POSTED JUNE 22 , 2003

MERLE YODER won his 7^th Mini Stock feature of the season on a beautiful Sunday night at the Mottville Speedway as he won the 20 lapper which again featured 3 wide racing for much of the race! Jason Schaefer was 2^nd followed by season points leader Eric Root, leading rookie Glenna Sargent and Todd Behlke.

Yoder won the Jenkin’s NAPA Auto Parts Stores dash over Schaefer and Root and took the heat with the same finishing order! Schaefer moved into 5^th in the season point standings and Behlke 8^th.

A season high 6 karts were on hand and they put on a awesome show with Bill Stump winning the 15 lap feature in his first time out at Mottville in 2003! His son, Justin, was 2^nd followed by Ray Swink, Mike Zehr, season points leader Jacob Caines and Andrew Behlke.

In the dash it was Behlke over Zehr and Caines and in the heat it was Justin Stump over Zehr and Swink. Behlke moved to 4^th in the season point standings only 3 points out of 3^rd!

Chuck Hall won his 2^nd Mini Thunder Car feature of the season in a 15 lapper over season points leader Derk Sargent, Richard Allbee and Andrew Behlke. Hall also won the heat over Sargent and Allbee. Behlke moved to 6^th in the season point standings.

Jeff Brunt recorded his 7^th Pro Stock feature of the season as he passed season points leader Paul Scott and lap 10 and went to the victory over Scott and Doug Nichols. Heat results were the same.

Charlie Krontz won his 6^th Street Stock feature of the season in a 15 lapper and also won the heat.

June 27,28 & 29 is a triple header week-end! Friday is our first Friday night show of the season with MS going 50 laps for $250 to win! Plus SS, MTC and Karts! Saturday will be a powder puff and 4 regular classes and Sunday the Pro Stocks return.

The karts alone were worth the price of admission easily! Andrew Behlke in the feature twice went from 5^th to 2^nd in turn 3! The first time he came out of 4 high and was back in 5^th but the second time he stayed low to hold 2^nd until one lap later his chain busted and he was done for the night!

There was not a slow kart in the field! Hopefully this week-end is the start of increasing kart counts as we had 4 on Saturday to go with the 6 today!

We are expecting a large field of MS for the 50 lapper Friday! Scott Baker will drive Merle Yoder’s back-up car and Merle will drive his Angola car! It appears we will also have several new  cars coming for the first time  plus a good percentage of those who have already run this season. Larry Birk should be coming for the first time this season! Plus we have had inquires from at least 2 other cars who have not appeared at Mottville yet this season!

A week from Friday, on July 4 (does not seem possible July 4 is almost here!) the SS run 50 laps for $250 to win and one has to wonder if Charlie Krontz will win the $250 by default! We have had a lot of people picking up rules for SS and we did have one new car this week-end plus Dave Roberts is supposed to be converting his car to a ss so time will tell!

Mid-season championship trophy night is only 3 weeks away! July 13! That will be our 41^st points night of the season out of 87 so just slightly before the halfway mark technically!

All in all this was a very good week-end of racing and great weather! Now we are moving into the heart of the season with a lot of triple header week-ends coming up between now and mid-September! Should be most exciting!

Wanted to mention that Jeff Brunt has really got that #1 PS humming! I have never seen the car handle so well! He passed Paul Scott on the outside both in the heat and the feature!

So 3 days “off” before hot laps on Thursday and then the start of triple header week-end!