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Thrills and spills Saturday at Off Road Speedway

By Randy Pospishil NORFOLK, Neb. (June 11) – Thrills and spills may be a racing sports cliche, but the terminology describes the racing at the Off Road Speedway last Saturday night. Side-by-side racing is commonplace, and three-wide is frequent, but on several occasions during Saturday’s feature races on the ‘dry slick’ Norfolk track spectators were treated to cars aligned four-wide across the track. The result was multi-car spin-outs and, in the case of the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks, a rollover. Tracy Buck earned his first Off Road Speedway win in that division by taking the lead with six laps remaining and surviving two cautions, including the rollover, and then holding off Austin Brauner. Nate DeSive finished third. Chad Bruns will remain at the top of the IMCA Sunoco Stock Car standings after his second feature win in the division. Bruns went side-by-side with Ron Pettitt for three laps before denying Pettitt his third Off Road Speedway win. Pettitt’s son Tanner finished a distant third. Four cautions kept the cars close together throughout the Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod [Read More]

Cottage Grove hosts Shoot Out rounds three and four

By Ben Deatherage COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. – Cottage Grove Speedway hosts the third and fourth races of the 2016 Wild West IMCA Modified Shoot Out Monday and Tuesday, June 13 and 14. More than 40 Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified drivers are expected to make the trip and will be coming from all over North America, including Colorado, North Dakota, British Columbia and even North Carolina. Prices each night are $8 for adult general admission, youths ages 6-12 are $5 and kids five and under are free. Two-day passes are available for $10. The front gate opens at 4 p.m. with racing scheduled to get underway at 6 p.m. both days. Mark Wauge is the only multi-feature winner of the class in local competition at CGS. Kinzer Cox, Collen Winebarger, Curtis Towns and Jesse Williamson have also visited victory lane in 2016 at the famed ¼-mile clay oval. Cottage Grove has hosted five Wild West Modified Shoot Out races since 2011. Williamson, who won in 2011 and 2015, is the only driver to have visited victory lane [Read More]

SPI announces double IMCA Late Model features

FARLEY, Iowa – Last Friday night’s racing program came to an abrupt halt when Mother Nature unloaded on Farley Speedway. The GSI Collision Specialists IMCA Modified feature had just taken the checkered flag when the rains moved, in forcing SPI officials to postpone the Out Pace Racing Products IMCA Late Model feature. This Friday night, June 17, Farley Speedway will run two 25-lap IMCA Late Model features. The makeup feature event has 15 positions open and drivers who were not in attendance last Friday night will be able to qualify for the makeup as well as the regularly scheduled race simply by paying an additional pit pass. It will be Legends Night on Friday, an annual event honors retired dirt track divers who are a rich part of the history of racing in Eastern Iowa. In addition all weekly classes will be racing along with special guests the Vintage Coupe drivers. Hot laps get underway at 7 p.m. with racing to follow at 7:30 p.m.

Eagle checkers are career first for Sarah Cronin

By Greg Soukup EAGLE, Neb. (June 11) – Sarah Cronin’s first Mountain Dew kick Start IMCA Sport Compact win came Saturday at Eagle Raceway. “I thought I was lapped, I couldn’t believe it when I found out I was in the lead,” she said from victory lane. “It was scary to be there! My only other top four came when I got a second my rookie year.” Trent Roth raced from seventh starting to win the NAPA IMCA SportMod feature. Damon Richards’ third Valentino’s IMCA Hobby Stock checkers of 2016 came from the ninth starting position. Leader Chad Fegley exited that race, which ended with a green, white, checkered, and Richards got the better of Roy Armstrong. Chad Andersen also scored Eagle win number three this season, after starting 11th. “I definitely had to work for this one. I made a last minute decision to make a change in the car, and it seemed to work,” he said. “This was an awesome track, but you really had to drive the cushion and hit it right.” [Read More]

Roath tops Summer Sizzle at Canyon

By Lonnie Wheatley PEORIA, Ariz. (June 11) – Ryan Roath was among the headliners as a total of 105 cars packed the Canyon Speedway Park pit area for Saturday night’s fifth annual Summer Sizzle special. Roath topped the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified main event. He took advantage of the pole starting position to capture his first local feature win of the year ahead of sixth-starter Zack Madrid with Mike Strobl, Brian Schultz and Jeff Sheppard Jr. rounding out the top five.

