POSTED  SEPTEMBER 27, 2025

JAY HOWARD won his first feature of the season Saturday night at the Mottville Speedway as he held off a hard charging Shane Eldridge for the win in the 15 lapper! Eldridge settled for a close 2^nd by Merle Yoder, Derik Sturdivant, Eric Root and Glenna Sargent.

Eldridge took the heat over Sturdivant and Root. Howard moved into 5^th in the season point standings.

Dave Logan made it 3 Street Stock feature wins in a row as he won the 15 lapper over Mike Mersich, Scott Newsom and Larry Saunders. Mersich won the heat over Logan and Saunders.

Jacob Caines took over the kart season points lead by winning the heat and 8 lap feature.

Derk Sargent and Larry Saunders each won action packed, close 15 lap Mini Thunder Car features! In the first 15 lapper Sargent held off Chuck Hall for his 8^th feature win of the season! Saunders was 3^rd followed by Root, Tony Eldridge, Gary Knight, Tony Vitali, Ron Kern, Jr., Dave Smith, Sr and Kelsey Saunders.

In the 2^nd feature it was Saunders by a mere eyelash over Hall! Root was a close 3^rd and Eldridge right behind in 4^th. Smith was 5^th followed by Kern and Knight.

Sargent, Kelsey Saunders and Dean Hoskins all won heats.

For the last several years the last Saturday night in September has featured our biggest crowds of the season and sometimes our highest car count of the season as well. Mother Nature made sure that would not be the case tonight as we were faced with on and off showers then periods of sun all afternoon but during hot laps the track dried and it never rained again! Actually our car count and crowd was very good considering the weather conditions!

We had reports of at least one new MTC coming next week and also a MS and I understand the MS will be driven by a female driver who has done quite well in the past at another track!

Our web site crossed 70,000 hits on Friday! Simply unreal! Great job by Rita Courtney and Shelly Lauderdale!

The Root racing team has really got 3 very fast MTC! They now have 99, 8 and 4 and all 3 are top 5 cars!

NEW GOODS DEPT-GOSHEN COLLISION CENTER has agreed to be one of the sponsors for the 18^th ANNUAL INDIANA-MICHIGAN CHALLENGE CUP  October 25 and 26! Working on two other potential sponsors and should know for certain on one of them this week!

Happy 33^rd birthday to Ron Kern, Jr, driver of the MTC 29! Oh, if only I was 33 again and knew what I know now!

Lots of BONUS POINTS  will be on the line Sunday! Not sure what weather conditions will be but I am sure we will running anyway! Tonight’s racing was as close as we have had all season and well worth the price of admission and more! Expect more the same Sunday! This will be our final 6 pm Sunday start as we start at 5 on Sundays in October and then in November go to 4 pm for Saturdays and Sundays!