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Dart is King of the Ring feature winner at Oshkosh

By Dave Panske OSHKOSH, Wis. (July 24) – Todd Dart delivered the Automotive Supply Company IMCA Modified fea­ture win in round two of the King of the Ring Series Friday at Oshkosh SpeedZone Raceway. Dart caught Mike Wedelstadt for the lead on lap 16 and drove to his first local checkers since Sept. 7 of 2013. The final round of the series is Friday, Aug. 28. The Total Power Sales IMCA Stock Car main event saw Travis Van Straten drive away from the pack and collect his second straight and sixth local feature win overall this season. Colten Van Hierden checked out and collected his second straight and fifth local Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod checkers of the season.

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Antioch checkers fly for Giuliani

ANTIOCH, Calif. (July 25) – Anthony Giuliani was tops in the Brentwood Auto Parts IMCA Northern SportMod division, with Patti Ryland of Brentwood challenging him to the checkered flag Satur­day at Antioch Speedway. Fred Ryland was challenging Giuliani for the lead when the two tangled in the third turn. “I don’t know what happened,” Giuliani said from victory lane. “We just tangled. I wasn’t about to give up my position like the last time we tangled.” Giuliani lost his bid for the lead when he raced alongside Fred Ryland in the last IMCA SportMod feature. This time, Ryland went to the wall, only to come back on the restart, crash and lose his hood. Ryland finished ninth. Then Giuliani had another Ryland to contend with. Patti Ryland moved up, passing Al Sotomayor and Paul Mulder to take second.

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Stone wins again at Merced 

By Don Martin II MERCED, Calif. (July 26) – After grabbing the lead early in the 20-lap Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified main event, Paul Stone pulled away by a wide margin to grab his second win of the sea­son Sunday at Merced Speedway, The win came aboard the Jack Mounce-owned no. 44 car as his own car is being used for special events this season. Bob Williamson was a season-best second ahead of Alex Wilson and Kyle Wilson. Running a smooth race on the bottom groove, Mark Odgers won his first 20-lap Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod feature of the season.

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Cassell wins at Willamette 

By Ben Deatherage LEBANON, Ore. (July 25) – After numerous runner-up finishes and in-general bad luck in 2015 Craig Cassell finally won his first Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified feature of the season Satur­day at Willamette Speedway. Cassell denied the challenges of Kyle Yeack for the long-awaited checkers.

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Boulware prevails at Raceway Park

By Bob Coney JEFFERSON, S.D. (July 26) – The KISS 107 FM IMCA Sport Compacts had a first-time winner Sunday at Raceway Park as Cody Boulware led flag to flag for his first trip to victory lane. Chasing Boulware at the end were Aaron Edwardson and Cody Thompson. John Cain took the win in the MOPAR IMCA Hobby Stock feature after getting by early leader David Miller for a lead he never relinquished. Finishing third was Aaron Shearn. Rusty Montagne extended his point lead atop the Skyline Casino IMCA Northern SportMod divi­sion by taking the feature win over Karl Brewer and Darin Roepke. The Casey’s General Store IMCA Stock Car field went at it for 16 laps with Chris Mills coming out on top, followed by Josh Ruschmann and Bo Lundquist. The Total Motors Modified feature had $900 on the line for the winner in honor of long-time car owner and crew chief Marv Reuter, who passed away this week. Jason Schneiders led much of the early going, but had to settle for the runner-up [Read More]

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LeMieux doubles up at Thunderhill 

By Greg Aregoni STURGEON BAY, Wis. (July 26) – Billy Lemieux was a star-studded Man in Door County over the weekend. Not only did he rank in 135th place out of 160 players at the M.A.C softball tournament, he de­cided to double up on feature wins at Thunderhill Raceway on Sunday night. Lemieux earned wins in both the IMCA Sunoco Stock Car and local street stock events. A lone caution would fly on lap 11 of the Stock Car main and allowed LeMieux to come into play. He rode around Suchocki on top and cruised over the final laps. Other winners included Tyler Hackett in the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modifieds, Jarred Van­Laanen in the Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods and Dave Schmidt in the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks.

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Smith avoids late-race obstacle at I-90 

By Steve Zwemke HARTFORD, S.D. (July 25) – The biggest Saturday night obstacle at I-90 Speedway for Colin Smith was a car exiting to the pits with just two laps to go in the Coffee Cup IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Car feature. The close call came as Elijah Johnson left the track via the backstretch exit as Smith was about to lap him. Smith picked up his fourth win while Jeff Edgington crossed in second. The first-year I-90 Speedway driver has now finished in the top two in each of his last six starts.

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Streaks continue at Shawano 

SHAWANO, Wis. (July 25) – Two streaks continued Saturday at Shawano Speedway. Travis Van Straten raced to his 10th consecutive IMCA Sunoco Stock Car victory, taking the checkers in front of Dan Michonski for the fourth straight week. Dustin Loberger was third. Marcus Yarie led the final two circuits in topping the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified main event ahead of Jerry Wilinski and Mitch Stankowski. The IMCA Sport Mods began with Tyler Thiex leading the pack to the line. Brandon Nygaard would grab the lead on lap one and pace the field for the first few laps until Thiex took the spot on lap four. The lead was short lived as Jordan Barkholtz took the top spot on lap six and would show the way until lap 11 when Wyatt Block caught up with Jordan Barkholtz and battled for a few laps before Block broke away and cruised to an easy Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod win. Barkholtz held onto second and Jason Jach made his way up to third. New members inducted into the Shawano [Read More]

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Dowell tops Dodge City Stocks 

By Lonnie Wheatley DODGE CITY, Kan. (July 24) – Randy Dowell made a late move around race-long leader Trevor Schmidt to capture his first IMCA Sunoco Stock Car win at Dodge City Raceway Park. Schmidt led from the outset after starting on the pole but soon had Dowell and Brett Copeland nipping at his heels in the non-stop 15-lapper. Dowell’s persistence paid off, as he slipped under Schmidt exiting turn two on the 14th round and held the point the final lap-and-a-half to post the win.  Schmidt crossed the stripe a close second with Copeland third. In Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified action, Bucklin’s Clay Sellard rallied past Jack Kirchoff on the high side for the point at the midway point of the 20-lapper and checked out for his fourth DCRP score of the year. Dwayne Dechant extended the streak of consecutive different winners in IMCA SportMod action to 11 races dating back to last year’s season finale with his 20-lap triumph. After finally breaking through for his first IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock win at [Read More]

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Ward scores sixth of season at Tri-City

AUBURN, Mich. (July 24) – Tri-City Motor Speedway win number six on the season came Friday for A.J. Ward. Lucas Small led the Main Street Seed and Supply IMCA Modified field to green but Mitchell Hunt found room on the backstretch down low and took the lead on lap one. Ward made his way from the middle of the pack and found his way to the lead on lap four. Point leader Myron DeYoung followed up to the second position but did not have the car to keep up with Ward. DeYoung finished second and Chad Wernette was third.