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WACO, Texas – After cruising to 19 feature wins and his career second regional championship in 2015, Andy Roller made up his mind that it was time to move on from the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock division. “We made the main event at Super Nationals last year and felt we’d done everything we needed to prove ourselves,” said the Waco, Texas, pilot. “It was time to move on. I needed to challenge myself more.” After looking at a Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center Southern SportMod and an IMCA Sunoco Stock Car, Roller opted to stick with a full-bodied class. That decision ultimately rewarded Roller with rookie of the year honors in the EQ Cylinder Heads Southern Region. “I didn’t know for sure how this year was going to go but the people who help me all thought I’d be OK,” he said. “My goal was to win one time but it turned out we won twice, and we did it on the same weekend early in the season.” Those checkers came on May 13 at Heart O’ [Read More]

TEMPLE, Texas – Not even motor issues over the last half of the season could slow Larry Under­wood in his race to Charger Chassis Southern Region rookie of the year honors. The driver from Temple made the quick transition from the local Texas Twister class to the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock division, finishing second in the regional points race, fifth at Cotton Bowl Speedway – where he scored his first career win in the class – and sixth at Heart O’ Texas Speed­way. “My goal at the start of the year was to race for national rookie but with Mother Nature, we just couldn’t get in more starts (he had 34),” Underwood said. “But this year was still great. I had a lot of fun going to the Hobby Stock after two years in a 4-cylinder class.” “I mothered a half-blown engine the last half of the season,” he added, “but my season still could­n’t have been much better.” Largely self-funded, Underwood is a truck driver by occupation so there were Fridays when he got [Read More]

PARADISE, Texas ­– Cody Shoemaker decided he wanted to try something different after five sea­sons in a Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center Southern SportMod. What he’ll try to decide next is where to display the trophy he received as rookie of the year in the Ra­zor Chassis South Central Region for Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modifieds. “We had been in a SportMod for a few years and just wanted to try something different,” ex­plained the Paradise, Texas, pilot. “The Modified handles a lot different than a SportMod but it’s a lot of fun.” Shoemaker won three of 42 starts, taking the first checkers of his career in the class on March 26 at Kennedale Speedway Park. He was runner-up to regional king Matt Guillaume at Boyd Raceway and finished eighth in the points at KSP. “We ran with a lot of good guys, like Matt, Kevin Sustaire, William Gould and John Gober,” Shoe­maker said. “Our goal at the start of the season was to get some top 10’s or maybe some top five’s but we outran ‘em [Read More]

TUCSON, Ariz. – The first female driver to win IMCA regional rookie of the year honors knew all about going someplace fast long before her first Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified season. Kelsie Foley, 19 years old and the top rookie in the Larry Shaw Racing Western Region, completed EMT certification during her senior year of high school. She started attending summer fire academies at the age of 16, going on ride-alongs during eight hour shifts with local fire crews and emergency personnel. On track, Foley follows in the tire tracks of her father John, who raced on asphalt and then dune buggies before taking over as her crew chief. They traveled in an old Dodge pickup and towed an open trailer to six different tracks in Arizona and California. “Our goal this season was to win the Western Region rookie. We looked at this year as a learning experience,” said Foley, who logged 28 starts. “My dad and I both had asphalt backgrounds so we came out with our eyes open and our ears [Read More]

BAXTER, Minn. – Billy Kendall didn’t hesitate to answer when asked about the highlight of his first Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified season. The BMS North Central Region rookie of the year won the night two main event at North Central Speedway’s Mighty Axe Nationals, earning $1,200 and a spot on the Fast Shafts All-Star Invita­tional ballot. “I finally got a win at the Mighty Axe and it came in a Modified,” said Kendall, who celebrated his 18th birthday a month after the point season ended. That was a pretty big deal for me.” Now a senior at Brainerd High School, Kendall started racing go-karts at the age of six and worked his way through the hornet, pure stock, street stock and Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod ranks. He won five of his 37 Modified starts this season. “It was time for us to go to a new car and with the crate engine option, we decided to make the jump to a Modified. We had a really good season,” he said. “At the start of the [Read More]

CLIO, Mich. – A former track champion on asphalt is now a rookie of the year on dirt. Aaron Spearling paced first-year drivers in the Dirt Works Eastern Region despite being forced to limp to the end of his first Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified season by a late August wreck. “We learned a lot this season and that’s what we expected,” said Spearling, from Clio, Mich., and a regular at Tri-City Motor Speedway and Crystal Motor Speedway. “We knew what we were get­ting into when we signed up for this class. You know you’ve done something when you have a good finish running with these guys.” He started racing in 2004 and won the pure stock championship at Spartan Speedway in Lansing three years later. After Tri-City re-opened, Spearling raced a street stock there on Friday nights and made two or three visits to Crystal every season. “We had decent success in the street stocks and were ready for a new challenge. The big thing we had to learn with the Modified was keeping [Read More]