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Larson teaches high side clinic in Shawano’s Fury at the Fairgrounds

By Scott Owen SHAWANO, Wis. (June 26) – Jeff Larson was the first car to hit the track for hot laps Saturday at Shawano Speedway and it paid dividends for the Illinois racer. Larson won the third leg of the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified Cheesehead Triple Crown and left the track with $5,000, a huge trophy thanks to the Kim Parsons Memorial Trophy Tour and a spot on the ballot for the Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational. Larson and Jerry Wilinski raced wheel-to-wheel following the initial green with Wilinski holding the slightest of leads. Wilinski continued to lead as Larson ran right near the wall trying to gain an advantage. What would be the final caution of the 30-lap feature flew after lap five. As the race went back to green, Larson again tiptoed along the wall and took the lead from Wilinski. Larson then put on a clinic on how to race inches away from the wall as Wilinski battled Kelly Shryock for second and Konnor Wilinski, Jerry’s son, battled with Jay Noteboom for fourth. [Read More]

Kirchoff masters traffic in Interstate Challenge Series opener

By Dru Brown BILLINGS, Mont. (June 25) – Eddie Kirchoff’s mastery of lapped traffic helped make him the opening night winner in the Interstate Challenge Series. Kirchoff outran Tripp Gaylord and Kenny Baumann Saturday at Billings Motorsports Park, earning $1,000 for his Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified victory. The evening’s 25-lapper featured some of the best Modified drivers in the Larry Shaw Racing Western Region and right as the green flag came out, the race for the lead was three wide. Kirchoff took the point on the low line. Baumann wanted none of that, however, fought back on the high line and took the lead. The game of leapfrog had begun as Kirchoff stayed steady on the bottom, looked low and stole the lead back. Gaylord, meanwhile, was running third and catching up to the two frontrunners. Kirchoff began building a sizeable lead. Gaylord and Baumann swapped the second spot back and forth, but Gaylord proved to be too strong and took the runner up position. By this time, Kirchoff was in heavy lapped traffic [Read More]

Huettl holds off Modified field at Jamestown

By Michael Savaloja The Jamestown Sun JAMESTOWN, N.D. (June 25) – Jordan Huettl didn’t lead the first lap on Saturday at Jamestown Speedway. But that was OK. He led the rest. The Minot driver took over the top spot of the 20-lap Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified feature on lap two after starting on the outside pole. Huettl then glued his no. 4 machine to the cushion near the top of the racing surface and never looked back. It was back-to-back wins for Huettl. He was coming off Thursday’s Topless Night victory at Nodak Speedway in Minot. “We kind of got tangled up on the start a little bit. But I just let them go and chased them back down,” Huettl said, as Ryan Cousins led the opening lap from the pole. “From there, my car wanted to be up on top, and it was good to see that.” Huettl posted the quickest lap of the race on the quarter-mile oval in 16.742 seconds and held off the 25-car feature field over a total of [Read More]

Toyne picks up first Stock Car win at Cotton Bowl

By J.M. Hallas PAIGE, Texas (June 25) – Duane Toyne, who has raced in Kansas and Texas and on both asphalt and dirt, scored his first-ever IMCA Stock Car victory against a stout field Saturday at Cotton Bowl Speedway. Toyne started outside row two but lost ground on the start. He methodically worked his way back to the front, catching early leader Joe O’Bryan in the final laps. Toyne got inside O’Bryan, with the two side-by-side, before Toyne inched ahead. O’Bryan tried to crossover on the final lap, but it was Toyne taking the checkers. “This car was one I picked that was built in Nebraska. I don’t know much of the history on it. It’s a fairly older car, built in ’09, but it’s had all the updates on it and drove like a dream tonight,” he said. “The motor is from Kansas, also. It was built by an independent guy who puts them together now and then. He built this motor for my old Camaro when I was back there.” Keith White was [Read More]

Natural Bridge win is Virginia Sprint Series first for Leraas

NATURAL BRIDGE, Va. (June 25) – It really paid to have the number seven on your IMCA EMI RaceSaver Sprint Car as Mike Leraas in his 77 and Troy Severin in his 7 had the Virginia Sprint Series field covered Saturday at Natural Bridge Speedway. The win was the series first for Leraas, who was chased to the checkers by Severin. Leraas and Tony Harris led the field to green with Harris out first and Leraas right behind. Harris led until lap four when Leraas moved by and went to the high side The leader was really making time, leaving Harris to fight with Severin for the runner-up spot. Severin finally got by on lap eight and went after Harris. They pulled away as Tom Humphries made his way to third. Humphries tried to get by Severin a couple times but the number seven cars were good up high and they both stayed smooth and fast all the way to the checkered flag. The summer break will kick in before it’s back to Eastside Speedway [Read More]

