POSTED AUGUST 8  , 2003

MERLE YODER won his 12^th Mini Stock feature of the season as he took the 15 lapper on the final Friday night race of 2003! Shane Eldridge was 2^nd followed by Eric Root, Dale Barnett and Glenna Sargent.

Yoder won the dash and one heat and Eldridge won a heat.

Larry Saunders won the 15 lap Street Stock feature and the heat while Tony Eldridge won the Bomber 15 lap feature and heat.

Yet another thunderstorm came in the area about 2 hours before we opened and stayed around until we did open! This killed any hope for a good car count and crowd. But I guess we should be used to it by now as the weather for this racing season has been the worse ever!

In any event our Friday night shows have not worked out. First we tried higher pay-offs and then more expensive trophies but in the end we were not successful so we will stick with just Saturday and Sunday nights the remainder of the season.

There seems to be some confusion, at least on the part of one driver, about trophies for heats. When we combine the MTC and Bombers into a heat we generally give only a trophy to the actual winner. We do give separate points, however. We have been extremely generous in the features however and given a first place trophy to both the Bomber and MTC top car even if the Bomber were last, which is usually the case. But no matter how much you do for some people it is never enough it seems!

But if the pattern continues for the rest of 2003 where the Bombers are actually slower than the MTC we might well just make MTC 4 or 6 cylinders next season and not have separate divisions. When we started the Bomber division we assumed that a 6 cylinder car would be faster than a 4 cylinder car but so far that has not been the case! In fact the 6 cylinders have been considerably slower than the 4 cylinders!

Thursday I went to Baer Field Speedway in FT Wayne for the first time since the mid to late 1980’s! I had been invited to be a guest and bring the pace car. I wanted to see the new 3/8 mile track within the ½ mile. I was impressed with how the two blend together!

Had a great time for the Sunoco Late Model 100 lapper and the 50 lapper for the Modifieds. In the Mod feature one car hit the wall about 20 down from the start-

finish line and went on his top and actually slid on his top all the way down the track and over the bank in turn one! Amazingly he walked away with only dirt in his eyes!

While at Baer Field I had a group of late model drivers approach me about running a late model show either the 3^rd or 4^th week of September after BF closes. They stated they had been to Mottville before and had a good time, in fact, one of the men was actually wearing a Mottville Speedway t shirt! So we actually  may see a LM race at Mottville in late September!

Well the forecast for the balance of the week-end is warm and dry! Lets hope so because this weather pattern is for the fish!

Yoder pulled within 36 points of 3^rd place in the MS season point standings! Eldridge moved to 7^th and Barnett to 11^th. All 3 could move more with bonus points if they run one or more nights this week-end!

Saunders moved to 4^th in the SS point standings. He is now just 19 points out of 3^rd!

Saturday night is a regular show and Sunday kids ride in the race cars. August 16 the Short Track Trucks Challenge Series.Com comes to Mottville for the 2^nd time this season and the Dwarf cars return for the 3^rd time on August 23. Remember the Dwarfs will be giving away a stereo-TV set to some lucky person in the drawing! Vic Krontz won the last time!

We registered two more MTC cars this week and had a 3^rd person take a registration form with him! This class should be at 10-12 cars very soon which will really be exciting!