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Chandler funeral services are Saturday

URBANA, Iowa – Funeral services for Merv Chandler will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 15 at Cedar Memorial Park Chapel of Memories, 4200 1st Avenue NE in Cedar Rapids. One of the most successful drivers of IMCA’s modern era, Chandler, 60, died unexpectedly Monday, March 10 at Virginia Gay Hospital in Vinton. Visitation is from 4-8 p.m. Friday, March 14 at the chapel. Burial will be at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery. A celebration of life follows funeral services at Wildhogs in Walford. The winner of 118 feature events during his IMCA career, Chandler finished third in the Modified main event at the first-ever Super Nationals in 1983. He qualified for the big show five more times, matching that third-place finish in 1988. Chandler ended the Modified portion of his career with 42 feature wins and three track titles. Returning to IMCA and the Mach-1 Sport Compact division in 2008, he won another 76 feature races, nine local track championships and three Allstar Performance Iowa state crowns. Chandler became the first driver in division history [Read More]

QA1 contingency awards for IMCA top $11,000

LAKEVILLE, Minn. (March 10) – More than $11,000 in contingency awards go to drivers in five IMCA divisions competing with QA1-manufactured shocks again in 2014. The Lakeville, Minn., company will reward eligible IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified, IMCA Sunoco Stock Car, IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock, Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod and Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center Southern SportMod competitors. Product certificates given in each of the five Modified regions will be $350 for first, $250 for second, $200 for third, $150 for fourth and $100 for fifth. Top three finishers in both Stock Car regions, both Hobby Stock regions and national points for each SportMod division receive awards in increments of $350, $250 and $150. All drivers must compete with four QA1 shocks, display two QA1 decals on their race car and return a completed sign-up form to the IMCA home office by Aug. 1 to be eligible. QA1 awards will be presented during the national banquet in November or mailed beginning the next week from the IMCA home office. QA1 also gives product awards or product certificates [Read More]

Admission prices finalized for 2014 at Salina Speedway

By Dusty Wiegert SALINA, Kan. – As the racing season quickly approaches at Salina Speedway, admission prices for 2014 have been finalized and will save many fans money as they attend America’s Fast Track to Fun this year. General admission to the grandstand will now be an even $10 no matter what is racing, special events excluded. This is a change from the previous two seasons in which nights when Late Models competed admission was $12. Now adults will only need to pay $10 each week, a savings of nearly $50 per person over the season. Kids’ admission will continue to be free, but the ages have been adjusted slightly. Kids 15 and under will now always be free. Anyone 16 and up will need to purchase an adult ticket. Kids getting in for free will also need to accompany a paying adult when entering the Speedway or they will not be allowed to enter. There are new discounts for this year as well. Senior citizens ages 55 and up will receive a half price [Read More]

34 Raceway car show, kick off party March 15-16

WEST BURLINGTON, Iowa – 34 Raceway is gearing up for its 2014 season with the annual Midwest Performance & Power Westland Mall two-day car show and the Roederer’s kickoff party Saturday, March 15 and Sunday March 16. Racers in all divisions taking to the track this season will have their cars on display at Westland Mall during regular mall hours both days. Saturday night, March 15 will be the Roederer’s 2014 Season kickoff party starting at 6 p.m. There will be prizes, food and drinks and fun. The 2014 lidlifter is Saturday, March 29 with the Brockway Mechanical Sprint Invaders season opener. Join us at Westland Mall in West Burlington and Roederer’s Pit Stop, 1100 Chalfant Street in Burlington this Saturday and Sunday as we get ready for an exciting and fan-friendly 2014 racing season at 34 Raceway. For more information on the upcoming race season at 34 Raceway go to www.34raceway.com and facebook.

Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods new to BST Tour

By Joe Bellm HOLYOKE, Colo. – The 2014 Modified, Stock Car and Northern SportMod tours are pleased to announce three title sponsors, Precise Racing Products with the Modifieds, and new additions of Addiction Chassis for Stock Cars, and long-standing supporter Leary Racing Products for the inaugural Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod Tour. This year’s tour consists of four weekend stops consisting of ten races; with a best of nine out of 10 format which allows all participants to race their local weekly racing series as well as the BST Tour without any conflicts. The season will start April 12 and 13 for the Phillips County Raceway and I-76 Speedway Ice Breaker Classic. Going into Thursday and Friday, July 3 and 4 for the midsummer BST/IMCA Nationals and being a part of the historic Steve Kinser Salute to the King Tour event will be one for the record books. Both events will be held at Phillips County Raceway in Holyoke. After the Friday races, Phillips County will hold its annual Fourth of July Fireworks show along with [Read More]

