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ANTIOCH, Calif. (April 18) – It was a long road to the Antioch Speedway’s victory lane for Bobby Motts. After four years behind the wheel of his IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified, Motts steered to the checkered flag in Saturday main event. “I’m shaking like a leaf,” were the first words out of Motts’ mouth when he got out of his car in vic­tory lane. ”All these years of trying, and it finally paid off.” Motts’ car is a collaboration of personal time and money of crewmembers Mike Ferry, Bill Garrell and Steve Cunningham. “The guys have been with me for 18 years,” explained Motts, who won the speedway’s super stock championship back in 2004. The feature event unfolded with the twists and turns of an action movie. Defending champion Carl Ber­endsen looked to be in route to the win. Then, halfway through the feature, a tap in turn two from Scott Busby spun out Berendsen and sent both he and Busby to the back of the lineup. Sean O’Gara looked to be heading for the [Read More]

CRYSTAL, Mich. (April 18) – Three-time and defending All-Star Performance IMCA Modified track champion was the opening night feature winner Saturday at Crystal Motor Speedway. Robert Putt took the early point in the main event with Brody Bowser tight behind. Ward and Bowser tangled, sending Bowser to the rear. Ward overtook the lead and cruised to the win over John DeYoung Jr. and Putt.

By Jeremy Fox MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (April 17) – Making the most of a lap eight restart, Ronn Lauritzen raced to the Coors Light IMCA Modified checkers Friday at Marshalltown Speedway. Lauritzen had sped to the front from the 11th starting spot, taking the lead before back-to-back cautions on the eighth circuit. Brian Irvine started 10th and settled for the runner-up finish. Jimmy Gustin was third. The door opened for Trent Murphy with four laps left in the Miller Lite IMCA Stock Car 18-lap feature. Steve Meyer tried to regain the lead but Murphy held on for the win. Third went to Donavon Smith. Jared Van Deest snuck up on the high side to take the lead on lap nine of the Karl Chevrolet North­ern SportMod feature and saw the caution come out with two laps to go but was not to be de­nied the victory. Jayme Duinink finished second and Travis Peterson was third. Eric Stanton took the Toby K’s Hideaway IMCA Hobby Stock win over Nathan Ballard and An­drew Burg. One hundred and ten [Read More]

By Scott Owen SHAWANO, Wis. (April 18) – Defending track champion Travis VanStraten raced to the IMCA Sunoco Stock Car win on opening night of the 53rd year of racing at Shawano Speedway. Mike Schmidt held the lead for the first four laps of the race until VanStraten took over the point. He began to pull away from the rest of the pack while Brandon Czarapata raced to second. The race went green to checkered. VanStraten picked up where he left off last year, in victory lane. Czarapata took second and Steven Stewart finished third. At the start of the IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified feature, it looked as though defending track champion Marcus Yarie would run away and hide. Yarie started outside row one and quickly put distance between himself and Chris Engels. After a lap four restart, Lance Arneson moved to second while John Berna and Matt Oreskovich battled for third. On lap seven, Oreskovich passed Berna to take third. With Yarie still leading, Oreskovich ran down Arneson and made the pass to [Read More]

By Greg Aregoni FRANCIS CREEK, Wis. (April 18) – 141 Speedway kicked off the much anticipated season with a bang on Saturday night as 147 drivers signed in to do battle and be one of the first cars to lock up their spot in the chase. Brad Lautenbach picked up his first IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified win of the season and a $1,000 pay day courtesy of Prestige Custom Cabinetry. Lautenbach, the defending Allstar Performance State champion and already on the ballot for the Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational, picked the one pill and then had to wait to officially lead any laps as the race saw four cautions before the first circuit was scored. Lautenbach stayed in charge in a contest that went caution-free from that point. Brian Mullen got close a couple times but could never challenge. Mike Montie passed Matt Brehmer early in the Mach-1 Sport Compact main event. Montie led every lap en route to the win over Brehmer. The win for Montie makes him the first-ever feature winner in Wisconsin [Read More]

INDEPENDENCE, Iowa (Apr. 18) – Three of four features were run to completion before rain halted action Saturday night at Independence Motor Speedway. The program, which was the final of two draw/redraw specials for IMCA state, regional and national points before weekly points racing starts at the speedway April 25, welcomed 90 race teams to the pit area. Tony Olson took advantage of his pole position start by racing into the lead at the drop of the green in the 15-lap Tenacity Graphics IMCA Northern SportMod feature. Olson paced the field while Jenae Gustin made her way into second from a third row start on the second circuit. Olson, who built a quick half-straightaway lead, extended his advantage in lapped traffic before a trio of cautions slowed action with two laps to go. He pulled away on the final restart to take the win ahead of a hard-charging Alex Zwanziger and Gustin. Roger Ciesielski drove the high side into the lead in the 15-lap Burco Sales IMCA Stock Car main. From an outside third row [Read More]