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Lunow leads to SportMod finish at Dodge City 

By Lonnie Wheatley DODGE CITY, Kan. (July 3) – Hometown shoe Jason Lunow led all the way to become the sev­enth different winner in as many IMCA SportMod events this season at Dodge City Raceway Park. Lunow weathered three cautions in the opening half of Friday’s 20-lapper, then fended off Bart Baker over the closing rounds to secure the win. Josh Appel chased the lead duo to the stripe in third with Jeff Kaup and Brian May rounding out the top five.

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Irvine, Stofer, Hilmer take first Marshalltown wins of season

By Jeremy Fox MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (July 3) – Brian Irvine, Robert Stofer and Curt Hilmer all won for the first time at Marshalltown Speedway this season on Friday night. Irvine got a great restart and took the Coors Light IMCA Modified lead on lap three. He built up a large advantage and went on to take the easy win over Jimmy Gustin, Scott Simatovich, Josh Gilman and Ronn Lauritzen. Stofer started on the pole of the Miller Lite IMCA Stock Cars 18 lap feature and not even caution flags could slow him down or deny him the victory. Stofer had several challenges from Tyler Pickett and Steve Meyer. He took the win ahead of Meyer, Trent Murphy, Dave Atcher and Michael Jaennette. Hilmer nosed to the Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod lead on lap 13. He took the win with Jared Van Deest second. Brandon Williams worked his way back up to finish third. Travis Peterson and Follett round out the top five. Eric Stanton worked his way through the field and into the front by [Read More]

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Pershy prevails in Davenport Modified feature

By Mike McGuire DAVENPORT, Iowa (July 3) – Jason Pershy won a riveting Milan Heating & Air IMCA Modified feature that went green, white, checkered Friday at Davenport Speedway. Pershy led the first lap with Kevin Blum taking over on lap two. Blum’s car went up in smoke on lap three, with Pershy going back into the lead. Doug Crampton took his turn at the front on lap eight but Pershy again regained the lead, on lap 10, and stayed in front to the checkers. Rich Smith finished second, Crampton settled for third and Terry Rentfro finished fourth. Matt Wer­ner rounded out the top five. Justin Kay made it four straight in the Petersen Plumbing & Heating IMCA Late Model feature. He took the lead on lap 13. Matt Ryan made a late race move to finish second behind Kay, with Andy Nezworski third. Brunson Behning finished fourth, just ahead of Chuck Hanna. Tony Olson continued his winning ways in Hawkeye Auto IMCA SportMod action. Jake Morris led the first six laps of the feature, [Read More]

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Round 2 of Red, White & Blue pays Long $1,210 in green 

By Greg Aregoni FRANCIS CREEK, Wis. (July 4) – Round two of 141 Speedway’s Gandrud Chevrolet Red, White and Blue Series paid $1,210 to Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified winner Josh Long. Long led every time around the track to add $210 on lap money to his $1,000 share of the purse. After starting outside row one, Long rode the top of the oval all the way around with Eric Scribner running second and trying to stay within striking distance. Shawn Kilgore made his way to third and used different lanes to move around Scribner. A caution with five laps remaining gave Scribner and Kilgore one last chance at Long but he controlled the final laps in securing the win and a spot on the Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational ballot. Kilgore, who’d won the first RW&B event of the season on May 2, made his way around Scribner for second on the restart and finished in the runner-up spot. Scribner ran third in front of Eric Mahlik and R.M. Van Pay. Round three of Red, [Read More]

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Stock checkers fly at I-35 for Willier

By Greg Grabianowski MASON CITY, Iowa (June 28) – Joe Willier has been close for the past four starts at the I-35 Speed­way and finally got his first feature win of the season on Sunday. Willier had finished in the top four three times his last four starts before piloting his number 96 IMCA Sunoco Stock Car rig into the winner’s circle by using the low. Travis Shipman took second with Kevin Opheim third. Tim Ward made a late pass of Ethan Dotson, then held off a fast-closing Kelly Shryock for the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified victory. It has been a while since Nick West crossed the finish line first as the hometown driver won his first Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod feature since July 14 of 2013 at I-35. Alex Zwanziger placed second with Nate Chodur third. Andrew Borchardt won the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock feature for the second straight week, slid­ing between a pair of cars down the backstretch. Chanse Hollatz was second, followed by Scott Dobel. Devin Jones’ success at I-35 in [Read More]

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Larson is best in Modified main at Britt 

By Greg Grabianowski BRITT, Iowa (June 27) – Adam Larson won the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified feature to highlight a big night of racing Saturday at Hancock County Speedway. Larson rocketed from the 11th starting spot to the front of the 19-car field for his first local feature win of the year. Dustin Smith finished second with Jesse Hoeft third. Ned Kalis won his second Hancock County IMCA Sunoco Stock Car feature of the season after starting ninth. Chad Palmer was the runner-up, followed by David Smith. George Nordman bested the Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod field at Britt for the third time in 2015. Greg Sidles took second with Nick Meyer third. Weston Koop earned his first IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock win of the year, coming from the outside of row four to get the job done. Cory Gansen finished second followed by Cody Nielsen. Jacob Kofoot took the Mach-1 Sport Compact checkers ahead of Devin Jones and Kaytee DeVries.

