POSTED JUNE 27 , 2003

ROD ROBERTS raced at the Mottville Speedway for the first time in 2003 and won the 50 laps Mini Stock feature and $250 on the first Friday night race of the season!

Jason Schaefer led the first 18 laps before Roberts, starting on the tail, got by and he gradually pulled away from 2^nd place finishing Jason Weaver for the win. Robert Teadt held off Merle Yoder for 3^rd and season points leader Eric Root was 5^th. Yoder won the Jenkins NAPA Auto Parts Stores dash over Schaefer and Root.

Josh West won the first Bomber feature of the season in a 12 lapper and also won the heat while Mini Thunder Car season point’s leader Derk Sargent won his 3^rd feature of the season in a 12 lapper and also took the heat.

Kart season point’s leader Jacob Caines won his 6^th feature of the season in a 10 lapper and also won the heat.

Charley Krontz made it 7 Street Stock feature wins as he took the 12 lapper over season point’s leader Robert Sutton and also won the heat.

For our first Friday night race of the season it went pretty well! We made a very good MS pay-off for only 7 cars! $250-$90-$70-$50 for the top 4 who all finished on the lead lap.

Barry Harrison was a spectator and reported he has a blown engine on his MS and may well be out for a long, long while! Those 3/8 mile high banked tracks will ruin an engine far faster than Mottville!

In winning the dash Yoder recorded his 100^th win at Mottville! Quite a record for still very young driver!

Had a report from a reliable source that the Wilbur clan will have a SS and a MTC in about two weeks!

We have made some adjustments to our schedule as we near the halfway point of the season. We have added Friday, August 1 to the schedule for a MS 50 lapper with $250 to win. The 2-50 lappers that were previously scheduled for Saturdays have been moved to Fridays and we have added a powder puff in September, giving us 4 for the season.

July 4 the SS go 50 laps for $250 to win and then we will decide on which Friday nights we run the SS for 50 laps and which it is the MS. But each Friday that we run we will be running MS, SS, MTC, Bombers and Karts!

After tonight there are still 7 Friday night shows left-July 4,18, August 1, 8, September 5,12,19.

This Saturday starts day two of our triple-header weekend and we will have a ladies powder puff! Should be exciting!

Interesting column by Dick Beebe in the Marc Times Racing News this week. He seems to lament that two tracks cancelled their shows with the GLOSS Sprints. He goes on to say that another track racing sprints last week “had a decent crowd”. I cannot help but think that probably means the crowd was not enough to cover the huge expense of sprints! I heard that our area of tracks recently had sprints and crowd was small! So given the way things are this season with the economy and smaller crowds I cannot see how you blame any promoter for canceling an outside show. Some of the traveling shows are really hurting for dates and they need to figure out how to cut expenses to make their show less expensive!

Well enough preaching for now! Looking forward to day two of our triple-header weekend on Saturday!