2011 Minutes

May 28, 2011

Our club attened the 59th Annual National Association of Auto Racing Fan Clubs convention in Indy. MARFC club member Eddie Sachs Jr. was awarded the prestigious Arthur McHugh Memorial Award presented annually to a very deserving auto racing individual.  Presenting the award was J. P. Mc Hugh (2nd Vice President of NAARFC from Oreland, PA – left) and Art Mc Hugh Jr. (NAARFC Publicity Director from Saugus, California – right) with MARFC Bill Walters (center) accepting the award for Eddie Sachs Jr. Eddie was at the speedway working and was unable to attend the convention himself not knowing that this was a suprise award for him at the time. (Photo’s provided by Paul Anton)

May 20, 2011

The club head to Spartan Speedway where the MARFC Helmet Bag was presented to Chris Hettinger by our P.R. Director, Rand Thompson. Chris races in three different divisions at the speedway and along with his family have been longtime supporters of Auto Racing not only at Spartan but all over the state of Michigan and the Midwest. Our raffle prize went to Doug Jakeaway who also had assisted Dennis Schalm, Chuck Horan, Dennis Trinklien, and Rand Thompson at the membership table.

May 13, 2011 had us at the Dixie Motor Speedway where the MARFC Helmet Bag went to Don Riley, driver of the #22 Pro Stock and defending champion of the division. Don has been a competitor at Dixie for many years and lends a huge amount of support to the Pro Stock division by both building cars for the division and working with drivers who compete in the division

Table helpers at Dixie were Dennis Trinklien, Dennis Schalm, Laura Tucker, Jeff Horan, and Chuck Horan along with Kenny and Larry Letts.

Once again Mother Nature has won by cancelling our MARFC Fan Club Night at the Owosso Sspeedway! That’s three for her and two for us so I think it’s time for a change in our favor. We will see if it is at all possible to get another night rescheduled for Owosso. Don’t forget next Saturday June 4th we will be at the Flat Rock Speedway for MARFC Night.

Bill Barnhart

Vice President MARFC