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Czarapata cashes in again 

By Scott Owen SHAWANO, Wis. (June 27) – Jason Czarapata’s rich weekend continued with the $1,000 Saturday checkers at Shawano Speedway. Brian Joski started outside row one of the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified feature and put his machine in the lead on lap one with polesitter Jimmy Bartelt Sr. right behind.  A lap four caution slowed the paced and bunched the field back up. Eddie Muenster raced around Bartelt to move to second on lap five and went to work trying to reel in Joski. By lap 10, Czarapata had raced to third and on lap 11 he used the inside line to pass Joski for the lead. Mechanical woes for Muenster on lap 12 brought out a caution and forced him to the pits. In the end it was Czarapata capturing his first win of the year at Shawano.  Jerry Wilinski took second in front of Matt Oreskovich and Joski. Travis Van Straten won his sixth straight and seventh overall local IMCA Sunoco Stock Car feature of the season, taking the lead on lap three [Read More]

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Schneiders motors to Modified win at Raceway Park 

By Bob Coney JEFFERSON, S.D. (June 28) – Sunday’s Total Motors IMCA Modified feature at Raceway Park was led flag to flag by Jason Schneiders. Schneiders’ mid-season championship night win came over point leader Ricky Stephan and defend­ing champion Chris Abelson. Defending champion Jason Ward picked up his first win of the season in the Casey’s General Stores IMCA Stock Cars. Ward had the inside line under his control and led Todd Gereau and Chris Mills to the checkers. The win also put Ward atop the point standings for the first time this season. The Skyline Casino IMCA Northern SportMods were dominated at the front by Karl Brewer, who led new point leader Todd Boulware and Rusty Montagne across the line. The MOPAR IMCA Hobby Stock feature saw 24 cars start the feature with three- and four-wide action throughout the race. Coming out on top was Aaron Shearn, followed by David Miller and Tony Fetterman. In the KISS 107 FM IMCA Sport Compacts, Cody Thompson powered into the lead out of turn two in the [Read More]

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Strickler scores at Seymour 

SEYMOUR, Wis. (June 28) – North Carolina visitor Kyle Strickler raced to his first Seymour Speed­way Budweiser IMCA Modified feature win Sunday night. Rooke Konnor Wilinski opened a lead on the field by midway of what would be a non-stop race. Chad Bartel was still in the runner up spot with Strickler moving up from 10th to third. Strickler closed in on the leader, was able to work by into the top spot on lap 15 and pulled away over the final laps to record his first-ever Seymour Speedway win.  Wilinski  ran to his best finish of the season, taking second. Bartel was third. Chas Van Ooyen powered by for the lead on lap three and stayed in front to the finish of the Coors Light IMCA Stock Car main event. Cody Schroeder and Kevin Bethke were scored in first before Lucas Lamberies took over the top spot on lap 18 and held on to capture his fourth local Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod victory of the season.

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Coon aces Arlington Modified main

ARLINGTON, Minn. (June 27) –Saturday’s MN 93 IMCA Modified feature saw Jeff Coon take over the lead on lap eight and pick up his first trophy this year in green to checkered fashion Satur­day at Arlington Raceway. Dan Menk started ninth and finished second with Nick Helmbrecht taking third. Brent Uecker was victorious in the B&B Racing Chassis IMCA Stock Car feature, picking up his first win of the season. Uecker got around Dave Moriarty and remained the leader ahead of Jeff McCollum and Dan Macken­thun. Brett Allen hold onto the lead throughout multiple restarts to pick up his first 95.7 The Rock IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Car checkers. Ron Guentzel and early leader Andrew Westphal rounded out the top three. Jeremy Brown held off top runner Matt Looft in the Unhinged Pizza IMCA Northern Sport Modified fea­ture. Looft started 12th and worked his way up to challenge but Brown held his line throughout the 15-lapper to get the victory. Third was Dustin Engelke. Eckblad Trucking IMCA Hobby Stock leaders were Brad Robinson, Mike Christensen and finally [Read More]