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PODCAST SERIES FEATURING IMCA MOD PIONEER CHUCK GRALL DEBUTS APRIL 7 AT JOEVERDEGAN.COM
Posted on: Thursday April 3, 2025
Grall would return many years later to race at 141 Speedway in 2009 in the IMCA northern sportmod division. It was the final year the track remained a paved oval as it was converted to dirt for the 2010 season. (danlewisphoto.net)
ATTENTION SPORTS/MOTORSPORTS – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PODCAST SERIES FEATURING IMCA MODIFIED PIONEER CHUCK GRALL TO DEBUT MONDAY, APRIL 7 AT JOEVERDEGAN.COM
(Dunbar, WI) – A six episode series featuring one of the men who played an instrumental role in bringing IMCA modifieds to northeastern Wisconsin, Chuck Grall, will debut Monday, April 7 at joeverdegan.com.
Grall, now 82, resides in Pulaski, Wisconsin. Over the years, Grall earned a reputation for being an innovative driver, who not only built all of his own cars and had a knack for “pushing the envelope” with the rulebook when it came to building his own machines.
Grall competed for decades in the greater Green Bay area on both dirt and paved tracks. Grall wheeled the infamous “Imposter Impala” during the peak of the sportsman division with the Fox River Racing Club (FRRC) on Thursday nights at Wisconsin International Raceway in Kaukauna on WIR’s quarter-mile oval in the late 1970’s into the very early 1980’s.
Chuck Grall took vacation days and spent that time beating the bushes, rounding up sponsorship. Here’s his ledger from 1979.
In addition, Grall built one of the first IMCA modifieds in northeastern Wisconsin in the early ’80’s. Grall was an ambassador for the affordable division, who pushed to get the class in at a number of area dirt tracks. Grall was also one of the first local drivers to really step up his game beating the bushes for local sponsors. In many cases, Grall rounded up enough cash to fund a good portion of his racing program, dating back to the 1970’s.
Grall was also a noted car builder.
Grall constructed IMCA modifieds and in the later years IMCA northern sportmods for a number of area drivers, including Seymour’s Brian Mullen. Grall also won one of the first high-dollar IMCA modified specials in the area. Grall won a big race at 141 Speedway’s paved quarter-mile, oval when he beat NASCAR great Mark Martin and other out-of-state hotshoes at the Lakeshore Nationals at in 1986.
Chuck Grall dug this home-built IMCA modified out of the mothballs and beat Mark Martin and others in the 1986 IMCA Nationals race at 141 Speedway in Francis Creek, Wisconsin. The track was a quarter-mile, paved oval at the time. (Joe Slack photo)
The six episode series, brought to you courtesy of Muenster Service Center of Green Bay, will debut Monday, April 7. The audio series can be found via Spotify and several other platforms and wherever you obtain your podcasts.