Results

By Rick Staley ATCHISON, Kan. (May 6) – Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modifieds started their inaugural season at Atchison County Raceway with a bang on Friday as Steven Bowers Jr. won both his heat race and the feature. Hall of Famer Tom Charles sliced and diced through the pack to a solid second place finish, challenging Bowers to the line. Matt Richards had an impressive run placing third with Clay Hale fourth. Other heat race winner Tyson Lanfermann raced his way to fifth. The IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars saw the best of the best take to the track with numerous different leaders throughout the race. Tag Team Challenge winner Greg Keuhn took the early lead with Jim Powell knocking on the door before Brad Whitney entered the picture. Whitney used the high line to pass Keuhn and pulled out to a nice lead until hitting the berm in turn two and spinning out, taking him from the front spot. Powell took over the lead and raced side-by-side with Rich Boyden. Powell pick up the feature [Read More]

By Ben Deatherage COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. (May 7) – Kinzer Cox was in, out and ultimately back in front by the time the checkers flew at the conclusion of Saturday’s Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified main event at Cottage Grove Speedway. Cox snatched the lead early but the Cottage Grove youngster surrendered the lead on lap three to Eric Ashley. Ashley set a very wicked pace but ultimately lost the position to Cox on lap 17.  Cox stayed up front the rest of the way to win his first race of 2016. Ashley ended the evening as runner-up while Tyler Smith was third.  The rest of the top five con­sisted of Steven Sturdevant and Jake Mayden.

HESSTON, Pa. (May 7) – The third time was the charm for Drew Ritchey and the Laurel High­lands IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Series. After back-to-back rainouts, the tour got its opening night show in on Saturday and Ritchey led all 20 laps of the main event at Hesston Speedway. Ritchey and Randy Sterling drew front row starts and Ritchey was quick to set the early pace. Jake Gomola, who had started third, headed up the chase but couldn’t find a way to the front. As the race went on, Sterling’s car appeared to get tight and Nathan Gramley reeled him in. Gram­ley got faster as the race went on and overtook Gomola for second. There wasn’t enough time left for Gramley to complete his charge however as Ritchey capped the win. Gomola, Brad Mellott and Steve Kenawell Jr. completed the top five. The Laurel Highlands Sprint Series heads to Dog Hollow Speedway on Friday, May 13 and re­turns to Hesston on Saturday, May 21.  Feature results – 1. Drew Ritchey; 2. Nathan Gramley; 3. Jake Gomola; 4. [Read More]

BOONE, Iowa (May 7) – Racing won out over the raindrops at Boone on Saturday night, after last week’s rain out.  Fans were treated to a great show in all divisions. Jimmy Gustin grabbed his first local win this season in the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified division, as did Randy Roberts in the Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods and Trent Murphy in the IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars. Only the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks saw a repeat winner, Solomon Bennett. In the Modified 20-lap feature, it was Joel Bushore showing the way until lap 14.  That was when Gustin and Mike VanGenderen, who had started side-by-side in row five, came calling.  Gustin made his way around Bushore and into the lead. Not to be outdone, VanGenderen also got around Bushore and began hunting down Gustin. It wasn’t to be on this night however, as Gustin took the win.  VanGenderen, who had won back on April 23, finished a close second. Bushore held on to third, Russ Dickerson took fourth and fifth went to 11th place starter [Read More]

By Greg Soukup EAGLE, Neb. (May 7) – Chad Andersen got the lead back with eight laps to go in winning Satur­day’s Kaplan University IMCA Modified main event at Eagle Raceway. He was chased to the checkers by Dustin Andersen, Anthony Roth and Shane Hiatt. “I haven’t had that much fun racing in a long time. Dustin and I don’t get to start on the front row together very often. It was awesome racing with him like that,” Andersen said. “When he passed me I knew that whoever got out front and got to the top first was going to get the win.” After a complete restart, Mark Leiting checked out on the rest of the NAPA IMCA Northern SportMod feature field. The win was his second locally this season and came ahead of Gary Saathoff, Adam Armstrong and Joe Schidler. Damon Richards started inside row four and made rare use of the lower line in winning the Valen­tino’s IMCA Hobby Stock headliner. Rounding out the top four were Tyler Saathoff, Dave Carter and Roy [Read More]

COLUMBUS JUNCTION, Iowa (May 6) – CJ Speedway got back to action on Friday and Adam Bell scored the win in the IMCA Sunoco Stock Car feature while Cody VanDusen topped the field in the Mach-1 Sport Compacts. Dane Fenton and Bell made up the front row for the Stock Car start. Bell edged Fenton at the line to lead lap one with Tad Payne and John Oliver Jr. battling for third. A couple laps later, Oliver moved into the runner-spot and pressured Bell for the lead. Oliver tried to get under Bell until midway through the race when he pulled off with mechanical troubles. This moved Kirk Kinsley, who recovered from a first-lap crash, to second spot. Kinsley tried everything to get the lead away from Bell, but Bell was able to hold him off to pick up his first win of the season at the track. Kinsley settled for second and Payne was third. VanDusen and John Whalen led the field to the green flag in the Sport Compact feature. VanDusen set the pace [Read More]