POSTED APRIL 27  , 2003

ROBERT SUTTON won his 2^nd street stock feature of the season on a warm Sunday night at the Mottville Speedway! Sutton, driving a truck, led the entire 25 laps and took home $100 for the night! Matt Buzzard was 2^nd and took over the season points lead with Sutton moving into 2^nd in the points! Bobby Grice was 3^rd and Terry Zimmerman 4^th. Heat results were the same.

Jeff Brunt returned to Mottville after an absence of several weeks and won his 2^nd Pro Stock feature of the season with a 15 lap victory over season points leader Paul Scott and Ryan Prough. Scott won the heat over Brunt and Prough.

Merle Yoder took home another $100 for the night as he won the 25 lap Mini Stock feature for his 6^th feature win of the season! Season points leader Eric Root was 2^nd followed by Kristi Zimmerman and Glenna Sargent. Results were the same in the heat.

Steve Clifford held off two time Mini Thunder Car defending champion Fred Garrett for his 4^th feature win of the season in a 15 lapper. On lap 7 Clifford was sent to the tail for violating the lead rule but came back on lap 11 to take the lead again! Season points leader Derk Sargent was 3^rd and Randy Morley 4^th. Results in the heat were the same.

Defending kart champion Jacob Caines moved within one point of the season points lead by taking the kart heat and feature.

This Saturday the Mottville Mini Cups return and May 10 the Midwest Classic Racers Dwarf Cars return for the first time since 1999.

Actual car count in the pits was 19 but 3 cars did not run because of various ailments!

Clifford moved to 4^th in the MTC season point standings. Morley had a wheel bearing go out in his PS Saturday night and did not run his PS Sunday. We hope to see his PS next Sunday with a brand new body! Should be amazing!

Sutton really looked awesome in his feature and heat win and seems to have his flywheel problems solved. However his truck was running hot after the feature.

Once again the car count was higher on Sunday than Saturday!

Since the PS and SS divisions do run the track tire a car finishing other than first does receive more money for running them if they purchased them from the speedway. First pays the same regardless but after that running the track tire pays more. Both the PS and SS feature winners were running the track tire, in fact all the PS were running the track tire!

All in all in it was nice week-end! Great weather and good racing and encouraging crowds and car counts with more to come!

I probably will not be on the chat room Monday but hope to be on some Tuesday and Wednesday.

I am most interested in hearing from Mini Stock drivers if they are interested in going to the Goodyear track tire again at some point in the season. They would still have the option of running any max 70 series tire that diameters at 60 or harder. I am not pushing this, however, just asking for opinions from the MS drivers as the car count appears to be the same regardless of which tire we use. I did have a MS driver tell me this week that after getting a radial tire shaved he has about $70 in it and the Goodyear is $90 but he feels the Goodyear lasts longer and the car handles far better with the Goodyear!

17 points nights now over and April is now over! Wow did it ever go fast and compared to March April was much warmer and much more successful! With some exciting shows coming up in May it should really be an exciting month!