Green, white, checkered effective at Off Road

By Randy Pospishil sports@norfolkdailynews.com NORFOLK, Neb. (June 25) – Strangely, three of four featured IMCA races became two-lap winner-take-all competitions Saturday night at the Off Road Speedway. Only the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock division was able to race caution-free. However, the Mach-1 Sport Compacts, IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars and Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods all became sprints to the finish with all-or-nothing strategy required to cross the finish line first. The Hobby Stock feature, won by Tiffany Bittner, with Mark Arduser and Jeremy Hoskinson finishing second and third, respectively, also provided evidence of track conditions that allowed drivers to venture almost anywhere effectively, with several racers taking their cars high and near the wall entering into a curve then gaining momentum by coming back down into the low part of the track to slingshot past cars, an approach that extended into the feature races which followed. For example, SportMod winner Derik Fox, experienced a narrow defeat two weeks ago to Justin Addison but flipped the script this time around by edging Kyle Prauner, who drove the [Read More]

Yeack wins Willamette’s Modified Madness 50

By Ben Deatherage LEBANON, Ore. (June 25) – Kyle Yeack led the last 10 circuits in winning Saturday’s Modified Madness 50 special at Willamette Speedway. Sam Potter blazed the trail in the early going of the 50-lap Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified feature. He was pressured by Kevin Roberts and the two would exchange the lead for several laps. Unfortunately, Potter and Roberts would collect one another on lap 18. That incident gave the lead to Matthew Drager. Drager was very fast and looked for his second win of the year, but a late-race caution changed the complexion of the contest. On the ensuing restart, Drager stayed in front but before too long was on the defense with Yeack in pursuit. Yeack made the pass for the top spot on lap 40 and held on for the final 10 laps to win his first IMCA Modified race of 2016 at Willamette. Drager was second, followed by Roberts in third, after being involved in the aforementioned incident. Potter ended his evening in fourth while fifth finishing [Read More]

Cohoon takes Tri-City Modified checkers

AUBURN, Mich. (June 24) – Chris Cohoon collected the first Main Street Seed and Supply IMCA Modified checkers of his career in front of a very full grandstand Friday at Tri-City Motor Speedway. Cohoon and Matt Szecsodi brought the field of 19 IMCA Modifieds to the green flag for their 20-lap affair. The two swapped the lead a number of times in the opening five laps before Cohoon was able to clear Szecsodi. Cohoon ran the bottom of the track as both Craig Vance and Arkansas driver Heath Grizzle would run the high side and started pressuring for the lead. Vance had a couple turns at the front before a late-race caution bunched the field for a final three-lap shootout. On the restart, Cohoon found himself holding off an three-wide battle for the win. On the final lap, Grizzle attempted to get to the high side and pass for the lead as he pulled a slide job on Vance, which slowed them both up and allowed Cohoon to hold on for his first-ever Modified feature win [Read More]

Schweikart takes first-ever PASS win at Path Valley

SPRING RUN, Pa. (June 25) – Dale Schweikart drove from the sixth starting spot to pick up his first-ever Pennsylvania Sprint Series win Saturday at Path Valley Speedway. Schweikart used the low groove to overtake veteran Ryan Lynn and move into the top spot, Lynn still managed a second place finish with a contact lens folded over in one eye for much of the race. Drew Ritchey, Zack Newlin and Scott Ellerman rounded out the top five. Schweikart has been with PASS since 2013, running IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Cars mostly at Clinton County and Path Valley, where he had a string of third-place finishes in recent races. His racing resume also includes several seasons in an Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified. Feature results – 1. Dale Schweikart; 2. Ryan Lynn; 3. Drew Ritchey; 4. Zack Newlin; 5. Scott Ellerman; 6. Kyle Ganoe; 7. Cale Reigle; 8. Bobby Sandt Jr.; 9. John Martin; 10. Geoff Gill; 11. Randy Sterling; 12. Dave Guss Jr.; 13. Jake Thornton; 14. Mike Alleman; 15. Kirsten Hess; 16. Tyler Reeser; 17. Dave [Read More]

Goedert wins Late Model thriller at Dubuque

By Jerry Mackey DUBUQUE, Iowa (June 26) – Sunday night’s racing action at the Dubuque County Fairgrounds Speedway featured plenty of wheel-to-wheel excitement right down to the checkered flag in all four divisions. The headliner of the night was the 25-lap feature for the Out Pace Racing Products IMCA Late Models. The final two laps saw the lead swapped four times between Luke Goedert and Joel Callahan. The final lap saw the leaders battling each other as they encountered lapped traffic. Goedert was able to stick his no. 44 Late Model to the bottom and come to the checkers with a car length win over Callahan. Dan Shelliam joined the lead pack late in the race and settled for a very close third place finish. The Merfeld Brothers IMCA Modified feature saw Monroe, Wis., driver Derrick Thompson score his first-ever Dubuque Speedway win. Thompson found the high side of the smooth track to his liking as he rode the extreme high line to the win over Ryan DeShaw and Matt Gansen. The GSI Collision Specialists [Read More]