Kay nips Eckrich, Huston scores first win at West Liberty

By Jerry Mackey WEST LIBERTY, Iowa (June 11) – Saturday night’s racing action at West Liberty Raceway included close finishes and lots of wheel to wheel racing on a smooth and extremely fast race track. The headliner of the night was the 25 lap iWireless IMCA Late Model feature. The race saw Jonathan Brauns lead several laps before mechanical issues sidelined him on lap 18. Andy Eckrich took over the point and appeared to be on his way to his first win of 2016 at West Liberty. Justin Kay closed in on Eckrich as the feature wound down and Kay was able to move inside of Eckrich as the frontrunners headed to the checkered flag. Kay led the final 100 feet and took the checkers just ahead of Eckrich. Nick Marolf came under the checkers in third. The Performance Concepts IMCA Modified feature saw history made as Jonathan Huston scored his first-ever feature win in the very tough division. Huston ran a perfect race in scoring a hard-fought win ahead of a hard charging Kevin [Read More]

Gaylord opens Shoot Out with Southern Oregon victory

By Ben Deatherage WHITE CITY, Ore. (June 11) – Ryan Gaylord came oh-so-close to winning the Wild West IMCA Modified Shoot Out feature last summer at Willamette Speedway, leading most of the way before coming up second in a photo finish to Alex Stanford. He was in the picture again when that the 2016 tour opened Saturday at Southern Oregon Speedway, this time in victory lane. More than 40 Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified entries filled up the pit area for an event that would entertain fans from start to finish. Polesitter Collen Winebarger seized the initiative in the main event and took the lead on the opening circuit. Winebarger found himself in a battle with Gaylord around lap 20. Gaylord eventually secured the lead but wasn’t quite out of the woods quite yet. The Lakewood, Colo., traveler had his hands full in the last 15 laps with Californian Kellen Chadwick. Chadwick and Gaylord went back and forth lap after lap in what was nothing but good, hard, clean racing. Gaylord managed to keep him at bay long enough [Read More]

Boone checkers fly for Dickerson

BOONE, Iowa (June 11) – Russ Dickerson took charge by lap five of Saturday’s 20-lap main event for Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modifieds and drove to his first win this season at Boone Speedway. Dickerson started eighth and was content to let the others duke it out behind him. He took the checkers by a comfortable margin. Denny Pittman held back point leader Mike Van Genderen until the final lap, when Van Genderen surged past to finish second, Pittman taking third. A close fourth went to defending track champion Jimmy Gustin, and Matthew Meinecke was fifth. The race went caution-free after an initial no start. Rookie Cody Gustoff took advantage of his pole starting position, jumping to the immediate IMCA Sunoco Stock Car lead. Craig Carlson, who had started right behind Gustoff, began pestering him and took over as leader at lap six. Carlson kept command of his lead, but in the closing moments had Donavon Smith, Jay Schmidt, and Tyler Pickett in a cluster behind him. Smith dogged Carlson until the final lap, when [Read More]

Wolla checks out in Dacotah feature

MANDAN, N.D. (June 10) – Jason Wolla made Friday’s Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified feature at Dacotah Speedway a race for second place as he led all 25 times around the oval. Wolla pulled away quickly as John Corell had his hands full trying to hold off Marlyn Seidler for second. The low line was the fast line as Tracy Domagala tried to find a way around Drew Christianson for fourth. As Wolla started catching lapped traffic with 12 laps to go, Domagala passed Christianson for fourth place. While racing for sixth place, Donald Robinson got into Travis Ulmer, bringing out the caution with eight laps to go. However, Wolla pulled away once again on the restart. Point leader Seidler passed Corell for second, bringing Spencer Wilson with him. Wilson, working in the highline, passed Seidler with four laps to go. Wolla led all 25 laps to win for the second time at Dacotah Speedway this season. Wilson finished second as Seidler ran third. Christianson used a last-lap pass to finish fourth ahead of Corell. [Read More]

Second-year driver wins career first Virginia Sprint Series feature

By Jim Haines ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (June 10) – Second-year driver J.D. Coats showed his heat race earlier in the evening was no fluke as he raced to his career first Virginia Sprint Series win in a Fast Friday Feature at Dixieland Speedway. Coats and Bill Rice paced the IMCA EMI RaceSaver Sprint Car field to green before a full house of fans at the coastal Carolina speedway. Coats was out first with Rice up high but on lap three Mike Leraas made his way to second. The pack from the back was starting to pressure the lead duo with Daren Bolac getting there first and getting to second on lap 15 as traffic came into play. Jerald Harris was on Leraas for third as Bolac was pressuring Coats, but it would be for naught as Coats stayed fast and smooth taking the win. At the line it was Coats, Bolac, Leraas, Harris and Tom Humphries filling the top five positions. Next week it’s back to Shenandoah Speedway for a pavement show on Saturday, June [Read More]