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Honorary starters to assist with Saturday check presentation to Hope For The Warriors

BOONE, Iowa – The three honorary starters for Saturday’s last-chance Modified features will also assist with the Saturday afternoon, Sept. 12 check presentation to Hope For the Warriors during the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s. Ankeny-based Casey’s General Store, the presentation sponsor for Super Nationals, donates $10 for each heat race won by a Modified, Late Model, Stock Car, Hobby Stock, Northern SportMod or Sport Compact driver displaying a Casey’s decal between Sept. 7 and Sept. 11. IMCA will match that amount. Depending on the number of heat races held, Casey’s and IMCA officials will present a check for approximately $5,000 to Hope For The Warriors President and CEO Robin Kelleher in front of the flagstand during a break in the Saturday race program. Current or former service members are eligible to be honorary starters. Letters or emails of nomination should be 500 words or less and tell about the nominee and their service to our country, and should be directed to Marketing Director Kevin Yoder at the IMCA home office or kyoder@imca.com. [Read More]

Mather scores in Modified main at Osky

By Jeremy Fox OSKALOOSA, Iowa (Aug. 26) – A late caution preceded a green, white, checkered finish and Colt Mather’s trip to victory lane Wednesday at Southern Iowa Speedway. Andrew Schroeder wrestled the lead away from Ryan Fullenkamp early in the Musco Lighting IMCA Modified nightcap but just after the completion of lap one the caution was displayed for Fullenkamp and Adam Larson in turn two. Schroeder continued to lead but quickly saw Mather right behind him. Mather took the lead away on lap nine. The caution come out late, forcing a green, white, checkered but it was Mather who took his second win at Osky in 2015. Cayden Carter took second away from Schroeder following the final restart. Tyler Groenendyk finished fourth and Carter VanDenBerg was fifth. Mike Hughes took the lead from Damon Murty on lap 13 and went on to take the Budweiser IMCA Stock Car win. Logan Anderson took the lead on lap two and checked out on everybody in topping the KBOE Radio IMCA Northern SportMod main event. Danny Thrasher also [Read More]

IMCA’s centennial season is theme for Super Nationals best looking car contest

BOONE, Iowa – The sanctioning body’s centennial season was an easy choice for the best looking car contest theme at the upcoming IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s. Best-looking Modifieds, Stock Cars, Hobby Stocks and Northern SportMods with an IMCA Centennial theme will be selected during the Sept. 7-12 event. Voting will be conducted on Tuesday, Sept. 8 in the Fan Zone south of the main grandstand at Boone Speedway for the Hobby Stocks and Northern SportMods; Modified and Stock Car best looking car entries will pull onto the front stretch and be determined by fan acclamation during pre-race ceremonies on Saturday, Sept. 12. Winners in each division receive trophies. All entries receive mini-doors. Drivers in all four divisions, as well as the Late Models and Sport Compacts bringing tribute cars to Boone receive $100 gift cards from Speedway Motors, marking its 21st year as title sponsor of Super Nationals. “Super Nationals is our biggest event and the perfect platform for celebrating our centennial season,” IMCA Marketing Director Kevin Yoder commented. “We have had [Read More]

Australian driver ending latest American racing vacation at IMCA Super Nationals

HERVEY BAY, QLD. – If there was a long tow award given at the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s, Frank Packer would be a shoo-in. The Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod driver calls Hervey Bay in Queensland, on the east coast of Australia, home. He’ll end his latest extended racing vacation to the United States by racing at Super Nationals for the first time. “I like the close competition. All the cars in this class are fairly even and that’s what attracted me to it,” Packer said. “I originally planned to race about 25 times but now it looks like we’ll be able to get in more than 30 nights.” He’s a teammate of Modified driver Jon Snyder and has lived with Snyder’s parents in rural Boone since arriving in the United States in June. “I helped John at Super Nationals last year,” Packer said. “When we got there the track was flooded. There was water everywhere. I was impressed with how they got the track ready, the number of cars, the driving [Read More]

Saturday night champions get new engines from Karl Performance or Karl Chevrolet

BOONE, Iowa – Saturday night’s champions at the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s are again guaranteed to go home with new engines, courtesy of Karl Performance and Karl Chevrolet. After the Sept. 12 race program is complete, the engines that powered Modified, Stock Car, Hobby Stock and Northern SportMod champions will be sold at a public auction in the infield at Boone Speedway. Modified, SportMod, or Hobby Stock champions who won titles with crate motors receive a new GM 604 or 602 crate from Karl Chevrolet. Drivers in any division winning with claim motors get engines from Karl Performance. All motors will be built to IMCA specifications and any additional services or parts desired are to be taken care of at the new owner’s expense. The Modified champion, if running a claim motor, gets a KPM CPH383-60D engine valued at $6,999. The Stock Car champion will receive a KPM 360 spec engine valued at $6,040.99. The SportMod and Hobby Stock champions, if running claim motors, both get a KPM CC355-60F engine valued [Read More]

