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Dahl, Huettl, Wolla are 1-2-3 at Dacotah

MANDAN, N.D. (June 17) – Inches made the difference between the top three places Friday at Dacotah Speedway, as Mark Dahl got the best of Jordan Huettl and Jason Wolla in the evening’s Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified feature. Huettl went from fourth starting to first early in the main event, before a series of cautions slowed the pace. Following the restart on lap eight, Dahl passed Wolla for third and then caught Shawn Strand for second. Strand fell into the clutches of Wolla and Spencer Wilson. They raced three-wide for third until Wolla shuffled into third. With 10 laps to go, Huettl’s lead started to diminish as he started catching lapped traffic. Dahl was all over Huettl’s rear bumper but lapped traffic made it difficult to pass. Wolla quickly caught the leaders and made it a three-car battle. Dahl dove low under Huettl as Wolla looked to the outside. As they crossed the Open Road Honda finish line three wide, Dahl won by inches over Huettl and Wolla. Jason Berg was the Mach-1 Sport [Read More]

Cole, McCarty continue Tri-State success

By Rob Nugent POCOLA, Okla. (June 18) – Tate Cole took another Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified checkered flag Saturday at Tri-State Speedway, this time ahead of H. Palmer and Jake Davis. Ken McCarty notched IMCA SportMod victory number three in as many weeks, with Dennis Slader in second and Caden Ellis third.

Three repeat winners Hancock County Speedway

By Greg Grabianowski BRITT, Iowa (June 18) – Three drivers were repeat visitors to victory lane Saturday at Hancock County Speedway. Josh Ruby won his second straight Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified feature, and third of the season at Britt, by coming from the inside of the third row. Jesse Hoeft was the runner-up with Cody Knecht third. David Smith took his second local IMCA Sunoco Stock Car feature win of the summer at the Hancock County Speedway, coming from the outside of row three. Derek Green was second with Chad Palmer third. Josh Appel captured his first career feature win in the Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod division after taking the green flag inside the third row. Nick Meyer was second followed by Josh Mattick. Drew Barglof also came from the inside the third row to take the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock feature with Cody Nielsen second. Tony Smidt ended up third. Oliver Monson won the Mach-1 Sport Compact feature for the third straight week.

Christians is quickest in all star-filled field at Shawano Stock Car Shootout

By Scott Owen SHAWANO, Wis. (June 18) – Jeremy Christians bested an all-star field that included three former national champions, two Super National winners and numerous track champions to take home the $1,000 IMCA Sunoco Stock Car check Saturday at Shawano Speedway. Christians, the 2010 champion at Super Nationals, held Brandon Czarapata at bay to win the Stock Car Shootout. Joe White, Travis Van Straten and Kyle Frederick rounded out the top five. White grabbed the lead on the opening lap and quickly received pressure from defending national champion Van Straten, while Frederick raced past Christians and into third by lap four. The battle between White and Van Straten allowed Frederick to catch the lead duo. On lap eight, Van Straten lost the handle in the middle of turns three and four but instead of stopping and bringing out a caution he stayed on the throttle and kept going. The incident dropped Van Straten back to ninth on the track and cost him a considerable amount of distance to the leaders. Frederick was now the chief challenger [Read More]

Last lap pass lands Linkenhoker in Virginia Sprint Series victory lane

By Jim Haines SHENANDOAH, Va. (June 18) – Shenandoah Speedway has seen many great last-lap passes for the win as the wide track lends itself to multi-groove racing. Anthony Linkenhoker put his name on the list of drivers to win this same fashion in Saturday’s Virginia Sprint Series main event. Tony Harris and Bill Rice paced the field to green with Rice up high and leading the field with Harris running low. On lap 10, Harris made his move and was in the top spot as Rice with beginning to fade. Linkenhoker moved to second at halfway and the fight was really on. Harris was working his tires hard to stay up front as Linkenhoker kept sticking a nose in there three or four times as he tried high and low to get by, and with the white flag waving they were nose to tail again. Going into turn three Linkenhoker went high and Harris went low for a charge to the flag and they went across side by side with Linkenhoker charging by for [Read More]

Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational voting returns to familiar format

