IMCA Sport Compacts join Saturday shows at Eagle
by: Bill Martin, IMCA Public Relations

EAGLE, Neb. (Jan. 23) – Eagle Raceway adds another IMCA division to its Saturday night race programs for the sec­ond time in as many seasons, with Sport Compacts new to the show starting in 2007.

The tuner class of 4-cylinder, front wheel drive cars which averaged 30 entries a night and drew 60 different entries over the course of the 2006 campaign will take the track as Sport Compacts this year.

“Rules for the two classes were basically the same,” promoter Roger Hadan said. “Right now, we’ve got about 80 of these cars registered for this season.”

Sport Compacts will race at Eagle in a Sunday, April 15 enduro set for two hours or 200 laps. Opening night for the new point season is April 21.

A fixture for sanctioned Modifieds since 1985, Eagle averaged 25 IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks in running that divi­sion the first time last year.

Hadan expects the Hobbies to average around 40 entries on Saturdays this season.

Points races for the IMCA divisions continue through Aug. 25. Drivers competing five consecutive weeks at Eagle will get free admission to the pits when they tow in for the sixth straight weekly show.