Trent Stephens’ ISMA supermodified

The Schaeffer’s Specialized Lubricants booth at the 208 PRI (Performance Racing Industry) show in Indianapolis Indiana featured the ISMA (International Supermodified Association) race car driven by Trent Stephens of Talmadge Ohio to an eighth-place finish in the 2018 ISMA points.

During the 2018 11-race season, Trent who has three career ISMA victories, scored two fifth place finishes, with four other top ten finishes.     

The #19 car, owned by Steve Stout’s ACME Racing team, in addition to the typical supermodfied details such as extreme offset engine location, push-rod front suspension and air cylinders which allow the top wing to “plane” on the straightaways, also sports a very unusual cantilevered rear suspension.

During the PRI show, Steve Stout announced that the ACME Racing team will expand to a two-car program for the 2019 season with 2015 and 2016 ISMA champion Dave Shullick Jr. joining to drive the #49 supermodfied.  

In 2019, ISMA’s forty-third season of operation, the supermodified racers have a 13-race schedule with two visits each at Oswego Speedway, Delaware (Ontario) Speedway, and Sandusky (Ohio) Speedway.

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