POSTED APRIL 23, 2025

Our first double header week-end of racing action for 2001 is now history! It was absolutely fantastic to get back to racing both Saturday and Sunday night again!

Saturday we had thunder showers most of the morning and I certainly was not expecting much but we had our 2^nd largest crowd of the season! The racing was top notched with 12 Mottville Stocks and an all time high 11 Thunder Cars! Sunday was even more of a shock! Again thunder showers all morning and into early afternoon and being our first Sunday I figured we were in for poor night! Well to my amazement our car count on Sunday was only one short of Saturday! Again 12 Mottville Stocks! Also our street stock car count went up to 6 and they put on a nice show!

Sunday we paid more than we advertise for street stocks and Mottville Stocks due to the good week-end we had! Actually we paid more for the other classes also since they had less than the 8 called for in our smallest pay-off!

David Schaefer got the pits light tower done and we turned them on Saturday night and the western parts of the pits have never been so well lighted ever! We have one fixture to adjust this Saturday and I will consider our pits very well lighted! In fact word must have spread early about the new lights because when we opened the gates cars that would normally park on the east end of the pits came to the west end!

We ran the races off both nights in good order, 2 ½ hours each night! This was even with trophy night on Sunday night which takes longer! In fact with the earlier starting time on Sunday we only had to turn the track lights on for\ the final feature and that was just to be safe as it was still not dark!

Saturday night the 11 Thunder Cars really put on a show for the fans! Good, close racing in dash, two heats and feature! Robert Teadt, Jr. came to the track with the number 73 MS for the 2^nd Saturday in a row and for the 2^nd Saturday in a row did not run a single lap! Engine problems again! Josh Salter go by Eric Goff for the win but Goff’s engine was failing! A race between Rod Roberts, Goff, Teadt and Salter would really be good! Roberts was not there Saturday night but was back Sunday and won again!

Speaking of Mottville Stocks we had high car counts both nights and without Larry Birk and Randy Morley’s truck! Plus Bill Crapo, a Bomber regular who registered a Thunder Car Thursday night, was also absent both nights!

Anyway our potential for Mottville Stocks is around 25 now and if we can sponsor for a Wednesday night show I want to run the Mottville Stocks 50 laps for about $300 to win! We would also run a regular program for Bombers, Thunder Cars and Mini-Thunder Cars that night. Street Stocks and Karts would have the night off as we do not want to go too late on a Wednesday night and we probably can not start until 8pm which is only 7 in Indiana! So if you know a potential sponsor send them my way! Potential dates are June 20, 27 or July 11,18 or 25!  

We registered 14 cars over the week-end! Unreal! More and more drivers getting their cars ready and its still very, very early in the season!

Sunday night Mike Rigel blew the engine on the MS 5 during the heat and left an oil slick around the outside of the track. To attempt to clean this up would have taken at least 30-45 minutes and left the track full of oil dry to I decided to leave it as it was. It meant the outside lane was rather slick but the racing was still very good and we got out early! The track will be swept this week for the first time this season as the Vintage Mods invade Mottville for the first of several appearances this season! They always put on a super show and we looking forward to being their “home track” again in 2001!

I had a question asked “why do you not qualify?” Well qualifying is boring for the fans, takes extra time and people and leads to “sand bagging” and disqualification for running over time etc etc etc! We can handicap the cars far better and easier for all! So I actually never plan to qualify again! According to my promoter’s newsletter most tracks do not qualify but in our area we are the only one not qualifying! Well you know what we say “Mottville Speedway-There’s no place quite like it!”

Sunday featured kart racing by the Behlke family! Grandson Andrew won the dash and feature while his grandfather Tom Koehler was 2^nd and his father Tod was 3^rd! Close racing also! Jean Behlke purchased a new set of Good Year’s Saturday night and had her best week-end of the season!

Barry Harrison finally arrived to race and looked very fast until he overheated and ended up in the infield for the final laps of the MS feature! It was great to see Chris Arnett win his first race ever Sunday when he won the Thunder Car dash! We are starting to get a “Burlington gang” racing at Mottville-Morley, Arnett and Alden Brown so far!

If I could wish for anything right now it would be more Mini-Thunder Cars and I am most confident it will happen and soon! It takes awhile to get a new class started but there are plenty of these cars around and cheap and once we get to about 6-8 of them they should really take off! I mean we ran Thunder Cars half a season last year and just now are getting the numbers so if we can get MTC going strong by Memorial Day that will be an achievement!

I was really pleased with 6 street stocks on Sunday. May not sound like much to most people but we do not  go all out for ss over other classes and 6 put on a good show! If we could get to a steady 6-8 of them it would be great and I am sure there are at least that many at other tracks finishing 12^th or back that would be better off at Mottville and probably would crash less often and have smaller repair bills to boot!

Looking forward to nights number 10 and 11 this week-end and the return of the Vintage Mods!
Hope to see you there both nights!