First practice at Dodge City Raceway Park is April 5

By Lonnie Wheatley DODGE CITY, Kan. (March 6) – It’s drawing ever closer as Dodge City Raceway Park is set to fire to life just 30 days from now with an open practice session on Saturday, April 5. The open practice will be from 5-8 p.m. with pit passes $10 and admission to the grandstands free. The session precedes an exciting season of racing action atop the 3/8-mile clay oval that ranks among the premier dirt tracks in the nation. Racing action officially gets under way on Saturday, April 12, with a full slate of championship series action featuring the track’s regular classes of IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modifieds, IMCA SportMods, IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars, Thunder Cars and Hornets. The season continues with 15 nights of competition before culminating with the second annual Jerry Soderberg Memorial featuring the URSS Sprint Cars along with the track’s championship series finale on Saturday, Sept. 27. Along the way will be the always highly-anticipated World of Outlaws Sprint Cars “Boothill Showdown” on July 4-5 along with a variety of [Read More]

Plenty of firsts accompany Whitwell in Wednesday Modified win at Las Vegas

R.C. Whitwell won the IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified feature Wednesday evening at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Dirt Track. (Photo by Tom Macht, www.photofinishphotos.com) LAS VEGAS, Nev. (March 5) – Wednesday was a night of firsts for R.C. Whitwell on the half-mile Dirt Track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Whitwell topped the first of four qualifying heats, then led all 25 laps of the IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modified feature on opening night of the FVP Outlaw Showdown. The Arizona native and recent California transplant took the $750 checkers in his first night out in the Bill Henderson-owned Victory Circle ride. Forty Modifieds ran at LVMS in the first of two midweek events. Josh Vogt, Kyle Heckman, Logan Drake and Brad Pounds rounded out the top five in the feature. “The track was very racy. I ran the high side to the middle most of the way,” said Whitwell, after making his first non-Duel In The Desert visit to the Dirt Track, “and (teammate) Kyle ran a lower line. It was a pretty good [Read More]

Cottage Grove Speedway schedule full of action from start to finish

By Ben Deatherage COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. (March 5) – The 2014 season is expected to be a great one as Cottage Grove Speedway gears up for the coming campaign. With 32 scheduled events, fans will have plenty of opportunities to see the area’s best racing every Saturday night from April through September. The season kicks off Saturday, April 5 with an open practice while the following weekend the first race of the year is scheduled to take place on April 12. IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modifieds return to weekly programs for a fifth season. It won’t be long for the first special event of the year occurs as Cottage Grove will play host to the Marvin Smith Memorial Grove Classic on Friday and Saturday, April 25 and 26. May will see the return of the popular Fan Appreciation Night on the 10th and the American Sprint Car Series-National Tour will pay visits on Friday the 24th and Saturday the 25th. A pre-race party is planned to get the weekend underway on Thursday the 23rd to [Read More]

Schedule announced for BST Colorado Sprint Car Series

By Joe Bellm HOLYOKE, Colo., – Attention Sprint Car racers, 2014 is going to be an amazing year. BST Promotions is thrilled to announce its affiliation with Eagle Motorsports RaceSaver Sprint Cars and IMCA. The tour is based out of your best eight of nine races. This year’s schedule has been made so that every racer has a chance to race in all of the BST Colorado shows as well as the URSS national shows, giving racers more options than ever in 2014. BST Promotion is glad to announce that we offer three of the fastest and best maintained tracks for the Colorado Tour. The tracks are I-76 Speedway containing the “high-banked famed ¼-mile”track, which is only one hour east of Denver in Fort Morgan. The Colorado tour will stop four times at this spectacular race track, on April 27, June 7, Sept. 20 and Oct. 4. Then it’s off to the races again at Phillips County Raceway in Holyoke, which is known for its wicked fast three-wide 3/8-mile track. Once again the Colorado tour [Read More]

Champ Pans continues awards for drivers in five IMCA divisions

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (March 4) – Champ Pans continues a popular awards program benefitting IMCA drivers in five divisions this season. The Eau Claire, Wis., manufacturer and second-year sponsor gives $50 product certificates to second through 10th place finishers in national standings for IMCA Xtreme Motor Sports Modifieds, IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars, IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks, Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods and Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center Southern SportMods. Certificates can be applied to purchases from Champ Pans or Champ Brackets, another JR Manufacturing Company. Certificates will be presented during the national awards banquet or mailed the following week from the IMCA home office. “The great part about the Champ Pans program is that it applies regardless of what engine combination you prefer,” observed IMCA Marketing Director Kevin Yoder. “If you are racing with a claim engine or a crate engine, you’re running a Champ oil pan and that makes this partnership unique for this market and one that we are proud of.” More information about Champ Pans and Champ Brackets products is available by calling 715 834-7748 [Read More]