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Five IMCA divisions run at Abilene’s Southern Challenge

ABILENE, Texas – Five sanctioned divisions are on a very full race program for the Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 17-19 Ryan Bard Memorial Southern Challenge at Abilene Speedway. Total purse for the 19th annual event is approximately $75,000. IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modifieds chase a $3,000 top check, with a minimum of $450 paid to start the 2014 Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational ballot qualifier. Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center Southern SportMods race for $2,500 to win and a minimum of $250 to start. IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars vie for $2,000 to win and a minimum of $300 to take the main event green. IMCA Race Saver Sprint Cars and IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks both race for $1,000 to win. Sprints run their entire program on Saturday with a minimum of $175 to start. Minimum start money for the Hobbies is $100. “B” feature starters get $250 in the Modifieds and $150 in the Southern SportMods and Stock Cars. Non-qualifier pay is $100 for the Modifieds and Stock Cars and $75 for the Southern SportMods and Hobby Stocks. A practice [Read More]

$2,000 is top prize for IMCA Modifieds at Boyd Grand Nationals

BOYD, Texas – A $2,000 to win feature for IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modifieds headlines the Saturday, Oct. 12 Grand Nationals special at Boyd Raceway. The Modified main is a qualifier for the 2014 Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational. Twenty cars will start withy a minimum of $100 paid to take the green. IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars and Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center Southern SportMods will both run for $1,500 to win and a minimum of $75 to start. Non-winged IMCA Eagle Motorsports RaceSaver Sprint Cars run for $800 to win and $200 to start. Top prize for Hobby Stocks is $400. First place in the Mach-1 Sport Compact main pays $150. Purses for the Mods, Stocks and SportMods are based on 30 entries while the purse for the Hobbies is based on 20 entries. Non-transfer pay is $75 for Sprint Cars, $40 for Modifieds, $30 for Stock Cars and SportMods, $25 for Hobby Stocks and $20 for Sport Compacts. All cars will be scored electronically. Transponders and RACEceivers are required; drivers who don’t own their own can [Read More]

Gould gets biggest share of Modified green at Showdown

By Neal Palmer KENNEDALE, Texas (Oct.4-6) – A great season got even better Sunday for William Gould. The new IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified national champion took the $2,500 checkers in Sunday’s rescheduled Showdown at Kennedale Speedway Park. The victory put Gould on the ballot for next year’s Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational. After qualifying Friday evening with a runner-up finish behind Glen Hibbard, Gould wasted no time getting around pole starter Chase Allen on the backstretch and was in the lead when every lap after that was scored. Hibbard started inside row two, was quickly up to second and pressured Gould lap after lap, briefly gaining the lead on lap three and pulling alongside on lap nine. Two circuits later, Hibbard was blocked by a lapped car and was never able to get back up to Gould and make a run for the lead. Hibbard and Chase Allen had their own race going on in the closing laps in the battle for second and Allen even slapped the wall on the front stretch at one [Read More]

Modified winner earns $5,000 at Canyon’s Desert Classic

PEORIA, Ariz. – Canyon Speedway Park celebrates a milestone event with a $5,000 IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified payday. The 25th annual Desert Classic brings the best drivers from around the Larry Shaw Racing Western Region to town Friday and Saturday, Nov. 1-2. Saturday’s 40-lap main event pays $2,500 for second and $1,250 for third. Minimum start money for the 2014 Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational ballot qualifier is $300. The Friday program boasts a full night of racing with the qualifying feature winner picking up $600. The top six finishers that evening will be locked into Saturday’s big show. An open practice runs from 6-9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30. Pit passes are $20 and grandstand admission is free. Pit gates open at 4 p.m. and the grandstand opens at 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Hot laps are at approximately 6 p.m. and racing starts at 7 p.m. Spectator admission both nights is $15 for adults, $13 for seniors and military personnel with ID, $6 for kids ages 7-12 and free for six and under. Pit [Read More]

IMCA Modifieds race for $5,000 to win at RPM Fall Nationals

HAYS, Kan. (Oct. 8) – The IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified feature pays $5,000 to win during RPM Speedway’s seventh annual Fall Nationals Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 10-12. The main event is a 2014 Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational ballot qualifier and pays a minimum of $400 to start. Fall Nationals also boasts a $3,000 check for the IMCA Sunoco Stock Car winner. Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods race for $2,000 to win, IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks for $1,000 and Mach-1 Sport Compacts race for $300. Minimum start money is $250 for the Stocks, $150 for the SportMods and Hobby Stocks and $50 for the Sport Compacts. Non-qualifier pay is $150 for Modifieds, $100 for Stocks, $75 for SportMods and Hobby Stocks, and $25 for Sport Compacts. RACEceivers are required in all divisions. The entire Sport Compact program complements test and tune for all other divisions on Thursday, Oct. 10. Gates open at 7 p.m. Heats and qualifying features start at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11. Last-chance features and main events start at 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. [Read More]

