POSTED June 03, 2025

22 nights of racing are now in at the Mottville Speedway for the 2001 season as we completed the first week-end of June with two exciting nights of racing!

Saturday night once again we faced rain! Not as heavy or as long as a week ago but rain none the less! A misty drizzly rain all afternoon and into the evening! The phone rang off the hook at the track and we assured all callers we were indeed running! I think our reputation for not canceling finally paid off as other tracks around all closed and we picked up cars and fans! Some people came all the way from Ft Wayne and told us we were the 4^th track they went to before finding one that was racing!

Unlike a week ago the track this time was decent at least! Then during intermission the misty rain started again and I admit to being concerned about the karts for their feature but they took it rather easy and were fine! I breathed a sigh of relief when the kart feature was over!

WE registered 7 new cars Saturday night and had 3 first time feature winners! Despite of or maybe because of the weather we ended up with 31 stock cars and 7 karts! Going to the track I figured we would be most lucky to get 16 cars and 3 karts! Street Stocks were really a shock with 9! Bombers had 8! Once again we paid the SS more than we advertised-$125-85-60-50-45-40-35! Ron Hughson, Jr. started last and won first feature on his first time out to Mottville this season! He was newly married over the  off season and his new bride seems like a great race fan! I know she has nice hand writing as she filled out Ron’s registration form!

We had 2 dirt track cars from Butler-Rod Brenneman and Max George and they drove like Mottville was a dirt track which was exciting to watch!

Paul Scott broke at South Bend Friday night before running a single lap under green but finally got his car running well Saturday night and again on Sunday!

When Jamie VanDusen won the MTC feature I was certain someone else was driving the car! The reason being she had hot lapped the car on Thursday at Mottville and had trouble shifting gears and then had the same trouble again in the heat on Saturday night! But when Rita Courtney checked it was indeed Jamie! You just never know, especially in MTC and TC!

Eric Goff looked very good in wining the MS feature! Would love to see him against Robert Teadt, Jr., Josh Salter and Rod Roberts at Mottville!

Sunday was cool but dry! Again a good car count with 32 stock cars and 4 karts! Nice! About an average crowd and both the car count and crowd were most pleasant surprises because the first two week-ends of June have historically been horrible for us! Registered 3 more cars! Also David Fugate’s wife came and purchased two more Good Years for David’s number 89 MS and told us he plans on being at Mottville next week-end!

The absolute worse part of the day came in the MS heat when David Schaefer, our webmaster, hit the turn one wall extremely hard! He totaled his car and managed to somehow walk away from the accident for which we are all most grateful! Now he will be working on getting a new car together asap!

The MS feature was really a good one! Teadt and Salter started on the tail and took the lead and then went to the tail after spinning out together and came back to take the lead again and battle all over! The two cars and drivers are fairly evenly matched! Afterwards there were a few words exchanged between the drivers and their supporters, and Paul Scott again said something he says frequently and which more people would be wise to remember “These people take this stuff far too seriously!” Well put Paul!

We had 10 MS but only 7 ran! Bob Aumack has a miss in his car and can’t seem to cure it!

We had 7 SS and they put on a great show and we paid them 100-75-60-50-40-30-25, far more than we advertise! Really any 5 of the 7 cars could have won the feature and it would not have been considered an upset!

The TC and MTC were really wild! Spin outs and crashes and lead changes over and over! In the end Ken Odom won his first ever feature in TC and Nathan Aumack in MTC! Nathan loves to run the wrong way around the track! Had some fans and drivers unhappy with me for not running the TC the wrong way because they wanted Jamie Kline to win! But Jamie won twice last week so she is no longer an “underdog” needing any help! When it comes to TC and MTC they are mostly for fun and we will openly state that we try to help underdogs win when the opportunity presents itself! MTC got up to 5 cars Sunday and with 5 cars they put on their best show of the season! Imagine what it will be with 10!

David Schafer has been helping me work on a Wednesday night special show and I can now tell you that it is certain to go! We have two sponsors lined up and one has committed and I am waiting on a commitment from the second , hopefully this week! As soon as I get it we will draw up a flyer and have it at the track, and on this web site! But it will be MS for 50 laps and some outstanding money! Also TC and MTC and an outside chance of SS! Tentative date is July 11 so hold it! Holle’s Salvage has committed to sponsoring and Connor’s Towing and Salvage will let me know this week! For a show as big as this one will be, there was no way to pull it off without sponsors and we really appreciate these two! Stayed tuned for much more next week!