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December 18, 2012
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Winner’s share upped to minimum $3,000 for Deery Brothers Summer Series in 2013

by Bill Martin
VINTON, Iowa (December 18)  – More green is at stake when the checkers fly at 2013 Deery Brothers Summer Series events. 

All 17 events in next season’s IMCA Late Model tour will pay a minimum of $3,000 to win and $300 to start. Top paydays are the $5,000 to win Brent Slocum Memorial at 34 Raceway on April 6 and the $7,500 to win event on Sept. 14, during Farley Speedway’s Yankee Dirt Track Classic. 

“It has been a number of years since the purse was increased from a minimum of $2,000 to win and $250 to start,” noted Tour Director Kevin Yoder. “Several tracks paid the higher purse at their events last season so that transition was already in place. The increase is justified to help the tour remain the elite series that it is.”

Non-qualifiers will get $100. Entry fee for the $3,000 to win shows will be $50 and pit passes will cost $30 at all series events. Drivers with perfect series attendance who qualify for the feature will also be eligible for $250 Sunoco Race Fuels drawings each night. 

Five events are on the initial series schedule before the start of the regular Late Model point season: April 5 at Farley, April 6 at West Burlington, April 13 at West Liberty Raceway, April 19 at Davenport Speedway and April 20 at Dubuque Speedway.

The series is at Quad City Speedway in East Moline, Ill., on May 5 and at Boone Speedway for the traditional Memorial Day show on May 27. Deery drivers will return to Hamilton County Speedway in Webster City for the first time in nearly seven years on June 4.

Cedar County Raceway at Tipton hosts the June 11 show. The series is at Independence Motor Speedway on July 2 before return visits to West Liberty on July 9 and to Dubuque on July 14.

Weekly point races are complete before opening night at the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals brings the tour back to Boone on Sept. 2. Yankee events are Sept. 13 and 14 at Farley. The series is at Independence on Sept. 20 before the finale on Sept. 21 at Davenport. 

Several tracks will host Deery Series and JR Motorsports Hawkeye Dirt Tour events on the same night; dates for the IMCA Modified tour will be announced in January. 

“This year’s series is very favorable geographically. The midweek travel schedule should be relatively easy for most of the tour drivers to follow,” Yoder said. “There’s a focus on tracks that sanction Late Models weekly and a number of them will host two races next year.”

April races at Farley and Davenport will be held on the quarter-mile tracks, he added. The series moves to half-mile ovals at both venues when it returns in September.

The champion’s share of the Deery Series point fund will be $5,000. Jeff Aikey is the seven-time and defending tour champion. Darrel DeFrance will start the 27th annual series with perfect attendance through the first 404 events. 

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Comp Cams rewards IMCA national champions, engine builders

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Dec. 17) – Four of the 2012 IMCA national champions and their engine builders received $500 in cash and product credit from Comp Cams.

Those drivers and the respective Engine Builders of the Year include Keith White, IMCA Modified Centex Motor¬sports, Temple, Texas; Ray Guss Jr., IMCA Late Model, Mullins Race Engines, Mount Olive, Ill.; Brandon Czarapata, IMCA Sunoco Stock Car, Fisher Race Engines, Oshkosh, Wis.; and Dean Abbey, Smiley’s Racing Chassis Southern SportMods, Chase Me Racin’ Engines, Seagoville, Texas.

Each received $250 in cash and $250 in product credit.

Adam Armstrong and Austin Moyer received $250 in cash and $250 product credit as the highest finishing IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock and Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMod claim engine drivers.

The same awards went to their engine builders, Armstrong Machine of Beatrice, Neb., and Moyer Motorsports of Dubuque, Iowa, respectively.

IMCA Sprint Cars and Mach-1 Sport Compacts are not part of the program.

Certificates were presented to drivers during the national awards banquet in November and mailed to engine builders this month.

"Despite perception to the contrary, engine builders and our aftermarket component manufacturers are an integral part of the IMCA competition plan and we will continue to recognize their contributions and achievements into 2013 and beyond,” said IMCA Marketing Director Kevin Yoder. “Some of the best engine builders in the country powered our champions this year and I have no doubt they will continue to do so next season."