Gould edges Sobbing in race for national IMCA Modified crown

VINTON, Iowa (Oct. 8) – William Gould has won a lot of close races in his IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified career, but few were as close as the one that made him a national champion. The Calera, Okla., veteran edged rookie Jesse Sobbing of Glenwood, Iowa, by a razor-thin 1,233-1,232 margin to win the national IMCA Modified crown. Gould was a 25-time feature winner this season, taking 24 of those checkers in his home BillsBuilt South Central Region. IMCA’s first national champion from the Sooner State, he got the maximum possible 40 bonus points for winning the track title at Kennedale Speedway Park and the Texas Lone Star Series. Sobbing collected 32 wins in all, with 24 of them coming in the Belleville Motorsports North Central Region. He earned 38 bonus points for track championships at Shelby County Speedway and Crawford County Speedway. “I’ve raced 18 years and this was the first time for points,” said Gould, who campaigned in a six-year-old homebuilt chassis and ended his campaign with a built engine from Karl [Read More]

First-time winner prevails at Fulton in World Products Empire State Series

By Dave Medler FULTON, N.Y. (Oct. 4) – Rob Keller Jr. took the $400 checkers when the World Products Empire State Series traveled to Fulton Speedway for Friday’s Outlaw 200 show. The IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified tour victory was the career first for Keller, who took the lead on the first of 25 circuits and led to the checkers. The win was anything but easy, however, as Keller had to hold off constant late pressure from Mike Wilmot and James Cornell. It proved to be an emotional victory lane scene for Keller as he recalled his favorite moment in racing, when his brother Dane won the same event that happened to be the final race his mother ever attended. Runner-up was new point leader Wilmot. Cornell, Matt Jones and Gary Smith completed the top five. Keller became the fifth different winner in as many series events this season. Chris Fleming brought the point lead to Fulton, won his heat and raced from 10th starting into the top four in the main event before breaking. [Read More]

Frenier, Gearhart are first in features for IMCA Modifieds at Sherman Co. Flatlander

GOODLAND, Kan. (Sept. 28-29) – Jeremy Frenier wrapped up a series championship and Cody Gearhart raced his way onto the Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational ballot by winning IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified features at Sherman County Speedway’s Flatlander special. Frenier’s fourth 2013 tour win came on Saturday at Goodland and sealed the deal on the Precise Racing Blood, Sweat and Tears Series crown. Gearhart paced the main event on Sunday. Both features paid $1,500 to win. Eddie Belec ran second each night and split top two-day point bonus money with Frenier. Originally fourth on Saturday’s starting grid, Frenier moved up to the front of the outside row for the restart following a multi-car tangle on the initial green. He led all 25 laps, following the lower line to his 11th win of the season and taking the checkers five car lengths ahead of Belec. Will Brack, Ricky Alvarado and the 24th starting Gearhart completed the top five. Gearhart helped himself by drawing the outside pole on Sunday. Running with lapped traffic, his sizable lead was [Read More]

Ogle extends Cardinal streak to three with $1,000 Raulston Memorial checkers

EUNICE, N.M. (Sept. 27-28) – Chalk up a third “W” in as many visits this season to Cardinal Speedway for Vince Ogle. Ogle led all 20 laps in winning Saturday’s IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified Blake Raulston Memorial main event at Eunice. The $1,000 victory put him on the ballot for next September’s Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational. “I’ve been very lucky at Cardinal. I’ve been there three times and I’ve won three times,” said the former track champion, most recently the winner at Cardinal’s Sheen Memorial in July. “I definitely go there every chance I get.” Phillip Houston kept the pressure on much of the way. Early cautions slowed the feature before a long green flag session past midway. Houston wasn’t far off the pace in the green, white, checkered finish. Roy Don Mason, Toby Herring and Jimmy Breeding rounded out the top five. Inclement weather interrupted the Friday program, forcing that evening’s scheduled Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center Southern SportMod to be completed on Saturday. Cory Davis topped the Modified main and Keith Cagle was the [Read More]

Wins by Larson, Shryock headline Jackson Nationals

Wins by Larson, Shryock headline Jackson Nationals JACKSON, Minn. (Sept. 28) – Dustin Larson was the big winner dollar-wise Saturday at Jackson Speedway while Kelly Shryock’s run to the checkers put him on the ballot for one of IMCA’s highest profile races. The two joined Cory Probst, Matt Looft and Megan Lappegard as IMCA winners at the 35th annual Jackson Nationals. Larson earned $1,500 for his IMCA Sunoco Stock Car victory, part of the Doug Cellan Memorial, while $1,100 checks went to Shryock in the IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modifieds, Probst in the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks and Looft in the Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods. Lappegard’s Mach-1 Sport Compact checkers were good for $500. Larson drew the pole start and stayed in front all 20 laps in the Stock Car main. He made the most of the middle line in outrunning Roger Verdoorn to the checkers for his 17th victory of the season. Jim Larson, Ken Tietz and Andy Altenburg were next across the stripe. Shryock didn’t get to the front until the 20th and [Read More]