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By Greg Aregoni FRANCIS CREEK, Wis. (June 6) – The second night in his new IMCA Modified produced the se­cond feature win of the season Saturday for R.M. Van Pay at 141 Speedway. Van Pay took the lead from third starting on the opening circuit held off Eric Scribner late to pick up the win. The battle turned out to be for third, which went to Mike Mashl. Barry Van Straten earned his first career 141 Speedway win over Devin Snellenberger in IMCA Sunoco Stock Car action. John Heinz was right behind Snellenberger in third. Kelsy Hayes earned her second win Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod win of the season in late, dominating fashion. Hunter Parsons made a late pass for second over Brian Bruechert. Scott Johnson staved off late advances from Shaun Bangart to pick up the Mach-1 Sport Com­pact win. Third was Neil Watzka.

By Lonnie Wheatley DODGE CITY, Kan. (June 6) – Jesse Richter put a stop to Clay Sellard’s run of perfection in Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified action Saturday at Dodge City Raceway Park. Richter slipped past Joe Cleveland on the third of 20 rounds and then held off late pressure from Cleveland and Cody Gearhart to snare his first local win of the year. Richter paced the final 18 rounds of the non-stop affair, although Cleveland made one last-ditch effort on the final lap. Working forward from 13th after winning the B feature, Gearhart took third on the white flag lap before trying to make a move for the win on the final circuit. Clay Money captured IMCA SportMod honors, Michael Pepper snared his third IMCA Sunoco Stock Car win of the season and Cody Williams took the top spot in IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks as a total of 120 cars filled the pit area. Money rallied from 12th to win the 20-lap SportMod main. He needed just nine laps to take the lead away from Matthew Crowell. Money [Read More]

By Matt Panure LUXEMBURG, Wis. (June 5) – The Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified division at Luxemburg Speedway saw a Friday night first for 2015 with Josh Long grabbing the win. Troy Jerovetz and James Tebon exchanged the lead early in the 20-lap feature event.  A spin on lap four brought out the caution and again set up a duel between them. Eventually, Tebon took the top spot and pulled ahead by a car-length. This left Jerovetz and Russ Reinwald to battle for second. Long wasted little time watching the battle and jumped right in. He swung to the inside and cruised past the battle on lap six. Two laps later he had caught Tebon and began to challenge. By lap nine Long had secured the top spot. As Long built up his lead, Shawn Kilgore and Benji LaCrosse moved toward the top five. Kilgore grabbed third on lap nine and surged past Tebon on lap 11. LaCrosse’s moves came late in the event as he tailed former champion Brian Mullen toward the podium. Defending [Read More]

INDEPENDENCE, Iowa (June 6) – Tyler Bruening added his name to the list of Budweiser IMCA Late Model winners Saturday night at Independence Motor Speedway. Bruening took the lead from Dirk Hamilton on the 10th of 25 laps en route to victory to become the fifth different Late Model winner in as many weeks at the speedway. Tyler Droste started alongside Bruening in the fourth row and crossed the line second ahead of Darren Ackerman. J. D. Auringer raced the high side to a convincing win in the 20-lap Performance Bodies IMCA Modified main. Auringer took the lead from Joe Docekal following a lap seven restart and then checked out on the field to take the victory ahead of Troy Cordes and Vern Jackson. In Burco Sales IMCA Stock Car action, IMCA Modified veteran Darin Duffy earned the first Stock Car win of his career in just his second night in the division. Duffy held off persistent challenges from Phil Holtz to reach victory lane at the end of that 15-lapper. Scott Pippert finished third. Benji Irvine [Read More]

By Mike McGuire DAVENPORT, Iowa (June 5) – One hundred and fifteen cars and more than 250 laps of green flag racing made for a busy Friday night at Davenport Speedway. Chris Zogg finally got his 2015 season at Davenport turned around with a victory in the Milan Heat­ing & Air IMCA Modified feature. Zogg led all 20 laps en route to the win. Justin Kay placed second in his first local Modified appearance. Milo Veloz Jr. battled his way to third place. Kay did double duty and made it back-to-back wins in the Petersen Plumbing & Heating IMCA Late Models. Kay took the lead on lap 13 and never looked back. Nate Beuseling finished second and Chuck Hanna was third. Double duty was also the theme for the Hawkeye Auto IMCA Northern SportMods. Dustin Crear scored the win in the make-up feature. Crear got the lead from Jake Morris on lap six and led the rest of the way to the checkers. Tony Olson saw his winning streak end with a second place fin­ish. [Read More]

By Jeremy Fox MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (June 5) – Familiar faces found their way to victory lane Friday at Mar­shalltown Speedway. Jared Van Deest made the top line work to perfection in topping the Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod main event. Travis Peterson led after midway and ended in second; Sam Wieben was third. Jimmy Gustin took charge with 10 laps remaining and earned the Coors Light IMCA Modified vic­tory ahead of Ronn Lauritzen and early leader Adam Larson. Eighth starting Donavon Smith found his way to the front of the IMCA Sunoco Stock Car feature field on the fourth lap. He led the rest of the way and was chased across the stripe by Michael Jaennette and Dave Atcher. Austin Luellen earned his sixth local Toby K’s Hideaway IMCA Hobby Stock feature victory of the season with Eric Stanton second and Brice Udelhoven third.