Lap money, cash bonuses add more than $6,000 to Super Nationals

BOONE, Iowa – Drivers competing in the Sept. 7-12 IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s will take home more than $6,000 in lap money and cash bonuses. The first bonus of the week will be the $250 paid on Labor Day Monday, Sept. 7 to a qualifier for that evening’s Deery Brothers Summer Series Late Model feature who is participating with Sunoco Race Fuel. Both Modified qualifying feature winners each night Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Sept. 9, 10 and 11 get $100 bonuses from Derr Farms. Gray Machine & Welding of Rock Island, Ill., pays $25 to the frontrunner for each of 30 laps of the Fast Shafts All-Star Modified Invitational Friday evening. The winner also receives an E-Z Bend tubing bender. Four race of champions events are on the Saturday, Sept. 12 card. One hundred dollars is at stake each time one of the 12 laps are scored in the Harris Auto Racing Race of Champions for Modifieds. From start to finish, the companies paying lap money to the leader are Motorsports [Read More]

SportMod Mayhem is Saturday at Dodge City Raceway Park

By Lonnie Wheatley DODGE CITY, Kan. – It will most assuredly be an action-packed night at Dodge City Raceway Park this Saturday, Aug. 29 as the track hosts the second annual IMCA SportMod Mayhem special. While SportMods battle it atop the 3/8-mile clay oval for a $1,000 winner’s share, the night of racing action that goes green at 7:30 p.m. also includes Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modifieds, IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars and IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks. General admission is $15 with children 11 and under admitted free when accompanying a paid adult. For more information, contact the track at 620 225-3277 or check www.dodgecityraceway.com.

Tafoya named to Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational field

BOONE, Iowa (Aug. 25) – Regan Tafoya has been named to the Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational field. The Farmington, N.M., driver takes the place of Californian Bobby Hogge IV in the Friday, Sept. 11 Modified event during the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s at Boone Speedway. Hogge, who had been elected from the Larry Shaw Racing Western Region during the second round of All-Star voting, notified IMCA officials this afternoon that he would now be unable to race at Super Nationals. Tafoya had the next highest vote total from among the Western Region drivers on that ballot and becomes one of 11 first-time starters in the initial field of 28. Completing the 30-car grid will be All-Star candidates with the top national point total and with the most 40-point feature wins as of Sept. 4 who are competing at Super Nationals. The 12th annual invitational is 30 laps and pays $1,000 to win and $200 to start.

Brown is best on Championship Night at Dawson County

By Kelly Ninas LEXINGTON, Neb. (Aug. 23) – The racing was for all the marbles as Dawson County Raceway hosted Championship Night on the high banks at Lexington on Sunday evening. Finishing their 2015 season with trips to the winner’s circle were Charley Brown, Josh Leonard, Mike Nichols and Jacob Olmstead. Brown drove to the point on the fourth lap and never looked back to capture the victory in the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified feature. Brown powered past early leader Mike Densberger and cruised to the win. Working his way through the traffic, Jeremy Herbst scored a runner-up finish. Leaving no doubt while driving away from the field, Mike Nichols sailed to the IMCA Sunoco Stock Car checkers. Nichols pulled away after every restart as he secured the victory. Kyle Clough went from fourth to second during the final lap to earn the runner-up honors. Going to the high side and riding the cushion for all that it was worth paid off for Josh Leonard. Leonard started on the outside of row one and [Read More]

Wedelstadt storms at Seymour

By Dave Panske SEYMOUR, Wis. (Aug. 23) – After one rain delay, a track prep session and three tries at starting the race, Mike Wedelstadt was the Budweiser IMCA Modified winner at Seymour Speedway. Rain early in the day and then again right as the first feature was taking the green flag caused track work headaches. Modifieds helped work the surface back in and were bumped back later in the program. Trevor Spaulding led the opening lap. Wedelstadt took command on the second circuit and immediately opened a lead on the bunched field behind. Benji LaCrosse pulled into the runner-up and set out to reel in the leader, nearly a straight away ahead. The lone caution on lap nine set up a great battle up front. Wedelstadt continued to lead with LaCrosse right behind. LaCrosse tried several lines to get an advantage on Wedelstadt but it wasn’t until lap 14 when he was able to pull inside and set up a five-lap, side-by-side battle with the lead going back and forth. Wedelstadt prevailed and again took sole possession of the [Read More]