POSTED January 7, 2026

Well Mottville Maddness V is now history! I truly believe everyone involved had a great time! I personally did not hear one single complaint! It was 34 degrees and sunny with some wind.

The first MM was run 1-4-92 it was 40 degrees and cloudy, on 1-2-93 it was cold-lower 20's and no sun! Then we did not run a MM again until 1-4-97 and lucked out with temps in the 50's and rain. Our luck continued 1-3-98 with temps again in the 50's but dark in the afternoon after morning rain. Our luck ran out in 1999 with the blizzard and we did not schedule one for 2000!

We were, of course, disappointed with the car count for this latest one but those who came had a great time and every ended up winning a trophy! It was great seeing everyone again, drivers, crews, fans and track officials!

But the only sad note to the whole thing is that the one man who made MMV possible could not be there! Paul Scott came to the track shortly after 6 P.M. on Friday night and worked through the night until 5 A.M. to clear the drive, front parking lot, Pits and track. He had planned on coming back and running a Cadillac Thunder Car but then got swamped in his wrecker service (Conner's Towing) and could not get free until 6 P.M.! He called me Sunday afternoon expressing his regrets and frustration! When I arrived at the track shortly after 6:30 Friday night it sank in just exactly how big a task we faced! The snow was much deeper than we had imagined! While Paul cleared the snow with a pick-up with a blade on it, Tom Pearson, 6 times pulled him out with the wrecker! A big thanks to Tom for that! Ersell Eby and myself, meanwhile, used a snow blower and shovels to clear the areas around the bleachers, concession stand, ticket booth, pit tower, and gas pump, etc. I can tell you it was hard work!

I could write a column telling you my frustrations with the weather predication people! If you read my last column you will see that Friday was supposed to be in the 40's with rain! Never, never happened! If we had had rain and 40's on Friday the task of cleaning snow would have been much, much simpler!

Saturday morning Larry Birk called me and told me that Anderson Speedway had cancelled their race and rescheduled it for March, no doubt due to the heavy amount of snow on the ground! I can certainly understand that and without Paul Scott that is exactly what I would have done, not until March, of course, but for at least a week or two!

But it was fun, we did sell several banquet tickets and registered several cars for the 2001 and sold some sponsor plaques for the banquet! But if anyone thinks we made a profit, think again! We spent $250 for deicing salt alone! Plus we paid each and every driver that raced and gave out trophies to all drivers! But I am not really complaining about lack of profit as the race is intended to be a fun time for all, and it was!

Did have a car from Illinois, which was nice, and I mentioned to the driver that we open in March and would welcome him back!

Well anyway Paul Scott feels horrible about missing the race and is now urging me to schedule another race before the regular season! He would prefer a Sunday afternoon, however. So here is the deal: if you are interested in running a "February Folly" race either Feb. 4 or Feb. 11 email me and let me know !! If there is enough interest shown in the next two weeks I will schedule It! Same basic set up as MMV, trophies to heat winners and top 3 in the features and the same regular classes but no durameter rule on tires. As I told Paul I am certain I will not make any money on it but I am always interested in having a race! So it's up to you drivers out there! If you want to race in February email me! If you don't, we won't!!

By the way, we must have the smartest "flag person" in the entire world!! Rita Courtney told me Saturday that she got a perfect 4.0 grade point average at Glen Oaks for the semester! Majoring in nursing which has a ton of math and chemistry, etc! Must be nice to be smart! She is also quite strong as she and Shelly Lauderdale, our ace EMT and security person, pushed several race cars out of the snow bank on the front stretch inside of the track!
Now the only question is,
 "Can Rita Cook"????