POSTED MAY 7, 2025

Exciting Mottville Stock features both Saturday and Sunday nights had the fans buzzing and that is exactly the way we love it at Mottville! Saturday Barry Harrison waged a tremendous duel with David Schafer before getting his first win of the season and Sunday rookie Jason Schaefer started last and took the lead on lap 21 of the 25 lapper and won his first feature ever! Both nights there were from 5-7 cars in serious contention for the lead late in the race!

We have now had 5 different feature winners for the MS in the last 5 nights. This is a promoter’s dream!

Ironically Jason Schaefer won his first ever feature on his first Sunday night of racing and exactly one week to the day since his father Wes won his first “A” feature ever!

The improvement in Jason’s driving has been truly amazing! I remember when he started out he would spin several times per night just hot lapping! But he was never afraid to put his foot into it and I had the strong feeling even then he would be a good driver before long but I honestly never figured it would be this soon! Saturday night he showed how fast he could be but spun into his father several times! So Sunday I started him on the tail as I was sure he was the fastest car there and he certainly was!

Compared to a year ago the first week-end of May was great! May is always a very tough month for us with other tracks opening and some drivers it seems must try the other tracks for a few nights before understanding that they were far better off at Mottville! But both Saturday and Sunday our car count was double what it was a year ago! Again Sunday I was amazed that the car count was identical to Saturday!

Both nights we paid more than our advertised pay-off for the MS! Saturday with 10 cars we paid $100-75-60-50-40-35=30-25 and Sunday with 6 cars 75-60-50-40-35-30! In fact our driver who finished 3^rd in a 10 car field on Saturday told one of our track officials that he made more money than another driver who finished 2^nd in a 22 car field at another nearby track!

Jean Behlke was strong both nights, taking home 2^nd both nights! She is now back to the form that made her MS points champion in 1999!

Sunday we started out with 4 Bombers and 4 SS  so we ran separate dash events but by intermission we had only 3 SS and 3 Bombers running them together and paid a nice purse of $75-60-50-50-40-30!

We had 4 Mini-Thunder Cars Sunday and Tony Lebretto in a Ford Festiva won the feature! Randy Morley took over the MTC points lead and now leads two divisions! I am certain no one has ever won a points championship in two divisions the same season at Mottville before but Randy could well do it!

For you full size Thunder Car drivers please take note: Terry Kline will be absent both nights this week-end so this is your chance! Terry has won 9 of 13 TC features so far but never by a big margin! Chris Arnett seems to be the up and coming driver in this division!

Once again Saturday night’s kart feature was outstanding! Jessica Brown pulled away on the final lap to nip Travis Forsyth and her brother Greg. Wonder if they argue about the races on the way home?

We registered several new cars last week and already have had several phone calls from new drivers coming this next week-end!

The long relationship between the Mottville Speedway and the Vintage Modifieds has now officially come to an end! Negotiations this past off season were somewhat difficult but we finally settled on $85 per car with $25 going to any car which did not make the feature. This was a sizeable increase over the $70 per car we paid in 2000 and in past years we had paid $40-$60 per car. I knew that at $85 the best we could hope for was to break even!

Well April 28 the VM had only 8 cars and only 7 of them ran the feature. Today their head man called me and said the drivers had decided they had to have $85 for every car which went through the gate, run or not run and that ended our relationship with the VM’s! I am sure this would have been the final year anyway as they have priced themselves out of our market!

I wish them nothing but the best and I really enjoyed watching them race as it reminded me of when I saw them racing in the 1950’s and a lot of good memories!

So we now have no outside shows at Mottville. You may recall last week that I mentioned in this space that I had never been able to make money on an outside show at Mottville. Prior to my buying the track 11 years ago I noticed that Mottville almost never had outside shows and I wondered why? Now 11 years later I know why!

Actually this is a good year to go with only our own cars as out car count is up and it will free more resources to pay our own drivers!

By the way I am still looking for a sponsor or sponsors for our Wednesday night show for a 50 lap special for the MS! Anyone interested?

Last week I said that we would run the Bombers and SS combined when both had less than 4 cars each but added that if the Bombers had 6 I would run them separate even if the SS had less than 4! Well some Bomber drivers read that and concluded we had dropped Bombers! Not at all, at least not yet! We have registered 15 Bombers so far this season and most of our rules inquires have been about Bombers! So the class can be saved but weather they are or not is totally up to the Bomber drivers! Support the track and we will keep the division, don’t support and we will not! Its really that simple! But as I said last week we are not going to continue to run 2-3 car features!

Eric Root purchased the Bill Crapo TC and should be back to racing at Mottville starting this Saturday!

We have now registered 8 MTC and this division should grow big time any week-end now!

If you want economy racing and I mean real real economy racing then TC and MTC is the way to go!

Just heard the Saturday weather forecast on TV and it said 65 and sunny! I can live with that!

Don’t forget Sunday all mothers get a free hot dog and coke with pit pass or general admission ticket!
Enjoy Mothers Day at Mottville Speedway and see some exciting racing!