Intensity heats up as IMCA series waves white flag on 2019 season

As the warmth and sunshine retreat on Colorado this year, the intensity within the International Motor Contest Association dirt track racing series begins to ratchet up.

The Colorado Alliance Tour within the Colorado IMCA series rotates among three tracks throughout Colorado during the year, and as the season comes to a close, there is a championship for each class, at each track individually, as well as for all three tracks combined.

Intense battles break out on all three tracks in the series as the Colorado fall season begins to dawn.

One of these Colorado dirt tracks is Phillips County Raceway in Holyoke. The eastern Colorado insects clamor from their positions in the trees surrounding the track as if anticipating the race themselves, because as soon as those race motors fire up, the insects seem to go quiet.

Then again, maybe it just becomes difficult to hear them through the blood, sweat and tears flowing on the track as men and women battle it out in their racecars around this 3/8-mile gladiatorial arena.  

As dusk approached on championship night Sunday, Sept. 1, at PCR, the dirt began to fly. One of the drivers smashing the accelerator on this late-summer Colorado evening was Cody Williams from Kansas, who was in the hobby stock series chasing national IMCA points in Holyoke.

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