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By Greg Aregoni FRANCIS CREEK, Wis. (July 18) – You always remember that first career win. Usually it happens with a heat race win one week and the feature later on. For Beau Handschke it just decided to happen on the same exact night. Handschke picked up his first career 141 Speedway heat race win and then later Saturday won the Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod feature. Brandon Long won many features in his Northern SportMod career. It took just four months to earn his first career Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified win. Long outlasted defending champion Johnny Whitman and older brother Josh for the win. John Heinz earned his sixth IMCA Sunoco Stock Car feature win. Part-timer Matt Brehmer re­turned after a six-week absence to win the Mach-1 Sport Compact main event.

By Scott Owen SHAWANO, Wis. (July 18) – Jesse Peebles scored his first Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified victory of the season Saturday at Shawano Speedway, while Travis Van Straten kept his IMCA Sunoco Stock Car streak going, winning his ninth in a row. Peebles started on the pole and survived numerous restarts and challenges from John Berna on his way to victory lane. The race was shortened to 15 laps due to the time limit. Jerry Wilinski fin­ished third. Trent Nolan led the opening lap of the Stock Car feature before being overtaken by Dan Michon­ski, who was soon pressured by Van Straten. With Michonski still leading on lap seven, a caution flag flew to bunch the field back up. Following the restart, Van Straten took to the inside, made his pass for the lead and led the rest of the race, picking up his ninth win in a row and 10th overall. Michonski fended off Mike Schmidt to finish second. Wyatt Block raced his way from sixth and into the lead on the [Read More]

By Jeremy Fox MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (July 17) – Kyle Strickler became the first candidate on the ballot for the 2016 Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational with his $1,000 Coors Light IMCA Modified feature win Fri­day at Marshalltown Speedway. California’s Ethan Dotson and North Carolina traveler Kyle Strickler led the field to the green and it was Strickler taking the early lead. Strickler did not let any cautions bother him, pulling out to a solid lead after restarts before and following midway. Strickler held off challenges from Jon Snyder before the final caution came out on lap 22 and set up a three-lap dash to finish. Snyder slid up the track and fell back while Strickler went on to take the checkered flag ahead of Ronn Lauritzen, 11th starting Tim Ward, 15th starting Josh Gilman and 13th starting Scott Simato­vich. Michael Jaennette started sixth and held off Donavon Smith in winning the Miller Lite IMCA Stock Car feature. Sam Wieben held off challenges from Jared Van Deest to take his first local Karl Chevro­let Northern SportMod of the [Read More]

By Dave Panske OSHKOSH, Wis. (July 17) – Marcus Yarie bested a field of 24 Automotive Supply Company IMCA Modifieds to take the Christmas in July night checkers Friday at Oshkosh SpeedZone Race­way. Yarie passed eventual runner-up Mike Wedelstadt on the 15th circuit. Tim Lemirande started 18th and finished third. Paul Holschuh, Dion Wahl and Justin Jacobsen took turns up front before Travis Van Straten drove to the lead in the Total Power Sales IMCA Stock Car main event. Despite heavy pressure over the final laps, Van Straten was able to hold off the challengers to win his fifth feature of the season.   Jacobsen took the runner up spot with Jerry Winkle taking a strong third place finish. Once in front, Colten Van Hierden pulled away for another Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod vic­tory. The race for second was tight to the finish with Jeff Steenbergen able to sneak by on the final lap.

By Dave Panske SEYMOUR, Wis. (July 12) – Benji LaCrosse captured his 100th career Budweiser IMCA Modified feature win on a history-making Sunday night at Seymour Speedway. The win was also the 37th for LaCrosse at Seymour, third on the all time win list behind Brian Mul­len with 60 and R.M. Van Pay with 54. Mullen and Van Pay are also members of the IMCA 100 win club as is Mike Wedelstadt, the Sunday runner-up to LaCrosse. Jerry Wilinski had the lead after the opening lap followed by Trevor Spaulding, Konnor Wilinski, Wedelstadt, T.J. Smith and Eric Scribner. LaCrosse entered the top five on lap three after starting 11th in the field.  LaCrosse could pick his line as he maneuvered through traffic and  finally took over the lead on lap 11.   Wedelstadt fol­lowed into second one lap later. LaCrosse held his lead at a couple lengths for the remaining laps and Wedelstadt watched as the checkered dropped, giving LaCrosse the milestone victory.  Jerry Wilinski held third to the finish with Scribner making his way to fourth. Travis Van Straten led from [Read More]

By Bob Coney JEFFERSON, S.D. (July 12) – Jim Thies got by early leader Jason Schneiders just past the mid­way point of the Total Motors IMCA Modified main event and held on for the Sunday victory at Raceway Park. Schneiders finished second, followed by Chris Abelson. The Casey’s General Store IMCA Stock Car feature again went to Chris Mills, his second win in only four starts. Second went to new point leader Bo Lundquist, followed by Casey Jones. Karl Brewer had the field covered in the Skyline Casino IMCA Northern SportMods. Brewer led most of the feature and was followed across the line by Kaleb Kennedy and Darin Roepke. Kenne­dy’s finish put him into a tie for the division lead with Rusty Montange. The MOPAR IMCA Hobby Stock feature had a controversial ending when race-long leader Gabe Barclay was hit in turn four by second place runner Aaron Shearn, flattening Barclay’s tire. With Barclay making it to the pits, no caution was thrown and Shearn went on to the feature win over Dave Riley and [Read More]