By  – Carol Haynes
Photos – Jim Feeney
Vernon, NY – In the beautiful setting of the Shenandoah Club house at Turning Stone Casino, members of ISMA gathered Nov. 22 to honor the achievers of the 2008 season. The cozy banquet room fireplace took the chill off an unusually cold and snowy November evening as drivers, owners, [...]

By – Keith Shampine
Photos – Ed Shampine
After a two-hour long SK modified 50 lapper that featured two separate bone-shaking accidents, the super modifieds took to the track for their 50-lap East-West Shootout feature event at North Carolina’s Concord Motorsport Park. Thirteen cars started the second-to-last super modified race of the 2008 season – nine representing [...]

Report & Photos by – Keith Shampine

Thirteen cars were in the pit area for Friday’s East-West Shootout practice and qualifying heats at Concord Motorsport Park.
The entrants comprise Charlie Shultz 7, Tim Ice 77, Jeff Russell 85, Doug Didero 3, Dave Shullick Jr. 61, Scott Martel 14, Randy Burch 3B, Larry Lehnert 92, Rob Summers 97, [...]

By – Keith Shampine

In the South, as the fall season progresses and those long, hot days of summer become shorter and chillier with even a hint of some adverse weather on the horizon, the racing season continues to plug away. The tracks’ lighting systems just come on a little earlier and the concession stands buy [...]

By Gerald Laurie
The Supermodified Racing Association brought their Wild, Wooly, Winged Roadsters to The Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday night. When the rain clouds had passed and the features were completed, Troy Regier had taken an impressive win in the fifty lap main event, and, in so doing, grabbed the season points [...]

By Chris Porter
The Oswego Speedway held its annual Awards & Hall of Fame Induction Banquet on Saturday night. Top drivers and teams were honored for their achievements during the 2008 racing season while in addition to a chosen few others receiving special recognition for their accomplishments, six new members took their seats in the lakeside [...]

By Carol Haynes
Photos – Jim Feeney
Thompson, CT – Chris Perley capped off his 2008 ISMA championship with his fifth win at Thompson Speedway’s World Series of Racing on Sunday. It was his fifth win of the ISMA portion of that racing event and his sixth win overall in that race’s history. Trailing him was his [...]

By Lee A. Booze
Photo Credit: REM Photo

South Amherst, Ohio… Bob Dawson can almost see his house from the front stretch of Lorain County Speedway. After years as a journeyman career in supermodified racing, Dawson got that view from victory lane. “This feels good; it feels really good,”said the veteran afterward as [...]

Jim Birges says supermodified stolen by former car owner, WSSRL president
By Keith Shampine
Photos – Rhonda Costa-Landers, provided by Jim Liccardi
Top SMRA supermodified racer Jim Birges has been racing throughout the 2008 season in a borrowed car with a borrowed engine, thanks to a deal gone terribly wrong with former car owner, family friend, and former [...]

By Lee A. Booze
Photo Credit: REM Photos
Sandusky, Ohio…The PPG Vibrance Collection Midwest Supermodified Association season title actually goes to the winning car owner, not the driver. In 2008, Craig Reed tabbed comeback driver Tim Jedrzejek to pilot one of his supermodifieds to get the coveted award. That possibility is closer to reality as Jedrzejek grabbed [...]