POSTED JANUARY 10, 2026

MIDWEST CLASSIC RACERS DWARF CARS will return to the Mottville Speedway 3 times during the 2003 racing season! The dwarfs last appeared at Mottville during the 1996 season! The dates are all Saturdays, May 10, July 26 and August 23. On May 10 and August 23 the group will give away a tv-stereo combination as part of the drawing those nights! Pro Stocks will not run these 3 nights. In 2002 the dwarfs averaged 28 cars per night with a high of 35 and a low of 21! Each of the 3 nights at Mottville they will run 3 heats, a dash, pursuit, B main and A main so 7 events with just the dwarfs! Dwarfs are 5/8 scale of the old time race cars and they are actually faster than midgets! Since 1996 their speeds have improved and they are virtually certain to set a new track record at Mottville in 2003! This group was one outside group we actually had some success with but our relationship terminated over their having gas cooking grills in the pits. That has been resolved, no grills, and we are really looking forward to having them at Mottville in 2003! Should be 3 exciting nights! At this point its looks like this will be our only outside shows for 2003. Some racers from Spartan Speedway, up by Lansing, were at Mottville Madness VI, watching, and went home and put some messages on the Spartan Speedway web site about racing at Mottville! Spartan races Pony Stocks which are pretty close to our Mini Thunder Cars except they must have automatic transmissions. So they are trying to encourage the Spartan Speedway Pony Stockers to come to Mottville on Saturdays and Sundays since Spartan races on Fridays! Could really help the MTC car count in 2003! Goshen Collision Center is sponsoring 8 points plaques for our 12th Annual Awards Banquet on February 15! Plus Al and Brenda Maurer are coming again! Jenkins NAPA Auto Parts Stores is sponsoring the season points championship trophy for MTC champ Fred Garrett! Hair Dimensions in Nappanee is also sponsoring one points plaque! As of today we have 70 people coming to the banquet, a record high! Simply unreal! So we need more sponsors as we are giving away about 50 plaques and trophies! Jamison Corn, Mark Bartley, Chris Bryant and Jason Weaver, all Mini Stockers, purchased tickets this week! Plus Larry Birk and Bryan Whitaker were in my office and got tickets and both are running MS next season! As of right now it looks like MS may well be our largest class in 2003! Its really starting to get exciting to think about 2003! There was some misunderstanding up north about February Follies II on February 23! It is a race! Heats and features! Some apparently believed it was a practice! We ran this race for the first time in 2001 and it went well. It is a non points race and you do not have to be registered to race for it. Will serve as a good "tune up" prior to the points race starting. Rumor mill has it that Dennis Zimmerman purchase the Pro Stock of Paul Scott! Paul is apparently building a new car for 2003! Dennis has a garage and a half full of cars right now he is working on including several of the Fitzpatrick cars, a MS for Susan Beers and a MS for his wife! Sounds like a very busy off season for Dennis! An area track closed their message board, apparently due to negative messages! So of the 7 tracks in our area now only 3 have message boards! Too bad the negative people of out sport have to ruin it for everyone else! Certainly I understand that there are always people who disagree with a track owner no matter who he or she is or no matter what he or she does! That goes with the territory and I accept it. If they were not being critical of me then it would be the guy or gal who followed me! Same deal when Ralph McGlothlen ran Mottville! He was bad mouthed all over the place despite that fact he took a track which had been condemned and really rebuilt it into a very nice facility! So no matter what you do you will be bad mouthed and I understand that. But going into a track's web site and leaving hateful messages is not a good way to get anything constructive done! Try constructive ideas and if you can not get anywhere and you simply can not stand the way a track is run then go elsewhere because there certainly are no shortages of tracks in our area! Yes I do think we are unique at Mottville! But what is wrong with that? Why be like everyone else? We have no big population base to draw from and simply can not compete (and Mottville never could) with tracks running expensive shows! I received my monthly copy of the Promoters Newsletter that goes to every track owner across the United States and Canada and guess what they were talking about? Cutting costs! Expensive classes are hurting tracks big time! Personally I have never more confident that our plan for Pro Stocks, Street Stocks, Mini Stocks, Mini Thunder Cars and Karts is the right plan for the Mottville Speedway in 2003! I also feel strongly that running 80 plus nights and two nights per week is the way to go! I am really anxious to start the 2003 season and it is only about 7 weeks away! Banquet only 5 weeks away!