25. Hot laps [Read More]

No doubt about it, Doughty is fastest in Sprint Series of Texas opener at Winona

WINONA, Texas (Feb. 25) – Any lingering questions Tucker Doughty might have had about the start of his 2017 season were answered when the Sprint Series of Texas opened Saturday at Rose Bowl Speedway. Doughty led the last half of the IMCA RaceSaver main event to earn $1,000 for his career-first SST victory. “It had been a really long off-season,” said Doughty, who had been injured in a traffic accident in December and needed nearly 60 stitches in his right leg. “It was a great way for us to start the season.” He had finished seventh in the season-opening Smackdown special at Lone Star Speedway on Feb. 11. “It had definitely crossed my mind how (the accident) would effect my racing but after we knocked the cobwebs off at Kilgore we were ready to go,” Doughty said. “My dad Sean is my crew chief and he had the car ready.” Austin Mundie, Dale Wester, Chip Graham and Brad Queen completed the top five at Winona. Doughty started the 20-lapper from outside row four and had [Read More]

PASS, Beer Hill Gang announce Beer Hill Cup

MECHANICSBURG, Pa. – The Pennsylvania Sprint Series and the Beer Hill Gang are happy to announce the Beer Hill Cup Summer Series. The series will be six races featuring IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Car teams, at Williams Grove Speedway April 28, May 26 and Aug. 18; at Port Royal Speedway on Aug. 5; at Susquehanna Speedway June 8; and at Path Valley Speedway on July 15. Points will be accumulated using the IMCA 40-point system and an overall champion will be determined on Aug. 18 at Williams Grove. The first-ever champion will be honored on the fourth turn with Beer Hill Gang TV live streaming the ceremony. The champion will receive an impressive and unique Beer Hill Cup trophy and 25 percent of the overall point fund with second through fourth place each receiving 20 percent and the fifth place driver taking home 15 percent. A commemorative shirt has been designed and organizers are currently seeking sponsors for the shirt. The presenting sponsorship for the shirt is available for $1,000 and associate sponsors are available at [Read More]

Dacotah Speedway hosts March 11-12 safety and officials training session

MANDAN, N.D. – Dacotah Speedway will host a safety and officials training Saturday and Sunday, March 11-12 at the Baymont Inn & Suites in Mandan, N.D. This two-day training session will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday with a full day of fire and safety training presented by Jay Masur of Med Star Dirt Track Rescue. This fire and safety training will be an in-depth presentation on dirt track safety, rescue, extraction, fire suppression, medical management, pre-race event planning, crew performance during races and post-race analysis. Purpose of this presentation is so attendees will leave with baseline knowledge of the components necessary to save a racecar driver’s life. This presentation is extremely knowledgeable to all track officials, fire, EMS teams, promoters, board of directors and even drivers. Refreshments and lunch will be provided. The safety and officials training will continue Sunday beginning at 10 a.m. with track scoring and officiating. Josh Holt, co-founder of My Race Pass, will be on hand to present the new My Race Pass race management system and answer any questions or [Read More]

Thomas continues Lone Star success at season opening Sprint Smackdown

KILGORE, Texas (Feb. 11) – Marcus Thomas started his 2017 at Lone Star Speedway in the same place he ended 2016. In victory lane. Thomas drew the pole start and led all 25 laps in winning Saturday’s Sprint Smackdown, the first event of the season for IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Cars. The checkers were worth $1,200. “We’ve had pretty good luck here,” said Thomas, who also has a runner-up finish in three career starts at Kilgore. “They do a good job on the track but you have to stay smooth and not make any mistakes. That plays a big part of racing at Lone Star.” Austin Mundi did his best to work his way through lapped traffic and reel in Thomas but finished a couple car lengths off the pace. Josh Hawkins and former national champions John Ricketts and Chad Wilson completed the top five. Thomas had started sixth and finished second in his heat. He ran the higher line early in the feature, then dropped down to a lower groove in the first set of [Read More]

Oregon pilot Williamson prepped for Arizona Modified Tour

By Ben Deatherage EUGENE, Ore. – Opening night of Winter Nationals is this evening (Friday) at Cocopah Speedway. It will also be the first round of the eight-race inaugural IMCA Arizona Modified Tour and Jesse Williamson, from Eugene, Ore., is among the 160-plus drivers pre-entered in the inaugural event. Williamson will debut a brand new 2017 Rage Chassis, sponsored by Furniture Options, Team SDMF, Custom Powder Works, Raceprint.com and Schram Brothers Excavating. “This is a pretty cool deal that they’ve put together with the Mod Tour,” said Williamson. “We’re going to do a lot of racing in a short amount of time.” Williamson knows what it’s like to stand on the top step of a tour podium, with three IMCA Wild West Modified Shootout crowns to his credit. The third-generation driver and grandson of Oregon legend Don Wilson won three times last season at Cottage Grove Speedway and once at Willamette Speedway. He’s eager to get on track with the new Rage. “I’m really excited to try something new with this chassis,” he said. “They’re really doing [Read More]

Marshalltown spices up Friday races with IMCA Late Models

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa – IMCA Late Models will return to weekly race programs in a “Late Model town.” The division joins Friday night shows at Marshalltown Speedway April 28 through Aug. 25. “There’s a ton of buzz going on around here about them. It seems like everybody you talk to says ‘Hey, I hear you’re bringing the Late Models back,” said Promoter Toby Kruse. “We already have a strong weekly IMCA program here but it’s always good to spice things up a bit when you can and this is definitely a Late Model town.” Sanctioned Late Models were on the card at Marshalltown from 1987-1990. Rumours Sports Bar and Grill, owned by former track promoter Steve Priske, will sponsor the division locally and dash races will be held each week with a ‘super dash’ at the end of the point season. The Deery Brothers Summer Series also returns with a mid-week event in June. Todd Cooney, Darrel DeFrance and Luke Goedert were IMCA Late Model feature winners at Marshalltown last season. “As long as I’ve been [Read More]

Tri-City Motor Speedway announces blood drive partnership

AUBURN, Mich. – Tri-City Motor Speedway is partnering with area businesses and non-profit groups that are hosting blood drives with the American Red Cross or Michigan Blood to help increase donor participation during the summer months. Tri-City is seeking local blood drives held during May, June or July throughout the surrounding communities including, but not limited to: Auburn, Bay City, Beaverton, Gladwin, Midland, Mt. Pleasant, Pinconning and Saginaw. Each participating blood drive will receive one adult grandstand race ticket valued at $14 to give out to all donors who attempt to give blood. The race tickets will be valid for one of three different race nights following the date of the blood drive. In addition to partnering with area blood drives, Tri-City will host a blood drive on June 2. “We want to give back to our community. Partnering with blood drives helps raise awareness of a need that is easy to overlook and it’s something that any of us could be the recipient of at any time,” said Erika Puvalowski, Tri-City marketing and business [Read More]