BOONE, Iowa – A familiar format will be back in place when race fans use social media to elect 28 of the 30 starting drivers in the upcoming Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational. Two drivers from each of the five regions for Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified regions will be voted onto the starting grid in balloting that runs from Monday, July 25 through Friday, July 29. Eighteen more starters will be elected at large between Monday, Aug. 1 and Friday, Aug. 5. Completing the Friday, Sept. 9 All-Star field at Boone Speedway will be candidates with the highest national point total and the most 40-point feature wins competing at the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s. The same All-Star voting format was used as recently as 2014. Winners will be notified and their names announced as soon as possible after each round of voting. The final qualifying event for the 2016 ballot is the Thursday, July 21 Hawkeye Dirt Tour show at Knoxville Raceway. The 13th annual Fast Shafts All-Star Invitational pays $1,000 to [Read More]

Winters Performance backs IMCA Modified drivers

YORK, Pa. – Winters Performance Products has renewed the awards program benefitting Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified drivers for a second season. The York, Pa., manufacturer again gives a complete quick change rear end to the national rookie of the year. Top five drivers in point standings for each of the five Modified regions receive $100 product certificates. All awards will be presented during the national banquet in November or mailed beginning the following week from the IMCA home office. Rob VanMil earned national rookie of the year honors last season and more than 50 drivers are already in the running for this year’s title. Deadline for submitting the rookie of the year application to IMCA is Aug. 1. “Rookie of the Year programs are very special because of the amount of new drivers we see in our Modified division each and every year,” IMCA Marketing Director Kevin Yoder said. “This year’s ROY will go home with a new Winters quick change rear end to compliment the rest of the accolades that go along with [Read More]

Wilson wins Kansas Thunder Series opener at Stockton

By Mike Hughes STOCKTON, Kan. (June 18) – Randy Wilson led every lap of the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified feature when the Kansas Thunder Series kicked off its inaugural season at Rooks County Speedway on Saturday. The lone caution in the Modified main waved on lap four when pole starter Jesse Richter drove off turn four. Wilson led the field back to green and to the checkers. Tim Watts gave chase the entire distance but settled for the runner-up spot, followed by Mike Petersilie. Casey Woken won the caution-free IMCA Sunoco Stock Car main event. Hometown driver Chad Sterling took the lead at the start and looked to make his way to the winner’s circle but Woken took to the high side of the track and made up a lot of ground. He took the lead from Sterling on lap 12 in the 15-lap event and scored the win. Sterling was second, followed by Kyle Pfeifer. Daniel Gottschalk led all 12 laps in the Karl Chevrolet Northern Sport Mod feature. A couple cautions gave [Read More]

Davis drives to first Boone Modified checkers

BOONE, Iowa (June 18) – Three drivers walked away with back-to-back wins and a new face visited victory lane Saturday at Boone Speedway. Scott Davis came away with his first win at Boone in the 20-lap Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modified feature. Davis led all 20 laps on his way to that victory. Josh Truman finished second, third place went to 11th place starter and point leader Mike VanGenderen, fourth was Matthew Meinecke and Cole Ferguson rounded out the top five. Two IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars quickly shot to the front. Jay Schmidt started eighth and had the lead at lap five, with 11th place starter Donavon Smith attached to his rear bumper. Schmidt couldn’t shake Smith, who finally snuck underneath him to take over as captain of the ship on lap 10. Smith would hold tight to that lead the rest of the way to the win. Schmidt finished second, Rod Richards started 10th and finished third, fourth went to Josh Daniels and Wayne Gifford was fifth. Smith, who is the point leader, repeated [Read More]

Nicklas ends Stanton’s win streak at Marshalltown

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (June 17) – Gene Nicklas won Friday’s IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock feature, ending Eric Stanton’s perfect season at Marshalltown Speedway. Nicklas took command from David Simpson at lap four, and led all the remaining laps to the finish. His comfortable lead vanished when a caution came out on lap 13 for debris and bunched the field. On the restart, Stanton passed two cars, going from fourth to second and was looking for another miraculous win to keep his streak alive but it wasn’t to be, and he had to settle for second. This ended his perfect season at seven wins in a row. Leah Wroten, Gary Pfantz, and Simpson completed the top five. Adam Larson went home with the win in the Xtreme Motor Sports IMCA Modifieds, Donavon Smith won the IMCA Sunoco Stock Car feature and Sam Wieben was the winner in the Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods Larson used the top side of the track to take home his first win of the season in the 20-lap Modified feature. Larson started eighth [Read More]